For the first time a separate work is coming on Direct Energy Medicines. These are the most potent medicine in hands of homoeopaths. The factor of specificity is also an additional factor attached with them.

Enter the mysterious inner world of the Bird Kingdom via the powerful process of homeopathic provings. Homeopathic remedies taken from 15 different individual birds are elucidated as to their key features, symbolism, natural history and prominent rubrics, allowing homeopathic practitioners to quickly and easily identify them. Cases and previously unpublished provings of the newer remedies are included. Remedy characteristics of the bird family as a whole are also brought to life, making quick identification of this class possible.

With the increased popularity of alternative medicine, quality assurance and testing methods for alternative medicinal products has moved to the forefront of the field. And although regulation of these products varies from country to country, universally they are required satisfy the same quality requirements as the medicines used in allopathy. Filling the need for an authoritative resource, German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia contains monographs covering homoeopathic products and their related analytical and manufacturing techniques. Each monograph is uniformly structured supplying, where applicable: Origin Description Characteristics Identification Purity Tests Assays Basic dosage forms Manufacture Storage Completely revised and updated, the volumes put the latest information within easy reach. An extensive collection of manufacturing and testing techniques, German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia establishes standards to ensure the pharmaceutical quality and safety of homoeopathic medicinal products.

This volume focuses on the importance of therapeutically active compounds of natural origin. Natural materials from plants, microbes, animals, marine organisms and minerals are important sources of modern drugs. Beginning with two chapters on the development and definition of the interdisciplinary field of pharmacognosy, the volume offers up-to-date information on natural and biosynthetic sources of drugs, classification of crude drugs, pharmacognosical botany, examples of medical application, WHO ́s guidelines and intellectual property rights for herbal products.