Creating Waves of Awareness
Improve The Quality of Homeopathy or Face The Collapse
Today a lot of homoeopaths practice poor quality homoeopathy without difference of doctors or laymen.
If we don’t take enough care to improve the quality then this science will be eradicated from the earth within a few decades.
We should practice homoeopathy as a medical science and not in a mysterious or a spiritual level.
What should we do to improve the quality of homoeopathy?
1.Improve our skills to take every case in detail and appropriate way.
2.Take every case in full even though we have sufficient experience.
3.Improve our skills and knowledge of repertorisation.
4.Repertorise every case before prescribing.
5.Improve our knowledge of materia medica from various authors.
6.Compare the result of repertorisation with that of materia medica before prescription.
7.Avoid all the quackery – and ridiculous methods like finding the remedy by using machines, or pure fantasy like hair transmission etc. At least there should be an approval from a recognized homoeopathic authority like CCH of India before publishing and practising those type of ( homoeopathy).
8.Take the totality of the case for prescription, not only by modalities or only mental symptoms.
9.Prescribe and administer the medicine and potency according to the principle of homoeopathy written in Organon.
Do you have any idea to improve the quality of the Practice of Homoeopathy?
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Permalink Reply by sajjadakram on -
In short.Follow organon.
sajjad.
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Permalink Reply by Dr K Saji on -
Discipline is the last thing a Homoeopathic Doctor agrees to - and that is the reason why nobody responds !!
Tell them to prescribe on the basis of meditation, give them some tips ...and every one will be waiting for your words.
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Permalink Reply by DR. Sushil Bahl on -
DR Paul,
It is really inspiring to see your enthusiasm for maintaining the quality in Homeopathy, among the Homeopaths.I agree with you that if we don't follow the basic principles of Homeopathy in totality, we may not be as impressive, as our ancestral Homeopaths, used to be.
HOMEOPATHY IS SURVIVING , FROM MORE THAN 200 YEARS, AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE IMPRESSIVE, BECAUSE THERE ARE STILL MANY PRACTITIONERS LIKE YOU AND MANY OTHERS, WHO RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOW THE HOMEOPATHIC LAW AND HAD IMPRESSIVE SUCCESS RATE OF CURE IN THEIR COUNTRIES.
Yes, it our duty to send the messages like yours to our other colleagues, who tend to adopt short cuts, and fall in trap to the various fanciful methods, inducted in Homeopathy, on the name of modernization.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Paul Muttathukunnel on -
Dear Dr. Dr. Bahl,
Thank you very much. I have seen various comments from you of high quality with deep knowledge of Homoeopathy in this network. We need more and more people like you .
There is a big lobby in Europe against Homoeopathy. The preparation of all nosodes, Can. Ind, and Can. sat. are forbidden in Europe.
But many of our patients in our clinic are referred by allopathic doctors, specialists of paediatrics, gynaecology, oncology etc.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Paul Muttathukunnel on
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Dear Madam Resnick,
Thank you for your comment.
Someone may misunderstand what I say " poor quality homoeopathy without difference of doctors or laymen" . This is not against doctors or laymen. I have seen poor quality doctors ( even after MD in homoeopathy) and high quality laymen. I have no difference between laymen or a doctor of homoeopathy or an allopath who is converted to homoeopathy.
It is important the quality of homoeopathy. Unfortunately 80 % of homoeopaths worldwide don't know what is the pure homoeopathy taught by Hahnemann.
I have put forward some of my ideas. This blog is not against anybody but for improving the quality of homoeopaths.
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Permalink Reply by Debby Bruck on -
Dear Paul. I do not know where you get your figure of 80% of homeopaths worldwide do not know Hahnemann's homeopathy. Is it scientific to throw out figures without substantiating them?
The best way to improve the environment, if you are disgruntled, is by "modeling" and demonstrating your successes and allow others to watch and be in motivated to follow in your footsteps.
Walk on the "light" side and show the way. Provide educational experiences so others may learn.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Habib Khan. on -
Hi Dr. paul, I want to ask you one simple question, is Prescription in homoeopathy possible without repertory or not? if not so what is your opinion about artistic prescriber, depict in introductory chapter of Kent's repertory.
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Permalink Reply by Hans Weitbrecht on -
Dear members
This theme is repetitive for the past 150+ years.
I agree, that organizations do not guarantee minimum standards, being the reason for me to leave the Irish Society of Homeopaths.
i realized, that each of us will make a name for oneself. The clinical successes determine the personal future as a homeopath. I have archived persistent good results in my clinic, which gives me the comfort of having enough work. Likewise there is a saying, that one bad case makes up for than 10 good cases, -- and one should not be surprised, if after a few unsatisfactory results no new patients turn up and the old ones go somewhere else.
I gave up trying to hold up the flag of homeopathy, and agree with Debby --
My homeopath-study-guide is an offer which can be taken up by the serious student.
Not in each and every case do i consult the repertory --.
I don't approve of the application of homeopathic remedies while the patient takes allopathic medication.
I could give more hints, what worked for me over the years, but first and foremost a profound materia medica knowledge needs to be established by the aspirants.
Regards,
Hans Weitbrecht
HOMEOPATH
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Paul Muttathukunnel on
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Dear Hans,
It is necessary a profound knowledge of Materia medica but no homoeopath can remember all the symptoms of all the medicines. So for that the repertory is created from the very begining of Homoeopathy.
Most of us are MONGREL HOMOEOPATHS - because we don't know the correct homoeopathy. What I say in my blog is to improve the quality of us as TRUE HOMOEOPATHS.
