HOMEOPATHIC BOOKS FOR SALE (all in excellent condition)

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke - 3 Volumes

Printed in UK, Jain Publishers Ltd Description: Printed in India, Hardback, 1635 pages. (3 volumes.)

A pulling together of Allen's Encyclopedia, Hering's Guiding Symptoms, and Hale's New Remedies. Offering over 1000 remedies with information about indications, keynotes, relationships, alternative names, causations, affinities, and more. The clinical uses of the remedies are discussed, cases are given as examples of use, and then the remedy symptoms are listed using the Hahnemann schema.

When some felt that the work was too long, Clarke replied: "My work is a dictionary and I have never found a dictionary that explained too many words."

If you needed a single materia medica, this set might serve the purpose. Although the materia medica in the Hahnemann Schema is of use, the real "gold" of this work is found in the narrative that precedes the listing, where stories of the remedies are related, snippets from Burnett, Skinner, and Cooper are found, and unique characteristics of the remedy under discussion are presented.

(This commentary is reprinted from The Heritage of Homoeopathic Literature with permission of the author Julian Winston)

Price: £80 plus post and packaging

Characteristics Materia Medica and Repertory by Boenninghausen

Jain Publishers Ltd Description: Printed in India, Hardback, 1231 pages plus a large word index.

An excellent hardback Repertory. This Repertory works very well alongside Kent's Repertory. Essentially a collection of all of Boenninghausen's work in one book.

This book contains both a Materia Medica and a Repertory. The Boenninghausen method emphasises Modalities and the Characteristic aspects of symptoms, hence the title, and is particularly useful when the symptoms in the case are incomplete.

Price £15 plus post and packaging

Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica by Constantine Hering
10 Volumes - Provings

Jain Publishers Ltd Description: Printed in India, Hardback, approximately 550 pages each volume.

Herring's Materia Medica looks at many remedies over 10 volumes. Each book is packed with the important keynotes and pointers, highlighted and in bold type for quick reference. At the beginning of each remedy there contains interesting information about it followed by the usual layout of a materia medica.

An excellent resource because these books go right back to the provings, so if you are stumped with a case, by checking out the exact details of a remedy, there is no guesswork involved.

Price: £45 plus post and packaging.

Taking Off by Daphne Nancholas (these books are new)

Publisher: Windmill Hill Editions 2003 Paperback Handbook, 118 pages, Preface by Ian Watson

Taking Off is a helpful handbook for newly qualified homeopathic practitioners and for all those who are interested in continually improving their practice. A handy reference for herbs and flower remedies in use as supports to homeopathic treatment.

Price: £9.99 plus post and packaging