Tip #1 - Sometimes we need a little help from our friends

OK, you are interested in families but how can you learn more about them? First of all attend any courses by Asa Hershoff, Massimo, Rajan, Divya, Judyth and Bob Ullman, Roger Morrison, Linda Johnston, Nancy Herrick, Joel Kreisberg, Lou Klein, Todd Rowe and other enthusiasts of the family concept.

Rajan mixes his set of miasms with characteristics of the natural history families.
Vega, not surprisingly, creates his own unusual set of families based on pathology, natural history, approach to life, etc.

Massimo groups remedies by their natural history combined with their homeopathic symptoms (i.e. he sees Zincum phosphorica as a sort of snake).

At some point you have to see Asa who has probably spent more years than anyone thinking about plant families and presents the information in a wonderfully insightful and entertaining way.

Joel Kreisberg's school is based on families and is one of the best places to go to learn families deeply.

Lou inspiringly weaves deep patient analysis with precise family groupings. This is a rapidly exploding area and I suggest that you study with a range of teachers as everyone has something to add.

For more information about families and why we might want to use them, look at Rajan's lovely new book, "An Insight Into Plants," featured in the Book Watch section of the October 2002 issue of HeartBeat.