The sixth edition of Yasgur's Homeopathic Dictionary and Holistic Health Reference is anessential reference for lay practitioners and physicians alike who are challenged and intrigued byterms pertaining to this 200-year-old system of medical therapeutics founded by Samuel Hahnemann.Some 5,000 modern and archaic terms are defined and interpreted in order to assist you in understandingthe homeopathic literature. Included also is a scientific etymology section and a listing ofabbreviations and appellations. Many holistic health-care modalities have also been defined. Afascinating selection of over 200 brief biographies of noted homeopaths is also included.
This is a "history of ideas" account of the retreat of magical thinking in Europe before the rise of the modern scientific world view. It examines the challenge to this view presented by the physical researchers of the 19th century employing scientific methods and criteria.
The perpetual challenge of all students of homoeopathy, whether beginner or experienced, is the overwhelming volume of detailed symptoms in our Material Medicas. We constantly strive to simplify the information, to sort out the clinically useful from the non-distinguishing and general symptoms, to grasp in a single picture the essential features of the remedy. Compounding this difficulty is the fact that most of our sources belong toanother era in time, the rapid changes and unique pressures of modern society have brought froth new facets of our remedies, and even well known symptoms are expressed in a modern idiom which obscures their relationship to the material in older texts. This task of separating the truly essential from the common place and adapting the form to present day expression, has been approached by Roger Morrison with characteristic dedication.
"Allen's Keynotes" is one of the most popular and widely read materia medica. The reason for its popularity being its preciseness and comprehensiveness. Keeping in view its usefulness for the students and practitioners of homeopathy.