Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

The Homoeopathic Materia Medica is a very fascinating and yet an exasperating subject. Its simplicity, its vastness and its apparent similarity of symptoms in different drugs throw a tremendous challenge to the beginners. Kent said that there is no royal road to a perfect understanding of Materia Medica. It is at its worst a tedious drudgery. One can realize its vast extent by reading 138 printed pages on Sulphur in the Encyclopaedia or 90 pages on Lachesis of Hering s Guiding Symptoms. It requires tremendous study, experience and insight to see some order in the maze of such a collection of symptoms. Our Materia Medica is a record of actual occurrences, of events that really took place, of the results that were unquestionably produced upon healthy subjects.