Key to prescribing and studying homoeopathic materia medica
The Stages Template : Part 1
Shilpa Bhourasker
Introduction
Hello ! I am Shilpa Bhouraskar , Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery and a homoeopathic physician in India . I am also the founder and director of The Quest for Simillimum ( TQFS ) Online Academy for Wellness Practitioners , and the author of HomeoQuest Software .
After almost two decades of practising , teaching and mentoring in homoeopathy , I get a lot of questions from students and practitioners . One of the common questions is : How do you study the materia medica ? How do you know your remedies so well that you can pick them from that final analysis with confidence ? How do you memorise the information ? In other words : What ’ s the insider stuff ?
As you can see , I ’ ve spent the last two decades in homoeopathy . I ’ ve built an entire template and methodology around simplifying it for practice , which thousands of students and practitioners use in every facet of their homoeopathic study and practice .
Simplifying homoeopathy has become my life ’ s work . I was never someone who simply decided one day that I would create a template and build a formula around it , but I am someone who loves to classify . I take great pleasure in building a logical co-relationship among things that , superficially , seem to be nonsense .
That is why I invented the Stages Template or Stages Formula . Some practitioners regard it as the gold standard for homoeopathic practice because it literally changes the way you approach your patients ’ cases , as well as the way you study and the way you prescribe your medicines .
I will cover Stages 1 and 2 in Part 1 of this article , and Stages 3 and 4 will be covered in Part 2 in the next issue of this journal .
The key to prescribing and studying homoeopathic materia medica
The key to prescribing medicines , and studying homoeopathic materia medica , is to be intentional about what type of remedy your patient wants . This is different from just prescribing remedies based on what you learned in school and then hoping people will come to you . Instead , you have to engineer your remedies and you have to be intentional about how you use them .
What aspect of the remedy is going to be of benefit to your patient ? This is where it gets interesting . This is the only way you ’ re going to get people excited about your homoeopathy and the only way you ’ re going to make your remedies into powerful tools of healing .
I do this by understanding my remedies using the Stages Template . That way , I can be sure of my remedy . I can also prescribe the same remedy in different ways , based on exactly where my patient is and what they need . That is the secret to getting a great result .
At one point in time , I only studied remedies one way – the classical way – so I could only use remedies as a constitutional . But since 2008 , I ’ ve started intentionally classifying the remedy information according to Stages . By doing that , I have maximised the impact , the efficiency and the potential of my remedies . And that is exactly what I want to share with you in this article .
86 | vol30 | no2 | JATMS