A one-volume Materia Medica built from the classic texts: Frans Vermeulen’s Concordant Reference, expanded for RadarOpus.
It runs to 2,200 pages and 1,209 remedies, from plants, animals and minerals to chemical compounds, drugs, fungi, nosodes, sarcodes, rocks and waters. Of these, 922 have full expanded sections and 287 are small remedies lifted out of Boericke. Names follow current scientific nomenclature, remedies carry Latin and common names, and compounds carry formulas.
It compiles T. F. Allen’s Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics, A Primer of Materia Medica and, in part, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica; Boericke’s Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica (1927); Boger’s Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica (1931); Clarke’s Dictionary of Homeopathic Materia Medica; Cowperthwaite’s Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Hering’s Guiding Symptoms; Kent’s Repertory; Lippe’s Textbook of Materia Medica; and Pulford’s Homeopathic Materia Medica of Graphic Drug Pictures.
- The text is organised under Generals, Mind, Dreams, Body areas, Modalities, Relations and Causations. Each section can have up to three divisions: Sensation, Pain and Objective.
- Symptoms are drawn from provings, intoxications and clinical observation. Allen’s Encyclopedia contains only provings and intoxications, so adding it gave a better balance with the clinical symptoms.
- The Sensation, Mind and Dream sections are the most enlarged, and the medium-sized and small remedies gained most.
Some remedies that were once lumped together are separated, with symptoms assigned to each. Examples: Rhus tox and Rhus radicans, Bryonia alba and Bryonia dioica, Aloe socotrina and Aloe ferox. The publisher’s page has screenshots.
