Thanks a lot for the kind feedback. Here is what I think and would like to hear comments:
If your line of questioning to the patient is based on what is written in the MM (materia medica) and the subsequent repertories, why can't you choose the perfect remedy based on this this simple approach.
Let me clarify myself with the following example:
A patient comes with a complaint of sore throat only. Assuming I already have a questionnaire (lets say Snoopy's questionnaire or Sankaran's) developed based on the Boericke MM after reading maybe 50 remedies and start asking him from Mind till Extremeties giving hints to the patient about what type of details I need from him.
Based on his list of symptoms, I repertorize and then use the software for suggestion of remedies. Lets say there are 10 remedies in descending order that the software suggests. I go through all of them again in the MM and then select the one which has most of the symtpoms of that patient mentioned in it. (I would need to do this because of my lack of experience, an experienced homeopath who knows the symptoms of the remedies by heart would not need to read the MM again to confirm which remedy to give)
Then I select 30 potency for that remedy in a single dose and wait for the results in 2-3 days. Using the guiding principles of homeopathy I get to know if the remedy is right or not and then accordingly adjust the dose and potency and/or change the remedy to the stand-by remedy that was decided already while reaching at the first choice of remedy.
The intent here is not to undermine the years of professional education and formal training but to ascertain and understand as to why this simple approach can't work. We have been taught all our lives in engineering, that unless things follow simple logics and rules, general acceptance and understanding can't be achieved. I am trying to fit that philosophy here also.
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