Study Tools

Books and Periodicals

Books

Most of the books I use in my studies are included in ReferenceWorks (see below), however some older and some recently published books are not available in a computer format yet.  Here is a list of books I find invaluable and constantly refer to:  

• Prisma, The Arcana Materia Medica Illuminated by Frans Vermeulen
• An Insight into Plants by Rajan Sankaran
• Homeopathic Psychology by Philip Bailey
• Portraits of Homeopathic Medicines by Catherine Coulter
• A Guide to the Methodologies of Homeopathy by Ian Watson
• Homeopathic Dictionary by Jay Yasgur

Books can be purchased at Minimum Price Books or Homeopathic Educational Services.

Periodicals

Below are homeopathic magazines I love to peruse:

• Homeopathic Links was founded in 1987 and is published quarterly.  The Journal contains articles from authors from all over the world.  Subjects covered are cases, materia medica, provings, education, politics, philosophy and discussion, book reviews, seminar reports, seminar list etc.       
• The American Homeopath is published yearly by North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH), an organization of professional practitioners dedicated to developing and maintaining high standards of homeopathic practice in North America.       
• Homeopathy Today is published by the National Center of Homeopathy, an organization whose mission is to promote health through homeopathy. By providing general education to the public about homeopathy, and specific education to homeopaths, it helps make homeopathy available throughout the United States.       

Software

Repertory/Materia Medica

Books are not the only source of information available today.   If you are really serious about studying homeopathy, I would suggest to purchase one of the homeopathic software packages.  Prices and quality vary considerably, so you will have to spend some time figuring out what package better suits your needs and budget.  But it is going to be the time well spent.  Taking into consideration how expensive the books are, buying a package with a built-in homeopathic library may save you a lot of money in the long run.

Since July 2003 I have been using MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks developed by Kent Homeopathic Associates, Inc.  MacRepertory is a repertorizing tool, containing a collection of old and modern repertories.  ReferenceWorks is a library of about 650 homeopathic books and magazines.

Read Homeopathic Software Review if you are interested in buying homeopathic software, but do not know which one.

The Way to Organize

I keep and organize miscellaneous notes, articles, client records, etc. in an amazingly powerful and easy to use Microsoft OneNote. Below is an example of the folder where I keep table of contents of Homeopathy Today magazine.

Gadgets

Digital Voice Recorder

If you find it difficult to take notes during lectures or seminars, consider buying a digital voice recorder.  After a lecture, copy recorded voice files to your computer and listen as many times as you want later on.  You can also burn a CD and take it with you anywhere you go.  Olympus DM-1 is the digital recorder I use.  It holds up to twenty two hours of recording on a removable media card, which is usually enough for the whole session at my school.  I carry a spare media card just in case.  I also found that quality of recording is better when I use an external microphone (it is sold separately.)

CD Burner

If you are going to use a voice recorder and then copy the files to your computer, get a CD burner if you do not have one yet. CD (or even better DVD) is a great medium to store large amounts of digital information (not only music), used primarily for archival.  Your computer may die, so to be on the safe side, transfer your recordings to a CD.  One CD holds approximately one school session.  It is always a good idea to store a backup copy of the data you cannot afford to lose on a CD.  I do it regularly.

Paper Scanner

I use a scanner to make copies of magazine articles.  Then I transfer them into Microsoft Word documents and keep them on my computer.  A scanner will help if you often deal with the information in paper form, but would prefer to have it stored electronically. This helps enormously: you can easily archive, manage, search and organize the information.  There are two ways to use a scanner : one is to scan pictures to be saved as computer images and two is to scan printed text to be converted into electronic documents (Microsoft Word document, for instance).  Usually you need scanning software, coming with the device, or, for relatively simple needs, you can use Windows XP built-in scanning software for pictures, and/or Microsoft Office Document Scanning program to scan document pages.   

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