Perceiving Rubrics of the Mind

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Understanding the rubrics in the Mind chapter of the repertory can be a daunting task. Certain terms commonly used 100 years ago are no longer in parlance or their meaning has changed. Other rubrics may be quite close in expression but subtle differences make them difficult to discern.

Perceiving Rubrics of the Mind by Farokh J. Master, MD, provides an in depth understanding of 1182 rubrics.

Each rubric, where applicable, lists the source, a definition, cross-references, related disease states, and important remedies. Based on the experience and clinical knowledge of Dr. Master's 20 years of homeopathic practice, this book is a very reliable resource guide.

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Author

Farokh Master, MD

(1957 -     )

Dr. Farokh Master was born on February 24th 1957, in Mumbai, India.

He studied homeopathy at the L.C.E.H.(Goldmedallist) and M.D.(Hom.) (University of Rajasthan) Dr. Master practices classical homeopathy full time since 1980. He has taught since 1980 in India, UK, USA, Canada, Norway, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, and Germany.

He is affiliated with the Hahnemann College of Homoeopathy (UK, Canada), London College of Homoeopathy (UK), Norks Akademi for Natumedisin (Oslo), Small Poland Homoeopathic Physicians Associations (Krakow), Magyar Homoeopata Orvosi Egyesulet (Budapest), Osterrichische Gesellschaft fur Homoeopathische Medizin (Vienna).

He is professor of Homeopathic Materia Medica at the Homeopathic Medical College in Bombay. He has authored over 30 books on various homeopathic subjects. Dr. Master is the editor of Homoeopathic Heritage, India. He is also a member of the Central Council of Homoeopathy, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Government of India.

His most important publications are:

• Mysterious Thuja
• Mr. Lycopodium.
• Lactose Intolerance
• Tumours and Homoeopathy
• The Fascinating Fungi.
• Cervical Spondylosis.
• St. Ignatius Bean
• Tuberculines and Tubercular Miasm
• Practical Clinical Neurology.
• Agitated Argentums.
• The Bedside Organon of Medicine.
• Homoeopathic Dictionary of Dreams
• The Web Spinners.
• Naja Naja Naja
• Snakes in Homoeopathic Grass.
• Cross References of the Mind.
• Perceiving the Rubrics of the Mind.
• Suppressed Staphysagria.
• State of Mind That Affects the Foetus.
• Clinical Observations of Children's remedies

In the fall of 2000 Dr. Master presented two weekend seminars in the United States, one on Cancer and one on Pediatric Care. WholeHealthNow is offering complete sets of audio tapes of both seminars. Click on this link for more information: Farokh Master Seminar tapes.

RECENT US SEMINARS

Dr. Master presented two more US seminars in March and April, 2003, covering Management of Acute Disease, the Significance of Dreams, and Translating the Language of the Patient into the Language of the Repertory. WholeHealthNow is happy to provide the PowerPoint files from several of his presentations along with several audio files that can be integrated into your RADAR software.

Farokh Master Seminars - Powerpoint Files and audio files for RADAR.

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Reviews

From
THE BRITISH HOMEOPATHIC JOURNAL

Among the fascinations and frustrations of the various repertories available to us is the correct interpretation of the rubrics. Their language is often archaic, ambiguous or vague and therefore difficult to apply to our patients' own description of their symptoms.

The most skilled and sensitive casetaking will be frustrated if we cannot confidently and accurately represent the meaning of the patient with the meaning of the text in the repertory, or for that matter the materia medica, when we need to.

Dr Master's book sets out to remedy this problem. It provides a comprehensive list of rubrics from the repertories of Kent, Boenninghausen, Barthel (synthetic repertory) and Vithoulkas, with cross references to other comparable rubrics, a definition of the meaning of the rubric, an explanation or interpretation of this, a list of clinical syndromes to which it is relevant, and of the chief drugs associated with the rubric.

The intention is admirable, and such a book could be extremely useful. Unfortunately the author fails in the attempt, and I really cannot recommend the book except for its collection of cross references. These do call to mind other rubrics which may express the patient's meaning better and should be considered.

This is a useful practical aid and an aid to better knowledge of the repertory, but this virtue alone would not justify buying the book because the central discussion of the meaning of rubrics is very poor. The meanings and explanations, which tend to be paraphrases of one another, are in the main either obvious, incorrect, incomplete, or subjective.

I am afraid that British readers, and our European colleagues whose interpretation and accuracy in the use of English often puts us to shame, will even find many of them comical. The psychiatric diagnoses given in association with each rubric are all obvious and add nothing to our understanding of them.

The book bears no comparison with Kent's Comparative Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica (Dockx and Kokelenberg; Homeoden Book Service, Belgium). This excellent study, which also integrates data from other authors, draws out the sense of rubrics by a perceptive analysis of the meaning represented by the medicines in the rubric.

It promises to be a contemporary classic in the homoeopathic literature, and it is this book that I would recommend to fulfil the purpose that Dr Master sets out to achieve.

JEREMY SWAYNE

British Homoeopathic Journal
Volume 79, Number 3, July 1990
Reprinted with permission from the Faculty of Homeopaths

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Contents

Prologue ix-xv
Rubrics of the Mind (740 rubrics) -- 1-245

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