What is a Homeopathic Remedy?
Classical homeopathy depends for its clinical effect on a homeopathic remedy. A successul prescription requires a properly prepared remedy made from the correct source material as determined individually for each person. Homeopathic remedies are made from a seemingly...
The Initial Homeopathic Intake
The first consultation in homeopathy, also known as the initial homeopathic intake, lasts about two hours for chronic complaints and as long as needed in the case of acute complaints. It is the beginning of an often fascinating journey of healing and self-discovery. A...
The Followup Appointments
After the first prescription the patient returns for regular appointments so that the homeopath may determine the response to it and decide what to do next. These visits are scheduled once every few weeks—more frequently at first and less so as treatment progresses....
The 7 Essential Factors in Forecasting the Length of Homeopathic Treatment of Chronic Diseases
“How long will it take for me to get better?” This is one of the most frequent questions asked by new or prospective homeopathic patients. It is a sensible question that originates in our deep desire to foretell our life course and to receive assurance about the...
Basics of the Homeopathic Prescription
The homeopathic prescription, similarly to a conventional medical prescription, consists of the homeopathic remedy to be prescribed based on the homeopathic case analysis just performed, and the dosage, which in turn consists of potency and frequency of intake. What...
Basics of Homeopathic Case Analysis
In The Initial Homeopathic Intake I outlined what takes place the first time a patient meets a homeopath. The aim of the entire initial-interview process is to distill the portrait of disease, which can be physical, psychological, or spiritual in nature. But it now...
Overview of Classical Homeopathic Philosophy
Classical homeopathy rests on a rich philosophical foundation first established by Hahnemann in his Organon of the Healing Art at the turn of the nineteenth century and refined over the past two centuries since. Homeopathy is rare among systems of medicine in...
Medical Suppression of Symptoms and Its Homeopathic Cure
One of the most important contributions of homeopathy to the theory of health and disease is the concept of suppression of symptoms. Both in conventional and in some alternative forms of medicine reduction of symptoms and alleviation of suffering are viewed as the...
How a Unique Diagnostic Method Results in Superior Clinical Effectiveness
You already know or at least assume that homeopathy is ‘holistic’ just like other forms of alternative medicine. Homeopaths will consider all of the patient’s complaints in their diagnosis, will strive to make the patient better on the whole, and so on. This...
Health, Disease, and Adaptation to the Present Moment
In this article I will describe a basic aspect of homeopathy’s spiritual understanding of health and disease: the view that disease arises from a fixed adaptation to a past situation that no longer exists in the present. Homeopaths view health and disease as states of...