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VOL. XXIII, 2006

Lead me from Untruth to Truth

Lead me from Darkness to Light

Lead me from Death to Immortality

Adyaya I Brahmana 3 Mantra 28

(This service is only for private circulation. Part I of the journal lists the Current

literature in Homeopathy drawn from the well-known homeopathic journals published

world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Belgium, Brazil, USA, etc., discipline-

wise, with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed

study. The full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are

given at the end.)

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VOL. XXIII, 1, 2006

Part I Current Literature Listing

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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homeopathy drawn from the well-known homeopathic

journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with

brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and

addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected

essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc.

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I. PHILOSOPHY

1. Unity Within Diversity:

Moving Toward Dynamic Harmony Within the

Homeopathic Community

CICCHETTI, Jane (AH. 11/2005)

This article addresses some of the reasons for

the unusual degree of alienation and disagreement

within the homeopathic profession and explores

possibilities of dynamic harmony.

There are factors inherent within the

philosophy of Homeopathy that divide us from one

another. Empiricism creates a strong connection

with the patient and separation between

practitioners.

Professional disunity quarrelling over what is

true Homeopathy and general discord among

homeopaths has been all too common from

HAHNEMANN’s time until the present day.

HAHNEMANN himself created much discord

by criticizing anyone who did not agree with him or

who practiced “his” healing art in such a way that

did not meet his approval. [Of course,

HAHNEMANN insisted on following him exactly

if one wanted to get similar results. You cannot

practice as you pleased to and if results were not

positive blame Homeopathy and HAHNEMANN.

During days of LIPPE, ALLEN, WELLS there

were no individual trails. You give one and the

same case to them each separately and they would

prescribe one remedy unlike today when you refer a

case to three modern homeopaths you will get

three different remedies nowhere near each other

and claim individuality. In Homeopathy

‘individualization’ is with reference to the ill

patient and not the individual homeopath. = KSS.]

Another factor is the introverted nature of

many homeopaths. What are important in

professions made up of creative and independent

thinkers are guidelines that allow for discussion and

dialogue. Recognition of diversity of opinion and

forums for cross-pollination of ideas are important

steps toward co-operation.

The innovative solutions come from many

interactions between individuals.

Physicist David BOHM was interested in

dialogue through which it is possible to move to a

completely new way of looking at things.

In Bohmian dialogue groups, there is no

particular goal other than carefully listening to all

of those who wish to speak. This slows down the

thinking process enough so that underlying

patterns, preconceptions and prejudices that lie

behind the opinions and beliefs of each participant

are revealed within the group. It is when these

insights are shared within the group that completely

new ideas and views emerge.

If homeopaths were to participate in Bohmian

dialogue groups, perhaps would go beyond their

differences and find solutions for the difficult

health challenges from which so many are suffering

and might eventually develop a strong and resilient

community.

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There is difference between dialogue and

debate.

Honoring the opinion of others and not

alienating or offending them is a core principle of

dialogue. Dialogue requires that we leave our

egoistic view. This not only improves

communication, but also contains the possibility of

helping to expand consciousness and increase

maturity in those who choose to practice this fine

art of relating to others.

Once we can accept that there will always be

differences of opinion and we learn how to

communicate with one another about those

differences, we change what was once a schism in

the profession to an advantage. While

philosophical disagreements will always exist and

can, when respectfully encountered, create a very

positive dynamic, the emotional wounding requires

healing. [We cannot forget that ‘opinions’ are not

the point. There is a Law and freedom should not

transcend that Law. HAHNEMANN criticized

edifices built upon opinions. ‘His’ Homeopathy

(Yes, it indeed is his: he gave us a Medicine

complete in itself – Drugs, Materia Medica based

on Provings and ‘facts’ – and not speculations or

opinions or surmises – Pharmacology, and

application of all these – all came from his,

HAHNEMANN’s, inductive intellect. We have no

regrets whatever; we stay contented. There is no

quarrel with ‘innovators’. But if they choose to

brand their innovations which are far removed from

the ‘basics’, as Homeopathy, it is an insult. While

eschewing quarrel need we smoke the pipe of peace

together? = KSS.]

2. Reclaiming the Meaning of Miasm

SHEPPERD, Joel (AJHM. 98, 1/2005)

The purpose of this article is to reaffirm the

original meaning of Miasm and Chronic Disease in

the face of so many different interpretations. The

modern homeopath needs an updated frame of

reference for the description of chronic miasmatic

disease. An analogy will be made between the

naming of chronic Miasms and the naming of

clouds. A few current interpretations of Miasms

will be mentioned and compared to the original

observations of chronic diseases.

3. Hidden in Plain Sight

The Role of Vaccines in Chronic Disease

MOSKOWITZ, Richard (AJHM. 98, 1/2005)

The adverse effects of vaccines are easily

ignored by the medical profession because they’re

limited to a few that are already documented (DPT

– Encephalopathy, MMR – Autism, etc.) and occur

within a few days after they are given. They are

also difficult to recognize even when looked for

because they represent only a more severe version

of whatever disease elements are already present in

each child; i.e., a non-specific effect of the

vaccination process per se, for which any vaccine

will suffice. Illustrative cases connect vaccines to

the common diseases of childhood (Asthma,

Eczema, Otitis, Allergies, Sinusitis, ADD, Autism,

etc.). This leads to a simple hypothesis to explain

how vaccines act. The remainder of the article

applies these ideas to vaccines of more recent

vintage, and concludes with recommendations for

vaccine and health policy.

4. Inductive Reasoning

(Excerpts from a forthcoming book)

AUSTIN, Michael (SIM. XVIII, 1 &2/2005)

Inductive reasoning use series of observations,

in order to reach a conclusion. Induction occur

when we gather bits of specific information

together and use our own knowledge and

experience in order to make an observation about

what must be true.

The varieties of inductive reasoning like

Generalization, Analogy, Statistical Inference are

discussed and the possible fallacies. [von

BeNNINGHAUSEN is the best example for

inductive reasoning = KSS.]

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II. MATERIA MEDICA

1. Taraxacum officinale

WILKENS, Johannes (AHZ. 250, 1/2005)

Practical application of Taraxacum is

discussed. The author also made a small ‘Proving’

with the D6. The dullness, lethargic feeling, the

knee pains have all been verified in this self-

Proving.

The author’s wife who also took Lac

taraxacum developed a definite feeling of being

pregnant for several weeks. She also felt heavy

tumescence of the breasts.

The remedy also is for diseases of the affluent.

It is also for chronic consequences of Hepatitis A or

B. In Fibromyalgia and Diabetes mellitus very

surprising results could be obtained from

Taraxacum.

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2. Parallele, symmetrische HAMP von Silicea

und Bufo rana (C30) durch Kursteilnehmer

der A-F.Kurse

(Parallel, Symmetric Homeopathic Medicine

Proving of Silicea and Bufo rana)

MÖLLINGER, Heribert (AHZ. 250, 1/2005)

Homeopathic medicine Proving is basic for

homeopathic therapeutics, and is a component in

the training courses for advancement in

Homeopathy Studies.

The design of a Proving, and the double blind,

randomized without placebo control in the A-F

Course in Hohenheim (10/2003) is explained.

The results of the Proving are given in full.

3. Viola odorata – Pathogenese eines Irrtums

(Viola odorota – Pathogenesis mis-

interpretation)

HOLZAPFEL, Klaus (ZKH. 49, 1/2005)

Two cases were reported in the ZKH.

46,1/2002 by Dr. Alois BAHEMANN in which he

had used the remedy Viola odorata and a peculiar

symptom with regard to this remedy is “Intellect

predominates over the emotion”. The source of this

symptom (in the Repertory) could not be traced

with certainty. This symptom seems to have been

drawn from JAHR. In his letter to the Editor

(ZKH. 46, 2/2002) Curt KÖSTERS explained the

Proving symptoms and concluded that “Intellect

predominated over the emotion” was an incorrect

rubric. However, later few more cured cases were

reported in the journals with the same symptom.

In this article HOLZAPFEL discusses both

BAHEMANN and Curt KÖSTERS and concludes

that the rubric is a misinterpretation, and should be

removed from the Materia Medica and Repertory.

4. Clinical Homeopathic Use of RNA: Evidence

from Two Provings

RILEY D. and ZAGON A.

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005)

Two Homeopathic Drug Provings (HDPs) of

RNA have been published. The methods are

reviewed. Our method is double-blind and

placebo-controlled, conforms to GCP and includes

run-in and follow-up phases. Symptoms are

selected from diaries according to predefined

criteria. The results of the Provings are compared

with each other and with the homeopathic clinical

use of RNA. At this stage it is difficult to draw

conclusions concerning the clinical use of RNA.

Further HDPs are required, they should follow GCP

and standard, transparent protocols.

5. A Deeper Look at Drug Remedies

HERRICK, Nancy (AJHM. 98, 1/2005)

Polarities are one of the main characteristics of

drug remedies. There are 3 classifications of the

drug remedies: Stimulants, Depressants and

Hallucinogens.

Stimulants – Go toward something i.e. Coffea –

Creative mental work, Coca- physical activity,

Thea – ideas and Ginseng – spiritual involvement.

Depressants – Attempt to escape from something

i.e. Opium – from pain, Morphinum – from moral

codes, Nux moschata – from rationality, Alcoholus

– from responsibilities, Piper methysticum – from

boredom, Tabacum – from burdens or oppression.

Hallucinogens – Combine both aspects of the above

and they escape into delusions.

Another amazing dimension to the

understanding of drug remedies are Miasms of

Sankaran.

Acute Miasm: Morphinum and Coffeinum.

Sycotic Miasm: Cannabis indica.

Cancer Miasm: Opium, Anhalonium.

Leprosy Miasm: Codeinum, Mandragora

Syphilitic Miasm: Nilumbo nucifera

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III. THERAPEUTICS

1. Zur therapeutischen Bedeutung der zwölften

Dezimalpotenz bei isopathisches Anwendung

(The therapeutic significance of the 12 decimal

potency in isopathic application)

HÜBNER, Gerhard (AHZ. 250, 1/2005)

It is shown that the 12

th

decimal potency (12x)

has an exceptionally therapeutic quality if used

isopathically. Side effects caused by allopathic

remedies, also allergic agents like heavy metals

which cause long time allergy (Type IV) can be

cured with the same agent in D12 (12K). This is so

in cases of body’s own substances e.g. Adrenaline

(Epinephrine).

Thus the significance of the D12 potency is of

great value.

2. Schwindelzustände seit frühster Kindheit:

Cocculus indicus (Vertigo since early

childhood – Cocculus indicus)

HADULLA, Michael (AHZ. 250, 1/2005)

A 53-year–old woman with Vertigo since

nearly childhood, abdominal pain with dyspnoea

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and aversion to eat was cured of all these

complaints by Cocculus indicus 200 one dose.

This remedy is a ‘small’ remedy, used mostly

for travel sickness; ‘small’ because of our ‘small’

homeopathic knowledge!

3. Homöopathische Behandlung eine

Skorpionstiches (Homeopathic Treatment of

Scorpion Sting)

JAEGER, Johanr-Dietrich (AHZ. 250, 1/2005)

A small case of scorpion sting (while on a

holiday in Greece) which required Ledum 30 (sting

of insects, better by ice cold application), followed

by Mercurius solubulis 30 (pain occiput, pain left

side of head) and lastly Sepia 200 (chilly, appetite,

etc.) – all within 24 hrs. Patient became completely

normal.

Though an acute case, the author has given the

working with the KENT and BeNNINGHAUSEN

Repertories.

