Minutus

OMG watched the science show called First Flower on SBS. New discoveries in the family genus of plants. The lily is not in the same genus family as another lily. Kew Gardens replanting all the plants. All my herb books incorrect. What does this mean for homoeopathy? All the work of plant families are incorrect! Therefore as I have always said we should not rely on systems we should go back to the repertory.

Massimo is being proved correct then, his families are based on similarities between remedies not classifications.

Very interesting Sue, I have been wanting to study with him very much, but we have to repertorise on the patient, PQRS, and use the repertory. Liz Lalor

Complementary tools, learn to use as many as we can, and learn how to use each most appropriately. IMO.

i like that Liz

Hello Liz,
In the last several years there have been dozens of re-classifications of mostly plants as they are slowly moved into a more accurate genetic classification.
And I think legitimately for Homeopathy it means very little, with the exception being 1 particularly liberal interpretation of the methods of Homeopathy that have been trying to classify both our MM and our patients into the various kingdoms.
This re-classification could well be one of the reasons that the cure rate is inherently so much lower than what should be expected or accepted in some circles.
And I agree with the idea of the repertory as a way to the rx. Seems easy enough...

Although I hope the genus of Schroyens rep or van Zandvoort rep are not re-classified anytime soon!

Best regards,
Rik

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Liz Lalor" wrote:

I don't see anything alarming about this. The Kingdom classifications or Periodic Table analysis of remedies
remains a good framework for study and use. The bottom line is always clinical application and success.
If a plant has been wrongly classified it will not fit the theoretical framework but will still have the reperatory
data for its use. I also think that a plant that is reclassified would offer opportunity for closer scrutiny of its
proving data in comparison with others plants of the genus it originally had been classified.
tanya
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Thanks Shannon, I agree. As many things in my tool box as I can.

Sue

These kinds of changes are happening regularly in botanical nomenclature as our understanding of plant taxonomy evolves, you are right, if we stick to good repertorization and looking for symptom similarities, we "should" stay out of trouble !

there is a book "Plant Names in Homeopathy" by Bharatan, Humphries and Barnett, printed in 2002 and is already out of date !

Homeopathic remedy names will not change, but it does help to know about the changes taking place within the Int'l Code of Botanical Nomenclature
as I hear of them I add them to my MMs for reference sake.

Lot's of work for the homeopathic program techs...good that it's all in computer databases !

Gives us something to do in our spare time ;^)

Lynn
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011 4:12 PM

Does anyone know how one can study with Massimo?
Thanks,
Deb