In the Essential Materia Medica, Esmame for short, author
offers a very incisive, insightful introduction to the distinctive principles
of Homeo therapy and a compact study, in an innovative style, of 1O6
important homeo medicines, which are brought under twelve different rubrics
such as causations, comparisons, contra-indications, lateralities,
modalities etc., the rubrics together constituting a master key to each
medicine or healant as the book calls them. A thorough grasp of this book
can help in the treatment of most common illnesses.