4. Fälle aus der Psychiatrie

(Cases from Psychiatry)

BRENNER, Stefan (ZKH. 49,1/2005)

Five cases from Psychiatry, treated

successfully complimentarily to psychiatric psycho-

and psycho-pharmaco therapy by following

principles of Classical Homeopathy, are presented.

Two cases in detail (Sep., Nat-m.), three more in

shortened versions (Hyos., Lach., Ign.). In spite of

high-dose combined psycho-pharmaco-therapy,

homeopathic Q-potencies were highly effective.

5. Zwei weitere Fälle von cerebralem

Anfalleleiden (Two Further Cases of Cerebral

Seizures – Epileptic)

RICHTER, Olaf & HADULLA, Michael

(ZKH. 49,1/2005)

A Case of a 5½-year-old boy suffering from

epileptic seizures (focal-partial-cerebral seizures

with Rolando-focus). As a result of Calcarea

carbonica, Opium D, 200 and Sulphur the seizures

disappeared clinically, also no further hyper

synchronic activity in EEG could be found. The

second case reports about an 8-year-old boy

suffering from epileptic seizures and multiple

cerebral defects. As a result of anti-epileptic

treatment (Frisium-Clogazam) increasing behavior

disorders as side effects. By homeopathic

treatment with Tuberculinum and Silicea the

seizures disappeared.

6. Skleritis – Senega (Scleritis – Senega)

WEGENER, Andreas (ZKH. 49, 1/2005)

A Case of Scleritis cured by Senega. The

characteristics were: aggravation on focusing,

bursting pain with sensation of enlargement and

sensitivity to touch of the eyes. Two symptoms of

Senega, hitherto not in the repertories, can be

added.

7. Eine “complicierte” Krankheit – Krebs

(A “Complicated” Disease – Cancer)

FRIEDRICH, Uwe (ZKH. 49, 1/2005)

Treatment of an inflammatory breast Cancer

with Belladonna, Lac caninum, Carcinosinum and

Lycopodium. Analysis of Cancer as a complicated

disease, consisting of several dissimilar diseases.

The author refers, rightly, to the Organon as

“the basis of Treatment”. Cancer is perceived as far

more than a one-sided disease, and its treatment

basis has been clearly mentioned by

HAHNEMANN in the Organon. Most of the

authors say that in the treatment of Cancer great

attention is to be paid about treatment of dissimilar

disease. About potentisation and dosages also

HAHNEMANN has sketched the basis for the

concept of the homeopathic therapy of Cancer (§

72). The successful application of

HAHNEMANN’s instructions can be learnt from

all leading homeopaths from the beginning of the

20

th

Century who handled Cancers. Most of them

have slightly modified them according to personal

experiences, but within the Hahnemannian

tradition. In the author’s opinion, these were J.C.

BURNETT and E. SCHLEGEL.

8. Akutfälle nach BÖNNINGHAUSEN (2)

KLINKENBERG, Carl Rudolf

(ZKH. 49, 1/2005)

The author has earlier reported cases treated

using the BeNNINGHAUSEN method (ZKH. 48,

3/2004). Here he reports three more cases.

The difference between a characteristic

symptom in homeopathic and common language is

explained. Ref. to the § 153: “… The more

common and indeterminate symptoms (lack of

appetite, headache, lassitude, restless sleep,

discomfort, etc.) are to be seen with almost every

disease and medicine and thus deserve little

attention unless they are more closely

characterized.”

The three cases explain the above.

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9. Bonjour Docteur

LAPY, Benoit (RBH. 32, 1/2002)

A young girl suffered from cold and a cough

especially in a warm room or on exertion like

cycling. She seems a little haughty and indifferent.

Belladonna is prescribed. In the subsequent visit

she acts clownish. She is prescribed Opium and

later Veratrum album and Pulsatilla. But the ENT

problems recur.

Then during a new ENT infection – she enters

the doctor’s consulting room acting like a clown,

she puts out her tongue and plays with an elastic

band. She is described as changing, sometimes

very active, sometimes very exhausted. She at

present has some problem at school but her mother

has not been able to bring it out of her. She is

prescribed Kali bichromicum 30K with very good

improvement.

The analysis of the case: Prescription is based

on the rubrics

- antics playful

- timidity bashful

- rest, desire for.

Not satisfied with description of the remedy in

ALLEN’s Encyclopaedia, consulted HUGHES &

DAKES.

This work follows the chronology of events of

the provers and though incomplete in regard to

certain remedies, it is all the same very rich in

lessons for certain remedies: the sequence of the

symptoms of the prover (which is not found in

ALLEN’s presentation) is very descriptive and has

helped in this prescription.

1. The girl says that she is a big girl, she is very

sure of herself, very affirmative.

In HUGHES – prover No.20. NEIDHART –

countenance fuller, clearer and more

intellectual.

2. When the girl is sick she takes no pleasure in

her usual work, here it is not tiredness, that

prevents her from playing but rather

indifference.

No.26 – MARENZELLER … lassitude with a

feeling of general malaise, sullen and not

inclined to attend to his avocations, tired of

life.

3. When she is sick, she wants calm, tranquility

and in the same prover… tiredness,

melancholy, desire for calm, rest.

4. When sick she wants to lie down, her mother

cannot make her tell her problems.

Under SCHWARZ – No. 33

Sensation heat and tiredness as after exercise,

exhausted, incapable of thought, desire to remain

seated, indifferent, desire to cut short all

conversation, lest I expose myself, desire to be

alone, better in open air.

5. Her attitude is particular – on one side ... it

appears that she wants to do her normal work, on

the other hand she claims to be very sick and wants

to be relieved immediately (first taken as sick so

that she could have the syrup but not so)

REISINGER (31)…. Great lassitude and malaise

which prevents him from sleeping even for an hour;

sensation as if a real sickness had arrived.

This case has shown that a better approach to

the complaints of the patient can lead to a judicious

prescription.

An attentive reading of the Materia Medica

without any misinterpretation can help us in better

understand the remedies.

This case is just an illustration and one should

not hastily reach to conclusions to limit the

Materia Medica of this remedy just to the above

symptoms.

10. Cas clinique pour l’entrée á la Société belge

d’Homoeopathie (Clinical Case for Entry into

the Belgian Homeopathic Society)

SCHEEPERS, Leon (RBH. 32, 1/2002)

A 37-year-old entrepreneur with Eczema, since

a year, of the back of hands, wrist and forearms.

Dry and red patches with itching more in the

evening than the day. The eruptions had started

suddenly between the fingers and the wrist. Two

weeks later the eruption on the left eye lid.

Sometimes there are eruptions in the axilla and the

hips. He used a cortisone cream and a moisturizing

cream.

His arrogant mentality, egoism, ambition, food

desires Sulphur was prescribed. His eczema

disappeared only to return again.

Further consultation and re-repertorisation of

the following symptoms

- Capriciousness, rejecting things for which

he has been longing

- Discontented everything with

- Weeping music from

- Restlessness

- Eruption face

- Teeth caries

- Inflammation gums

Comes out with Kreosotum, which matches well

especially with the mental state of the patient. Over

a period of 9 years the patient required Kreosotum

12 times but there is very good improvement both

in his physical and mental state.

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11. A Case of Conduct Disorder

Violence and Audacity in a Fearful Boy

SHANNON, Tim (AH. 11/2005)

Ten-year-old boy, quiet and reticent presenting

with Conduct Disorder. Fear of the dark, being

alone, likes cats and dogs. Alligators and

crocodiles interest him. Dreams of blue whale

chasing and attacking. Fragile self-esteem.

Aggressive with deep-seated anger. Criticism

affects him. Alienates friends by being aggressive.

But when he meets one whom he cannot take on, he

cows down easily. Loves Dinosaurs. Pain in legs.

Jealous. He has low pain bearing.

Tyrannosaurus rex 200, 2 doses 12 hours apart.

The author has used Massimo’s Repertory

combined with Millennium Repertory.

Follow up – 5 weeks later – improved.

Three months later mild relapse. T. rex 200 3

doses 12 hours apart.

A year later – Much improved. Still fear of

dark. Still being brash as a compensation for being

fearful. T. rex. Q1 Qd – 20/80, in 4 Oz water, then

¼ tsp.

Doing well. [Case Reports like this simply

cause anguish. Where is the Proving of the

Tyrannosaurus? Should not homeopaths have

access to the Provings and medicines? Rare Cases,

Rare Materia Medica, Rare Repertories, Massimo’s

Repertory and K. J. MÜLLER’s References works!

Rare availability of the remedies. Honestly these

Case Reports are useless for the regular

practice=KSS]

12. General Practitioners and Classical

Homeopaths Treatment Models for Asthma

and Allergy

LAUNSØ L. and RIEPER J.

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005)

Complementary and alternative treatment

(CAT) is increasingly popular with patients and

health-care providers. In the western societies an

increasing number of patients with Asthma and

Allergy combine conventional and CAT. But

health-care providers knowledge about the different

treatment models applied within the conventional

health care system and alternative treatment is

generally poor. ‘Treatment model’ includes

understanding of disease, diagnostic approach,

treatment methods and expected effects of

treatment. Different treatment models represent

different social constructions of understanding. We

present a conceptualization of general practitioners’

(GPs) and classic homeopaths’ (CHs) perceptions

of their treatment models in patients with Asthma

and Allergy. This is a first phase of a research

project conducted in Denmark to study

prerequisites for bridge building between

conventional and alternative therapists.

The research questions were: How do the GPs

and the CHs describe their treatment models for

Asthma and Allergy? What are the differences and

similarities between the treatment models? Is there

a logical connection between the components of the

GPs and CHs treatment models?

Six GPs and 11 CHs participated in semi-

structured interviews. The main difference is in the

GPs and CHs descriptions of the purpose of

treatment. Similarities are found in the perception

of a successful treatment. Both the GPs and CHs

experience treatment effects to be dependent on

contextual conditions. Differences and similarities

between treatment models are discussed in relation

to potential bridge building between conventional

and alternative health care.

13. The Unpredictable World of Allergies

Six Hay Fever Fighting Remedies

DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 24, 4/2004)

While allergies are mostly annoyance, in some

patients, it is a serious and potentially lethal

disorder.

There are two aspects to homeopathic

treatment. One is acute relief, the other is a

curative response such that the patient stops

reacting and has no further need for relief of

symptoms.

Indications for Allium cepa, Euphrasia,

Sabadilla, Arsenicum album, Nux vomica, Natrum

muriaticum and Wyethia are given – for Hay fever

like symptoms.

14. Sneezing and Yelling: Two parts of One whole

Homeopathy helps a severe Case of Hay Fever

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 24, 4/2004)

30-year-old man, well dressed, neat and

punctual, with serious seasonal allergies that

troubled him about half of each year. Tremendous

itchiness of the eyes, a runny nose and frequent

bouts of explosive sneezing which exhausted him.

Irritable and yelling. Explosive anger which drains

him.

He kept a strict routine and tended toward

constipation, desired spicy things and drank

alcohol. Sleep was frequently disturbed in the

middle of the night with worries about work,

finances and remorse over his outbursts during the

day.

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Nux vomica 6 twice a day for one month. Six

months later, he was pleased that he had no Hay

Fever the previous season and angry outbursts

much reduced. Nux vomica 200. One year later

wanted another dose as he was feeling the

irritability creeping back.

15. Eczema: Simple Disease or Deeper

Disturbance? Get help to overcome Eczema

HOOVER, Todd A. (HT. 24, 4/2004)

Eczema, also known as Atopic or Allergic

Dermatitis is usually described as a skin irritation

that causes dryness, itching and redness; it

sometimes progresses to weeping, crusting,

excoriation and flaking.

