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GUIDING PRINCIPLES: ORGANON #286

ORGANON #286 The dynamic force of minerals magnets, electricity and galvanism act no less powerfully upon our life principle and they are not less homœopathic than the properly so-called medicines which neutralize disease by taking them through the mouth, or by rubbing them on the skin or by olfacti

Aug 15, 2016 · 1 min read

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HOMEOPATHY AND SPACE TRAVEL

As we embark into the 21st century, space travel has become more and more of a reality.The need to survive in a micro-gravity environment with limited food resources, water and oxygen have lead to a new era in space in-habitation, survival and creating means to develop new methods to survive an alto

Jul 21, 2016 · 2 min read

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The difference between a Homeopath and an Allopath

"They say nothing about the man except in connection with his tissues ; they characterize the changes in the tissues as the disease and all there is of the disease, its beginning and its end. In effect they proclaim disease to be something that exists without a cause. They accept nothing but what ca

Jul 19, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

ALTERNATION OF REMEDIES

Dr. Drysdale defines alternation to be “the giving a second medicine while the sphere of action of the first is still unexhausted.” But Dr. Drysdale, while advocating alternation, in this sense, in certain specified cases, does not propose to give his second medicine except after a careful re-exami

Jul 15, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

Selection of the Remedy

The principles which govern the selection and administration of homoeopathic remedies are very simple. The great law, Similia Similibus Curentur, teaches us to select a remedy the characteristic pathogenetic symptoms of which are very similar to those of the patient. This is a grand generalization,

Jul 15, 2016 · 1 min read

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Characteristic Peculiarities of LACHESIS

Lachesis appears to act principally on the left side, particularly in "apoplectic paralysis, -sore throat, eruptions and pain* in the limbs. *Aggravation of the symptoms in damp weather. "Exhaustion and weariness from excessively cold or warm weather. *Aggravation of the symptoms during rest, am

Jul 13, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

Power of the minimal dose

Such a globule*,1 placed dry upon the tongue, is one of the smallest doses for a moderate recent case of illness. Here but few nerves are touched by the medicine. A similar globule, crushed with some sugar of milk and dissolved in a good deal of water (§ 247) and stirred well before every administra

Jul 11, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

STAPHYSAGRIA

What comes to mind when you think of STAPHYSAGRIA?

Jul 10, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Organon #175 In one-sided diseases of the first kind it is often to be attributed to the medical observer’s want of discernment that he does not fully discover the symptoms actually present which would enable him to complete the sketch of the portrait of the disease.

Jul 6, 2016 · 1 min read

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PLATINA

What comes to mind when you think of PLATINA?

Jul 4, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

COMPARING RHUS & SEPIA

An infographic comparing two homeopathic remedies Rhus & Sepia.

Jul 2, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

ORGANON #134 All external influences, and more especially medicines, possess the property of producing in the health of the living organism a particular kind of alteration peculiar to themselves; but all the symptoms peculiar to a medicine do not appear in one person, nor all at once, nor in the sam

Jul 2, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

The Duty of the Physician

The physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.* *His mission is not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature of the vital processes and the mode in which d

Jul 1, 2016 · 1 min read

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CONVALLARIA

What comes to mind when you think of Convallaria?

Jun 28, 2016 · 1 min read

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RHUS TOXICODENDRON

What comes to mind when you think of Rhus Toxicodendron?

Jun 28, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

Kali sulphuricum

What comes to mind when you think of Kali sulphuricum?

Jun 24, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

A GUIDE TO CHOOSING THE REMEDY

Hahnemann, in # 152, of the Organon, gives explicit directions for its selection; he tells us how the choice should be made from among the drugs which exhibit effects simulating those of the whole disease picture at hand and shows how the final differentiation depends upon the individualistic or pec

Jun 22, 2016 · 10 min read

Philosophy

What the Masters say about SEPIA

Hahnemann: Dejection and weeping ; gloominess ; melancholy ; pensiveness ; discouragement ; anxiety in the evening in bed ; anxiety and apprehensiveness with flushes of heat ; readiness to take fright ; aversion to one's occupation ; indifference toward his family ; momentary fits of vertigo with un

Jun 19, 2016 · 6 min read

Philosophy

Homeopathic treatment of mild traumatic brain injury

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Abstract BACKGROUND: Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) affects 750,000 persons in the United States annually. Five to fifteen percent have persistent dysfunction and disability. No effective, standard pharmacological treatment exists

Jun 18, 2016 · 1 min read

Philosophy

TORAKO YUI SEMINAR IN LONDON

The Zen Homoeopathy (Quotation from ‘Contemporary Homoeopathy in Japan’ by Torako Yui on LINKS Volume 29, 2016 Spring) “The merit of the Zen homœopathy is that it is able to treat a chronic miasm (treatment of the soul) by using a chronic miasm remedy which is the fundamental problem of a disease;

Jun 18, 2016 · 3 min read