Dr. J D Patil is the author of 5 bestselling books on different aspects of Materia Medica.
What is Materia Medica? How has it evolved? What are the sources and sourcebooks of Homoeopathic materia medica? How has been materia medica constructed, its different types, different approaches to study Materia medica? These are all the basic questions faced by a Homeopathic student starting from First year BHMS and continuing till their post graduation years and this book proves to be a boon to the students for answering all these questions all at one hand.
The initial chapters of the book give distinctive information on topics like Sensations, Desires, Aversions, Fears, and dreams and discuss rare and peculiar rubrics proving it to be a desktop companion for Homeopathic practitioners.
A very interesting chapter on Trios of Homeopathic remedies is given, again very important for viva voce.
A section on the deions of 180 medicines is provided covering various aspects of the drugs exhaustively. He has emphasized the symptoms that are indeed the soul of the remedy and is extremely useful clinically. Having almost all subheadings of the drugs which are necessary for learning.
Keywords:-
# Easy to understand language. No complicated words or sentences. Even a student from non-English medium will understand the language.
# Simplified explanation of each drug.
# Guidelines for students about ‘HOW TO STUDY HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA’.
# Useful for students of all years of BHMS and MD courses.
# With Therapeutic Index and Glossary
# Flow Chart of Remedies at a Glance
# Foreword by Vice-Chancellor of Maharastra University of Health Sciences Nashik (MS)
# A special chapter of the Bio-Chemic System of Medicine
# 180 Homoeopathic Medicines
# The special chapter regarding the introduction