In reality, Eczema, is an immune system

disorder characterized by an over reaction of an

allergic nature. Typical allergens related to Eczema

include dairy, wheat, tree pollen, pet dander, dust

and mold.

Homeopathic medicines, by stimulating the

body to move into a more healthy state, the over-

response of the immune system may moderate and

the Eczema should improve.

Indications for Sulphur, Arsenicum album,

Arsenicum iodatum, Graphites, Rhus

toxicodendron, Lycopodium and Natrum

muriaticum are given.

16. Do-it-yourself learning

Healing Ear Infections

DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 24, 4/2004)

Most children experience a few episodes of

Otitis Media, usually associated with a Cold or

Upper Respiratory Infection. Antibiotics are over

used and homeopathic remedies stimulate a

response in the overall recuperative processes of

patients, helping their bodies fight infection

naturally.

Indications for Chamomilla, Pulsatilla,

Belladonna, Ferrum phosphoricum and Hepar

sulphuris are given.

The use of antibiotics seems to create a self-

perpetuating cycle. Using Homeopathy seems to

break the cycle.

17. Earache Advice: Homeopathy and Common

Sense

CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 4/2004)

Typical earache symptoms in infants and

children.

- Tugging, pulling or rubbing the ears.

- Crying or pain when the ears are touched.

- Increased crying when lying down.

- Fussiness, fretfulness, irritability.

- Excessive crying or even screaming.

- Nasal discharge, fever, loss of appetite.

- Difficulty sleeping or frequent waking.

- Hearing loss (temporary).

- Ear pain when swallowing, chewing, blowing

nose.

It is helpful to identify the stress or stresses

that led up to the child’s illness to prescribe acutely

and to prevent future episodes.

Constitutional treatment for recurring attacks.

18. 15 Fabulous Remedies for Earache

CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 4/2004)

The indications for remedies are tabulated as

Etiology, Side, Ear, Pain, General symptom, Mental

symptom, Worse, Better and Concomitant

symptoms.

Acon., Apis, Bell., Calc., Cham., Ferrum-p.,

Hepar-s., Kali mur., Lach., Lyco., Mag-phos.,

Merc. sol., Puls., Sil., Sulph.

A very useful ‘ready reckoner’ on any

homeopath’s table.

19. Nighttime earaches? This mom is ready!

MACK, Judith (HT. 24, 4/2004)

The author’s first experience was with her

daughter Hana Rose when she was 6 months old.

Her right ear was red, face flushed, skin hot and

restless. Bright red eardrum. Belladonna was given

after referring Dana ULLMAN’s Homeopathy for

Infants and Children.

She simmered down and fell asleep. One more

dose when she woke up to nurse. Next morning the

eardrum was pearly colored and she was back to

her cheerful self.

20. Five “Pearls” from Five Years in Practice

A Homeopath Shares What She’s Learned

SAMET, Lisa (HT. 24, 4/2004)

1. Don’t be intimidated by the name of the

patient’s disease.

2. Remember that characteristic General

symptoms are often most important in finding the

remedy.

3. If you think you have made a good

prescription, stick with it.

4. Understand the concept of dissimilar disease.

5. Have the guts to be a homeopathic purist.

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21. Surgery: Speed Healing and Control Pain.

Four Remedies to Take to the Hospital with

You

DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 24, 5/2004)

Arnica - For all trauma

Bellis perennis - Trauma to abdomen and

deep Organs

Hypericum - Nerve injury, extreme pain

Staphysagria - Injuries from cutting

instruments; incision pain.

Raphanus - Trapped abdominal gas that

won’t go up or down.

22. Autism after immunization? A child with

unusual behaviour gets help from Homeopathy

REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth and

LUEPKER, Ian (HT. 24, 5/2004)

Eight year-old Paolo was adopted at 27 months

from a Brazilian orphanage. He was cranky,

disgruntled at home. His questions were unending,

even after receiving answers. He began his

sentences referring himself in the third person.

Dyslexic. He also loved to pretend that he was an

animal. Swiveling his head from side to side and

sucking his thumb. Drooling, spinning, banging

and crashing into whatever obstacles were in his

way.

His problems started with a severe reaction to

MMR Vaccine at 27 months age. Within 24 hrs

after vaccination, he developed an inflamed lump at

the site of the shot and he limped irritability for

days. He lost 2 years of language development. His

motor skills and balance declined as well.

Chocolate was prescribed. Within first 2

weeks, he experienced a return of symptoms from

the past and 6 weeks later, he was better than

before. The startling change was his spontaneous

affection. For two years, he continued to progress

with periodic repetitions.

23. Fetal Alcohol Effects or Immunisation Effects?

A daughter’s trials bring mom to Homeopathy

FULLER, Diane (HT. 24, 5/2004)

Catherine was adopted 21 years ago and her

birth mother had used drugs and alcohol during

pregnancy. At 6½ months DPT shot given in her

right thigh. It became inflamed and swollen from

her hip to knee. Hard lump developed directly

under the injection site and an angry looking

abscess appeared. She became unmanageable with

horrific unpredictable rages and screaming. She

demanded total attention. At 3 years consulted a

homeopath and Veratrum album 200 was given.

Within seconds she was in full-blown rage and in

few minutes became very quiet. She needed

remedies frequently. Catherine responded to daily

doses of LM medicine. In a tantrum, medicine was

administered as inhalations.

The symptoms of the Fetal Alcohol effects and

the Post Encephalitic Syndrome after the DPT

vaccine are alike. Many mothers have carried guilt

unnecessarily for having few glasses of wine during

pregnancy when the actual damage is due to

vaccine-induced Encephalitis.

The author became homeopath because of

Catherine.

Thanks to the love and commitment of her

family and teachers and the wonders of

Homeopathy, Catherine now 21, is capable of

making choices in her life in a more mature,

responsible way.

24. Summer travel?

Don’t leave home without these 2 remedies!

DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 24, 6/2004)

The indications of Arsenicum album and Nux

vomica are given for use in many travel related

maladies – especially of gastro intestinal nature.

25. Homeopathy – Made to Order for Pregnancy!

Tips and Reminders for Treating Pregnant

Women

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 24, 6/2004)

The author follows certain guidelines for

treating pregnant woman.

If previous pregnancies were difficult,

constitutional homeopathic care before conception

if possible or at least during the first trimester.

If previous children suffer or have suffered

from any chronic problem, constitutional treatment

for both parents before conception. If not feasible,

for the mother during the pregnancy.

Only very severe morning sickness, if it is long

lasting is treated.

A dose of constitutional remedy a month

before birth as a way of strengthening the patient in

preparation for the birth.

Emphasis given on proper nutrition, rest,

exercise and finding support at home and work.

26. The Ugliest Legs this Side of the Mississippi

A Case of Varicose Veins in Pregnancy

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 24, 6/2004)

A long-term patient who responded well to

Lycopodium for her pre-menstrual syndrome and

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general constipation did not respond to it when

prescribed for the worsening of varicose veins

during the course of her first pregnancy. The veins

were incredibly painful and sensitive to touch.

Stinging pains. She simultaneously developed

varicosities around the vulva area. Hamamelis 30

given. Next week pain was much reduced. During

the eighth month, Hamamelis 200, when again

there was stinging.

Dr. HERSHOFF lists the following remedies

that may be helpful for varicose veins. Aesculus,

Bellis perennis, Carbo vegetabilis, Flouric acid,

Hamamelis, Lachesis, Pulsatilla, Sepia.

27. The Best Gift ... for Parents-to-be and their

Babies

REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth

(HT. 24, 6/2004)

The best time to begin treating our children is

before they are born. There is no better gift for a

newborn than for the mom and dad to receive

constitutional homeopathic care.

Physical, mental predispositions and complex

emotional and immunological patterns are passed

through genes. The simillimum can do wonders to

help heal deeply ingrained psychological patterns

and states.

Case 1: Darin, 5 year-old with Attention

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was defiant and

challenging. Provoked easily. He was convinced

that he was right and everyone else was wrong.

Pregnancy with Darin was unhappy and

frustrating. Mother had been miserably homesick

throughout the pregnancy.

One dose of Capsicum and two months later,

all was well and continued to do well.

Case 2: 7 year-old Connor with episodes of

rage, manifesting in clawing, screaming, biting and

swearing.

Mother’s strongest feeling during pregnancy

was one of being trapped in a threatening situation

from which she could not escape. It was being

restrained that enraged the boy most violently.

Benefited from Stramonium, Lyssin. Connor’s

response to Falcon has been nothing short of

remarkable. Interestingly it turned out peregrine

falcons were his favorite animal. [Are we to reckon

the ‘favorite animal’ as a clear ‘indication’? If it

had been a horse would we prescribe ‘Lac

equinum’? = KSS.]

28. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) during

Pregnancy

POWERS, Donna (HT. 24, 6/2004)

During pregnancy, many women retain fluid;

this swelling can cause compression on the median

nerve which travels through the “tunnel” of the

wrist.

32-year-old Sherill, eight months pregnant with

second child complained of numbing, shooting,

burning pain from the middle finger going up. She

was crying throughout the interview. During the

previous labour, she had severe pain in sacrum

which is relieved by hard pressure. Aversion

husband to, though he was supportive.

Kali carbonicum 10M, within 24 hours, pain

was less, felt better. A month later another dose

repeated when CTS pain returned. She had normal

delivery and no postpartum problems as earlier.

Grace, 40, had a flare up of CTS while sewing

at 5

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month of pregnancy and became unbearable

at 7½ months. She felt violent motions of fetus

disturbing. Much conscientious about trifles,

secretive, bad childhood.

Thuja 1M, 3 doses in 24 hours. Pain and

numbness were gone. Relapses over the next few

weeks and each time a dose of Thuja helped.

Remedies for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome:

Indications of Arnica, Causticum, Guaicum, Ruta

graveolens are given.

29. Safe and Sound in Pregnancy

Some “almost specific” Remedies for

Pregnancy and Birth

CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 6/2004)

Mary, who was three months pregnant was

involved in a minor accident and suffered some

abdominal bruising from banging into the steering

wheel. She was bleeding little from the uterus and

her whole abdomen felt sore and bruised. Though

concerned that she may miscarry, she told that she

was O.K. Arnica 30 every 2 hours. Bleeding

stopped and her pregnancy continued.

Bellis perennis is a remarkable little remedy for

bruising that goes deeper than Arnica. Almost a

specific remedy for groin pains during the last few

months of pregnancy, pains that come on suddenly

while walking and are severe enough to make

walking impossible until they have passed. These

pains are due to the stretching of the ligaments and

nerves of the uterus.

Caulophyllum can indeed pave the way for a

trouble-free childbirth if it is indicated, but if taken

routinely and unnecessarily, it can cause difficulties

in labor.

It is primarily indicated for sedentary women

with poor muscle tone. Useful for annoying

Braxton – Hicks contractions.

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The author questions the wisdom of

unnecessary interventions to bring on labor that

appear to be designed for the convenience of

doctors and hospitals.

30. Top Ten Remedies for Birth and Beyond

CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 6/2004)

Indications for Aconite, Arnica, Chamomilla,

Cocculus, Kali carbonicum, Kali phosphoricum,

Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur and Rescue remedy

(Bach Flower Remedy) are given.

31. Great Expectations

A Tale of Two Births

ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 24, 6/2004)

This is a narration of personal experience. The

labor of first pregnancy lasted for 60 hours until she

took Pulsatilla 200 and Arnica 200 and within two

minutes child was born. Mastitis was relieved by

Bryonia.

