The Garuda approach is where one gets a bird’s eye view of the entire problem at the whole level. A journey into the homoeopathic enquiry should thus be just like the “Garuda” an all-inclusive one, the one that is based on the homoeopathic principles of Holism, Individualisation and Similimum.
Be it in the case witnessing process, be it in giving advice to the patient, be it in follow ups, potency, be it analysing to prescribing the remedy, in understanding the materia medica, in understanding the Plant Kingdom, in utilising the repertory, in dealing with different types of cases, a holistic integration is a the pivotal key in the homoeopathic journey.
With my experiences if I had to share one gem with you it would be the Garuda approach, if you believe in obtaining a bird’s eye view then an all-inclusive connected effortless holistic integration will happen individually and universally…
In understanding the plant kingdom, I first started to read each remedy from the materia medica books, right from the basic books like Materia Medica Pura, Boericke’s Materia Medica, Phataks Materia Medica, Clarke’s Materia Medica, as I read each remedy.
I found that remedies belonging to the same genus shows common peculiar characteristics along with their individual characteristics, as I read further I realised that along with the peculiar characteristics within the family, each family showed common peculiar characteristics which belonged to the same order or series, and within each order there were common peculiars which belonged to the class, subclass and division eventually…
As I read further from various new and old materia medica books, and understood the centre completely I further found a connection between the proving of the remedies, centre of the remedy and also the mythological stories linked to the remedy.
Multi-dimensional l Holistic approach…
Whole (Sensation) (PQRS at holistic Level) of the remedy + PQRS at PP/PG/MG of the remedy + Disease (Diagnosis) (Sphere of action) of the remedy + Diathesis (temperament) of the remedy + Miasm of the remedy + Themes (Thematic Materia Medica) of the remedy + Proving of the Remedy+ Kingdom/subkingdom/source) of the remedy + Peculiar Rubrics of the remedy + Mythology and natural habitat of the remedy+ Peculiar Chracteristics of the class+genus+family+order+higher order+series of the plant kingdom
Hence the integrative holistic multidimensional approach in understanding the Plant Kingdom will bring about a complete understanding of each remedy and each family and giving an understanding to the less proven remedies, as well as helps in completing the understanding of the remedies of which very less data is available. This approach makes it possible to use rare remedies also with an integrative holistic understanding of the remedy.