Materia medica and repertory
Posted: 19 Apr 2006, 20:28
I have now got the materia medica and repertory to a stage where I am happy for forum/board members to have a look at it and feed back to me. I think that Abhi and I have ironed out the technical bugs and got it looking something like we would want it but who knows what other operating systems and browsers will do to our best laid plans....
For those of you not familiar with a materia medica it is a term borrowed from the homoeopaths who catalogue all the actions and areas in which their remedies are appropriate.
The inspiration to do this was the BdNow list. On this list there have been debates over the years about the various formulations based on or in some way similar to the biodynamic preparations. Indeed there have also been deabtes about what the BD preparations themselves actually achieve. In these debates the claims and experiences, opinions and rumour bounce around in a dizzying whir. This can be very frustrating for those like me who are tainted with the need for clarity and simplicity.
I am hoping that now we have a tool that can stop this spiraling long enough to be examined. I am hoping that everyone who is interested and computer literate will log in and list their own real experiences. I mean what they have actually experienced on land they have tended.
As I began getting this together I came across others working with similar endeavours and I had to decide what to keen in and what to keep out. I decided to keep it all in. The thinking is that if a formulation is any good it will rise over time by the simple test of other people trying it and observing and reporting back. A complementary dynamic will occur to those formulations which are deficient in some way. So, there may be some snake oil amongst the gems but I am not competent to make this distinction alone and right away.
Before releasing this to the general public I am asking you guys to have a look at it so you can report back on suggestions, bugs, queries etc. As a matter of fact I hope a lot of encouragement will come in because I think it is something like the tool I would have liked to have had 20 years ago.
The basic framework is based on Vaikunthanath das Kaviraj's suggestion and experiences over 12 years in Australia. I have built it up to include more remedies, more products, radionics and numinous essences. These are given space not only as they manifest their effects in plants, but also on the soil, in water, in compost and even - for such remedies as Hugo Erbe's storm preparation - on the climate itself. I am particularly open to suggestions on how to structure the repertory in these categories.
So thanks to Vaikuntanath whose materia medica and repertory I will publish this summer. It is at that time that I will do the publicity blitz on the site. I would be pleased if you kept the site details somewhat close to you chest in the meantime.
You will also notice that the site looks different. I have done this to make the navigation more consistent (if less elegant) and to enable a consistent look with the shop which I intend to append by the time Vaikuntanath's book is launched. This will make some of the remedies avialable which are otherwise tricky to get hold of. I would be very interested to talk to any of you - off line - if you are interested in something similar in your part of the world.
The URL is http://www.considera.org/index2.html
I would love to hear back from you guys some time!
For those of you not familiar with a materia medica it is a term borrowed from the homoeopaths who catalogue all the actions and areas in which their remedies are appropriate.
The inspiration to do this was the BdNow list. On this list there have been debates over the years about the various formulations based on or in some way similar to the biodynamic preparations. Indeed there have also been deabtes about what the BD preparations themselves actually achieve. In these debates the claims and experiences, opinions and rumour bounce around in a dizzying whir. This can be very frustrating for those like me who are tainted with the need for clarity and simplicity.
I am hoping that now we have a tool that can stop this spiraling long enough to be examined. I am hoping that everyone who is interested and computer literate will log in and list their own real experiences. I mean what they have actually experienced on land they have tended.
As I began getting this together I came across others working with similar endeavours and I had to decide what to keen in and what to keep out. I decided to keep it all in. The thinking is that if a formulation is any good it will rise over time by the simple test of other people trying it and observing and reporting back. A complementary dynamic will occur to those formulations which are deficient in some way. So, there may be some snake oil amongst the gems but I am not competent to make this distinction alone and right away.
Before releasing this to the general public I am asking you guys to have a look at it so you can report back on suggestions, bugs, queries etc. As a matter of fact I hope a lot of encouragement will come in because I think it is something like the tool I would have liked to have had 20 years ago.
The basic framework is based on Vaikunthanath das Kaviraj's suggestion and experiences over 12 years in Australia. I have built it up to include more remedies, more products, radionics and numinous essences. These are given space not only as they manifest their effects in plants, but also on the soil, in water, in compost and even - for such remedies as Hugo Erbe's storm preparation - on the climate itself. I am particularly open to suggestions on how to structure the repertory in these categories.
So thanks to Vaikuntanath whose materia medica and repertory I will publish this summer. It is at that time that I will do the publicity blitz on the site. I would be pleased if you kept the site details somewhat close to you chest in the meantime.
You will also notice that the site looks different. I have done this to make the navigation more consistent (if less elegant) and to enable a consistent look with the shop which I intend to append by the time Vaikuntanath's book is launched. This will make some of the remedies avialable which are otherwise tricky to get hold of. I would be very interested to talk to any of you - off line - if you are interested in something similar in your part of the world.
The URL is http://www.considera.org/index2.html
I would love to hear back from you guys some time!