Wizards and Modules
As homeopathy is part art and part science, the approach practitioners take varies from person to person and from patient to patient.RADAR 10 has several new Wizards which harness the analytical abilities of some of the worlds best homeopaths. These modules walk you through case taking and analysis following logic that has been successful for other practitioners.
Wizards include:
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Jeremy Sherr (This Wizard integrates with the Jeremy Sherr Case Taker, but also stands alone.)
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Luc De Schepper
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Ewald Stöteler
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Children Wizard
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Old People Wizard
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Women Wizard
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Boenninghausen
Modules include:
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George Vithoulkas
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Paul Herscu
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Prakash Vakil (how-to information is included in the module)
The Wizards generally all work the same way, but they ask for different information, depending on who the real life “wizard” is.
Descriptions of the approach of the Wizard and how to use the Wizard can be found by clicking the Help Button in each Wizard, at each step. There are also step by step prompts which appear directly in the Wizard window.
To use a Wizard:
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From the View menu, select the Wizard you wish to use. The chosen Wizard will open. -or- From the View menu, select Wizards Collector. The Wizards Collector window will open to allow you to select from this window. -or- Click the Wizard Icon. The Wizards Collecor window appears.
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If you have chosen to use the Wizards Collector, click on the face belonging to the Wizard you wish to use. The Wizard window will open.
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To learn how to use each Wizard, click on the Help button at each step and a manual in PDF format will open on the screen.
Modules are explained individually for each Module, as they each work differently. They each contain instructions embedded within the module.
The Vithoulkas Expert System (VES)
This is the only real Homeopathic Expert System available. It took seven years of preliminary work before the developers of RADARwere able to sit down with George Vithoulkas. They did this over the course of two and a half years. They reviewed his cured cases and questioned him on why he chose remedies. They discovered over 2000 rules that he uses. VES emulates the way Vithoulkas thinks in case analysis. It goes beyond numerical or flat repertorization.
Rules and Suggestions for the Vithoulkas Expert System.
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You have to indicate intensity of symptoms.
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You can’t use too many large rubrics.
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Must have a minimum of 4 rubrics.
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It is best to start with the 4 most important symptoms. Then keep adding symptoms one at a time.
To use the Vithoulkas Expert System:
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Enter rubrics into a clipboard or clipboards as indicated earlier.
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Press Shift + F9 or click the Vithoulkas Expert System icon. The Vithoulkas Expert System window appears.
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To display a break down of other remedy options based on large, medium and small remedies, click the Remedies button (Alt + R). The suggested remedies can be dragged to the keynote smart icon to view keynotes on a remedy.
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To change analysis options, click the Options button (Alt + O).
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To view the symptom clipboard, click the Symptoms button (Alt + S).
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Click Close or press Esc to close the VES window. Notice that the Repertory view is set to the Vithoulkas View, and stays in that view, even after closing the VES window.
There are two numbers that appear in the VES window. The first number represents the overall confidence that the remedy is an accurate recommendation. This can go as high as 1000. The second number represents confidence relative to other remedies in the analysis. When this number is over 100, the other remedy recommendations disappear.
Press F7 to open a symptom clipboard.
Open the Suicidal Disposition case, if necessary.
Click the Vithoulkas View icon or press Shift + F9.
Click the Remedies button to view the distribution of remedies.
Close the VES Remedies window.
Open a symptom clipboard.
Clear the current clipboard.
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Enter the following rubrics into the clipboard. The numbers following the rubrics indicate the intensity of the symptoms.
MIND – TIMIDITY (2) MIND - CONFIDENCE - want of self-confidence (1) MIND - FEAR - people; of (2) MIND – RESTLESSNESS (2) MIND - CONCENTRATION – difficult (1) MIND - CONFUSION of mind (1) MIND - INDIFFERENCE, apathy (1) MIND - DWELLS - past disagreeable occurrences, on (2) EXTERNAL THROAT - INDURATION of glands (2) GENERALS - INDURATIONS - Glands, of (2) GENERALS - SWELLING - Glands; of (3) GENERALS - EMACIATION - appetite with emaciation; ravenous - children; in (2) GENERALS - WALKING - desire for - air, in open (2)
Save the case as Swollen Glands.
