The Essence of Materia Medica: 2nd Edition - Softcover

Vithoulkas George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8131902013 ISBN 13: 9788131902011

Publisher: B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book is authored by one of the world's leading practitioners George Vithoulkas and his work needs no introduction or recommendation. Yet, this is a book which we would like to recommend to every homeopath. In the "Essence of Materia Medica", he has painted the essence of 51 remedies. While reading every remedy, a clear portrait of the patient with minute details comes out in front of you. He has given a description of the type of person most commonly affected by a remedy at the start of most remedy portraits for example, the Kalium carbonicum patient with a strong sense of duty heightened to an inflexible, rigid degree. In every medicine Vithoulkas has described a common thread/theme going at all three levels of the patient, for example in Alumina, the theme of delayed action and slowness is visible at all the three levels. Many medicines are compared with other closely related medicines having similar symptoms. The comparison of the essence of various related medicines helps a lot in choosing a correct remedy. This book is reflective of the vast clinical experience and knowledge of the author. With this book, he has carried the efforts of Kent in creating the remedy portraits to the next level. He has himself acknowledged that he has drawn a lot from the Kent's Materia Medica and Repertory. He has been able to show the development of remedy pictures in a very evolutionary manner, which helps in creating a better understanding of the medicines presented in this work. The book is well compiled and the presentation of the material is very lucid and systematic.

About this title

Product Description:

Facilitates understanding of the fine differences in the symptomatology of the remedies answering the same rubric in the repertory, thus help pick up the right remedy for the case in hand.

Review:

An essential remedy book This book is for somebody with some first hand knowledge about Homeopathic medicines and principles. Vithoulkas is known as the Hahnemann of this century and is the creator of the famous Homeopathy remedy software called Compass. This book consists of 51 homeopathy medicines that a homeopathy medical practitioner ends up prescribing 90% of the time. You will find this book even with seasoned Homeopathy practitioners. So you can understand the worth of this book. --Sudipto bhakta Nov 28, 2014

About this edition

• Publisher: B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8131902013
• ISBN 13: 9788131902011
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 218