Classical Homeopathy: Classical Homeopathy: A Thinking Person’s MedicineA Thinking Person’s Medicine

A Very Brief Presentation for A Very Brief Presentation for Lay AudiencesLay Audiences

WE STAND AT A WE STAND AT A

CROSSROADS IN CROSSROADS IN

TERMS OF OUR TERMS OF OUR

UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING

OF DISEASE AND OF DISEASE AND

CURE.CURE.

The Legacy of The Legacy of 100 Years of 100 Years of Industrialized, Industrialized, Corporate Corporate Medicine:Medicine:Substituting Substituting Chronic forChronic forAcute Acute DiseaseDiseasehttp://http://www.youtube.com/watch?vwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3BNnQWh5k=Ny3BNnQWh5k

1/110 children 1/110 children now have now have autism.autism.That is over a That is over a 6000% increase 6000% increase since the early since the early 1970’s.1970’s.

Gardasil is Gardasil is causing causing problems in 20 problems in 20 states. states. Authorities are Authorities are refusing to refusing to investigate.investigate.

STATISTICS

Q: What do we do with that as thinking Q: What do we do with that as thinking people?people?

We have to start seeing the effect of culture We have to start seeing the effect of culture and media on our emotional and physical and media on our emotional and physical

states. We have to become accountable for states. We have to become accountable for how we think and feel. We have to look at how we think and feel. We have to look at

alternatives openly and honestly. alternatives openly and honestly.

Which means we need to see Which means we need to see medicine and ourselves differently.medicine and ourselves differently.

We have to see the interconnectedness of We have to see the interconnectedness of everything in the world and to understand everything in the world and to understand

ourselves as ourselves as energeticenergetic beings. beings.

This is what we are made of. This is what we are made of. It is who we are.It is who we are.

Our culture facilitates the idea Our culture facilitates the idea that we can make things better that we can make things better (read: safer, prettier, more (read: safer, prettier, more successful etc…) by being more successful etc…) by being more beautiful, snipping off parts of beautiful, snipping off parts of our bodies, or having more our bodies, or having more “stuff.”“stuff.”

Disease to a homeopath is a Disease to a homeopath is a symptom of an energetic symptom of an energetic disturbance. It does not exist disturbance. It does not exist independent of the man. It independent of the man. It cannot be cured by suppressing cannot be cured by suppressing it, cutting it out, or covering it it, cutting it out, or covering it up. up.

Think of a balloon…if we blow it Think of a balloon…if we blow it up and squeeze, the air just up and squeeze, the air just shoves itself over to a side. shoves itself over to a side. Squeeze it enough and it pops. Squeeze it enough and it pops. We cannot cure a disease by We cannot cure a disease by getting rid of its symptoms.getting rid of its symptoms.

WHAT IS MEDICINE IN THE WESTERN WHAT IS MEDICINE IN THE WESTERN WORLD?WORLD?

HINT

ALLOPATHIC ANSWER = ALLOPATHIC ANSWER = Suppression.Suppression.

Make the rash go away with cortisone. Make the rash go away with cortisone.

WHAT IS MEDICINE TO A HOMEOPATH?WHAT IS MEDICINE TO A HOMEOPATH?

HINT

Proper discharge and ultimate cure—Proper discharge and ultimate cure—the full restoration of health and vitality to the full restoration of health and vitality to

the human being. the human being.

What is health to a homeopath?What is health to a homeopath?

AdaptabilityAdaptabilityVitalityVitality

(a will to live and love)(a will to live and love)Integrity of FunctionIntegrity of Function

(consistency along all levels)(consistency along all levels)

The vital force: the spirit-like life force that enlivens the material organism as dynamis, governs without restriction and keeps all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation as regards both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling, rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living, healthy instrument for the higher purpose of our existence.

Samuel Hahnemann

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THE

POTENTIZED

DOSE. Homeopathic medicines are substances that are diluted and succussed (shaken) over and over until they are properly “potentized” energetically.

They are available in tincture or pellets.

NEWS ITEM

Those little bottles you see hold more than you thought according to a recent study by Nobel Prize Winner, Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who co-discovered HIV.

They demonstrated that bacterial DNA sequences were able to induce electromagnetic waves at high aqueous dilutions. The aqueous solutions were agitated and serially diluted (potentized!). The electromagnetic signature changed with dilution levels but was unaffected even when the DNA fragments were destroyed.

This study was reported in

Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 1: 81- 90

This means: Water has memory and can retain the energetic signature of a substance even when that substance itself is gone. These micro-doses are used to stimulate the individuals vital force to help heal itself.

HOMEOPATHIC HOMEOPATHIC MEASURES OF MEASURES OF

PRACTICE.PRACTICE.

