Words of wisdom from Madam Catherine Coulter

To remain vital and meaningful the Homoeopathic  Materia Medica,like any aspect of our cultural heritage,must be repeatedly scrutinized,analyzed and interpreted by each generation in the light of its new knowledge and understanding.

SOMETHING ABOUT RUTA G (part 1)

Complementary : Calc phos especially bone and joint complaints

One of the Nash trio's of remedies for eyestrain. Other two being Nat m and Senega.... Other than that Onosmodium reminds us of eyestrain complaints...

Urticaria from eating meat(compare Rumex and Ant crud....if I am not wrong Repertory has not much mentions about urticaria related to meat eating)

Dr. Kent said it should of in eye complaints where Arg nit prescribed instead of Ruta.... Quite sometimes Ruta may be indicated

Similar to This tox... In many aspects markedly the amelioration of backache by lying on something hard and changing of the position frequently may confuse us with Rhus tox

STUDY OF RARE REMEDIES

Skookum Chuck aqua

As far as what I know only 8 authors have written about it.Pulford writes only 2 lines in his Materia medica of graphical drug pictures.......

Think of it in urticaria when Apis or Urtica fail.....

Something about CONIUM MACULATUM

1)Mind : Materialistic(Fluoric acid) , superstitious, unrefined

2)Relations. - Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants, though persons susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in health. Compare: Arn., Rhus in contusions; Ars., Aster, in cancer; Cal., Psor. in glandular swellings. Is followed well: by, Psor. in tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy.

3)long effects of injury(Arnica,Nat sulph, Ham);glandular injury

FIVE DISEASES OF HOMOEOPATHY

1)IGNORANCE : our ignorance of subjects is so big
2)IDOLISATION :idolosing people, making guru's
3)EGOTISM: of colleagues and guru's, like the "I know" ,"I will tell you what to do attitude"
4)DOGMATISM:"this is the ONLY way"not bases on facts but on dogma, on opinion. If you think this method is the only way, it has to be based on facts and not only on opinion.
5)DEVIATION FORM THE INDUCTIVE METHOD.
Importance of observation ND not imagination.
Imagination is there to sometimes help you to do a theory, to further observe. Discovery is made from observation.

(Slightly modified from the writings of Dr. Andre Saine)
(I am too small to comment further... Just found it worth sharing... In fact hard hitting and thought provoking... Being precise)

AN EXCERPT FROM THE LESSER WRITINGS OF Dr. HAHNEMANN - The medical observer

The capability of observing accurately is never quite an innate faculty; it must be chiefly acquired by practice, by refining and regulating the perceptions of the senses, that is to say, by exercising a sever criticism in regard to the rapid impressions we obtain of external objects,and at the same time the necessary coolness, calmness and firmness of judgement must be preserved, together with a constant distrust of our own powers of apprehension .

The vast importance of our subject should make us direct the energies of our body and mind towards the observation; and great patience, supported by the power of the will, must sustain us in the direction until the completion of the observation.