A truly brilliant materia medica of 100 medicines with simply 2 pages per remedy, but Sankaran gets to the essence, the soul, of the remedy in a clear and profound way. This book is highly recommended! “Darkness of absence of light is ignorance. From that total unknown, the character of the ailment (patient) emerges slowly through observation and information till it becomes clear white, which leads to the concept of remedies.” This book is meant for those who have read “The Spirit of Homoeopathy” and & The Substance of Homoeopathy” because it is those earlier works that most fully express the author’s understanding of Organon and Materia Medica without understanding his ideas on such things as case-taking, classification of remedies according to Kingdom, miasms, etc, this book will not be of much benefit. This work may be used as an adjunct to the previous works but not as a substitute for them. The reader who attempts to use this book without understanding the fundamental concepts may easily find himself lost without a compass. The author’s idea of understanding a remedy is to grasp the connection that ties together its myriad symptoms: the basic delusion, its source (Kingdom), the miasm to which it belongs, its symptoms – all must be understood as aspects of a single whole if we are to even begin to truly understand a remedy.

It is the author’s attempt to trace out these connections that distinguishes this work from other Materia Medicas. The material presented here has been observed and confirmed in Dr. Sankaran’s own practice, it is a material of which he is sure. He has not included remedies of which he has little experience or knowledge. Sankaran has attempted to convey the innermost feeling or the basic delusion of the remedy while connecting the situation, source, miasm and kingdom. The rubrics and physical symptoms cited are ones which he has repeatedly observed and often used to confirm the remedy prescribed.

Adobe Flash Media Encoder Invalid Output File Name For Printer. The Soul of (Homeopathic) Remedies- Rajan Sankaran This is a companion volume o Dr.Rajan Sankaran's earlier works. “The Spirit of Homoeopathy” and “The Rajan Sankaran - Patron of the School of Homeopathy and experienced He is the son of the homeopath Dr.

There is a misconception to the effect that Dr. Sankaran stresses mental and emotional symptoms to the exclusion of physical symptoms. This is a MISCONCEPTION.

If he often seems to speak exclusively of mental/emotional state, it is because understanding this requires some insight into the patient as well as the remedy and it is more difficult than noting physical symptoms. Nonetheless in practice, he gives lot of importance to the physical symptoms, to the meaning of pathology and to the modalities which have to be matched with those of the remedy. Giving a remedy solely on a vague idea of mental picture is prescription for failure.

Such an approach is risky and certainly not the one he recommends or follows. ——————————————————————————– Review: This book review is reprinted with the permission of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians 12132 SE Foster Place Portland, OR 97266 Telephone: (503) 761-3298 Fax: (503) 762-1929 Reviewed by Durr Elmore, ND, DHANP Rajan Sankaran, one of the leading homeopathic thinkers and teachers today, recently published a book of materia medica. In the introduction, he begins with a warning of the dangers of writing and teaching remedy pictures (essences), because “a beginner in the field might become fixed on these remedy pictures and forget that every remedy has a wider range and greater scope than any one individual can see or describe. Not realizing that these pictures represent only one version, only one view of the remedy, he might wrongly imagine that he had seen the whole.” Most of the remedies presented have been previously published in The Spirit of Homeopathy and The Science of Homeopathy. Sankaran has revised and corrected the original writings.

This book begins with a lucid introduction that clearly defines the background and use of the information contained. He writes: “The material presented here has been observed and confirmed in my own practice; it is material I am sure of. I have not included remedies of which I have little experience or knowledge. I have attempted to convey the innermost feeling or the basic delusion of the remedy while connecting the situation, source, miasm and kingdom. The rubrics and physical symptoms cited are ones which I have observed repeatedly and often used to confirm the remedy prescribed. These ideas have helped me in my clinical practice and I wish to share them with the profession.” Regarding his understanding of each remedy (essences of remedies), Rajan writes, “Mere is a common misconception to the effect that I stress mental and emotional symptoms to the exclusion of physical symptoms. Hp Printer Installer Cleanup Utility. This, I repeat, is a misconception.