Click the VES icon or press Shift + F9.
Extended Search
As you learned earlier, the RADAR Concepts feature can be used to identify potentially useful rubrics. However, you can do a more detailed search on Synthesis 9.0 to locate rubrics using the Extended Search feature. For example, you can search for synonyms, root words and branches of those words, and words that appear in the repertory. While performing that search, you can limit the results to a particular chapter or chapters in the repertory so that you don’t pull up rubrics in sections that don’t apply to your patient. Finally, you can also use the Extended Search feature to display all the rubrics associated with a particular remedy. This feature is helpful in gaining a full understanding of a remedy, its mental/emotional picture, and where its major physical pathology is found in the body. For example, you could use this feature if you wish to see all the rubrics which contain the idea of forsakenness and the remedy Pulsatilla.
The following table lists potential Contexts for the search and an explanation of each option. The extended search can be activated by pressing F4.
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Context for the Search
Explanation
Roots and Branches
Roots of words and their potential branches. For example, you might wish to search for the word abandoned. You would choose the root Abandon and it will also include abandoned as well as abandons.
Synonyms
This selection searches for words with similar meanings to the word for which you are searching in the repertory. This is especially useful for some of the symptoms that are described in the repertory using terminology which is not contemporary.
Words in the Repertory
This feature searches for words in the repertory, exactly as they appear.
Remedies
This context selection limits the search to only those rubrics which contain the specified remedy or remedies.
Chapters
This selection limits the search to only the specified Repertory chapters.
The Extended Search feature allows you to specify more than one qualifier in the search. In other words, you can include more than one rule that must be met in order for the data to be included in the search result. By default, the AND operator appears between the two qualifiers. The following table lists the operators and a definition of each.
Operator
Definition
AND
In order to be included in the search result, both of the qualifiers must be true. For example, if you are searching for the Root Pain, but you only want Pain if it is in the Mind chapter, you would want to have a statement of Root: Pain AND Chapter: Mind.
OR
When using this operator, you are stating that either qualifier can be true in order for the rubric to be included in the search result. For example, you would use this to conduct a search on mutually exclusive symptoms such as Painful or Painless.
AND NOT
This operator indicates that what follows should be excluded from the search result. For example, you may wish to find some physical symptoms but not the mental symptoms. You would include the AND NOT operator followed by the Mind chapter.
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There may be a slight delay while RADAR does the search. This is especially true if you are including common symptoms or polychrest remedies.
To perform an Extended Search:
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In the Repertory Window, press F4 -or- Click the Extended Search button -or- From the Search menu, choose Extended Search. The Extended Search window appears.
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Set the Context for Search as desired. (Shift + F4 will set the Context to Remedies.)
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Begin typing the word for which you wish to search. The Search Items will jump to the letter you typed.
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When you locate the desired word, press Enter. The word appears in the Search Statement box.
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If you wish to include another qualifier in the Search Statement box, set the context and begin typing the first few letters in the word.
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Press Enter to display the qualifier in the Search Statement box.
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If you wish to change the operator between the two qualifiers from the default AND, click into the operator in the Search Statement Box and change the operator with the drop down arrow in the operator box.
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When you have completed the Search Statement, press Enter or Click Search to conduct the search. The Result of Extended Search dialog box appears.
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Double click the rubric you wish to view in the Repertory window.
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Click the View Previous Search Result button to return to the Results window.
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In the Results of extended Search window, click the Sub Rubrics button to add sub rubrics to the results of the search.
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Click the Query button to display the Extended Search window to make modifications to your search.
Press F4. The Extended Search window appears.
Type Sad. Press Enter to place the word Sad in the Search Statement box.
Press Enter again to execute the search. Notice the number of rubrics which appear in the Results window.
Double click a rubric to display that rubric in the Repertory window.
Click the View Previous Search Result button.