Seven years later, the labour lasted only three

hours and delivered. Kali carbonicum 200 was

taken for the pain in lower back during labor.

Aconite 200 to ease the rising sense of panic.

Pulsatilla 1M, helped to relax and deliver

within next 10 minutes.

After-pains were not relieved by Kali carb

10M, but 200 relieved.

32. Newborn Babies with Jaundice

What You Should Know. What You Can Do

FEDER, Lauren (HT. 24, 6/2004)

Typical symptoms are sleepiness and a lack of

interest in nursing with consequent dehydration.

If bilirubin levels are slightly elevated, increase

in the frequency of breast feeding, should lead to

more frequent bowel movements to aid in

eliminating bilirubin.

If bilirubin levels are higher – Phototherapy.

Adverse effects include loose stools, temperature

problems or dehydration.

Two-day-old Madeline’s bilirubin count was

rising and she had a golf ball size haematoma on

her forehead, following a difficult twin delivery

with vacuum extraction. Several doses of Arnica

200. Madeline’s bruise resolved, her bilirubin

content came down.

5-day-old Jack was turning yellow, irritable

and colicky, had to be carried all the time,

inconsolable, constipated, abdomen noisy and

sensitive to pressure. Chamomilla did not help.

Lycopodium clavatum 30, three doses and Jack’s

Jaundice began to clear up immediately.

33. Beautiful Birth, Beautiful Boy … and the

Power of Arnica

HENDERSON, Jesse Remer (HT. 24, 6/2004)

The author had severe Sciatic pain during

pregnancy and Hypericum relieved it. After a

prolonged labor, a boy was delivered with a large

haematoma. Arnica oil was applied to the head.

Within minutes swelling was going down.

34. Meniere’s Disease: A Case of Lotus

JOHNSON, Alan (AJHM. 98, 1/2005)

The patient presented with Meniere’s disease

14 months after his retirement. Right ear deafness,

tinnitus and a severe sensation of spinning when

suffering a bout of the disorder. Worse from

consolation. Feels life is an unfolding, expanding

state. Had spells of Vertigo and then a shaky

effect. Pursues altered states through meditation.

As a child, he was a bully.

Lotus 200. In the next 21 months, Vertigo

gradually reduced, no nausea, no tinnitus, hearing

improved. [Again a remedy, which we do not find

in the Materia Medica available to us. Not

withstanding the ‘Themes’ listed, the prescription

seems to be based on ‘signature’. The patient says

“I meditate. As the lotus flower expands, it

represents expanding states of self-awareness….”

KSS]

35. Constipation in an Infant

MASIELLO, Domenick (AJHM. 98, 1/2005)

LB, six-week-old female infant with

constipation. Stool soft and accompanied by much

flatulence. Bowel movements once in every 5-6

days. She did not appear in distress. Nux vomica

200 did not help. 7 weeks after, HiB and

Pneumococcal vaccines were given. She reacted

with extreme irritability, vomiting and high fever.

Belladonna 200 helped only to bring the fever

down. Chamomilla 200 and then M. Fever,

irritability and vomiting quickly resolved but

constipation continued. After 2 doses of Sulphur

200 and Opium 200, no change. A tiny rectal

fissure appeared. Retaking the case revealed that

the constipation was at its best during a period of

time when LB was receiving small amounts of

Chamomile tea.

Chamomilla 200, one dose daily for the next

three days. LB was having three bowel movements

per day. No further doses were required.

36. Emotional Case Taking

GOODMAN-HERRICK, Pearlyn

(SIM.XVIII, 1 & 2/2005)

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Learning the mental/emotional make-up of the

patient and its contribution to the symptom picture

is usually more challenging. This depends both on

patient’s trust and the skillful questioning by the

practitioner.

Inability to reveal the emotional life may

include cultural and familial prohibitions and a

sense of shame. With some encouragement by the

practitioner, this material can be elucidated.

A more difficult situation is when one could

not reveal because of undeveloped self-awareness.

Very deep healing and the opportunity to

change can occur simply through a well-conducted

interview.

Case 1: ML, 32-year-old female presenting with

increasing distress since 2 weeks. After her last

prescription of Natrum muriaticum 1M, she was

doing well on all levels. She was a recovering

alcoholic and drug user. The reason for the

depression could not be elicited. On questioning

about anything unusual 2 weeks ago, she told she

went on a blind date. He was nice and drank much.

On returning home started feeling worse and worse.

With further talk, the patient started to realize

that she recognized her date and family to be

alcoholics and she couldn’t reconcile his

pleasantness with the alcoholism. She felt better

with this and no remedy was needed.

This case represents a situation where despite a

remedy the current problem relates to “faulty

upbringing”. As suggested by HAHNEMANN,

“earnest, rational expostulation” resolved the

difficulty (§224-226)

Case 2: SB, 51-year-old female with menopausal

symptoms since 6 months. HRT worsened the

situation. Sepia 12 b.i.d. 10 days later, she was

better on every level. Since 2 days she had been

crying without reason and also pain in an old scar.

Upon further questioning, she told that when

her 25-year-old stepson came to visit and was

yelling, she wanted to say something but went out.

Her husband felt this as insulting and made her

write a letter of apology. She felt violated and

started weeping.

Three days later, pain in several other scars.

Staphysagria 200. Next day, pain decreased

dramatically and gone. In few days menopausal

symptoms returned and Sepia 200 resolved them.

37. A Case of Oral Lichen Planus

MEHER, Subhash (CCR. 12, 1/2005)

KS. 21 years. Salesman in a shop in a small

town.

Feb. 23, 2004: Painful eruptions with burning

sensation, whitish and lacy appearance all over the

tongue and on buccal mucous membrane. A thick

black scale on lower lip. Lesions very painful,

burning. This recurs every 3 to 4 months. Skin

specialist treatment would keep it subsided for

sometime. Senior specialist diagnosed it as Oral

Lichen Planus, not confirmed by Biopsy.

Oral lesions were followed by itching eruptions

on palms and soles. Eruptions multiple; excessive

salivation, ropy, thick, white. Tongue border

ulcerated. Deep central fissure. First eruption

appeared on lip and then on oral mucous membrane

and tongue. Occasional mild burning urination.

Sweat++. Desires sweets, salt. Dreams of snakes.

Mercurius 30 (local symptom) on Feb. 23, 2004.

26 Feb. 2004: aggravated, could not open the

mouth, eat or drink. Syphilinum M (bilateral

symmetrical eruptions). Echinaecea and Calendula

mother tinctures for gargling.

28 Feb. 2004: Severity remains same. Nitric acid

30, six doses (local pathology). Kali muriaticum

6x.

March 7, 2004: much better. Tongue thick white

coating +++. Kali muriaticum 6x followed by

Natrum muriaticum 6x b.d. for 10 days.

March 19, 2004: almost totally better.

March 30, 2004: Mild diarrhoea lasted for 3 to 4

days. No medicine.

May 16, 2004: One, two small ulcers appeared on

the inside of lower lip and cheek and cleared within

a day or two. No medicine.

February 5, 2005: Sudden high fever, severe

headache and body ache, with drowsiness. Was

exposed to hot and cold weather a day before fever.

Aconite 30 followed by Bryonia 30 and Gelsemium

30, relieved him within 24 hours. [All the three

remedies were given within span of one day! =

KSS]. Mild dryness of lips, scaly with tiny

eruptions on them. Mild heaviness of head, thirst

and desire for salt. Natrum muriaticum 30 cleared

quickly. [Perhaps Kali muriaticum itself might

have cleared the whole case. Why Echinaecea and

Calendula mother tinctures together? How do we

accept these as homeopathic? = KSS].

38. Assessment of a Patient with Joint Pain

ASRANI C. H. (NJH. 5, 4/2003)

Whenever a patient presents with a problem of

joint, the primary case physician has to picture ALL

the structures that make up a joint. The duty of the

physician is to assess the entire locomotor system.

Establish the extent of ability or disability to carry

out routine, day-to-day chores. Ask the patient to

disrobe as much as is comfortable to physician and

patient and observe closely as the patient carries out

your instructions. The easiest way to do this is to

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watch appearance and movements of Upper limb,

Lower limb, Spine, Gait. normal or otherwise.

Any abnormality should be noted down.

Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is most likely to affect the joints

that receive most use or stress over the years.

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition

affecting the joints.

The concept of joint protection is vital for the

patient with Osteoarthritis, especially where large

joints are involved. Protection from overuse is

important.

39. Correct your Postures

DUA, Shiv (NJH. 5, 4/2003)

Correct postures of sitting, standing and

walking make a difference in patients of Cervical

Spondylosis.

Equal distribution of body weight on the legs is

a must to avoid backaches and neck pains. Erect is

the only method to sit, stand, walk or drive a

vehicle.

Traveling on rough lumpy road by bikes and

jeep should be avoided.

Persons who use Computers need more care for

neck pain.

40. Homeopathic Approach to Osteoarthritis

KAPSE, Anand; PHANSE, Anagha; DATEY,

Sonali (NJH. 5, 4/2003)

Finer knowledge of the tissue involved and the

mechanisms of pain can improve our therapeutic

approach especially in defining the sector remedy

for a specific case. Patients describe different types

of pains which could be helpful to understand the

tissue affected. Prospective studies can bring about

a revolution in our therapeutic management of

Osteoarthritis.

Diagnosis, Ancillary measures, Clinical

experiences and four cases have been cited.

41. The Man who Slipped on Every Occasion

PARTHASARATHY, Vishpala

(NJH. 5, 4/2003)

A businessman 42 years calf pain and

numbness after slip disc. Other complaints;

Allergic Rhinitis; Throbbing headache, Supra

orbital; Vertigo from traveling, pain left lumbar

region, cured with Acute Nux vomica 30,

Constitutional Kali carb. 200, Intercurrent Thuja

200.

42. Homeopathy handles Pneumonitis

JUNAGADE, Sachin and PAWASKAR, Navin

(NJH. 5, 4/2003)

25-year-old lady was brought to hospital with

complaints of cough and high-grade fever, was

unable to walk by herself. Complaint started 12

days ago; after drinking cold water; gave rise to

coryza 5 days after visiting, got wet and within 2

hrs developed high-grade fever with chilliness.

Had to use blanket in hot weather. 7 days later

cough increased with scanty expectoration chest

pain < coughing < deep breathing. Vertigo with

fever. One glass of water every 10 minutes. Bitter

taste. O/E: GC – unsatisfactory. Toxic dehydrated

look. Had to be carried to the hospital.

Tubercular Miasm, High sensitivity.

Bryonia M 4 hrly.

Correction of toxic state and dehydration by

intravenous fluid.

Afebrile in 24 hrs.

Bryonia M continued. Complete radiological

clearance on day 10. Calc.carb. 200 1 dose.

Patient asymptomatic since then.

43. A Case of Prolapse of Intervertebral Discs

KAPSE, Anand,; YADAV, Pankaj; PAI,

Archana (NJH. 5, 4/2003)

70 year-old lady with left Sacro-lumbar joint

pain with sudden onset and numbness. X-ray of

left knee (AP and Lateral), mild to moderate

Osteoarthritis of the left knee joint.

18.9.2002: Sepia 200. There was regression in

pains for 3 days. Again pain Sepia 200 3 PHS.

After two weeks complained of stiffness in toes and

pains increased at nights. Sepia 200, 7 PHS.

16-10-2002: Frozen shoulder diagnosed. Thuja

200. Her sensation in feet restored. Frozen

shoulder also improved.