1. Interior Function1. Interior Function2. Exterior Function2. Exterior Function

3. Physiological Function3. Physiological Function4. Spiritual Function4. Spiritual Function

A person who is not healthy on these levels is A person who is not healthy on these levels is not considered cured. not considered cured.

PATHOLOGY:PATHOLOGY:

What does it look like to a homeopath?What does it look like to a homeopath?

•DestructionDestruction

•EntropyEntropy

•EmptinessEmptiness

•IsolationIsolation

THREE LEVELS OF DISEASE: THREE LEVELS OF DISEASE:

Psoric - inflammatoryPsoric - inflammatory

Sycotic - hardeningSycotic - hardening

Syphilitic - destructionSyphilitic - destruction

THE THE COURSE OF HEALING:COURSE OF HEALING:

Hering’s LawHering’s Law

Takes disease from inside Takes disease from inside out, from top down, and out, from top down, and from the present to the from the present to the

past.past.

The The Manner Manner of of Healing:Healing:

Like Like Cures Cures Like or…Like or…

The Law The Law of of Similars.Similars.

The Law of SimilarsThe Law of SimilarsThis is the cornerstone of all good medicine and can be This is the cornerstone of all good medicine and can be traced back to Hippocrates in 400 BC and Paracelsus in traced back to Hippocrates in 400 BC and Paracelsus in 1600 CE. It was brought back to life by Samuel 1600 CE. It was brought back to life by Samuel Hahnemann more than 200 years ago when he Hahnemann more than 200 years ago when he repeatedly ingested quinine and found that it caused in repeatedly ingested quinine and found that it caused in him all the symptoms of Malaria without the actual him all the symptoms of Malaria without the actual disease. He determined that that “like” process, that law disease. He determined that that “like” process, that law of similars, is why quinine was able to cure Malaria. of similars, is why quinine was able to cure Malaria.

Thus began his exploration into the healing properties of Thus began his exploration into the healing properties of hundreds of substances using a technique he called hundreds of substances using a technique he called “proving.”“proving.”

The simplest example of this law is something we do The simplest example of this law is something we do everyday. When you get grease on your hands, how do everyday. When you get grease on your hands, how do you clean it? With soap, which is made of fat.you clean it? With soap, which is made of fat.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF

HOMEOPATHY:

“Idiots & Sons of Mongrels”

Hahnemann was a passionate man and an extraordinary genius with little tolerance for the foolishness and stubbornness of his day. He called the physicians who used cupping and bleeding as forms of treatment “Idiots and sons of mongrels.”

He could not tolerate the practices they called medicine and gave it up as he developed the system we now call classical homeopathy. In the meantime, he supported his family by translating medical texts from a multitude of different languages.

This is the medicine of Hahnemann’s day.

And if they weren’t draining patients of blood, they were using purgatives and caustic agents to suppress anything they saw.

MORE FORMAL, CURRENT STUDIES

•In a 1997 Lancet review, Linde et al found that 73% of trials conducted through 1996 were in favor of a greater-than-placebo action from homeopathy. The statistical significance was robust.

• Homeopathic Medicine Research Group in 2001 conducted a meta-analysis of trials for homeopathy. The found it likely that among the

tested approaches, homeopathy had “an added effect over nothing or placebo,” P-value of 0.0003.

(Cucherat M, et al, Evidence of clinical efficacy of homeopathy: a meta-analysis of clinical trials. Eur J Clin Pharmacol, 2000;26:27-33)

• Good results are obtained with complex problems in outpatient settings at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital.

(Alternative Therapies, Mar/Apr 2005, Vol. 11, No. 2)

What You Can Expect to be Asked in A Proper Assessment.

What Hurts?

“Never Been Well Since”

Modalities—worse/better?

Dreams!! Dreams are longings that lead to the state of the spirit.

Causes and Vows (never been well since)

Character, location, laterality

Aggravation or Amelioration

Strange, rare and peculiars

What Else A Homeopath Looks For:

Physical Generals

“Ailments From”

Sleep patterns

Tendency to growths (profusion vs. introversion)

The Will (love, hate, emotions, vitality)

Understanding & Intellect

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Judith Acosta, LISW, Cht, is a licensed psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and crisis counselor, as well as a classical homeopath. She is the co-author of The Worst is Over (Jodere, 2002), hailed as the "Bible of Crisis Communications" and Verbal First Aid for Children (Penguin, 2010). She has written countless articles on Verbal First Aid, culture and the media, trauma, and homeopathy. She has trained paramedics, fire fighters, police officers and medical professionals in Verbal First Aid around the U.S. She has also given seminars on animal-assisted therapy, trauma and burnout, stress reduction, and communication for risk management to corporations and private groups.In private practice, she specializes in classical homeopathy and the treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, and performance. She brings more than 20 years of successful experience to her clients.