Dear Curew
Please post the exact remedies you are looking for. The books listed previously have LOADS of constitutional profiles,that is enough reading for a year! (go back to the beginning of this subject read book list)

Yes we can post more books but whats the point,did you already read all the books mentioned? Or am i not getting something here???????/

Rajan Sankaran Has 6 books (expensive books) great listings of constitutionals..............

www.minimum.com
go to website type in constitutional remedies and see what list popps.
Hundreds of books! on this subject from all over this planet..................

GT

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Dear Curew
You still did not list the specific REMEDIES you are looking for?



Here are the three books that were spoken of in the past post; By Coulter
Portraits of homeopathic medicines part one,two,three...................

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The homeopathic treatment of children by Paul Herscu.....................(ped. const. types)

Constitution and Temperament by Dr. RK Mukerji.................super interesting.

The Essence of Materia Medica by George Vithoulkas............AAAAA+++++ One of my favorite

And the 6 books by Sankaran.............all excellent!!!!!

Homeopathic Psychology by philip Bailey...............superb!!!!!!!

GT

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"Great ideas often recieve violent opposition from mediocre minds"...................Einstein

To find the personality profiles of both major and minor homeopathic remedies would cost you a lot of money. You would need to be one an extensive materia medica that is published in multiple volumes. That is the only way I think you can come up with that level of detail for the personality profiles of minor remedies.

I am under the impression that George Vithoulakas is working on this type of series which is adding volumes as they are published, so it may be a work that is not finished yet. It would be like buying a set of encyclopedias, costing serveral hundred dollars. But it would be an extensive and detailed materia medica published in many volumes.

Vithoulkas's MM is up to volume 8. But it is not finished yet.

This is volume 8: from Carduus Marianus to Cicuta Virosa.

http://www.homeopathic.com/Merchant2..._Code=VIT-MAT8

You would have to invest in a work like this, I think.

Seems to me that there are "schools" of thought even as within what would all be considered "classical" homeopathy. Part of which is coming out in this thread. Such as the degree to which the mentals and emotionals are looked at compared to localized symptoms. Whether or not the plant, animal, mineral etc. nature of the remedy is considered and so on, also relevant in this.

Like you I'm somewhat frustrated by having to make long distance decisions about what book(s) to get. Cannot go to local bookstore and thumb through a dozen or more possibles and choose.

i have found some help from things like interviews with certain authors to try to get a sense of them (ofr example Minimum has Sankaran, Vermuelen and others, and then I found some articles in something called, I think, the New England Journal of Homeopathy), or where possible on line experts or hints as to arrangement of the book, comprehensiveness etc. Sankaran tends to take the approach that the mental and emotional picture is key to finding the right remedy fit--so that might mean his book(s) would fit what you are looking for better than some others (at least more than someone who believes that the physicals are all that is important)--I was thinking to get the one that is considered an MM, rather than the ones separately geared to things like Plant Kingdom. I can't find anything so far to get a help in this way on Coulter--and it looks like there are now 4 Coulter volumes so unless they are arranged in a way that happens to fit much of what you are looking for into one volume, you are again looking at a good bit of money.

But in fact, I also found at least some of the Materia Medica Pura online and so far that is actually my favorite... (!!!) It doesn't give exactly what you are looking for in this post, but it might help you out in trying to find what you are really looking for, namely an answer to whatever is the problem????. Reversed repertories also help.

If you cannot name what remedies you are interested in, maybe you could say what "personality" types you are wanting to find, and then maybe people could suggest from there remedies that might perhaps fit those types and from there what books or what volumes of what series would cover them?

Or, if you had a book that gave teh main polychrest remedies and their personality features, maybe you could then see what is at least similar and then look at the smaller remedies that are similar to that polychrest?

I think some things are 'personality' like and came out in provings, but most likely others have come about bec. homeopaths had the experience that a certain type responds better or less well to a certain remedy. Sort of like noticing that someone treated by Belladonna in a family did not come down with Scarlet Fever, say. And sometimes this may be very valid, and I suppose sometimes not so much so...


My homeopath vet has a computerized search system which he enters things into as the client talks. But then in his own mind he seems to have the picture profile of what type of animal the remedies that come up would be most appropriate for and starts asking about that sort of as confirmatory signs.

Finally, it might actually be possible to call a place that sells homeopathy books and ask if someone could read you the table of contents of what you are choosing between.

Dear Members

Hahnemann gives the following advise regards the content of a Materia medica suitable for the homeopathic use:
§ 144
From such a materia medica everything that is conjectural, all that is mere assertion or imaginary should be strictly excluded; everything should be the pure language of nature carefully and honestly interrogated.
In this light, most of the modern books sold as Materia medicas would not qualify.

Every one is welcome to read and make use of Hahnemann’s own MMP and those Ones he recommends in the Ogranon: (153, 5th and 6th ed.)

1 Dr. von Bonninghausen, who has already distinguished himself by his labours in connection with the new system of medicine, has lately increased our obligation to him by the publication of his important little book setting forth the characteristic symptoms, more particularly of the antipsoric medicines, entitled Uebersicht der Hauptwirkungs-Sphure der antips. Arz., Munster, bei Coppenrath, 1833, and the appendix thereto (containing the antisyphilitic and the antisycotic medicines) at the end of the second edition of his Systematisch-alphabetisches Repertorium der antipsorischen Arzneien, bei Coppenrath in Munster.
1 Dr. von Bonninghausen, by the publication of the characteristic symptoms of homoeopathic medicines and his repertory has rendered a great service to Homoeopathy as well as Dr. J.H.G. Jahr in his handbook of principal symptoms.
One will soon realize, that constitution of the patient does not form part of the proving or the disease. Likewise it becomes evident, that mental pictures, drug-personalities etc. were not created by remedies during a proving in the test-person but are merely assumptions of certain authors writing books about homeopathy.

Everyone is welcome to conduct a proving on himself – it is worthwhile to experience directly what the remedy does.

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath

But not necessarily pleasant!!! :-)

Thanks Teagan for the options, and others. Currently I'm not interested in this personality thread anymore.