27-11-2002: Hepar sulph 200 was given for sore

throat.

Overall improvement in her functioning with

relief in the pain in lumbosacral joint, knee and

sensation of foot restored.

Any pathology can be treated provided the

patient gives characteristic symptoms. Expensive

investigations are not always easy to repeat in our

kind of practice.

44. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Urticaria (Chronic),

Anosmia

SHAIKH, Mehjabeen H. (CCR. 12, 1/2005)

49 year-old female with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Skin complaints since 1998-99. Itching of

whole body head, front and back of thigh, forearm,

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cubital fossae, lower eyelid, pubic area, etc. Itching

followed by urticarial eruptions. Pain stinging.

Itching < cold weather ++.

Rheumatic pains since 2001 first right knee and

then left knee, interphalangeal joints, face, elbow,

Down’s Syndrome

- Spinal muscles. On steroids.

Deeper investigation revealed that she

repressed her feelings, struggled for good “image”

in Society. Sensitive to Injustice.

Magnesium muriaticum 30 and Apis mellifica

200 s.o.s. for urticarial rash.

She continued on Magnesium muriaticum 30

then 200 from November 2002 to November 2003.

Much relief alround.

Test revealed ESR 23mm of 1 hr. RA

negative. Hb 12 gm % [What actually cured?

Magnesia muriaticum or Apis mellifica? =KSS]

45. Down’s Syndrome

SHAIK, Mehajabeen D. (CCR. 12, 1/2005)

10 year-old boy was lying in bed with his legs

tied so that his movements were restricted. He was

the second child. His mother suffered a shock on

learning about the sudden death of her uncle. She

lost her appetite and suffered from poor nutrition

during pregnancy. The child was delivered some

days early. The child did not cry at birth. For 15

days the child was unable to suckle. He was put in

Intensive Care Unit. Suffered Congenital Cataract.

Kidigram did not reveal any gross pathology. At

3½ month diagnosed as Down’s Syndrome.

Lensectomy surgery done to correct the Congenital

Cataract of the eyes, under general anaesthesia. At

3½ year age surgery for Duodenal obstruction;

Duodenectomy done; Appendix removed. At 8

year age Aphakia Corneal Oedema in the right eye

and Aphakia in the left eye. No surgery for the

right eye but glasses were prescribed for the left

eye.

Milestones delayed except dentition. Sitting at

8 year; talking at 9 year. Vaccinations given.

BCG, Polio, MMR.

Craves eggs, green vegetables, fish; aversion

milk. Tongue bright red with cracks all over. Very

particular about cleanliness, would wear only clear

clothes, was keen on punctuality (can’t delay his

bath, etc.) Loves music, film songs. Intolerant of

loud noises, like kitchen blenders, mixers. Lot of

fears. He loves his elder brother and would obey

him. Loves to be cuddled. Sensitive to rebukes,

scared of injections. Chews handkerchief always.

17.11.2002: Calcarea carbonica 30/3 Hs 3 nights

in a week.

Dec.: Jan. 2003: Improvement. Calcarea

carbonica 30/7 Hs.

Feb. 2003: Tried to speak full sentences. Medicine

continued.

March-April 2003: Great improvement in

pronunciation; could speak full sentences at a

stretch.

By Aug.-Sept. 2003: Would try to walk by holding

hand of his mother for longer distance. Medicine

continued.

Oct. 2003: Can climb stairs alone. Medicine

continued.

Nov. 2003: Glaucoma of right eye. Left eye: vision

lost.

Jan. 2004: Could walk alone. Could sing. Could

speak full sentences. Could understand question

and answer and converse well. Was merry. His

head was nodding constantly.

Calcarea carbonica 200 one dose.

Still under treatment.

46. Endogenous Depression and Hypothyroidiism

SHINDE, Prakash (CCR. 12, 1/2005)

53 year-old female. Knee pains since 6 years.

Muscular pains since 6 years. Occipital headache

extending to head, intermittent, since last 5 to 6

years. Urge for urination if postponed, intense

headache, relieved after urination. Intermittent

diplopia during anxiety states. Weakness and

trembling in lower limbs on emotional excitement,

vexation or bad news.

Euthyroid since 6 years.

Hypertension since 8 years.

Urine: RBC 40-50.

Father Police Officer, disciplinarian.

Husband Pilot Officer, arrogant, short-

tempered. After her children had grown up and

husband retired she separated from husband.

On 13.8.2003: Gelsemium M one dose.

Improved. Allopathic drugs (Eltroxin, anti-

hypertensives) reduced.

20.9.2003: Further improved. Blood pressure

better.

20.7.2004: Well. Blood pressure 120/80mm.

47. Ulcerative Colitis

MANGAT, Harprect (CCR. 12, 1/2005)

45-year-old male. Ulcerative Colitis. Severe

colicky drawing, and twisting pain umbilical

region, agg. morning, before stool, amel. stool.

Appetite less; thirst excessive. Tongue white

coated and slight fissures. Has to rush for stool

soon on waking up. Sweat profuse on scalp.

Dreams of snakes, accidents, of his own disease.

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Cannot stand contradiction; obstinate.

Revengeful. Sulphur 30 one dose on 10 May 2004.

1 June 2004: repeated.

27 Dec. 2004: repeated.

25 Jan. 2005: Skin eruption on nape of neck with

severe itching and burning. He had skin eruption

10 years ago treated by allopathic drugs. Sulphur

30 repeated.

Case 2: 6 Oct. 2004: 12 year-old child: history of

fever on and off since 15 days with cold and

coryza. Fever agg. evening till midnight, weakness,

prostration and head hot. Loss of appetite. Less

thirst.

The child’s father is very strict, angry, violent;

beat children often for trivials. He beats his wife

also. The boy hated his father. The child was so

much afraid of his father that he hid a knife under

his pillow at night.

Sulphur 30.

12 Oct. 2004: Fever completely relieved.

Appetite: increased. No weakness, no prostration.

He is now sleeping without fear and without a knife

under his pillow.

The child’s father was subsequently treated

with Nux vomica and he became a tolerant,

affectionate father. Mother also was treated with

HL.

Pulsatilla.

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IV. VETERINARY

1. Overcoming Vaccination Hurdles

Helping our Animal Companions through

Potential Problems

LAMPE, Kristy (HT. 24, 5/2004)

In 1989, 5-year-old whippets, Leilani and

Lovey received their annual DHAPP vaccination.

One hour later, Leilani started screaming and was

dragging her rear legs, which were paralysed.

Twenty minutes later, Lovey started screaming and

had same symptoms. Vet suggested it might be a

bad-batch vaccine.

Thuja 30 was given. Within three minutes both

dogs calmed down. A second dose 30 minutes

later, relaxed their bodies. An hour later moaning.

Third dose. Slept for 2 hours and then got up

though wobbly but moving on their own.

Late 1989, 5-month-old whippet had Rabies

shot. First he declined dinner and did not get up for

evening walk. Had T°-104.7° F. Eyes were glazed

and staring gums bright red. Belladonna 30. It

brought him instantaneous relief.

Two weeks later, oozy, greenish discharge

from the tip of the penis. A dose of Thuja 30,

repeated a week later and that was the end of it.

In 1991, a puppy, Blaze, got his second Rabies

shot at 16 months. That evening he dug up and

chewed everything the adopted family had planted.

Did not remember a single command taught in

obedience class.

Belladonna 6 b.d. for 3 days and back to

normalcy.

In 1992, Joy developed a lump at the

vaccination site. Thuja 30 did not relieve. Ledum

30, 3 doses in 36 hours and within a week lump

was gone.

2. Silver, the Cow

A Problem after Birthing

MOWATT, Sue (HT. 24, 6/2004)

Four-year-old Silver, a cow delivered a

beautiful calf. Retention of Placenta even after a

week. Sepia 30. By next morning the entire

placenta came gushing out. Both silver and her calf

have been doing well ever since.

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V. RESEARCH

1. Histopathological and Immuno-phenotyping

Studies on Normal and Sarcoma 180-bearing

Mice treated with a Complex Homeopathic

Medication

SATO D.Y.O.; WAL R.; OLIVEIRA de C.C.;

CATTANEO R.I.I.; MALVEZZI M.;

GABARDO J. and D. de F. BUCHI

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005)

Canova is a homeopathic complex medicine,

used as an immune modulator. We studied its

effects in normal and Sarcoma 180-bearing mice.

Three control groups were also evaluated. The

mice were examined at daily intervals and the

tumours observed histologically. Peripheral blood

was analysed by flow cytometry.

A delay in the development, and a reduction in

size of the tumours, and increased infiltration by

lymphoid cells, granulation tissue, and fibrosis

surrounding the tumour were observed with active

treatment compared to control. All animals from

the treated group survived, 30% of control groups

died. In 30% of treated animals, a total regression

of the tumour was confirmed using light

microscopy, no regression was found in the control

groups. Treatment with Canova increased total

numbers of leucocytes and lymphocytes. Among

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lymphocytes, TCD4, increased in normal-treated

group and B and NK cells in S180-treated groups.

The results reflect enhanced immune response of

the host after treatment with Canova.

2. Models for Explaining the Homeopathic

Healing Process: A Historical and Critical

Account of Principles Central to Homeopathy

GUAJARDO G. and WILSON J.

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005)

The success of Homeopathy in curing many

diseases has been a serious challenge to science.

Nineteenth century explanations for the healing

process of Homeopathy cannot withstand the

scrutiny of modern science and need to be

abandoned or modified. The surviving propositions

are discussed. A bio cybernetic model with multi

levels of electromagnetic feedback loops offers a

hope of explaining the healing process. This

model, its explanation of the healing process and

experimental support are elaborated.

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VI. EDUCATION

1. Journey to India

Intensive Training in a Kerala Clinic

MOSS, Dale C. (HT. 24, 4/2004)

18 foreign students attended the outpatient

clinic at the Govt. Homeopathic Medical College,

Trivandrum, Kerala, for 2 weeks as part of an

Intensive Clinical Training Program organized by

Dr. A.U. RAMAKRISHNAN.

In the afternoons long cases and lectures, Dr.

Abdul LETHIF, discussed a homeopathic

treatment he has invented for plants to keep them

disease-free without insecticides or fungicides.

The teaching staffs also use Biochemic

remedies as supplements to acute and chronic

prescriptions.

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VII. GENERAL

1. Interview with Julian WINSTON by Melanie

GRIMES (AH. 11/2005)

Julian was first interested in folk music, then 5-

string Banjo, then Pedal Steel Guitar and then

Homeopathy. As time moved forward,

Homeopathy expanded to fill more space.

Throughout interested in Industrial Design

Studied Industrial design at Pratt Institute

(Brooklyn, NY). Teaching part time until 2004.

As parents were graphic artists who taught art

got involved in graphic arts. He knew all the colors

in the watercolor set even when in Kindergarten.

Done few records with Banjo and one solo album.

“I wanted to teach because I knew things that

are important for other people to know.”

The seemingly boundless energy of

homeopathic community encourages; while lack of

interest in things historic; the lack of desire to look

at the original literature; the use of computers to

find remedies which never give the full picture of

who the source is; the looking for the remedy rather

than the reason; the overwhelming run after the

latest ‘guru’ and the looking for short cuts that

these folks ‘offer’, while bypassing the basic

lessons in Philosophy and Materia Medica – all

these discourages.

“In 100 years, Homeopathy would be the same

but a bit stupider. Those few who really understand

it will still be doing it by the books. Rest will have

gotten sucked into something they call

Homeopathy but is based on speculative process

and theoretical idea constructs. One cannot do

Homeopathy correctly without “hewing to the

line.”

