Computer for selecting the remedy
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 1:10 pm
We have no objection to the use of computers in selecting the
remedy. But it is maya (a Hindoosthani 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
the so-called latest software, 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 a computer
software professional and a wizard in a 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 his "Preface to the
Repertory"):
"…it is only by the persistent use of one repertory, that its
peculiar and intricate arrangements gradually crystallize itself in
definite outline. In the mind of the student of the same, and thus
he attains the ready ease ad practical insight of the collator,
thereby rendering such a clinical bee-line well-night 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.
WHAT IS LILIENTHAL'S HOMEO THERAPEUTICS AND HOW TO USE IT?
Actual cases treated successfully are given below to illustrate the
use of Lilienthal's:
Case l: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother: "Doctor,
look at him. The boy is making constant movements of his fingers.)
He often becomes violent and restless. This started six months ago.
We went to allopathic hospital and there they diagnosed his case as
worm complaint and gave him santonine, but even the double the adult
dose of it had no effect. Then we went to a Homeopathy specialist.
(Here shows me the prescription: Cina-30 daily morning and Graphites-
30 daily night, for one month. (Graphites because of eruption on the
left forearm of the boy.) We completed one month course of these two
remedies but no result."
I looked at the boy again and then the case sheet. `Case sheet'
means plain white sheet on which we start writing down one below the
other what all the patient and/or his relatives tell us. After a
pause, the mother told me with wide open eyes, "Doctor, ever since he
developed worm complaint he often complains of headachew and
vertigo. Why is it so doctor?"
I went through all the remedy descriptions in Lilienthal's
HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS under the chapter `WORM AFFECTIONS.' Thirty-
four remedies are described and the words `vertigo and headache' told
by the mother (which is an `uncommon' symptom in worm complaint) were
found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta virosa. This remedy in
200th potency, one single dose, cured worm symptoms as well as his
skin complaint.
Case 2: FIFTEEN YEARS OF SORE THROAT AND CONSTIPATION COMPLETELY AND
PERMANENTLY CURED WITH ONE SINGLE DOSE:
A certain middle aged patient came to me at 3 p.m. asking if I
can give him some throat paint for his sore throat. I told him that I
would give pills only and asked him to tell me how long he is
suffering etc. (something to make the patient talk about his
complaints.) He replied:
"Doctor, I have this for fifteen years Daily at 3-4 p.m. it
starts, so much burning that in the evening I am unable to do poojas
(later I learnt that he is a priest in Hindoo temple there he has to
use loud voice to utter verses during worship etc.) loudly because my
voice becomes husky. The burning pain would continue in the night,
but next morning there won't be any pain.
In this case only one symptom is prominent--"< evening, night."
I went through all the remedies under the chapter SORE THROAT in
Lilienthal's. "
remedy. But it is maya (a Hindoosthani 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
the so-called latest software, 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 a computer
software professional and a wizard in a 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 his "Preface to the
Repertory"):
"…it is only by the persistent use of one repertory, that its
peculiar and intricate arrangements gradually crystallize itself in
definite outline. In the mind of the student of the same, and thus
he attains the ready ease ad practical insight of the collator,
thereby rendering such a clinical bee-line well-night 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.
WHAT IS LILIENTHAL'S HOMEO THERAPEUTICS AND HOW TO USE IT?
Actual cases treated successfully are given below to illustrate the
use of Lilienthal's:
Case l: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother: "Doctor,
look at him. The boy is making constant movements of his fingers.)
He often becomes violent and restless. This started six months ago.
We went to allopathic hospital and there they diagnosed his case as
worm complaint and gave him santonine, but even the double the adult
dose of it had no effect. Then we went to a Homeopathy specialist.
(Here shows me the prescription: Cina-30 daily morning and Graphites-
30 daily night, for one month. (Graphites because of eruption on the
left forearm of the boy.) We completed one month course of these two
remedies but no result."
I looked at the boy again and then the case sheet. `Case sheet'
means plain white sheet on which we start writing down one below the
other what all the patient and/or his relatives tell us. After a
pause, the mother told me with wide open eyes, "Doctor, ever since he
developed worm complaint he often complains of headachew and
vertigo. Why is it so doctor?"
I went through all the remedy descriptions in Lilienthal's
HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS under the chapter `WORM AFFECTIONS.' Thirty-
four remedies are described and the words `vertigo and headache' told
by the mother (which is an `uncommon' symptom in worm complaint) were
found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta virosa. This remedy in
200th potency, one single dose, cured worm symptoms as well as his
skin complaint.
Case 2: FIFTEEN YEARS OF SORE THROAT AND CONSTIPATION COMPLETELY AND
PERMANENTLY CURED WITH ONE SINGLE DOSE:
A certain middle aged patient came to me at 3 p.m. asking if I
can give him some throat paint for his sore throat. I told him that I
would give pills only and asked him to tell me how long he is
suffering etc. (something to make the patient talk about his
complaints.) He replied:
"Doctor, I have this for fifteen years Daily at 3-4 p.m. it
starts, so much burning that in the evening I am unable to do poojas
(later I learnt that he is a priest in Hindoo temple there he has to
use loud voice to utter verses during worship etc.) loudly because my
voice becomes husky. The burning pain would continue in the night,
but next morning there won't be any pain.
In this case only one symptom is prominent--"< evening, night."
I went through all the remedies under the chapter SORE THROAT in
Lilienthal's. "