Synthesizing rubrics - David Little/All

[Toni-Ann Trevino]

Yes, I realize this. But for the purpose of utilizing all of the reps at
our disposal, and using them to "assemble" rubrics to meet unique
requirements, one must first be assured that the rubrics available offer the
most complete selection of remedies, and for this, wouldn't a current
repertory prevail? Albeit, I realize that "complete" is of no use unless it
also "accurate".
Also, if I, for instance, need a rubric for regurgitation of food agg. by
farinaceous, there is no such rubric, and Boenninghausen doesn't even have
regurgitation or eructation of food. So, using Synthesis, for example, I
would have to take "STOMACH, Eructations, type of, food" and intersect it
with "GENERALS, Food and Drinks, agg. farinaceous", eliminating all of the
remedies that do not appear in both rubrics. The question is: Does this
produce a reliable rubric?
Toni

[Julian Winston]

At 6:31 PM -0500 5/25/04, Toni-Ann Trevino wrote:

[snip]
Well... it is only as reliable as the remedies in it accurately
portray the symptom.

So if one of the remedies was included because the symptom it
produced in a proving was mis-understood/ mis-translated/ not
accurately reported, then the rubric is NOT reliable.
The stuff the rubric contains-- the remedies-- must be derived from
reliable information.
So the "yes" or "no" in reply to your question can only be based on
the reliability of what the rubric contains.

JW

[Toni-Ann Trevino]

Thanks, Julian. It would seem that this applies to *any* rubric, not just
one artificially synthesized, so to speak. I guess it always boils down to
reliability of source.
Toni

[Julian Winston]

At 8:41 PM -0500 5/25/04, Toni-Ann Trevino wrote:

It sure do!
Not only the reliability of the source, but the reliability of the
prover, and the reliability of the translation from the original
language AND the reliability of converting it from the language of
the proving to the language of the repertory.

For example:
In Synthesis we find the rubric, "MIND, seasons, autumn, mental
symptoms aggravate, in." The remedy is Kali ferrocynatum.
The proving was done in 1866 and the full symptom is:
"feeling sadness and some disposition to tears, caused by an
impression that he was soon to die and leave his friends; disposition
to take a sad view of the beauties of autumn."
The rubric in the repertory is NOT what this symptom is about.
(thanks to Steve Messer for setting me on the quest).

And there are many more like that.\

JW