Some pages:

• Introduction and Structure of the book (Massimo Mangialavori)
• The application of similitude (Massimo Mangialavori)
• Shared pathos (Alberto Panza)
• The Drugs (Massimo Mangialavori)
• Anhalonii lewinii: the remedy, one case and comment (Mangialavori - Marotta)

PRAXIS: A new approach to Homeopathic Medicine - Method of Complexity: the search for coherence in clinical phenomena.

Vol 1: Methodology
Vol 2, Part 1: Studies of the Homeopathic Drug Family
Massimo Mangialavori e Giovanni Marotta
Edited by John Sobraske
MATRIX Editrice

"Praxis is the first text of Homeopathic Methodology, written in Italian and translated into English and German. It’s the result of many years of personal clinical experience and teaching. Praxis is a guide for the homeopathic doctor who wishes to work systematically to study the patient as a whole person and integrate his organic, physical and psychological characteristics, it introduces the analysis of the patient and corresponding homeopathic remedy as a coherent whole, including significant themes. It’s an itinerary which leads to distinguish the homeopathic remedy in its widest sense of homeopathic family of substances, grouped by fundamental themes and not by single preconceived categories. Through a systematic approach the writers develop homeopathic ideals fully respecting tradition. While the reader rediscovers that these ideals he finds the nucleus of the most fundamental anthropological concepts. The epistemological review in the text book allows a comparison with current scientific thought, and the writers hope for an improved heuristic potential than previously achieved.
Praxis "The Method of Complexity in Homeopathic Medicine" will be the first in a series of publications which illustrate numerous families of homeopathic remedies.The first family taken into consideration is that of homeopathic drugs. A methodological approach to the remedy through coherence between traditional medicine, anthropology, modern pharmacy, homeopathic literature and above all the clinical histories of many patients with a complete follow up.

Structure of the book:

The first volume deals with the original methodology used in nearly 20 years of collaboration between the two writers. The concept of similarity with the contribution of prof. Alberto Panza, illustrates philosophical, anthropological, medical and scientific though of the meaning of similarity. The study of substances, the concept of theme, homeopathic families, small remedies, second prescription. The case taking in homeopathic medicine, hierarchy of symptoms, analysis of symptom and cases. Therapeutic fields in homeopathic medicine; the criteria of validity according to the method of complexity.

The second volume divided into 3 sections, contains clinical cases with a long follow up of patients treated with remedies belonging homeopathic family of drugs, the second and third section incoming months.

First part:

• L’Organizzazione Psico-Corporea
• Le Droghe • Anhalonium lewinii
• Psilocybe caerulescens
• Agaricus muscarius
• Bovista lycoperdon
• Convolvulus duartinus
• Nabalus serpentaria

Second part:

• Bufo rana
• Coca eritroxylon
• Lithium carbonicum
• Piper methysticum
• Cannabis indica
• Penthorum sedoides
• Camphora officinalis

Third part:

• Aether
• Hydrogenum
• Laurocerasus
• Opium
• Lactuca virosa
• Helleborus niger
• Nux moschata

The first volume and the second volume, part 1 are sold together at the cost of € 90 + shipping

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