“The biggest challenge is to get homeopaths to

pull their fingers out of the idiocy that they are

doing and start to re-evaluate the real truth of the

system. Trust its correctness. Don’t try to establish

an understanding with the world of Conventional

medicine. They will suck out the good and leave

the meaningless. And then they will call the shell

that is left ‘Homeopathy’ and others will have to

dig again for truth” [Very rightly said:

HAHNEMANN at the end of his life filled with

conflict and work, wrote down an insight which is

worthy of reflection: a ‘painstaking tester’ of the

effects of medicine is considered by physicians as

‘an enemy of their convenience’. = KSS]

Julian says that he is inspired by those who are

doing it right, whose first choice for a Pulsatilla

case is Pulsatilla and not the latest wing feather on

the latest bird of the month – and also by those who

understand the treasures we have and the need for

their preservation:

Julian has a large collection of books, journals

and ephemera: bottles, letters, labels; about 21,000

volumes. There are very few such collections

elsewhere.

Julian met his soul mate GWYNETH, in New

Zealand in 1991, when she started the Wellington

College of Homeopathy and invited him for the

summer school.

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He loved teaching basic level technical

drawing. Within the act of making a beautiful line

exists a communication directly with the source of

the Universe. He believed that all have a ‘life

reason’ that one may or may not know.

JULIAN passed away at 8.20 a.m. New

Zealand time on June 11, 4.20 p.m. Eastern time.

He died peacefully at home, his wife GWYNETH

at his side.

2. Pharmaco-economic Comparison between

Homeopathic and Antibiotic Treatment

Strategies in Recurrent Acute Rhinopharyngitis

in Children

TRICHARD M.; CHAUFFERIN G. and

NICOLOYANNIS N.

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005)

Objectives: A pharmaco-economic study to

compare, in terms of: medical effectiveness, quality

of life and costs two treatment strategies

(‘homeopathic strategy’ vs ‘antibiotic strategy’)

used in routine medical practice by allopathic and

homeopathic GPs in the treatment of recurrent

acute Rhinopharyngitis in 18-month to 4-year-old

children.

Methods: Statistical analysis of data obtained

from a population of 499 patients included in a

previous 6-month prospective, pragmatic study.

The patients were re-grouped according to type of

drug prescribed. Medical effectiveness was

assessed in terms of (i) episodes of acute

rhinopharyngitis, (ii) complications, (iii) adverse

effects. Quality of life was assessed using the Par-

Ent-Qol © scale. Direct medical costs (medical

consultations, drug prescriptions, prescriptions for

further tests) and indirect medical costs (sick-leave)

were evaluated from three viewpoints (society,

patient, Social Security) using public prices and

French Social Security tariffs.

Results: The ‘homeopathic strategy’ yielded

significantly better results than the ‘antibiotic

strategy’ in terms of medical effectiveness (number

of episodes of Rhinopharyngitis: 2.71 vs 3.97,

P<0.001; number of complications: 1.25 vs 1.95,

P<0.001), and quality of life (global score: 21.38 vs

30.43, P<0.001), with lower direct medical costs

covered by Social Security (88Є vs 99 Є, P<0.05)

and significantly less sick-leave (9.5% of parents vs

31.6% of parents, P<0.001).

Conclusions: Homeopathy may be a cost-

effective alternative to antibiotics in the treatment

of Recurrent Infantile Rhinopharyngitis.

3. Patients’ Assessments of the Effectiveness of

Homeopathic Care in Norway: A Prospective

Observational Multicentre Outcome Study

STEINSBEKK A. and LÜDTKE R.

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005)

Objective: To evaluate the patient reported

effects of homeopathic care 6 months after first

consultations.

Methods: Prospective uncontrolled

observational multicentre outcome study. All

patients visiting 80 homeopaths all over Norway

for the first time in eight different time periods

from 1996 to 1998 were approached. Patients

wrote down their main complaint and scored its

impact on daily living on a 100mm Visual

Analogue Scale (VAS) at the first consultation. Six

months later they were asked to score again. The

homeopaths recorded treatments given for up to

two follow-up consultations.

Main outcome measure: Predefined as a

reduction of at least 10 mm in the VAS score

between the first consultation and follow-up.

Result: Patients 1097 were recruited, 654

completed the follow-up questionnaire. The main

complaint improved by at least 10mm on the VAS

for 71% (95% confidence interval 67-74%) of

patients. The average reduction was 32 mm (95%

Cl 30-35mm). Fifty-one percent (95% Cl 48-55%)

of the patients had an improvement in their general

well being of more than 10 mm. The mean

reduction in the whole group was 14 mm (95% Cl

12-16 mm). The proportion of patients using

conventional medication reduced from 39% to

16%. Regression analysis showed that lower age

and higher baseline score were predictors of better

outcome.

Conclusion: In this study, seven out of ten

patients visiting a Norwegian homeopath reported

a meaningful improvement in their main complaint

6 months after the initial consultation.

4. Weigh the pros and cons

Guidelines for parents researching

immunization

CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 5/2004)

Weigh the pros and cons of each vaccination

What are the known risks (short and long term) of

each vaccination?

What is the known efficacy of each vaccination?

What are the known risks of the disease?

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Gather information from both sides

Make copious notes from books, articles, websites,

doctor and homeopath visits; sort this information

into columns-pros, cons, and miscellaneous!

Take your feelings into account

Do you have any gut feelings around this issue?

What are they? How much anxiety and/or fear do

you have around illness, for example?

Will a decision to “not vaccinate” stress you

unreasonably?

Take your beliefs into account

How did your family of origin address illness and

immunizations?

How did your belief system develop as a result?

Do you believe that illness comes in the form of

viruses from the outside or do you believe that, as

Pasteur said on his deathbed, “The soil is all.”

Take the medical history of each parent into

account where possible

Proceed cautiously if

• Either parent had a bad reaction to vaccination

and/or if

• Either parent has a history of allergies, asthma,

eczema, arthritis or hyperactivity (of any sort).

Seek out health care providers who support your

decisions

You’ll want the care of health providers including

physicians and homeopaths who support you in the

decisions you make – whether you decide to

vaccinate or not.

Make a decision you can live with

You will have to live with the consequences of your

decision. If you decide not to vaccinate, ask

yourself whether you are prepared to nurse your

child through a childhood illness such as Measles

or Whooping cough, or a more serious disease such

as Meningitis. If you decide to vaccinate, ask

yourself how you will feel if your child becomes

chronically ill as a result.

Make peace with your final decision

This is a difficult decision and there are risks

attached either way – whether you decide to

vaccinate your child or not. Your goal as a parent

is to minimize those risks.

Hold your horses

Wait as long as possible before starting your child’s

vaccination program … until they are happily on

solid foods for example.

One at a time

Ask your doctor to administer one at a time: since

we do not contract more than one disease at a time,

it makes sense to have only one vaccine at a time.

This way, if there is an adverse reaction, you and

your doctor will know which one is the culprit.

Get smart

Take some of the fear and anxiety out of the whole

process by finding out more about childhood

diseases and the successful management of them

using natural methods.

Let the fevers go

There is a large body of evidence that proves the

benefits of fever in fighting infection. Study after

study has shown that children whose fevers are

artificially reduced (e.g., with Tylenol) have more

complications and are sick longer. Research into

the successful management of childhood illness and

the education of doctors and parents in this would

be of great benefit to the public health.

Get homeopathic help

Make sure you have the services of a local

homeopath to help your children through any

childhood illness that comes their way.

5. Why I Turn Some Patients Away

ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 24, 5/2004)

The author writes about the occasional patient

who she decides she will not be able to treat. These

patients fall into several categories:

• Those with unrealistic expectations.

• Those who are unwilling to work together with

allied health care providers.

• Adult patients who are brought in unwillingly

and who will not be compliant.

• Adult patients who are belligerent or violent to

me or my staff, either in person or by

telephone.

• Patients who have complaints, which I feel

Homeopathy and Naturopathic Medicine

cannot address.

6. The Freedom and Fun of HAHNEMANN’s

Homeopathy: Interview with Joseph

KELLERSTEIN by TESSLER, Neil

(SIM. XVIII, 1&2/2005)

Joseph KELLERSTEIN is a licensed

Naturopath and Chiropractor, got interested in

Homeopathy and studied with VITHOULKAS,

Robin MURPHY and Andre SAINE.

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Three years of practice with Andre SAINE,

made a big impact on clinical practice. He could

see severe pathologies, which Homeopathy could

do.

KELLERSTEIN could not do SANKARAN’s

method on a predictable and regular basis. This is a

beautiful method, but by definition it is not

Homeopathy (as it lies outside the inductive

method). May be better than Homeopathy.

The deductive paradigms of Essence, Theme,

Central Delusion and Vital Sensation deflects our

thinking automatically. Homeopathy is inductive.

(ref. HAHNEMANN’s The Medical Observer).

No preconceived ideas or notion; that you are going

to find the Essence, or the Central Delusion or the

Theme, etc. etc. Help the patient sculpt the case in

its entirety and the only importance is

completeness. With this background study

HAHNEMANN repeatedly.

KELLERSTEIN developed a love for the

original Provings and they have an infinite number

of possible connections. It’s really quite an art just

to read them and create the connections internally

yourself. There is such beauty in original

Homeopathy and he doesn’t think that we have

nearly enough mined the beauty out of that.

Various aspects of the chief complaints are

elaborated and especially of the stressors, trying to

get all the emotional feelings of each of those

stressors and the bodily representations of that

stress state as well. eg. And when you are feeling

that anger, what are you feeling when you feel that

anger? Once associated to that state, trying to get

back along a time line to the aetiology of that in

their life.

Questions are quite a passion with him. The

goal in questioning is to get to the primary

experience of the person. Patients describe their

feeling or state in abstract experience. Questioning

them to reconnect them to their original altered

sensory experience, which will be described to us

with rich emotional context. This initial interview

takes about two hours, rarely three.

Then elicit any breaches of lifestyle that might

be a primary hindrance to the remedy. What in

their background or education or belief systems

might be a hindrance to healing or at the basis of an

illness. Then reading the case over and over

determine what is primary in this case? Is it

hygienic, or imbalance in life or a food sensitivity

or a working condition or a life condition or

dynamic disturbance. The treatment system could

be exercise, diet or referral to another practitioner

depending on the case.

He repertorises a case in many different ways

but the idea is to get a original piece of literature

that will satisfy him in terms of the most unique

symptoms in a case.

In analyzing, he starts with the symptoms of

highest value in the case. Then selects symptoms

to help to distinguish between similar remedies.

This keeps the search through Materia Medica

balanced.

Regarding the dosage, he is somewhere

between a fourth and fifth edition prescriber. He

does not have lot of experience with LMs.

Regarding the state of homeopathic education,

he opines that Organon, in its original sense is

rarely taught and very few schools teach the old-

fashioned Materia Medica and how to do a

detailed follow-up.

Bringing in new concepts before the basics

are solidified will end up with a superficial

version of both that will not serve in practice.

7. Working With Her Force

ANDERSON, James (NAMAH. 12, 4/2005)

You have been put upon earth, in a physical

body, with a definite aim, which is to make this

body as conscious as possible, make it the most

perfect and most conscious instrument of the

Divine.

Concentrating on the lower nature is never very

good; you should concentrate on what you want to

develop, not on what you want to destroy.

To run away from difficulties in order to

conquer them is not a solution.

A divine life in a divine body is the formula of

the ideal that we envisage.

One must widen oneself, open the doors. And

the best way is to be able to concentrate upon what

one is doing instead of concentrating upon oneself.

