Usage categories

Use these lists to create your pharmacy from if you don't know what remedies to order. Start out with the polychrests if you are thinking about treating chronic disease. You may want to build up a good first aid chest before moving in to the chronics but this at least gives you some starting guides.

Hering’s polychrests

1. Aconite
2. Ant-c
3. Apis
4. Ars
5. Bell
6. Bry
7. Calc
8. Carb-v
9. Caust
10. Cham
11. Hep
12. Plat
13. Puls
14. Rhus-t

Hering’s used very often

1. Aloe
2. Alumn
3. Alum
4. Am-c
5. Am-m
6. Anac-oc
7. Ant-t
8. Arg-m
9. Arg-n
10. Arn
11. Aur
12. Bapt
13. Bar-c
14. Bor
15. Bov
16. Brom
17. Calc-p
18. Camph
19. Canth
20. Carb-an
21. Cina
22. Chin
23. Coloc
24. Con
25. Cupr
26. Dig
27. Dulc
28. Ferr-ac
29. Ferr
30. Gels
31. Glyc
32. Graph
33. Hyos
34. Ign
35. Kali-bi
36. Kali-c
37. Kali-n
38. Lach
39. Lyc
40. Mag-c
41. Mag-m
42. Mez
43. Nat-c
44. Nat-m
45. Nat-s
46. Nit-ac
47. Nux-m
48. Nux-v
49. Petr
50. Ph-ac
51. Phos
52. Rheum
53. Sang
54. Sars
55. Sep
56. Sil
57. Stann
58. Sulph
59. Thuj
60. Verat
61. Zinc

First aid – injuries

1. Anacardium
2. Arnica
3. Bell-p
4. Calc
5. Calc-fl
6. Cactus
7. Causticum
8. Cicuta
9. Con
10. Cuprum
11. Ferr-p
12. Hypericum
13. Ledum
14. Nat-s
15. Phyt
16. Rhus-t
17. Ruta
18. Sil
19. Stront-carb
20. Symphytum
21. Vipera

First aid – other

1. Aconite
2. Agaricus
3. Apis
4. Arnica
5. Bell
6. Bry
7. Calendula tincture
8. Canth
9. Carb-v
10. Caust
11. Cham
12. Coca
13. Ech tincture
14. Glonoine
15. Nat-m
16. Nux-v
17. Puls
18. Urt-u

Other topics

Storage

• Containers
• Environment

Sizes and shapes

• Globules
• Pellets
• Tablets
• Tinctures
• Cremes

Wide action vs. well proved

Dioscera has 1286 symptoms in RADAR and is called a polychrest by Boericke. Nux vomica has 7460 symptoms and is also called a polychrest by Boericke.

Sulphur has 11,451 symptom listings.

Hering calls Apis a polychrest but only has 3306 symptoms listed. Platina is in the same category and has 3421 symptoms.