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Thermal Materia Medica - A valuable android app for homeopaths

This android app is based on the book ‘Research in Thermal Materia Medica’ by Dr. Amarsinha Nikam. Many homeopaths consider only Hot, Chilly and Ambithermal remedies based classification done by Gibson Miller (182 remedies) and few other sporadic references.   The app classify 284 remedies as Hot, Towards Hot, Chilly, Towards Chilly and Ambithermal backed by research work that justifies its classification through elaboration of thermal modalities and thermal sensation. The reference to the thermal modalities and sensation will help practitioners to further question elicit and confirm them with the patient and thus arrive at the similimum. The app also guides on the ways to assess and confirm the thermals of the patient and is a valuable tool for students and fresh professionals. This android app available on Google Play Store at $ 20 (Rs.120/-) this is an invaluable tool in the hands of an ardent homeopath.  You can get the app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d

Paracelsus on Health

But what is meant by health? This we must try to understand. Ordinarily, if we ask a physician what the definition of health is, he will only say that health is the absence of sickness. But this is a negative definition. It is unfortunate that we must define health in terms of illness. Health is a positive thing, a positive state; illness is negative. Health is our nature; illness is an attack on nature. So it is very strange that we must define health in terms of illness. To define the host in terms of the guest is very strange. Health coexists with us; illness comes occasionally. Health accompanies us at birth; illness is a superficial phenomenon. But if we ask a physician to define health, he can only say that health is present when illness is absent. Paracelsus used to say that this interpretation is wrong -- the concept of health needs to be positively defined. But how can we reach a positive definition, an interpretation of the concept of health that will be creative?