Review of Radiance, Resonance and Healing: The Homeopathic Periodic Table

Radiance, Resonance and Healing: The Homeopathic Periodic Table by David A Johnson, CCH, RSHom(NA).

Publisher: Emyrss.

In the vast array of symptomatology of the drugs, the homoeopathic clinicians try to understand drug pathogenesis and symptomatology by various ways. Studies, both literal and clinical, have been undertaken to systematise Materia Medica, so that the students and the physicians can grasp the symptomatic totality of the drugs and the personalities, which can form the basis of prescription in clinical practice. Prescribing in clinics is an arduous task and the physicians cannot be assured that they have prescribed the real similimum and not a partially indicated medicine, in the absence of an organised Materia Medica.

Radiance, Resource and Healing: The Homoeopathic Periodic Table is an attempt by Dr David A Johnson to create a systematic Materia Medica of drugs made from pure elements. This book helps to understand their personalities as one studies chemical properties by virtue of their placement in the periodic table. Each element across the seven rows in the periodic table is dealt with individually detailing their mental characteristic based on their emotional responses to the environment and relationships.

Small snippets from the classical literature from Lewis Carroll to Goethe make an interesting read. The case details add to the practical understanding of the mentals and patient responses to the specific medicines.

The second part of the book on overview of elemental groups in each column or stages having a common underlying phrase for each stage eases the study of these elements and how it evolves from one element to another within the stage. The characteristics of the compounds can be predicted by the ionic affiliations, thereby enhancing the scope of study of drugs prepared from compounds.

Overall, the book greatly eases understanding of mental profile of the chemical-based medicines and can also predict the possible personality characteristics of the new elements and compounds that are yet to be added in the armamentarium of the Materia Medica.

The book is visually highly appealing and generates interest in the reader. The limitation, however, lies in its applications in clinics, where Materia Medica has drugs sourced from plants, animals and complex substances and of course the lack of physical general and particulars which are an essential aspect of the patient totality.

Publication History

Article published online:
05 September 2022