insomnia with neuritis

[Dr. Krishnamoorthy]

On 18 May 2004 "Toni-Ann Trevino" wrote: "Most remarkable, Dr.
Krishnamoorthy. From which reference did you find neuritis with insomnia
and Conium as the only remedy? How does one use, say
Radar, to rep such things that involve a general symptom that modifies or is
concomitant to another general symptom? I could not agree more that it is
paramount that we talk of how to select the right remedy"

REPLY FROM DR. KRISHNAMURTHY
Hello Tony Sir, If you know how to use Repertories like Boericke,
Lilienthal, Calvin B. Knerr, Kent etc. then it is much easy and quicker than
using radar and other software.

Just turn to Boerice's Mat.Medica & Repertory. In the Repertory section,
you go through NERVOUS SYSTEM. Insomnia (sleeplessness)--
CAUSE--OCCURRENCE--Multiple neuritis--Con.

Don't you have a copy of Boericke. Don't you refer to repertories?

Using the repertories and finding the remedy is quicker and surer than
opening your computer, using software etc.

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE IN HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE: We have no objection to the
use of computers in selecting the remedy. But it is maya (a Hindustani term
meaning 'disillusionment') to think that selecting the remedy from the
computer is 'time-saving' and 'unfailing.' The reference book HOMEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (for use as and when a case comes to
us and not a textbook for study from cover to cover) is, in a fair
percentage of cases, quicker and unfailing than any latest computer
software.

Somewhere Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, the author of HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS,
aptly observed about his work, "Drop a symptom in the slot and you get the
remedy."

Yes, it is that much quicker. Ten times surer and quicker than any of the
latest softwares, call it Radar, Cara etc. The problem with software is (be
it astrology, homeopathic selection of the remedy or any other subject) that
those who had developed them are poor either in their knowledge of computer
or the subject in which they have developed the software. One has to be
expert both as computer software professional and a wizard in the subject.
That is rare to find!

Before you start using Lilienthal's, the reader must remember the following
words of Dr. Oscar E. Boericke (in the Preface to the ninth edition of his
Repertory):

".it is only by the persistent use of one repertory, that its peculiar and
intricate arrangements gradually crystallizes itself in definite outline, in
the mind of the student of the same, and thus he attains the ready ease and
practical insight of the collator, thereby rendering such a clinical
bee-line well-nigh indispensable in our day of labor-saving devices."

We have such wonderful authors around 1930's that the arrangement and
presentation of their works enable us to select the remedy in no time.