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Dear Editor,

Following Uta Santos-Königʼs very pertinent letter (Links 1/12 Vol 25, 2012), a few ideas to nourish the debate on remedy pictures:

The materia media is not a collection of indications for remedies but a reference work for the study of remedies.

Remedy pictures should not only be valid for the use in human medicine but also in veterinary and plant medicine.

Remedy pictures should really be called a remedy dynamic picture; they should indicate the perverse dynamic that maintains or causes suffering and disease in the patient.

A remedy dynamic picture is likely to never be completely finished: the remedy picture can only be a simile of its “reality”.

A good remedy dynamic should underpin all aspects of the remedy: mental and physical.

If one can agree that a remedy picture is never really finished, it is better to create a standardised mechanism to study and discuss remedies and their dynamic, a model that can be used by all whatever the school of homeopathic thought one belongs to.

One such mechanism has been proposed by Mark Brunson for several years now.

The dynamic of a remedy is to be studied by comparing all known cured cases (whatever the technique of prescribing being used) with all the information available in the materia medica and all things known about the substance in its non-homeopathic nature.

The common dynamic that can be discovered in each of these three realms of a remedy is likely going to be a simile to the individual homeopathic nature of the substance.

The great advantages of this working concept are that anybody, whatever their life philosophy, can contribute to this work, that existing remedy pictures can (and should) be used to develop a remediesʼ picture/dynamic and that it allows for continuing discussion and work between all homeopaths.

For those interested, Mark Brunson and his team have already compiled a number of remedies using this three-way analysis and comparison. The work is in French and is available by contacting [e-mail].