Article on World Homeopathy Awareness Week

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Permalink Reply by Debby Bruck on April 12, 2009 at 1:40pm

Hi Melanie ~ thanks for posting. I know you will be a leader in Social Media for homeopaths. Looks like you have been busy creating your identity. People can CLICK the direct link to your article.

You can also upload files here.

Keep up the good work!
Debby

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Permalink Reply by Christine Liebing-Gabel on April 13, 2009 at 4:03am

Thanks Melanie for this article
Love
Christine

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Permalink Reply by Melanie Grimes on April 17, 2009 at 9:44pm

http://melanie-grimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/homeopathy-and-allergies...

Here's a link to another relevant article- this one on homeopathy and allergies.

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Permalink Reply by Felipe Cardenas on May 24, 2009 at 9:50am

Dear Melissa

http://www.gopetition.com/online/28003.html

A world wide petion looking for the declaration of homeopathy as a world patrimony.

Thank you for supporting this petion


Regards


Felipe Cárdenas PH.D D.I.Hom

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Permalink Reply by Felipe Cardenas on May 24, 2009 at 9:49am

Hi Melanie:

http://www.gopetition.com/online/28003.html

A world wide petion looking for the declaration of homeopathy as a world patrimony.

Thank you for supporting this petion


Regards


Felipe Cárdenas PH.D D.I.Hom

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Permalink Reply by Debby Bruck on May 24, 2009 at 12:00pm

Dear Felipe - I used Translate.Google to find out what your petition says.
Please make corrections to this document so that we can all participate in your petition.

Homeopathy World Heritage

The union of pure homeopaths Colombia, grouped Asohocoldo we note with concern the statements completely wrong in the legal, sociological and epistemological Council of State last March, where the presence of unknown thousands of citizens to exercise and homeopaths come from giving Two hundred years ago, serving the society in the health field. We would like to know our social problems, labor and human rights denied by the State, the University and various academic institutions. Homeopathic medicine in case law throughout the twentieth century has been recognized several times for the exercise of the profession: medical practitioners, professionals qualified homeopath cigars. [please help - google translate did not do a good job here]

The recent pronouncement of the State Council, in the hands of some lawyers who do not know Homeopathy, is the sense that only physicians can practice homeopathy in Colombia, ignoring developments of academic research on the state of the art issues of health and disease and the relationship of homeopathy is not a system, as they say, with the dominant medical officer. His ruling denied the constitutional spirit of the Constitution of 1991 and the same principles of Act 1164 of 2007 on recognition of alternative medicines. Act 14 of 1962 for attending to justify its decision, it is an outdated law that denies and violates fundamental principles and rights of the Constitution of 1991.

Homeopathy has been part of the history of Colombia and the world, together with medical practitioners, thousands of homeopathic practitioners, with a degree or not, exercise their profession provide an invaluable service to society. Millions of people have benefited from the work of the homeopaths. Its exercise must be subject to state control, but the State can not exercise a totalitarian and bureaucratic will that ultimately undermines the important principle: respect for life and freedom that the individual has to choose the person who is treating you in times of illness. The medical profession has generally been hostile to homeopathy and that still has thousands of citizens through the process have been preserved in formal and non-formal science have allowed this subsisting from generation to generation and have our days with people who are able to address, alleviate, cure, prevent any disease.

The recent pronouncement of the State Council, in the hands of some lawyers who do not know Homeopathy, is the sense that only physicians can practice homeopathy in Colombia, ignoring developments of academic research on the state of the art issues of health and disease and the relationship of homeopathy is not a system, as they say, with the dominant medical officer. His ruling denied the constitutional spirit of the Constitution of 1991 and the same principles of Act 1164 of 2007 on recognition of alternative medicines. Act 14 of 1962 for attending to justify its decision, it is an outdated law that denies and violates fundamental principles and rights of the Constitution of 1991.

We would like to have the support of society and the general public, seeking partnerships that will enable us to make visible as a group of people who currently live the physical and symbolic violence of a state that has been more paradoxically serve to protect criminals and condemning and persecuting people who exercise the profession to maintain and restore health to the sick from procedures that are ignored by the medical university and health professionals with no knowledge of the facts such as the Health Secretariat of Bogota post to show solidarity with the pronouncements of the Council of State when there is no medical practitioner in that institution who knows homeopathy or have training that allows you to practice as a homeopath. How can the State Council and physicians without knowledge of the facts will speak on a topic that does not know?

PETITION
For many years, homeopaths operate in secrecy, as the Ministries of Health preclude us from exercising the profession. Our training has been rigorous with regard to the study and practice of homeopathic method that has a vision of health-disease completely opposite to that of conventional or allopathic medicine. As citizens also come to our training to the study of auxiliary disciplines of medicine and human anatomy, physiology, medical semiology, but our doctrine of healing is based on concepts, theoretical frameworks, medical matters and philosophical approaches and developed for themselves some two hundred years, with gears and bridges connecting to Hippocratic medicine, and the Law of Similar managed by thousands of traditional peoples throughout history.

Some surgeons have come to homeopathy and homeopaths have made large, the vast majority of physicians had been hostile to it over time. The history of homeopathy has been many cases of homeopaths who were homeopaths, having embraced a first training in other fields of training: agronomists, anthropologists, lawyers, priests, bishops, nuns. Homeopathic remedies are effective in treating acute and chronic diseases and the economy: what is called today in the health-illness studies in the framework of political ecology as pharmaceutical and medical mafia has persecuted to death because many homeopaths reveals the deceptions of the dominant model that reproduces pharmacist and is aimed almost entirely profit. It is not fair that thousands of Colombians are doomed to poverty and social exclusion when they are able to provide a humanitarian service to the country, as has been demonstrated throughout the history of Colombia. In short, the pronouncement of a few lawyers ignorant of the State Council finished playing the burden of a violent and psychotic patient nervous system with which the West has traditionally faced the difference of cultures. Pronouncements that clearly reflect the institution that seeks to monopolize colonial mythos knowledge of medicine in a particular type of medical approach that throughout history has exercising violence against homeopathy, but now wants to exercise a monopoly over paradoxically those may or may not exercise, usually when our research aims to recognize those who are open to the prostitution of homeopathy that many doctors are deceiving the public when homeopaths say few have been academically trained in the doctrine of homeopathy.

Imposing a single model which would combine medical and appropriate approaches such as homeopathy, ayurvedic medicine, medicine and china herbología, can be understood only as part of a culture of fundamentalism that is said predominantly scientific, allegedly neutral universal. The decision of the Council of State aware that the practice of homeopathy involves much more than formulating remedies, the homeopath has a touch that can not be governed by a totalitarian state, whether left or right, since this would involve the regulation of absolute human freedom. With high security pressure from multinational pharmaceutical companies, the ruling Council of State is not interested in promoting or protecting the health of Colombians, but the interests of the guild mono doctor and pharmacist. Homeopathy is the heritage of humanity and her best representation exercised by the homeopaths who fortunately flood the world. We invite you to join this petition which requests that homeopathy is declared patrimony of Colombia and the Colombian people and where its exercise is regulated by the union itself and not by those who do not exercise or know the science of it. It appeals to the judges of the nation following the rule of law: cuilibet in your art credendum [should anyone believe in his art], that is sought to be heard as a homeopath and understand the reasons and the trials that justify the exercise here of homeopathy in Colombia.

Given in Bogota on May 23, 2009.
Homeopaths and doctors ancestral Colombia.

Thank you for your support and sign this petition. Please write down your card if possible

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