A short, structured Materia Medica for the student and the busy practitioner: Frans Vermeulen’s Synoptic Reference, with 500 remedies set out in a fixed pattern.
Vermeulen wrote it because the Materia Medica holds so much that the “overawed student” and the busy practitioner need a concise, structured summary to keep hold of the essentials. The 500 remedies were chosen from over 6,000, from the well known to the rare. Plants make up 274 of them, minerals 132, animals 64, nosodes 18, fungi 10 and imponderables 2.
- Source and Substance: current scientific names and groupings, and links between what a substance is and the symptoms of its remedy, in the manner of Prisma.
- Four sections: Mind, Generals, Sensations and Locals, each listing individualising characteristics and key symptoms drawn from provings and clinical experience.
- Rubrics: taken from the Synthesis repertory in RadarOpus, supplemented from materia medicas around the world.
The Plus Group lists a handful of distinctive characteristics of each remedy, generally the most distinct first. The lines are meant to be added one to another, each making the remedy more defined.
The publisher’s page has a guided tour in screenshots.