The concentration in the heart and

concentration in head can both be used – each has

its own results.

[The above is said by the Mother, Pondicherry]

8. A Sense of Wonder

MULLIKEN, John B. (NAMAH. 12, 4/2005)

Our teaching hospitals no longer seem to care

whether clinicians do research. The administration

tells us leave research to the basic scientists

because they are more likely to bring in large grants

with inflated over-heads. Surgeons belong in the

operating room. Some surgeons waste time

belittling others for doing ‘plastic surgery’

especially those not trained in a surgical specialty.

Brief reflections on three Surgeons:

Charles Branton HUGGINS, Nobel Prize

winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 for

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endocrine-induced regression of Cancer.

HUGGINS often said, “You must love your

experiment.” “Avoid administration.” He

cautioned “it attracts inferior minds.” He

apparently never sat on committees. His

punctuality was legendary. People set their clocks

when he walked by. Mysteriously, he never wore a

watch. HUGGINS walked everyday to work in his

laboratory until 95 years.

Joseph Edward MURRAY is surgical laureate

who received Nobel Prize in physiology in 1990.

After 8 months internship at the Peter Bent

Brigham Hospital, he was sent to Valley Forge

General Hospital. There he learned to use skin

grafts for wound coverage in burned serviceman.

MURRAY joined the renal transplant team.

December 1954 he did the first successful renal

transplant in identical twins. The day after the

momentous operation, he was called to repair a

laceration in the emergency department. For years

he delighted in caring for an elderly lady on whom

he had excised a lesion from the sole of her foot

and primarily closed the defect with a split-

thickness graft. Dr. MURRAY gave all his gifts to

us fortunate to know him, the most precious was his

unbounded enthusiasm. He admits that many of his

colleagues accused him of being a “pathological

optimist”. Often when we were exhausted after

operating late in the night, his greeting on walk

rounds was “Did you see the sun rise this morning”

In 1960, Judah FOLKMAN was sent to the

Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda. His

assignment was to find a substitute for blood. He

and his colleagues devised a model of an isolated

rabbit thyroid, kept alive by perfusion with

hemoglobin solution. Murine melanoma cells grew

on the cultured thyroid but they formed small

tumors. His explanation was they failed to attract

new blood vessels. FOLKMAN in Bethesda, with

David LONG did a simple experiment to show that

the fat-soluble rhodamine diffused across silicone

tubing into the water bath. This observation

became the basis for sustained drug-release

technology.

FOLKMAN is the very embodiment of

MURRAY’s three requirements of a surgical

scientist: curiosity, imagination and persistence.

9. Clean language.

Interview with GROVE, David by Penny

TOMPKINS and James LAWLEY

(SIM. XVIII, 1&2/2005)

David GROVE has developed a unique way of

working with the metaphoric and symbolic nature

of our inner worlds. The use of clean language is

very trance inducing without an induction. The

Clean Language is the language of facilitation. The

questions are aimed at the metaphoric part of their

experience so they don’t go through normal

cognitive processes.

The nine basic Clean Language questions are:

• And is there anything else about…?

• And what kind of…. is that…?

• And where is…?

• And where about?

• And what happens next?

• And then what happens?

• And what happens just before…?

• And where does/could…. come from?

• And that’s... like what?

The process ultimately accesses conflicts,

paradoxes, double-blinds and other ‘holding

patterns’ which have kept the symptoms repeating

over and over.

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VIII. BOOKS

1. Homeopathic Family Medicine ULLMAN,

Dana. Homeopathic Educational Services,

Electronic download from www.

homeopathic.com, 2003 (and regularly updated).

$29.95 for one-time download/$49.95 for 2-year

subscription. Review by ROWE, Todd (HT. 24,

4/2004):

The book comes as a pdf-Acrobat file. Divided

into three sections. First 25 pages solid overview

of Homeopathy. In the second section, of 200

pages, more than 100 acute and chronic conditions

are discussed.

The last part is a twelve-page reference section.

There is also a list of when each condition section

was last updated.

2. Dreams, Symbols and Homeopathy:

Archetypal Dimensions of Healing CICCHETTI,

Jane. North Atlantic Books: Berkeley,

California, 2003, Paperback, 261 pages, $ 18.95.

Review by Ken SILVESTRI (HT. 24, 5/2004):

“The book consists of four parts three of which

are named after ancient alchemical themes. The

first part, “Emergence of opposites”, explores a

much needed reiteration of the holistic paradigm of

Homeopathy’s theoretical basis, without which one

cannot truly comprehend its power. The second

part, the “Mercurial fountain: The inner world of

the Psyche,” puts Jungian archetypes, the shadow,

anima/animus and the self into an easily

understandable perspective. Part three, “Descent

into the Baths: Moving toward the union of

opposites,” uses dreams in case taking in a manner

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that opens new doors – allowing access to

information from collective connections and

respecting constitution and temperament. Lastly,

“Symbolic Materia Medica,” is a new way to see

our Materia Medica from the wider perspective of

symbols and myth a – perspective which very well

may be the best possible expression of our quest for

greater wholeness.”

“The book is well referenced, has a glossary of

Jungian and Alchemical terms, and a concise but

useful bibliography. It is a book that reframes case

taking and will greatly assist and profoundly alter

how one practices and uses Homeopathy.”

3. Medicine, Mythology and Spirituality.

Recollecting the Past and Willing the Future, by

R. TWENTYMAN, Forest Row, UK. Sophia

Books, ISBN 1-85584-182-7, 2004. Review by

Mimi IRWIN (HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005): “….

‘Medicine, Mythology and Spirituality’ comes at a

time when there is great interest in consciousness

and spirituality, as witnessed for example by the

astonishing number of papers published on the

power of Prayer. … Twentyman has an

extraordinary capacity to write about the wholeness

of man and also provides a remarkable reading list

to stimulate for many years. … It is a tremendous

achievement that in his 90

th

year he has offered his

homeopathic colleagues such a thought provoking

and stimulating book. He is very generous in his

willingness to share the fruits of years of thought

and study ... It is a serious book and will repay

repeated reading and digesting ... It is small with

118 pages but the content is broad and deep ... The

central problem the book tackles is the crisis facing

humanity today and our collective inability to come

up with creative solutions to solve this crisis. The

book explores the paradigms underpinning our

medical and scientific culture. As a young man

Ralph TWENTYMAN was struck by the

realization that medicine was based on the study of

death and not on the study of the vital flow of

life…. Early in his life he recognized the need to

reintegrate the mind and the body. At the age 21 he

had the good fortune to come across ‘Exploring

the Unconscious’ by George GRODDECK. This

opened a new world to him and subsequently he

met Dimitrije MITRINOVIC who introduced him

to the work of Rudolf STEINER ...

TWENTYMAN gives numerous examples of how

we have become lost in materialism. …. Much of

medicine is based on the study of death and has

followed the path of reductionism ... In pursuing

the study of lifeless mechanism we lose sight of the

whole vital person who is unwell…. The solution

proposed by this book is the integration of the

material and spiritual realms. His book is full of

fascinating examples of how to look at our world

differently. GOETHE, a contemporary of

HAHNEMANN, espoused the view that with

imagination it was possible to see the living

metamorphosing ‘idea’ of a living organism. This

may be the interface for the action of homeopathic

medication with living organisms. With our

reliance on sense perception, we see only the dead

material ‘stuff’ that fills the immaterial spiritual

form and practices such as Homeopathy are

anathema to this world view.

In summary, humanity is in crisis. We are

however awake. The task is to continue to evolve

and ultimately to enjoy conscious unity with each

other ... ‘Medicine, Mythology and Spirituality’

will appeal to practitioners who are interested in

History and not afraid of new and different ideas.

….

The experience of reading this book is like

settling down to a very good conversation with a

wise and well-read friend. I would highly

recommend this book. It is stimulating and infused

with an obvious love of knowledge.”

4. Dictionnaire des auteurs d’ouvrages

d’homéopathie en langue française, Oliver

RABANES, Alain SAREMBAUD, Editions

Boiron, Lyon, France. ISBN 2857422008, 2003.

Review by Francis TREUHERZ (HOMEOPATHY,

94, 1/2005): “This is a most unusual book, a

dictionary of biography and bibliography

combined. Here one can locate details of every

book ever written in French, or translated into

French, on Homeopathy. This is one of the few

books I have encountered recently which requires

no index as it is, in itself, an index.”

“The result is much more readable and

fascinating than one might expect. It opens up the

lives of around 800 authors and of the institutions

of French, and indeed world, Homeopathy … One

can see who has been translated into French, and so

who might have influenced French Homeopathy,

from KENT to VITHOULKAS ... Consider the life

of one author whose work is well known in

translation, Othon-André JULIAN (1910-1984);

(for example Materia Medica of New Remedies,

Beaconsfield, 1979). …. There are many more of

my favorite authors about whom I have learned so

much in this volume; ... This book is a major

contribution to the epistemology and historiography

of Homeopathy. It is time to learn French and

become European.”

5. Homeopathy: How it Really Works, by Jay

W. SHELTON, ISBN 159102109X, 2004.

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(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005) Review by Tom

WHITMARSH: “The confident assertion in the

title of this book, which seems to promise much,

hides something of a let down. There have always

been people who sneer at Homeopathy and have

delighted in pointing out the implausibility of any

direct effect of remedies by the standards of

knowledge of the day. ……. The arguments

haven’t changed, though the metaphors have

expanded somewhat. We are promised that we will

discover how Homeopathy works. At least the

author, a ‘Harvard and UC Berkeley educated

Physicist’ indirectly acknowledges that

Homeopathy has a positive effect on health. ….

He takes us through the whole process of

Homeopathy, starting from the doubtful validity of

a ‘Law’ of Similars ... He discusses the multiplicity

of practices which claim the title ‘Homeopathy’

and many different diagnostic practices ... He goes

into the absurdity of Provings …. If you need a

book which summarises the scientific arguments

against Homeopathy in an up-to-date language,

with nice graphs and tables, this is it ... This book

which confidently aims to tell us how Homeopathy

really works spends all but 20 of its 319 pages on

demonstrating from every conceivable angle how it

really doesn’t work. …. The author has no trouble

in demonstrating that homeopathic theory does not

satisfy most of the key elements thought to be

important in useful scientific theories. …. It is all

well-researched and reasonably well-written and, it

is hard to argue with many of the conclusions on

the information as presented. … He has not

answered the hard question; how is it that people

with chronic physical, emotional and mental

distress and disease who have not been much

helped by well delivered and well indicated

conventional therapies feel a transformation in their

condition once they have received a particular

homeopathic remedy, having had no benefit from

previously prescribed remedies? May be that’s his

next book.”

6. Spiritual Bioenergetics of Homeopathic

Materia Medica by Y. SHARMA. Academy of

Light limited, London, Wembley, 2004. ISBN 1-

904472-01-X. Review by Bob LECKRIDGE

(HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005): “…. Each remedy

‘picture’ described common patterns of experience

using a particular set of metaphors. The biomedical

model of health and disease uses a different set of

metaphors. There are many, many different sets of

metaphors in human usage. What this books sets

out to do is to collect together a number of these

metaphoric sets and place them next to each other

around the core set homeopathic metaphors. ….

Instead of improved communication and

understanding we end up with piles and piles of

metaphors each of which refer only to other

metaphors. …. In homeopathic terms this means

that Sharma’s book could be called ‘Sycotic’. In

‘Sycosis’ the individual runs further and further

away into fantasy as they try to escape the burdens

of reality. Sycosis is represented by over-doing,

over-activity and an over-growing. It’s no surprise

then that this is one big heavy book. It runs to

nearly 800 pages and this is only ‘Volume 1’! …

In homeopathic terms, it’s a sycotic book and in

Lacanian terms it is a psychotic book. ….”

