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The question often comes up as to whether a student should
buy Isis earlier on in their studies or later when they are
in practice. This issue is covered in the FAQ section of my
site. What follows are some ways in which Isis can greatly
aid in your learning process:
Comparing and researching remedies
The comparative part of Isis offers you many great ways of
contrasting remedies with one another, as well as researching
remedies on their own. You can view all repertory entries
(in one or all chapters) for any single remedy, this allows
you to look for Themes running through that particular Remedy
and also allows you to see where the remedies big affinities
lie. You can also look for rubrics that belong to only one
remedy, so you could for example; call up all rubrics that
have only Carcinosin in them. This allows you to see unique
symptoms that only belong to Carcinosin. In terms of contrasting
remedies you can compare any number of remedies (again in
one or all chapters) from the repertory of your choice, you
can also compare in terms of Families and Kingdoms, this would
allow you to look for common and/or distinguishing characteristics
of the various members within a Family or Kingdom. There are
two other examples I would like to give regarding this part
of the program. You could choose the liver chapter in Murphy’s
repertory and compare typical liver remedies (in regard to
just liver symptoms), remedies like Lyc, Chel and Nux-V. You
could choose 3 mania remedies like Bell, Hyos and Stram and
type in a key word fear, Isis will now search for fear rubrics
that these remedies share.
Searching materia medica
You can search all materia medicas simultaneously. By simply
typing in a key word like ‘miasm’, Isis will find
every reference to this in every book on your system. Incidentally
you can create rubrics from your MM search. There is a lot
of information in MM that hasn’t been translated into
the repertories.
Understanding remedies in terms of Families and Kingdoms
You can achieve this in both the repertory and MM. In the
repertory you can filter out all remedies apart from the specified
group, for example, you can repertorise your symptoms just
using the ‘Muriaticum’ remedies. It’s also
possible to repertorise using any line on the periodic table,
remove polycrests or choose remedies that relate to any of
the miasms. In Isis you can also access other family members
of a remedy from many different parts of the program. For
example when you are looking at a rubric, you can click on
a remedy and all that remedies groups will appear in the form
of hyperlinks, simply click the relevant hyperlink, like buttercups
in the case of Pulsatilla and you will get a drop down list
of all the other buttercup family members. You can achieve
the same from the Rx database and from a repertorisation graph.
Thematic search
This is Dr Mirrilli’s work; he has created a repertory
that links symptoms back to a core theme. So for example,
if you click on ‘Betrayed’ you get thirteen symptoms
that relate to that symptom, one of which is ‘Delusions
wife is faithless’ This gives you ideas of what rubrics
to choose in cases that have a theme running through them.
In Isis you can even create your own Themes.
Advancements in homoeopathy
There are many new ideas that have been introduced to the
homeopathy community over the past decade and beyond. We have
incorporated many features for students and practitioners
to be able to utilise these new ideas. Jan Scholten suggested
that by understanding different aspect of minerals we could
attribute certain traits to that family of remedies, as I
mentioned above, you can filter out all remedies other than
the family you want use in your repertorisation. A couple
of new ideas that are receiving a lot of attention at present
are: making SUPER rubrics (combining sub rubrics to make one
big one), you can do this in Isis. Our technical department
are looking at new features and developments to incorporate
the next version of Isis to keep it as contemporary as possible
without taking away any of the basic features, we believe
the user should have the choice of a variety of facilities
and should be able to choose when they do or don’t use
them.
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