Do you give any medicine for cancer patient taking chemotherapy, or a hypertensive patient with allopathic medicine taking everyday for regulating his blood pressure ?
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Permalink Reply by Hans Weitbrecht on
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Dear Paul
In short -- without sidetracking your discussion here are my answers:
>> Do you give any medicine for cancer patient taking chemotherapy,
Answer: No, while they are on chemo. After they finished: Yes.
>> or a hypertensive patient with allopathic medicine taking everyday for regulating his blood pressure ?
In this case, I place the decision with the patient, whether he / she wants to continue with their medication and not use homeopathy, or come off it in a controlled matter and let homeopathy deal with the problem.
Lately, I had a patient who is a type one juvenile diabetic, on insulin for 30 years. I do not consider Insulin as a medicine in this situation but rather as a substitute, and as my past experience in similar cases showed me, insulin not interfering with homeopathic remedies, -- I went ahead and started treatment with Sulph Q1(2,1/3). After her second dose, she contacted me and reported, that she got severely into low sugar. I advised her to closely monitor and adjust insulin intake.
At her next consultation (3 weeks later), her insulin intake was half of the original amount. If this process continues, i suggested to her to change to oral products.
So -- i had to change my view, --.
>> It is necessary a profound knowledge of Materia medica but no homoeopath can remember all the symptoms of all the medicines. So for that the repertory is created from the very begining of Homoeopathy.
this raises the question, what needs to be known about a remedy.
There are two strands of opinion:
1) All symptoms ever brought out in a proving are important. The remedy most similar is that one which has numerically the most symptoms resembling the disease-symptom-picture. This leads to a numerical decision, -- and the reliance on repertories at large. Nowadays we could use software to search the MMP directly.
2)only symptoms brought out in proving and which are characteristic (I call them CCE)are important and need to be memorized. A remedy selection is based on them predominantly. Those are to be established by study and clinical experience and form the core of a good reliable working knowledge. (see homeopathy-study-guide)
Following paragraphs in the organon relate to the subject:
Paragraph: 101, 104, 130, 133, 153, 154, 164, 165, 178, 209, 211, 212
It would exceed this topic to fully discuss this subject, but we may return at a later stage to it as a separate topic.
Regards,
Hans Weitbrecht
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Permalink Reply by Chiong on -
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1.Improve our skills to take every case in detail and appropriate way.
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At the expert level it is an artform. Not science. Science is blind and probably has to go through many iterations before a physician could get it right. Experiences helps to nurture and develop this artform in a subtle way.
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2.Take every case in full even though we have sufficient experience.
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The result of artform is efficiency. A physician is able to arrive at the CORRECT REMEDY even with incomplete and uncertain data. Science ALWAYS FAIL in such an environment. It is helpless and its pretension to knowledge often proved deceptive.
Artform is like a millipede walking. The moment it "thinks" by "taking every case in full" it will stumble over itself. My personal experience had always been to trust my intuition. Thinking thoroughly only lead to analysis paralysis and the end result almost always were wrong or inaccurate.
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3.Improve our skills and knowledge of repertorisation.
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Repertories are a snap-shot of reality and its validity and usefulness depend more on the skill of the physician in mapping one set of reality with this snap-shot reality. In capturing the reality of the patient for matching much has to be discounted and the unspoken words may carry more value than what could be seen, heard, felt and smelt.
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4.Repertorise every case before prescribing.
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Before repertories were available expert prescriber relied heavily on their memory and experiences. Repertories were produced as a convenient tool and a GUIDE. We should never be slaved to it and enslaved by its result. Orderliness and objectivity is highly seductive but its result is often wanting in an an uncertain environment.
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5.Improve our knowledge of materia medica from various authors.
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Always good to have more knowledge but more important is to have an understanding.
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6.Compare the result of repertorisation with that of materia medica before prescription.
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Prudent and well-advised.
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7.Avoid all the quackery – and ridiculous methods like finding the remedy by using machines, or pure fantasy like hair transmission etc. At least there should be an approval from a recognized homoeopathic authority like CCH of India before publishing and practising those type of ( homoeopathy).
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Debby was right this is not very scientific ;-) . It may not be homoeopathic in origin but how do you conclude that it is quackery and ridiculous ?
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8.Take the totality of the case for prescription, not only by modalities or only mental symptoms.
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May not be necessary but it is often necessary to counter check with materia medica.
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9.Prescribe and administer the medicine and potency according to the principle of homoeopathy written in Organon.
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Yeh! Yeh! --- more power to the Organon ;-)
How to improve on homoeopathic practice ? Never be afraid to think and more importantly never be afraid of your instinct.
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Permalink Reply by Chiong on
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Expert prescribing is an artform - it is a combination of knowledge, skill set and a deep and penetrating insight into the finer and subtler aspects of homoeopathic case-taking and prescribing. It has nothing to do with being artistic or beautiful.
By the very same token the word "scientific" is over used and over-rated. The whole scientific notion of objective rationality, repeatable and falsifiable is blatantly inaccurate. And yet we give so much credence and respectability to it.
Case-taking is an attempt to understand a subjective reality. The repertories are artificial attempts at objectifying the subjective reality that came from proving. Repertorising and prescribing is an attempt at force-fitting the case-taking subjective reality into an artificial objective reality. In so doing something has to give. What is seen or measured is often less important than that which is not uttered or seen. The force-fitting attempt when we do repertorisation will discard information that are very important and at the same time may include utterly misleading information.
Do we then trust a blinded rational approach or do we use it as a guide or as a confirmation of what we already know instinctively ? Or do we use our instinct to do an objective search for the remedy ?
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