If you are a homeopath who also teaches in a Homeopathy college, one of the interesting challenges you will face regularly is to come up with good case examples that demonstrate the prescription of “correct” remedies. For example, if you are taking a class on “Aurum Met”, after discussing the key features of the remedy, you may want to give examples of cases where “Aurum Met” has worked or will work. Most often this is not a problem because there are thousands of documented cases, starting from the days of Classical Masters to modern-day practitioners, and you may be able to pick an example from this collection. But if you are discussing a relatively “less-well known” remedy or a “small” remedy, the documented examples might be difficult to get.
Here is another use case that I have personally experienced many times (please note that I am not a formally qualified homeopath). I have many repertorization software with me including RadarOpus, MacRepertory, SHS, etc. When I repertorize a case (in our family), the software shows a list of potential remedies. At that time I always wish that there was an option in the software to look at case examples of each of those remedies, especially with symptoms similar to what I have collected in my case. No software has this feature (I have also shared this suggestion with the developer of one of the software).
OK, let us focus on iHomeoMate now.
The following dialog appears when you click “Case Synthesis” in the main window.
Case Synthesis Dialog
There are quite a few parameters to select and almost everything is “optional”. Let us start with this example:
Synthesizing Alzheimer’s Case
Here we have asked the system to generate a case that is about a 80 year old Male patient, who is suffering from “Alzheimer’s disease” (chronic case). We have asked the system to also include “hypothetical” causation, dreams and medical tests! See what the system has generated.
If you scroll down further, there is more information:
Alzheimer’s Case Contd…
Notice how cleverly the system puts together information on physical examination, lab reports and dreams!
Here is the final part of the case:
Concluding Part with Remedy Suggestion
The remedy corresponding to this case is mentioned as “Baryta Carb”.
Let us consider another example:
Synthesizing Case For Given Remedy
This is an example involving a 20 year old female. In this case, we are asking the system to generate a case to demonstrate the use of the remedy “Lachesis” without mentioning any pathology. The initial part of the case appears in the bottom area. Let us scroll down:
Lachesis Case Contd…
Some more particulars about the case are shown. The final part appears below:
Concluding Part with Analysis
As expected (in fact suggested by us), the remedy is “Lachesis” and the system gives its reasoning for that remedy. This is important.
Here is our last example:
Small Remedy Example
In this example, we are asking for a case that revolves around a 30 year old male from India. Other requirements are:
– Acute case
– Must match a “small remedy”
– Case should be in conversational format
The following shows more interactions between the doctor and the patient:
Case Contd…
And here is the concluding part with analysis and remedy recommendation:
Small Remedy Case Concluded
As you can see, the case is built up quite naturally, as happens in the real world. The system is careful to generate a patient description that matches the “ethnicity” too!
The above examples illustrate only a part of what is possible. We haven’t played around with the “Kingdom” and “Miasm” options. Instead of specifying the exact remedy, we can suggest the “Kingdom” (e.g., Plant, Mineral, Animal, etc.) and the generated case and corresponding remedy will be based on the matching “Kingdom”. Likewise, if the “Miasm” is specified, the case will be generated accordingly.
It is important to stress that what iHomeoMate generates is an “artificial” or “synthetic” case, and not a “real” case. What this means is that the remedy arrived at for each case is “theoretically” correct but is not guaranteed or “proven”. Nevertheless, this feature can be useful.
In case you haven’t already thought of it, one more use case for this feature is sharing the case description with students and asking them to repertorize and identify the remedy (hopefully it will match the generated case)!
Have a great weekend!
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