Carolyn Ramos

DIHom, HD(RHom), PCH

<-- Interviewed by Elaine Lewis

I have in front of me the lovely and outstanding, Carolyn Ramos, my CARA representative, who unfortunately knows me primarily as a pest! ("Carolyn, can I have another Activation Code? Carolyn, can I have another Activation Code? Carolyn, remember that interesting story I told you once about how I ordered a computer from ebay but they sent the wrong one and I couldn't get on line and then my daughter dropped it, so I took it to my cousin in New Jersey who owns a computer store who wasn't able to fix it eventhough he tried three times but who nonetheless charged me hundreds of dollars? Do you remember that computer? Well, I don't have it anymore. Hello?") But Carolyn, I'm actually in a position now to make you famous! Would you like say a few words about CARA Professional?

Who are you? No, I'm just kidding! I do a little of everything homeopathic. I have a homeopathy practice in downtown Toronto. I sell the homeopathic software CARA, and now our latest and greatest, ISIS. I cover the Technical Support role for the software in North America and I sponsor seminars in the Toronto and Ottawa areas for select international homepathic teachers including: Alize Timmerman (Holland), Frans Vermeulen (Sweden), Alastair Gray (Australia) and Jane Ciccheti (USA).
Miccant is the developer of the CARA and ISIS lines of homeopathic software. They developed the very first software back in 1986 and have been offering quality products ever since. Our main aim is to make the software EASY to use! Homeopathy is tough enough without having to go to seminars and workshops to learn your software. CARA has been in the marketplace for 8-9 years now. It is reasonably priced and very simple to use. The top of the line package includes 7 repertories and 160 materia medica. Free trials on request.
ISIS is our latest offering, having been released at the NCH conference in Phildelphia last spring. We have had a wonderful response from purchasers. It is the only software to elegantly combine repertories, materia medicas, remedies and homeopathic dictionary in one fabulous interface. The top of the line program offers 8 repertories and over 360 volumes of materia medica. To see for yourself go to www.miccant.com or request a presentation cd from me.

How is that Elaine?

I'm sorry, did you say something? Oh, right, CARA software, and Jane Ciccheti, isn't she wonderful?

She is a lovely person. I met her in Philadelphia. She is a good friend and colleague of Alize Timmerman, as well. Come on up for the seminar. It is a lovely time of year in Ottawa in October and Jane will be very interesting. She has just come out with her first book on Dreams, Symbology and Homeopathy which Dana Ullman published. The seminar will be in regards to this new work.

Speaking of CARA Professional, let me ask you about the "Expert System"! For those of you who don't know, these computerized repertory programs enable you to select the rubrics in your case and find the top remedies just by clicking "Analyze"; but, the "Expert Analysis" apparently finds the remedy, not based on the totality of symptoms, but based on what George Vithoulkas would say if he were there! Well, obviously he would say, "Call me a taxi!" but, can you explain how this works?

The CARA 'Expert' system (C.E.S.) is a mathematical calculation based on a few variables. CARA is the only system I know of (other than ISIS) that has an 'open expert'. Not only do you know exactly how it works you can also change how it works to suit your own preferences and findings. As supplied, this relationship between the strategies has been very carefully chosen and has proven successful against real, curative cases.
The C.E.S. uses 5 techniques when it examines your case. The first 4 are the repertorisation strategies used elsewhere in CARA Professional, namely Weighted rubrics, Stress Significance, Emphasise Small and Emphasise Strange, Rare and Peculiar. The final technique utilises rubrics you mark as causative in your case.
The expert system examines each of your case rubrics in turn and automatically applies CARA Professional's 4 strategies to each of them. It then looks for any rubrics marked as causative and applies a special boost to all remedies contained in those rubrics.
Once this has been done the C.E.S. then 'balances' all of the strategies in relation to each other - some of the strategies are thought to be more significant than others and the effect of them is therefore enhanced. This relatively simple technique remains mathematical in approach (as do all similar systems) but yields remarkably good results (as you will find).

Well, does that take away some of the mystery for you?

I enjoy a modicum of mystery in my life, Carolyn, so, your secret is safe with me! But, let me ask you this, are there any mistakes people are commonly making using CARA?

I wouldn't say that people are making MISTAKES, but I do see that most people aren't using the full capability of CARA. It is an extremely easy program to use, and just spending an hour going over the tutorial will often show the user many more ways to use the program. Alternately, giving the support line a call will get you to me or to our British support rep where you can receive direct support for more particular issues.
For instance, often there are remedies in the newer repertories that don't have materia medica published as yet. A good way to find out the remedy's capabilities is to do a rubric extraction. Using the Compare screen, you select the remedy and search through all chapters in the repertory. This will give you a list of all the rubrics the remedy is in and from that you may get a good feeling for its spheres of action.

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