WHY ARE HOMOEO SOFTWARES USELESS?

-  Prof. V. Krishnamurthy, 

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A practitioner would be doing great blunder if he thinks that he can find the remedy for all his patients with the repertory or software. Most of those using software are under the illusion that once the homoeo software is installed, he can be damn sure of selecting the remedy for his patients. To remove this illusion the following is being written.

 

(1)    The practitioner searches in the software for ‘diabetes’ and he gets some results. But, at the same time, he would be missing many remedies for diabetes. This is because in some places of materia medicas for ‘diabetes’ the terms ‘glycosuria’ or ‘sugar in urine’ is used in place of diabetes.

 

(2)    Before programming the materia medica they must either change all the words ‘glycosuria’ as ‘diabetes’ or give ‘diabetes’ within brackets after all the words ‘glycosuria.’   Because of either ignorance or arrogance those selling softwares will not listen to these observations.

 

Again a doctor may search for ‘liver’ but in many places we find equivalent terms ‘hepatic affections’ ‘bilious’ etc. are used for liver affections and the list goes on.

Therefore, alternative terms must be included side by side in the materia medicas used in the computers as under before including them in the software: Examples are:

 

(a) old age, aged persons

 

(b) glycosuria, diabetes, diabetes mellitus

 

(c) kidney, renal, nephritis, and so on and so forth.

Finding the remedy—the similimum for a patient is not a mechanical job; it is artistic.

Also, certain syndrome (group of symptoms) cannot be classified under any rubric in the repertory or software and so a homoeopath would better memorise them.  Example cases are given in the next pages.