COMPARITIVE EXTRACTION WINDOW ..
Using the Comparative Extraction Window
If you have a patient for whom you are deciding between three different remedies, there are a number of ways to make your choice. You could drag each remedy over to the Keynote smart icon and read the Mental/Emotional symptoms for each. But, you may still find yourself in a dilemma if you have remedies which are very close. For example, you may be deciding between Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, and Lyssin for a very fearful patient. What you need to do to make a good remedy choice is to find out which fears
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they share and which fears are unique to each remedy. You can find out this information using the Comparative Extraction window.
The Comparative Extraction window allows you to limit which chapters of the repertory are included in the comparison. It also presents you with various Search Modes.
Search Mode
Explanation
Symptoms for each remedy individually.
It will bring up a separate window for each remedy included in the Comparative Extraction window. It is difficult to do a close comparison using this mode.
All symptoms with at least one remedy.
Any rubric that has one or more of those remedies in it. You might want to do this for comparing remedies for a particular symptom. This a good mode to use as a study tool to compare remedies.
Common and Exclusive Remedy Symptoms
Common is what symptoms they share. Exclusive is what symptoms are unique to that remedy as compared to the others in the Comparative Extraction window.
Common and Conditionally Exclusive Remedy Symptoms
This feature first displays the symptoms that remedies have in common, based on conditions you have specified. By clicking on the arrow button,RADAR displays the symptoms that the first remedy has but the second remedy only contains without the conditions that you have applied. This is not a feature you are likely to use often.
To transfer remedies from the Analysis Window to the Comparative Extraction Window:
1.
Click one of the remedies you wish to compare in the Analysis window.
2.
Drag it over to the Comparative Extraction icon on the Smart Icon bar.
3.
Repeat for each of the other remedies you wish to compare. You can compare up to 10 remedies.
4.
Close the Analysis Window. (You must do this to display the Comparative Extraction window.)
5.
Click the Comparative Extraction button. -or- Press F5. The Comparative Extraction window appears.
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6.
Limit the Search area by clicking the binoculars and choosing a chapter and section.
7.
Set the Search mode by clicking the desired mode, or pressing Alt + the underlined letter.
8.
Press Enter or click Extract to activate the Comparative Extraction. The Result of the Comparative Extraction window appears. (The following is a comparative extraction with Search mode of Common and exclusive remedy symptoms.)
9.
Click arrow buttons for more results.
Drag Lyssin, Stramonium and Hyoscyamus over to the Comparative Extraction button on the Smart Icon bar.
Press Esc to close the Analysis window.
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Press F5.
Click the Binoculars to limit the chapters to include only the Fear, Mind section.
Set the Search Mode to Common and exclusive remedy symptoms.
Press Enter.
Click the Double arrow to the right to display the exclusive symptoms for the first remedy on the list.
Click the Double arrow again to display the symptoms for the next remedy.
Click the Double arrow once more to display the symptoms for the third remedy.
Entering Remedies into the Comparative Extraction Window
One way to get remedies into the Comparative Extraction window is to drag them from the Analysis window or the Repertory window to the Comparative Extraction button on the Smart Icon bar. You can also bring them into the Comparative Extraction window after the window is opened.
To enter remedies into the Comparative Extraction window:
1.
Click the Comparative Extraction icon -or- Press F5. The Comparative Extraction window appears.
2.
In the Remedies box, click on the button with 1. -or- Press Alt + 1. The Remedy Selection window appears.
3.
Begin typing the abbreviation of the remedy you wish to place into the Remedies box.
4.
When the remedy name is highlighted, press Enter. It appears in the Remedies box.
Extracting Keynotes for a Remedy
You can display the keynotes for a remedy by excluding rubrics from the Comparative Extraction. What levels you exclude depend on how well-represented the remedy is in the repertory. If a remedy only shows up in 30 or 40 rubrics, you may not want to exclude any rubrics. But if it shows up in 3400 rubrics, you will need to limit the size of the rubrics and the degree of the remedy within a rubric to get a list of keynotes for that remedy.
You can exclude rubrics by setting parameters in the Remedy Selection window. The following table explains the possible parameters available for extracting rubrics.
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The way to use this tool is to try different numbers and see what you get. If a rubric does not appear which you know is a keynote of a particular remedy, change the parameters for the rubrics allowed.
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REMEDY SELECTION WINDOW PARAMETERS TABLE
Parameter
Explanation
Degree
The degree assigned to the remedy in the repertory for each rubric in which it appears. For a remedy that is well represented in the repertory, you may wish to limit this number to degrees 3 and 4 when extracting keynotes. For a remedy that appears in fewer rubrics, you may not want to modify this setting.
Maximum Rubric Size
This indicates how many remedies appear in the rubrics that will be included. Again, for a well represented remedy, you may want to limit this number.
Degrees equal or >
This number indicates many remedies can have any one of the degrees you have chosen for the extraction. For example, if you set this value to 3, only two other remedies in the rubric can have degrees greater than or equal to those of the chosen remedy. This excludes rubrics that have a lot of remedies. If you put this number too small, you may lose a very important symptom.
To specify parameters for selection of rubrics for keynotes:
1.
Follow the directions through step 3 for entering Remedies into the Comparative Extraction
2.
Specify the Degree for the remedy in each rubric by clicking into the box next to the appropriate number (Alt + the underlined number).
3.
Specify the Maximum Rubric Size by typing a number into the box (Alt+m).
4.
Specify the Degrees equal or greater by typing a number into the box (Alt +r).
5.
Press Enter.
Clear the remedies currently in the Remedy box in the Comparative Extraction Window.
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Click the 1 button, or press Alt + 1.
Type an. Anacardium is highlighted.
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Set degrees at 3 and 4
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Set maximum rubric size at 100.
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Set Degrees equal or > at 3.
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Press Enter. The remedy Anacardium appears in the Remedy box in the Comparative Extraction window with the parameters set above.
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Press Enter again to execute the Comparative Extraction.
Setting Comparative Extraction Limits From the Analysis Window
When analyzing potential remedy choices in the Investigation Window, you may be surprised to find that a certain remedy is not in a particular rubric. For example, you may be considering giving a patient the remedy Baryta Carbonica. The patient was quite shy and reserved during the interview, and you chose the rubric Mind, Reserved. However, in your analysis, you note that Baryta Carbonica does not show up in this rubric. One option is to perform a Search on all the mental Symptoms of Baryta Carbonica and see if there are any similar rubrics to Mind Reserved. RADAR presents a more efficient option that can be conducted from the Investigation Window with two clicks of a mouse. This feature automatically does a search on similar rubrics so you can see if the remedy shows up in rubrics with a similar meaning, and decide if such rubrics really describe your client accurately.
To extract similar rubrics from the Investigation Window:
1.
From the Investigation Window display the Waffle Grid, if necessary.
2.
Position the mouse pointer over the intersection of the remedy and rubric in question.
3.
Click the right mouse button. A pop-up menu appears.
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