library of homeo books--enlarging your library

[Dr. Krishnamoorthy]

Hello, Only if we fail in finding the remedy from the existing works, there
is need for enlarging your library, software etc. BUT I WANT TO STATE HERE
THAT THERE would be NO FAILURE IF WE KNOW HOW TO USE Calvin B. Knerr's
Repertory, Boericke's Mat.Medica and Repertory, Samuel Lilienthal's Homeo
Therapeutics, Hering's Guiding Symptoms (10 volumes) and Kent's Repertory.
Alas! No one has so far talked about HERING'S GUIDING SYMPTOMS (10
volumes). I would soon start this topic. Thank you all for the interest
shown in finding the remedy, which is the foremost thing for the patient as
well as for homeopathy.

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:57:17 -0500
From: "Toni-Ann Trevino"
Subject: RE: Susceptib;ility

Boy, is this a disappointment. Well, I've added Art-v to the rubric in my
Synthesis program. Seems like no matter how many reps one has, there's
always another one still needs to get -- and the library grows.

Toni

[Toni-Ann Trevino]

I really appreciate my 10-volume set of Hering's Guiding Symptoms. It is
laid out like no other MM. But I honestly thought that Boericke and Kent,
as far as reps go, were considered very limited with regard to both rubrics
and remedies, the latter especially; hence, the new reps, Synthesis among
them. Am I mistaken?
Toni

[Julian Winston]

At 9:35 PM -0500 5/20/04, Toni-Ann Trevino wrote:

Personally, I think you are.
If you like Hering's 10 volumes then you MUST get Knerr's Repertory--
which is all of Hering.
The Kent repertory has been of grand service since 1897-- over 100 years.
Sure, it has its errors and its omissions.
The errors are easily corrected by getting the best Kent there is--
done by R. Patel. He spent 50 years correcting the errors and
recently re-printed it. I think it is $50US, and is the best Kent
I've seen.
Sorry to say, it is about 10-15 years too late as the Synthesis and
Complete already made all those changes and added more stuff.
The question is... do you need to know about all those new remedies
whose inclusion into the new reps might be questionable?
The Kent and Boericke are limited as far as newer remedies go, but
are very serviceable in terms of rubrics-- in my opinion.
Sure there will be some times when you need something else, but for
(I'd think) 90% of the cases The Kent should do just fine.

The nice thing about Hering's work is that it is a clinical record of
cured cases. But... understand that the remedies up to Cainca were
edited by *Hering*. Those later ones were completed by his students
after he died, so don't have all of Hering's input.

JW

[Patti Mount]

Thank you Julian for replying to this... and that is precisely ONE of the
reasons why I love my RADAR software so very much is that it has the option
for us to look at the repertory in groupings of Time so that we can view
only those rubrics in place during Kent's Time plus several more groupings
of time forward (& backwards too) approaching the most current
timeframe/provings...

my best regards, Patti.
Kent,
rubrics

[Toni-Ann Trevino]

Much appreciated, Julian. I find that the majority of my cases resolve on
the polychrests and I have had comparatively little use for the newer or
more obscure remedies. I have often wondered if more is better, but then
the issue of factoring in all possibilities enters the picture and one does
not want to overlook anything that might prove valuable to the case at hand.
I will be ordering Knerr and Lilienthal. Thank you for your reply.
Toni