7. Homeopathy at its Best by P.S.

KRISHNAMURTHY Salimashraf Publishers,

Hyderabad, 2002. Rs. 475/- US $30. Review by

Germán GUAJARDO. (HOMEOPATHY, 94,

1/2005): “This collection of articles recreates the

legend of a mystical link between the disciple and

founding masters. In Chapter I, we read ‘Although

nearly fifty thousand homeopathic practitioners

come out every year in India from medical colleges,

the majority of them are practicing Allopathy ...

Because it is difficult to practice Homeopathy….

and the teaching staff are using allopathic therapy

in their private practice because they were not

thoroughly taught homeopathic technology in their

studies’. …. He considers Homeopathy capable of

causing iatrogenic adverse effects, although it has

long been considered a safe method suitable for use

by children and pregnant women. …. There is a

useful chapter on epidemics. Many could benefit

from his extensive experience of Encephalitis,

Dengue, Malaria, Influenza, Typhoid fever, Plague,

etc, for example the use of Eupatorium 200 in

Dengue fever. …. I was disappointed that a book

titled ‘Homeopathy at its Best’ does not clarify

important issues like Posology or include principles

and therapeutic guidelines that can help to make

Homeopathy a practical solution to disease. It

should give students self-confidence. … Instead it

tends to undermine the confidence of students.”

8. Homeopathy Research – an Expedition

Report: An Old Healing System Gains

Plausibility by P.C. ENDLER, edition@inter-

uni.net: Austria. ISBN 3950144811, 2003.

Review by Jeremy SWAYNE. (HOMEOPATHY,

94, 1/2005): ‘And now’, as the saying is, ‘for

something completely different!’

“Christian ENDLER is known for his

contributions to the study of high dilutions, and in

particular as editor, with J. SCHULTE, of Ultra

High Dilution, a book that reviewed the research

on the subject in 1994, followed by Fundamental

Research on Ultra High Dilution and

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Homeopathy, in 1998 ... Its style is light hearted,

but its substance is serious. It is brief, but not

superficial. And the resulting format makes it a

compelling, entertaining, though sometimes mildly

exasperating introduction to the breadth of ideas

and many of the research themes that are current in

contemporary Homeopathy. It invites both the

sceptic and the converted to think more critically

about the phenomenon that they may be inclined

either to dismiss or to accept too lightly. And it

does so in a manner that will inform and should

excite any student of Homeopathy. ... ENDLER’s

expedition began in boyhood with an interest in the

metamorphosis of tadpoles into frogs and evolved

over the years, once he became aware of the claims

of Homeopathy, into a study of the effects of

dilutions and potencies of thyroxine on this process.

From the beginning he recognized that no one

factor acts independently to modify a biological

process; that change in a biological system is

always multifactorial. This applies as much to the

conduct of experiments as to the outcome of

therapeutic interventions. There is a great diversity

of material in the book, which ranges over many

fields of research and speculation related both to

the specific activity of high dilutions and the whole

nature of the therapeutic transaction in

homeopathic practice. …. As homeopathic

practitioners the book challenges us to be both bold

and humble in the claims we make for what we do.

Bold in affirming the role of the homeopathic

prescription; humble in acknowledging that we do

not understand that role, … Bold also in asserting

that Homeopathy, for many reasons, has much to

offer the worlds of Medicine and Science. …

There is a wealth of fascinating and provocative

idea here. … This is a book I can whole-heartedly

recommend as a worthwhile ‘expedition’ of

discovery for the sceptical, the curious and the

committed. And indeed, for anyone who relishes

the adventure of Science as the open-ended process

of enquiry and investigation that it ought to be.”

9. ICR Operational Manual and Standardized

Case Record, Dr. M.L. DHAWALE, Memorial

Trust, Mumbai, India, 2003. Rs. 250.

(www.mldtrust.com;mldoff@vsnl.net): Review by

Jeremy SWAYNE (HOMEOPATHY, 94, 1/2005):

“The ICR (Institute of Clinical Research, Mumbai)

has used the Standardized Case Record (SCR) for

training and Clinical Practice since 1970, and the

Central Council for Research in Homeopathy

(CCRH) in India adopted it, as a research tool. It is

an extremely detailed, highly structured, and it has

to be said, complex 106-page 180 x 120mm case-

book for each individual patient. …. It could be

said to represent the highest ideal of systematic

case taking for training and research purposes that

could possibly be conceived, and I have nothing but

an astonished admiration for the diligence of our

Indian colleagues in using it. … Nevertheless, I

doubt that the SCR will prove to be an appropriate

tool outside India. … The SCR is the brain-child of

the late Dr. M.L. DHAWALE, one of the most

renowned figures in the history of Homeopathy on

the sub-continent, and author of Principles and

Practice of Homeopathy, a book that deserves

study by serious students of Homeopathy,

particularly their teachers. … There is an excellent

summary of 16 interview techniques (p.25). …

Another valuable section (p.35) deals with the

presence of an observer at the consultation with the

trainee doctor, and the training of the observer for

this role. …. The later sections of instructions for

the use of the SCR are, as I have said, worth

browsing for the wisdom and knowledge to be

gleaned there by our teachers. ... There is an

interesting Glossary, ... I warmly recommend that

each teaching center and each library obtains at

least one copy.”

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IX. NEWS AND NOTES

1. (Over 50 papers were presented in the Liga

Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis)

(International Homeopathic Medical League)

60

th

Congress in 2005 in Berlin. The year also saw

the 250

th

birth anniversary of Samuel

HAHNEMANN.

Abstracts of the papers presented have been

given in a ‘special’ Issue of the Allgemeine

Homöopathische Zeitung (AHZ. 250, 2/2005) –

[We give them here under relevant sections = KSS]

Research:

1. LM or Q Potencies: retrospective

consideration of a 15 year-use in Brazil by

ADLER, UC: The pathway to recover

HAHNEMANN’s “most perfected method” will be

reviewed in this lecture including historical

(HAHNEMANN’s manuscript) and basic research

(mice experimental leishmaniasis treated with

dynamised leishmanias), pharmaceutical and

critical standardizing, and a clinical case to

exemplify the homeopathic clinic in accordance

with the Organon 6

th

edition.

2. Retrospective of 20 years of research on

Homeopathy by Karl – and Veronica Carstens

Foundation, Essen, Germany: Results of a study

requested by the WHO is 2004 to ascertain the

current status of research in Homeopathy

(fundamental scientific research, clinical research in

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Veterinary and Human Medicine), is presented.

The Carstens Foundation’s contribution of 20

years research finding is described. In order to

evaluate the research state the various perspectives

within and outside of Homeopathy is discussed.

The general conclusion is that a continuation of

present research strategies might not lead to

success, i.e., to identify the mode of action and

prone the effectiveness of Homeopathy. Why the

hitherto conventional methods applied are not

sufficient for a scientific penetration of

Homeopathy is explained.

3. Cuba’s Public Health System before and after

the Introduction of Homeopathy. Patients

under Homeopathic vs. Allopathic Treatment

by ALVAREZ, JL: Homeopathy was reintroduced

in Cuba 1992. Since then, the Cuban Ministry of

Public Healthy has made great efforts in the

development of Homeopathy, as a diagnostic

medical System based on evidence. The Ministry

pursues homeopathic investigations with the

scientific rigour characteristic of Cuban Medicine.

This presentation will include various double blind

studies of patients on homeopathic vs. allopathic

treatment, where homeopath’s usefulness and

value will be demonstrated. The first study of

Duodenal ulcer includes a treatment of 120 patients

for 8 weeks and 52-week control follow-up of acid

secretion in addition to follow up with endoscopies

at 4, 8, 26 and 52 weeks also a reconsideration of

the symptom progress, the scanning rate and the

negativity rate of Helicobacter pylori. The second

study focuses on the treatment of a Hepatitis A

outbreak, where 3 homeopathic drugs based on the

epidemic genius were used on 35 patients, showing

in patients treated with Homeopathy an evident

favourable progress, social impact and better

quality of life compared to those treated with

allopathic drugs. The third study books at 67

patients will Idiopathic Ulcerative Colitis treated

with individualized homeopathic drugs and

followed up for 5 years, with clinical,

haematological, endoscopies and histological

results. The results reveal, in most patients, better

clinical endoscopic progress compared to the group

treated allopathically, and the prevention of

Dysplasia in all degrees.

4. A logical approach to Homeopathy based

on Scientific Research by BASTIDE, M., HALM,

R.P.: “When the observed facts do not support a

well established theory the facts have to be

accepted and the theory rejected.” (Claude

BERNARD)

One principle of Homeopathy is the use of

very dilutions which cannot be explained by the

mechanistic paradigm, the “well established

theory” of modern science.

We propose an epistemological approach to

Homeopathy based on body information processes.

Information is not an object but only its trace –

mediation between object and receiver is required

for a signal to be transmitted. Take, for example,

the story of Robinson CRUSOE who sees

FRIDAY’s footprint in the sand but not the foot

itself. FRIDAY’s foot is the originator (matrix) of

the information (‘another man on the island’) but

not an object; the sand is the carrier of the

information (the mediator). When the carrier

disappears, the information disappears too. The

information is understood only by the receiver and

the understanding of the information depends on its

context.

In Homeopathy, the originator of the

information is the starting material of the remedy;

succussed dilutions are mediators. High dilutions

contains only information from that material, no

molecules. The receiver (the whole living body)

processes the information according to its state,

whether healthy (Proving) or sick (therapy).

The effect of information is very specific; the

context influences the interpretation by the receiver.

These characteristics have been demonstrated in

experimental models using succussed high dilutions

and immunological, toxicological and pharmaco-

logical models.

The results confirm the body information

paradigm by corporeal signifiers. Moreover, this

paradigm itself is a mediation between the

mechanistic and the symbolic paradigms and allows

a more complete understanding of the global vision

of the living body.

5. In-vitro Research with homeopathic

potencies – a systematic review by BLUTH M.,

ALBRECHT H., WEIBHUHN, TER., WITT C.:

Since the introduction of potentized remedies with

specific effects the idea of the non-molecular action

of remedies has been irritating the scientific world.

In vitro research appears suitable to reproducibly

demonstrate potency effects, and explore the

mechanisms of their action.

To evaluate the evidence of such in-vitro

experiments, publications were collected from

databases, previous reviews and identified

publications, and through expert contacts. From

multiple publications only the most extensive

version was included. Abstracts, as well as

experiments with micro-organisms and isolated

organs or plant materials were excluded. The

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quality of experiments was evaluated using a

modified SAPEH-Score (Score for the assessment

of Physical Experiments on Homeopathy).

Independently reproduced results were noted and

whether the publication demonstrated an intrinsic

activity of the investigated potencies.

Results: We found a total of 102 experiments

in 98 publications from 1932-2003 (32 involved

cell-free systems, 25 basophil granulocytes. 17 cell

cultures, 16 neutrophil granulocytes/leucocytes and

12 lymphocytes).

85% of them supported the existence of a

potency effect, but overall quality was low. The

rare use of adequate controls in particular made

judgement difficult. Surprisingly, the proportion of

positive results remained constant even among

high-quality experiments: 12 out of 14 experiments

(86%) showed effects of homeopathic potencies.

Two independently reproduced experimental

models were identified: stimulation of hydrolases

with Mercuric chloride, and modification of anti-

IgE triggered basophil degra