Description This book is a combination of the classical approach with the modern thinking and can be easily used by every homeopath using different methods. Roberto Petrucci, MD, wrote 8 key themes for 172 groups (56 Plant families, 13 groups from Animal Kingdom, 6 periods and 18 stages of the Periodic table, 15 anions and 52 cations from Mineral Kingdom and 12 different groups like desert remedies, drugs, gems, oils and rocks). The eight sentences method easily let us understand the main topics of every group trying to give a deep shortcut in order to be able to find the right remedy from the biggest selection in the shorter time.  He summarizes each group and them in 8 specific points/characteristics. English, German, Italian, and Spanish 284 page. 2019 copyright       TABLE OF CONTENTS: PLANTS (56) ALLIACEAE AMARANTHACEAE ANACARDIACEAE APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE) APOCYNACEAE ARACEAE ARALIACEAE ARISTOLOCHIACEAE ASPARAGACEAE ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE) BERBERIDACEAE BORAGINACEAE BRASSICACEAE BURSERACEAE CACTACEAE CAMPANULACEAE CANNABACEAE CARNIVOROUS PLANTS CUCURBITACEAE DIOSCORALES (order) DIPSICALES (order) ERICACEAE ERYTHROXYLACEAE EUPHORBIACEAE FABACEAE HYACINTHACEAE LAMIACEAE (LABIATAE) LAURALES (order) LILIALES (order) LOGANIACEAE (including GELSEMIACEAE) MALVACEAE MELANTHIACEAE MENISPERMACEAE MORACEAE MYRSINACEAE MYRTACEAE NYMPHACEAE OLEACEAE ORCHIDACEAE PAPAVERACEAE PINALES – CONIFERS (order) PIPERACEAE POALES (order) POLYGONACEAE RANUNCULACEAE ROSACEAE RUBIACEAE RUTACEAE SALICACEAE SAPINDACEAE SAXIFRAGALES (order) SCROPHULARIACEAE SOLANACEAE URTICACEAE VIOLACEAE ZINGIBERALES (order) ANIMALS (13) BIRDS BUTTERFLIES CROCODYLIA FISH INSECTS LIZARDS MAMMALS PARASITES PREDATORS SCORPIONS SEA ANIMALS SNAKES SPIDERS ANIONS (15) ACETICUMS ARSENICOSUMS BROMATUMS CARBONICUMS CHROMATES & DICHROMATES CYANATUMS FLUORATUMS HYDROXIDES IODATUMS MURIATICUMS NITRICUMS OXYDATUMS PHOSPHORICUMS SILICATUMS SULPHURICUMS CATIONS (52) ALUMINIUM AMMONIUM ANTIMONIUM ARGENTUM AURUM BARYUM BERYLLIUM BISMUTHUM BORON CADMIUM CAESIUM CALCAREA COBALTUM CUPRUM FERRUM GALLIUM GERMANIUM HAFNIUM HYDROGEN INDIUM IRIDIUM KALIUM LITHIUM MAGNESIUM MANGANUM MERCURIUS MOLYBDENUM NATRIUM NICCOLUM NIOBIUM OSMIUM PALLADIUM PLATINUM PLUMBUM RHENIUM RHODIUM RUBIDIUM RUTHENIUM SCANDIUM SELENIUM STANNUM STRONTIUM TANTALIUM TECHNETIUM TELLURIUM THALLIUM TITANIUM TUNGSTENIUM VANADIUM YTTRIUM ZINCUM ZIRCONIUM PERIODS (6) PERIOD 1 PERIOD 2 PERIOD 3 PERIOD 4 PERIOD 5 PERIOD 6 STAGES (18) STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4 STAGE 5 STAGE 6 STAGE 7 STAGE 8 STAGE 9 STAGE 10 STAGE 11 STAGE 12 STAGE 13 STAGE 14 STAGE 15 STAGE 16 STAGE 17 STAGE 18   OTHER GROUPS (12) ACIDUMS ACTINIDES AMPHETAMINES LIKE BOWEL NOSODES DESERT REMEDIES DRUGS FUNGI GEMS LANTHANIDES NOBLE GASES OILS ROCKS GROUPS AND REMEDIES REMEDIES AND GROUPS     Robert Pettrucci is president of the CENTRE FOR HOMEOPATHY MILAN. Degree in medicine and surgery taken at the University of Milan. Diploma obtained at the Clinical Training Center for Classical Homeopathy in Hechtel (Belgium) under the guidance of Alfons Geukens. Teacher of Homeopathy in several schools in Italy and abroad (Belgium, Czech republic, Dubai, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland). Director of studies at CENTRE FOR HOMEOPATHY in Milan and CENTRE FOR HOMEOPATHY in Catania. Author of the Pediatric Repertory Children Concepts. Author of the book Children: Homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertorial Symptoms (a materia medica of 543 remedies with 2840 symptoms grouped in themes and concepts), edited in Italian, English and German (to be published in Spanish and Japanese). Teacher of Materia Medica for the specialisation course in homeopathic medicine held at the University of L’Aquila. From 2000 to 2005 Director of the School – Training – Teaching Department of the Italian Federation of Homeopathic Doctors (FIAMO).