Materia Medica Search: a remedy's keynotes, one click away
Click the extension, type a remedy — nux-v, puls, kali bich — and see what the classical authors agree on, plus its complementary, antidotal and inimical relationships. No account. No sign-up. Free for every remedy in the corpus.
What it shows
A search box and a card. The card carries three things, and nothing you have to page through to find them:
- Keynotes the books agree on — up to six statements, each shown verbatim in the words a named author actually wrote (never rewritten or summarised), tagged with how many books state it independently. A finding two or three authors converge on separately is worth more than one author's alone, and the card shows that distinction rather than hiding it.
- Relationships — complementary remedies, antidotes, inimical pairings — shown caution-first, so a warning is never the thing you'd have scrolled past.
- What's behind the fold — a count of how many more lines exist per body region (Mind, Head, Stomach…), so you know how much is there without it filling the popup.
That is deliberately not the whole book. The card is a keynote reference for a quick check while you are reading, revising or in front of a patient — not a replacement for reading the materia medica properly.
The free line, drawn honestly
Every remedy in the corpus is searchable, free, permanently. What's free is the depth: the consensus keynotes and a capped relationship list. What sits behind a Scholar subscription is the full text of every classical source, cross-book repertory search, the philosophy corpus, and highlights and notes that stay yours across devices.
If that sounds familiar: it is the same shape Complete Dynamics' well-known free Browser edition uses for its own repertory — a genuinely useful free tier with a clear, honest edge, not a crippled trial. We simply drew the line around materia medica instead of the repertory.
Two ways to look something up
- Click the toolbar icon and type. Recent lookups are kept locally in the browser, never sent anywhere.
- Select a remedy name on any page — a forum thread, a PDF, another reference site — right-click, and choose "Look up in Materia Medica Search." No need to leave the page you're reading to check what you just saw named.
Where it stands
Materia Medica Search is finishing its testing pass before we submit it to the Chrome Web Store for public listing — this page will carry the install link the moment that happens. In the meantime, everything the free card shows is already part of the full Scholar corpus below, so there is no need to wait to start reading.
What it collects
Nothing personal, by design. There is no sign-in for the free lookup. The server meters lookups per IP address to stop automated scraping — that counter stores a one-way hash of the address, never the address itself, and is discarded on a daily rolling basis. Your recent-lookups list lives only in your own browser's local storage. See the full privacy policy for how the wider product (including an optional Scholar account) handles personal data under India's DPDP Act.
Sourced from public-domain classical texts (Boericke, Kent, Clarke and others). Clinical reference — verify before prescribing; Materia Medica Search does not diagnose or recommend treatment.