Few homeopaths have the opinion that for doing practice, one should have to read materia medica by heart (i.e memorization is compulsory) while few have the opinion that rather to memorize materia medica it should be understand logically and take helf from computer software for materia medica symtpoms. Rajan emphasis on memorization of materia medica while other opposes him.

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Homeo Dr. Rasheed Khan,
M.A (Pol Sci), M.A (Islamiat), M.A (History), DHMS (4 years)
Registered Homeopath in NCH, Pakistan
Member of P.H.S, PHDA, HPCA & PHMA.

James Tyler Kent said you should read one remedy a day in at least three MMs and learn it.

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Shirley Reischman

What about to study & understand remedies which may be important for a justified cure?

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

I don't understand your question. What is a justified cure?

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Shirley Reischman

When one treat by understading all effects of remedy on physiology of any patient and its effects on his disease.

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

I still don't understand the question. You learn the remedies based on the SXs that are brought out in the provings.

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Shirley Reischman

There are about 2500 remedies, or so. More are coming all the time. In clinical practice, you really use about 80 remedies most often--so it is a good idea to keep these very commonly used remedies handy in different potencies, and to have at some fundamental understanding of these remedies so that you can have some ground on which to differentiate between them. Of course, lots of other, less commonly used remedies may be needed too.

However, memorizing the materia medica seems like quite a lot of energy put to poor use, when reference materials are created exactly for the purpose of making that information accessible. The most important thing is to take the case properly and learn how to analyse the case so that you really do understand the patient. Materia medica can be referenced if one's knowledge isn't profound about any particular remedy, and differential diagnosis between remedies can be done just as easily that way as from "memorization".

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But the effects of remedy can be differant on differant person. If you can know the effect of remedy on physiology of any person it will give an accurate/justified cure. Furthur, pathology of any disease can be differant in differant person. If you can know effect of remedies on pathology of any disease it will also give an accurate/justified cure. But it may be difficult to achieve this understanding with so many remedies & rules. Proving's SXs+Effect on patient's physiology+ Effects on pathology of disease+ other rules are to be understood & remembered for giving the justified cure/treatment.

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Homeopathic & Biochemic system existed because Drs.Hahnemann & Schuessler thought differently.
Successful people don't do different things, they do things differently..S.Kh.

More or less, I tried to highlight the same opinion in "How to study materia medica"

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Hafeez
Forum Pk

Kent suggested that you learn the remedies by comparison - what's the same and what's different about each remedy. So lets say you are learning Nux-v and you come to anger. You look up which remedies are also big on anger and study them. then you look at which remedies have a mild disposition and study them.

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Shirley Reischman