For the practitioner who wants to compare similar remedies by their essential features: Eduardo Candegabe’s Comparative Materia Medica.
Candegabe (1923 to 2006) was an Argentine homeopathic physician. The book grew out of his case work: remedies close to the similimum kept appearing in his repertorisations, which led him to study each remedy in the repertory as well as in the Materia Medica. He argues that a remedy’s symptoms rank themselves in a hierarchy, and that between five and ten symptoms are enough to synthesise the picture. He calls that group the Minimum Characteristic Syndrome.
Because the group is small, it can be repertorised and used to compare close remedies. He likens it to a caricature, which keeps only the few outstanding features needed to tell one face from all others.
The book is arranged comparatively and describes more than 100 remedies. Candegabe presents this as the way to compare similar remedies, which suits the point after a repertorisation when several remedies have come forward. Check what your package already includes on the package comparison before adding it.
