HeartBeat #7 January 2003 KHA

 

Limiting Searches

Let's try a harder search...

Limits 1

If we search for "liar" we find 56 remedies. That's pretty good but if we look through the references we see nearly all of these are from the Complete Repertory. There must be more mentioned in the materia medica, but where?

We usually associate similar words that mean the same thing, i.e. if you search for "menses" you'll auto-matically find "menstrual", "menstruation", etc. However in the case of "liar" we didn't connect it with "lies" because the word "lies" is mostly used to mean lying down.

If we search for "liar/lies" we find 745 remedies - the vast majority of these have nothing to do with being a liar; they refer to lying down. How to get rid of this second sort of lying? One way would be to only search in the mind section of the books.

To do this press on the small icon of a head at the lower left of the window. Select the Mind section. Now the search will only be in the mind sections.

Limits 2

You can tell that the search is limited by the small red stop sign next to the section icon . The search now has shrunk dramatically to 160 remedies.

Still there are many, many references that don't relate to liars. I can't think of any way to shrink this unfortunately. One thing we can do is to physically remove all of the remedies that don't apply.

To remove a remedy from the search rubric, open the Rubrics' Clipboard, show all remedies (in the Rubrics menu). The remedy Am-c. shouldn't be in the rubric. On a Macintosh hold down the control key as you click on the remedy abbreviation; a popdown menu will appear; in Windows right click on the remedy abbreviation.

Limits 3

Select "Remove Remedy" and the remedy will be stripped out of the rubric. You could do this for all of the false-positive remedies.