Synoptic Reference 2
F. Vermeulen
The third of 4 volumes in the new Prisma series. Here - fleshed out yet succinct are a further 606 remedies. The author's express aim is to make them as easy to grasp and as accessible as possible.
With Vermeulen's characteristic blend of painstaking detail and clarity the remedies are presented under clear headings: Substance, Affinity, Symptoms - Mind, General, Localised, Rubrics Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Food & Fluid, and, lastly - (a slight alteration from Vol.1), "Cues and Clues", in which words or phrases are taken from the proving substance. For example, Corvus Corax is described as a "Confident, inquisitive strutter" - allowing you to perceive the essence of this bird and match it with information from the proving.
On the subject of provings, Vermeulen gives an overview of the development of provings from the time of Hahnemann - and how the accuracy of substances has been compromised in the past. For example, Zincum phosphoricum (Zinc phosphate) has been confused with Zincum phosphoratum (zinc phosphide) - whose effects are very different. He attempts to clarify such confusion in Synoptic 2.
Kingdoms and groups are given in the foreword: enabling you, for example, to find an animal mollusc remedy, or an element according to its group and column, or a plant according to its family - for example, Ranunculaceae, Solanaceae, etc.
The substance itself is described in detail at the outset, giving a full and accurate picture of the remedy's applications, themes, and, where appropriate, chemical make-up, history and mythological connections. These descriptions help enormously with an understanding of the remedy's essence.
N.B: Concordant has quantity of remedies, (1285), whereas Synoptic 1 (505) and 2 (606) and, presumably, Prisma (222), have quality. Different remedies from each other, but much more fleshed out than as they appear in Concordant.
With Vermeulen's characteristic blend of painstaking detail and clarity the remedies are presented under clear headings: Substance, Affinity, Symptoms - Mind, General, Localised, Rubrics Strange, Rare & Peculiar, Food & Fluid, and, lastly - (a slight alteration from Vol.1), "Cues and Clues", in which words or phrases are taken from the proving substance. For example, Corvus Corax is described as a "Confident, inquisitive strutter" - allowing you to perceive the essence of this bird and match it with information from the proving.
On the subject of provings, Vermeulen gives an overview of the development of provings from the time of Hahnemann - and how the accuracy of substances has been compromised in the past. For example, Zincum phosphoricum (Zinc phosphate) has been confused with Zincum phosphoratum (zinc phosphide) - whose effects are very different. He attempts to clarify such confusion in Synoptic 2.
Kingdoms and groups are given in the foreword: enabling you, for example, to find an animal mollusc remedy, or an element according to its group and column, or a plant according to its family - for example, Ranunculaceae, Solanaceae, etc.
The substance itself is described in detail at the outset, giving a full and accurate picture of the remedy's applications, themes, and, where appropriate, chemical make-up, history and mythological connections. These descriptions help enormously with an understanding of the remedy's essence.
N.B: Concordant has quantity of remedies, (1285), whereas Synoptic 1 (505) and 2 (606) and, presumably, Prisma (222), have quality. Different remedies from each other, but much more fleshed out than as they appear in Concordant.
ISBN: 9781908127136
SKU: bk2163
£75.00