Issues with Homoeopathy and this software

On Homoeopathy

With that out of our minds, does Homoeopathy work? It seems to, at least to many of us. Then how does it work? Forget all that! Let's get down to business.

On Homoeopim

The name

The software as on 22/4/2025

1. We have a minuscule team and even a rudimentary entry on the >1000 remedies listed in Kent's repertory will require at least another five years, even after neglecting a host of sub-rubrics, as we are doing now.

2. There has been a huge increase in the number of symptoms/rubrics in recent years. Many new remedies have also appeared. These are not included in the old and free Materia Medicas and Repertories that we are consulting. This new material is available in commercial software that most serious doctors use nowadays. This situation will remain until something can be done about it.

3. Experienced doctors reject many symptoms as `peripheral' and concern themselves with the `core'. We do not know how to do that but are toying with the idea of using something like random forests, adaboost, etc. to make the system gain `experience'. We may use genetic algorithms also to tweak the scores in `symptom_remedy_map' to make the prescriptions approach that of experienced physicians. But all that is in some misty future!

4. Body language and facial expressions are important `symptoms' that good Homoeopaths lay great emphasis on. Maybe someday, our software will use the web-cam to do something similar with emotion recognition. But someday is not today.

5. Mental symptoms are extremely important. Doctors just allow the patient to talk on and on and like the psychologists of yore, collect rubrics. These will not be available through simple questions and answers. However, maybe some of the test pictures and anecdotes/reactions used by psychiatrists could help. That module is not there.

6. Some people, like Dr. Sehgal, have used metaphoric mappings of rubrics to tangible symptoms. This method appears to be promising in chronic cases. This will be almost impossible to implement until genuine AI comes along.

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