Minutus

Hi Jan,

I can offer several hints:

1. Repertory is the key to Materia Medica. Just as we never prescribe solely
based on repertorization, but always refer to the MM to read up on the "top
scoring" remedies & keep reading until we find (sometimes way down around
#20 in scoring!) a remedy that seems like a perfect (or near perfect
fit... so it is with the FTRN quizzes... we need to consult the MM where we
will find one or two distinguishing confirmatories.

2. It helps to come to know the teacher's mind a little Ardavan
generously provides these exercises, designed to help learn MM - it would
not do much good to learn only such as
Lyc Stram Ars Hyos Puls -well known & polychrest remedies... you must
expect the excercises to be designed in accordance.

3. In addition to learning smaller remedies, this whole process can help us
to train ourselves to search for "best fit" by accentuating the importance
of "small rubrics" - a rubric which is exacting in a given case & contains
only 5 remedies, may, for repertorization purposes be reasonably assigned a
much higher value than one containing 50.

4. It would probably take me an hour or more to do "by hand" what I can do
in 10 minutes using RADAR and Encyclopedia Homeopathica computer Repertory
and MM database / searching tools.

regards,

Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284

Hi Dave,

I also appreciate hearing your answer to this, as I have the same problem!
Would it be appropriate to add that, if the case also contains features
which are very
strong for one of those top-listed remedies (quick e.g's might be gas or
digestive troubles/Lyc;
issues with water/stram; mood swings or easy flushing/puls; etc. -- then
it would
be appropriate (I assume) to go with that remedy. But sometimes (often,
IME!)
the rubrics yield a bunch of remedies that fit in a general sort of way,
but there's nothing
in the that makes you go, "Oh yeah, it's gotta be ****!" In that case
you'd keep searching
down thet line, looking for that perfect fit, as Dave said.

So I *think* the needed first step is to get to know those polychrests
(the ones that leap
to the top of repping) like old buddies; all their quirks, the things
they "specialize in", the
things they are rarely seen without (but who knows, *might* be now and
then seen
without...). So when you seen an impostor, you get quickly suspicious,
and know what to ask...

Shannon
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