Materia Medica Editor

The Materia Medica Editor allows you to take all the information you have on the remedies from your many years of study and add it to Mercurius in order to use it with it's powerful tools and to easily access all this vital information on your daily work as a homeopath.

For an animated presentation, please watch the tutorials, Video 21.

The MM Editor also allows different users of Mercurius to exchange their own Materia Medicae in order to share the information between fellow homeopaths.

The MM Editor is in the Mercurius library.

By clicking the MM Editor's icon a Help wizard will ask you to choose from the different options for an easier operation. (you can cancel this wizard for the next startup)

Creating a new Materia Medica:

The MM Editor gives you two different ways in order to easily compile your own Materia Medica for your Mercurius.

The first option is to create a new Materia Medica in the editor itself. First you will be asked to choose the name of the author and a name for the M.M. Then you will be asked to choose the remedies you want to have in your new M.M. (you can easily add or delete remedies later on with the Edit button)

For easily editing the text you can save your format preferences and use up to four different custom formats in order to apply the format on a chosen part of the text or apply it on a whole line by clicking the Apply custom format to the whole line button.

If you rather write your Materia Medica using a different software (Openoffice or MS Word , for example) or if you already have your notes written on a file, then you better use the second option which allows you to add Materia Medica from a file.

The second option for creating a Materia Medica is by using a premade M.M. from a file. You can start by selecting "add records from files" from the Help wizard or by simply clicking the "Import from a file" button. You will be asked if the file contains Materia Medica of one remedy or if it is a multiple remedies Materia Medica. Then you need to select the file type (you can only choose txt, rtf or html files - If you have a .doc file you can change it to .rtf or .txt by simply saving it as .rtf with your MS-Word or other software) and locate the file on your computer and click "Open". Then you are asked to choose the place where the name of the remedies are (the file name or a specific line from the text) or choose to select the remedy name manualy.

Then you fill the author's name and the name of the Materia Medica.

If your file consist of many remedies and the names of the remedies are written in a different font or style from the rest of the text, then the MM Editor can automatically identify the names of the remedies if you choose the line with the first remedy name. You can also choose every name manually.

MM Editor will then try to find the specific remedy name and will ask you to confirm it. It is advisable to carefully check for the exact name (otherwise the M.M. will not appear under the right remedy on Mercurius).

Now you can choose to open the new M.M. in order to modify the text with the editor (as explained above) or to generate a MM Pack (with one or more materia medica which are already in your MM Editor).

Generating a new Materia Medica Pack

In order to use your M.M. in Mercurius you must generate a Materia Medica Pack. This Pack will be made from several files which you need to save in a separate library on your computer (it is advisable to save it outside the Mercurius library).

Click the "build new MM-Pack" icon or the "generate new MM Pack" from the toolbar and you will be asked to specify the library where you want the the MM Pack to be generated. You can then choose any number of M.M. that you already have in your MM Editor to be generated into one pack (the process can take a few minutes).

Now you can add your new MM Pack to Mercurius and also share these files with other Mercurius users.

Adding a new MM Pack

In the "Add/Remove MM Packs" window of the "Options window" of the Materia Medica browser in Mercurius, you should press the "add new MM Pack" button and select the folder of the MM Pack you would like to add, then press the OK button and choose the new pack from the list and press the OK button.