Source and Substance is the go-to reference for any Homeopath wanting to investigate the source information of thousands of substances
If you find yourself spending hours scouring the internet whilst researching remedies, or looking up a particular substance that may have contributed to the patient’s present state of ill health – the never been well since– (such as a toxic environmental influence) then Source and Substance will be a great time-saver for you!
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Frans Vermeulen has once again done an incredibly rigorous job – collecting a wide variety of source information which is categorised coherently and succintly for the busy Homeopath.
- With Source and Substance, you can
- Easily access information on each remedy’s scientific, toxicological and medicinal properties (even for as-yet unknown remedies)
- Find out what kind of proving was undergone and the level of clinical observsations made
- Discover the cultural and economical background
- Plants
- Find out about
- The main constituents
- The close relatives (botanical groupings)
- Other therapeutic applications; flower essences, herbalism, eclectic, allopathic etc.
- & more
- Find out about
- Animals
- Read about
- Distribution (native range and habitat)
- Body plan (external appearance)
- Diet and feeding
- Behaviour
- & more
- Read about
- Minerals
- Discover essential info about
- Compounds / alloys
- Occurence
- Chief Ores
- Features and properties
- Applications
- Medicinal / toxicological
- & more
- Discover essential info about
- Equivalent to 8,000 book pages!
- Remedies have a Materia Medica section detailing the sources of the symptoms – when, how and by whom they were obtained. e.g. provings, self-experimentations, clinical, allopathic, eclectic, empirical, herbal, toxicological, nutritional, etc.
- Remedies have a section named Cues & Clues listing special features of the substance that can assist in remedy selection and differential diagnosis.
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Source and Substance allows you to search for the characteristic language used by your patient with reference to the remedy source – i.e. the natural behaviour of the substance itself
- It is also invaluable for checking the pharmacological and toxicological properties of substances that may be indicated as the ‘never-been-well-since‘ influence in a case.
- Below are 2 examples of the practical application of Source and Substance in Homeopathic case analysis:
Contains extra material in the form of 228 summaries or original reports of hard to find provings, self-experimentations and poisonings
- Remedies are divided in 11 Categories:
- Animals
- Minerals
- Plants
- Fungi
- Nosodes
- Sarcodes
- Imponderables
- Chemicals
- Biochemicals
- Organic compounds
- Pharmaceuticals
Remedies also have a Close Relatives section that includes all other members of the category most closely related, enabling differential diagnosis of related members of a botanicalor zoological family.
- Categories are subdivided in Kind, Drug class, or Chemical class
- E.G:
- Kind of plant; fern, herb, tree, liana, vine, moss
- Kind of animal; mammal, fish, bird, reptile, insect, spider
- Kind of fungus; mushroom, polypore, mould, yeast, lichen
- Kind of mineral; metal, metalloid, salt, gemstone, spring water
- Examples of Drug class: Alpha blocker. Analgesic. Anticholinergic. Antihistaminicum
- Examples of Chemical class: Alcohol. Amine. Carboxylic acid. Hydrocarbon
- E.G:
This work provides the Homeopathic community with a very accurate template for our remedies based on the latest scientific research!