Unreliable Basic Support: Silicea-like and Magnesium-like
Volume 2 focuses on correct case-taking and analysis. It discusses remedy pictures such as Silicea, Calcarea, and Magnesium, and similar remedies.
Session Two of the International Postgraduate Course in Bologna
Edited by Vicki Burley
The focus is on case taking and case analysis. Cases and discussion of Silicium and related: Alumina silicata, Calcarea silicata, Natrum silicatum, Kali silicatum, Equisetum, Bambusa, Sphingurus, Castor equi and more. Carbonium related: Carbo vegetabilis, Carbo animalis, Carboneum sulphuratum, Graphites, Germanium, Adamas. Magnesium and related: Magnesium carbonicum, Magnesium iodatum, Magnesium muriaticum, Magnesium fluoratum, Magnesium phosphoricum, Magnesium sulphuricum, Colocynthis, Luffa operculata.
This book review is reprinted from Volume 17, Summer edition of Homoeopathic Links with permission from Homeopathic Links. Reviewed by Harry van der Zee, The Netherlands.
For a more detailed discussion of the three-year, international, postgraduate course by Massimo Mangialavori, please read the seminar report published in this same issue of 'Links'. These notes of the second session have been recently released. The notes include cases for which the intake is printed completely, followed by a discussion of the analysis, the follow-up, and a detailed discourse on the remedies prescribed.
The remedies discussed around the theme of 'Unreliable basic support' are:
- Equisetum hyemale
- Bambusa arundinacea
- Castor equi
- Aluminium silicata
- Silica family
- Aluminium
- Kali silicicum
- Arsenicum salts
- Sphingurus martini
- Calcarea silicata
- Magnesium salts
-Magnesium phosphoric
-Carbons
-Magnesium carbonica
-Magnesium muriatica
-Magnesium sulphurica
-Magnesium fluorata
-Magnesium iodata
- Colocynthis
- Luffa operculata
- Carbo vegetabilis
- Carbo animalis
- Germanium
- Adamas
In connection to these remedies the following subjects are discussed:
- Case taking
- Case analysis
- Insecurity
- Concepts and themes
In between the discussions of several cases, remedies and themes, many more subjects are discussed. Although the course might look like a materia medica course, the main focus is on the method of understanding substances, case taking and case analysis. The remedies are like beautiful shells on a beach and tend to draw all the attention, but learning how to wash them in from the sea is a far greater goal to achieve. All in all, these notes are very interesting reading material for every homeopath, for the depth of understanding, the themes, the method of analysis, and the remedies that Massimo offers in this course are absolutely outstanding.
