Materia Medica

Homeopathy is a unique therapeutic system discovered by a German physician named Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann. Etymologically the word Homoeopathy can be divided into 2 parts. “Homoeos” means “Similar”, “Pathos” means “Suffering”. Thus Homoeopathy means “to cure a patient with those drugs that produce similar symptoms to the sufferings of the patient”. 

A Homoeopathic materia medica is not just a static reference book instead it is a book that is dynamic in nature. It is continuously evolving based on clinical observations and provings. The materia medica is always updating and getting refined day by day.                             

Homeopathy materia medica distinguishes it from all other schools of medicine.

The homeopathic materia medica is a comprehensive compilation of homoeopathic remedies, detailing their properties, indications and uses. It is a very fascinating and yet exasperating subject. Its simplicity, its vastness, and its apparent similarity of symptoms in different drugs throw a tremendous challenge to the beginners” says Dr. Jugal Kishore.

Homoeopathic Materia Medica is a record book of all the pathogenetic symptoms exhibited by medicine when tested on healthy human beings. Hahnemann first published “Materia Medica Pura” which consists of the symptoms produced by a particular drug on healthy human proverbs from head to toe.

The homoeopathic materia medica is organized by remedy, with each remedy entry containing detailed information about the substance from which it is derived such as plants, animals, and minerals.

It includes the description of the remedy's physical, emotional, and mental symptoms. It also contains modalities that are the factors that affect the symptoms i.e aggravation and amelioration.

Many other Materia Medica were released later on that provide equally authentic descriptions of the medicine, by great stalwarts like W. Boericke, Dr. Kent, H. C. Allen, J. H Clarke, Hering Constantine, E. B Nash, etc, based on their proving results.

In today’s time, there are various best homoeopathic materia medica books available online which makes the study less tedious.

Books on Mind, Psychology, Mental symptoms by Bailey Philip, JP Gallavardin, Dreams, delusion by Meera.

Various Materia medica books on mother tinctures by Yudhbir Sinha, Vinay Jain, Henry Thomas.

Best materia medica book for children, keynotes, Constitutional medicines, Drug pictures. These books helps a lot especially for budding homoeopaths

Many other Materia Medica were released later on that provide equally authentic descriptions of the medicine, by great stalwarts like W. Boericke, Dr. Kent, H. C. Allen, J. H Clarke, Hering Constantine, E. B Nash, etc, based on their proving results.

B. Jain Publishers - Buy all kind of Homoeopathic materia medica books, books on mother tinctures, psychiatry books, constitutional boos, keynotes books, life saving books, Materia medica  textbooks, Materia medica mcq book, red line keyntoes book, best Materia medica books

The types of materia medica books which could be referenced from are:

- Clinical Homoeopathic Materia medica

- Schematic (Anatomical) Materia medica

- Picture type of Materia medica

- Psychoanalytical /interpretative Materia medica

- Monograph’s of homoeopathic medicines

- Therapeutic type of Materia medica

- Keynote Materia medica

- Materia medica of physiological action

- Materia medica based on the provings