Click the Query button to display the Extended Search window again.
Click Clear.
Change the Context of the search to Synonyms.
Type Sad again. This time it displays synonyms of Sad.
Press Enter to put the word in the Search Statement Box.
Press Enter to execute the search. Notice the number of rubrics which appear in the Results window.
You may wish to limit the number of chapters included in your search result, especially if your client does not have a lot of physical pathology to repertorize.
To limit chapters in the search result:
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Create an Extended Search as indicated beginning on page 89.
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When you have indicated the word for which you wish to search, press Enter to place it in the Search Statement Box.
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Click the Operators box to display the operator options.
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Choose the operator AND.
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Click the Context box to change the context to Chapters.
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Select a chapter from the list by typing the name of the chapter. Press Enter to place the chapter title in the Context box.
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Press Enter again to perform the search. The Result of Extended Search window appears. Only rubrics contained in the specified chapter will appear in the Results window.
Click the Query button in the Results window.
Click Clear to remove the existing Query.
Choose Roots and Branches for the context, if necessary.
Type Pain, clicking into the Selection box, if necessary.
Press Enter.
Change the context to Chapter.
Type Mind to query only the Mind chapter.
Press Enter to add the Mind chapter to the Search Statement box.
Press Enter again to execute the Search. The Search Results window appears. Scroll through and notice that only the rubrics in the Mind chapter appear.
Press Esc to close the Results window.
Press F4 to display the Extended Search window.
Clear the current query if necessary.
Type Fors to search for the Root word Forsake.
Press Enter to place it in the Search Statement Box.
Press Shift + F4 to switch the context for the search to Remedies.
Type Puls to search for Pulsatilla.
Press Enter to place it in the Search Statement Box.
Press Enter again to conduct the search. The Result of Extended Search window appears.
Click Query in the Result window to display the Extended Search window again.
Click Clear (Alt+C).
Type Fe.
Press Enter to place Fear in the Search Statement box.
Change the context to Chapters.
Type Mi
Press Enter to place Mind in the Search Statement box.
Change the context to Remedies.
Type Calc
Press Enter to place Calcarea in to the Search Statement box.
Press Enter again to conduct the search.
You can also use the Extended Search feature to display all the rubrics in which a particular remedy appears. While this does not give you the language of the proving, it does give you a summary of the proving.
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To display all the rubrics associated with a remedy:
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Create an Extended Search as indicated beginning on page 89.
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Click Clear, if necessary, to remove any query which may exist.
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Click the Context box and change it to Remedies.
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Begin typing the name of the remedy on which you wish to search.
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When you have found the remedy, press Enter to place the name in the Search Statement.
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Press Enter again to execute the search.
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The results window appears with all the rubrics in which a particular remedy appears.
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When you begin typing the name of the remedy on which you wish to search, RADAR lists them alphabetically by Remedy abbreviation, rather than full name. For example, if you are searching for Hepar Sulphur (abbreviation Hep.), and type Hepar, RADAR will bypass Hepar Sulphur, and go to the remedy Heparin.
Press F4 to bring up the Extended Search window.
Click Clear.
Click the Context box and change it to Remedies.
Begin typing Hep.
When the remedy Hepar Sulphur is highlighted, press Enter.
Press Enter again to execute the search.
Displaying Subrubrics
In many of the results windows, for example in the Results of Extended Search, a subrubric button will appears to allow you to display subrubrics as well as main rubrics. These subrubrics don’t contain the word for which you were searching, but they appear under a rubric which does include the desired word. This button appears only if applicable.
To display subrubrics:
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In a Results of Search window, click the Subrubric button. RADAR executes the search again, this time including Subrubrics. The window displays the new result.
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Push the Subrubric button again to display only main rubrics.
Press F4 to display the Extended Search window.
Clear the current search.
Search for the root Beer.
Press Enter to execute the search.
Click the Subrubric button in the Result of Extended Search window. Notice the number of symptoms changes.
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Click it again to hide the subrubrics. Notice the number of symptoms changes again.
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