I'm fairly new to the science and am studying the materia medica on my own. I surf the web also to find things that are helpful and get perspective from the experience of others. Something that I found recently has been useful in learning the remedies is this article from Whole Health Now, by Hering, titled, "On the Study of Homeopathic Materia Medica". This quote sums up the piece, "The proper mode of studying the whole materia medica consists of first making one's self the complete master of a few medicines. Afterwards comes the mastery of those medicines most nearly connected with the first few, and so on."
Here's the link: http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopath ... hering.pdf
This has been helpful to me in giving me a method to develop facility with the remedies. I'm using, Phatak's MM, because at the end of each remedy it has related remedies so it makes it simple to put them together. What are some of the ways you more experienced homeopaths have used to get familiar w/ MM?
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Studying The Remedies
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Julian Winston
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Re: Studying The Remedies
At 12:27 PM -0800 10/30/03, waymon cowley wrote:
Its a good article.
Are you in the USA?
If you are, you should join the National Center for Homeopathy.
Aside from a great summer school they publish Homeopathy Today.
I believe that the November issue has a number of articles about how
to study the MM.
Get more than one MM. You should really have Nash's "Leaders in
Therapeutics," Kent's "Lectures on MateriaMedica" and Tyler's "Drug
Pictures"-- which is like a Reader's Digest of MM.
The prime source of information is, of course, the provings-- and
those are found in Allen's 10 volumes and Hahnemann's MMP/CD.
One of my teachers, Jacques Imberechts, MD (from Belgium) suggested
the following:
Pick a remedy.
On Monday read it in Hahnemann's MMP/CD
On Tuesday, read it in Kent
On Wednesday, read it in Phatak/Boericke
On Thursday, read it in Hering
On Friday read it in Nash
On Saturday read it in another book-- Dunham, Farrington, etc...
On Sunday, write down what you know about the remedy. This is most
likely what you will retain...
Andre Saine taught a comparative approach at summer school...
Learn a remedy (like Lycopodium)
Then learn another (like Pulsatilla) and compare them.
Then learn another and compare it to the first two...
It will take a while to get the first 10. But since you are
comparing, all you need are the differences. The next 50 or so will
take as much time as the first ten. Then the next 100 will take the
same, because by this time you are looking at similarities and
differences-- THIS remedy is like xxx, but it is not cold, and like
xxxx but has a different time modality, which makes it like xxx, etc.
Remember the words of Kent: "Memorizers have no perception." You want
to absorb and understand... not memorize.
It's a great study. Have fun!
JW
Its a good article.
Are you in the USA?
If you are, you should join the National Center for Homeopathy.
Aside from a great summer school they publish Homeopathy Today.
I believe that the November issue has a number of articles about how
to study the MM.
Get more than one MM. You should really have Nash's "Leaders in
Therapeutics," Kent's "Lectures on MateriaMedica" and Tyler's "Drug
Pictures"-- which is like a Reader's Digest of MM.
The prime source of information is, of course, the provings-- and
those are found in Allen's 10 volumes and Hahnemann's MMP/CD.
One of my teachers, Jacques Imberechts, MD (from Belgium) suggested
the following:
Pick a remedy.
On Monday read it in Hahnemann's MMP/CD
On Tuesday, read it in Kent
On Wednesday, read it in Phatak/Boericke
On Thursday, read it in Hering
On Friday read it in Nash
On Saturday read it in another book-- Dunham, Farrington, etc...
On Sunday, write down what you know about the remedy. This is most
likely what you will retain...
Andre Saine taught a comparative approach at summer school...
Learn a remedy (like Lycopodium)
Then learn another (like Pulsatilla) and compare them.
Then learn another and compare it to the first two...
It will take a while to get the first 10. But since you are
comparing, all you need are the differences. The next 50 or so will
take as much time as the first ten. Then the next 100 will take the
same, because by this time you are looking at similarities and
differences-- THIS remedy is like xxx, but it is not cold, and like
xxxx but has a different time modality, which makes it like xxx, etc.
Remember the words of Kent: "Memorizers have no perception." You want
to absorb and understand... not memorize.
It's a great study. Have fun!
JW
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E&M Wighton
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Re: Studying The Remedies
Hi Waymon,
It is fun, and gets more and more interesting the more you learn. Have a look at Helmut von Sydow's "Learning Classical Homeopathy" as a possible companion. It was written for students of homeopathy in remote locations. It lists all the books that Julian Winston mentions and a few others and explains how to use each and compare them etc. A class is a great idea even if it's a short one - ie homeopathic first aid. Keep going!
Best wishes,
Elizabeth
It is fun, and gets more and more interesting the more you learn. Have a look at Helmut von Sydow's "Learning Classical Homeopathy" as a possible companion. It was written for students of homeopathy in remote locations. It lists all the books that Julian Winston mentions and a few others and explains how to use each and compare them etc. A class is a great idea even if it's a short one - ie homeopathic first aid. Keep going!
Best wishes,
Elizabeth