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Treating the Monks of Monywa
Posted on April 3, 2013 by Center for HomepathyIn November of last year, riot police descended on six camps of protesters outside the town of Monywa, near Mandalay in Upper Burma. Since the summer, a coalition of activists, monks and local people had been demonstrating against a mining project in the area which was a joint venture of a Chinese corporation and a [...]
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A Brief Snapshot of Homeopathy in Myanmar
Posted on April 3, 2013 by Center for HomepathyA Brief Snapshot of Homeopathy in Myanmar I recently visited the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar for three weeks. Probably still better known by its old name of ‘Burma’, this Texas sized nation of about 50 million people (no one really knows for sure, but that is what the World Bank estimates…) is made up [...]
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A Tale of Two Brothers
Posted on March 19, 2013 by Center for HomepathyIt’s been a number of years since I first met the two brothers, Jordan and Samuel. They were as different as two persons could be. Samuel, age 6 at the time, was a gentle, cheerful fellow – easy to smile and easy to talk to. Jordan, 3 years his elder, was retiring and sullen. Communicating [...]
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Mental Illness – Interpretation & Treatment
Posted on December 23, 2012 by Center for HomepathyAs was his nature, Samuel Hahnemann minced few words in describing his first hand observations of the treatment of the mentally ill. In a footnote to his Organon of the Medical Art, which was first published in 1810, he wrote: One must be astonished at the hard-heartedness and indiscretion of physicians in several mental institutions. [...]
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Inflammation
Posted on December 16, 2012 by Center for HomepathyRubor, calor, tumor, dolor and functio lasesa: These are the old medical terms for the five classic signs of inflammation, to wit redness, heat, swelling, pain and loss of function. The word itself comes from the Latin term meaning ‘to set on fire’, and in the medical sense is an indication that the body [...]
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Shingles & Post-herpetic neuralgia
Posted on December 16, 2012 by Center for HomepathyShingles can be one of the most painful illnesses. It begins somewhat innocuously with a general malaise of fever, headache and fatigue but is soon followed by intense stinging and burning pains arising on the skin. This is usually accompanied by local itching, skin hypersensitivity or tingling. The outbreak is localized to a specific [...]
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Chemical Incarceration
Posted on March 11, 2012 by Center for HomepathyCHEMICAL INCARCERATION A woman I’ll call ‘Sandra’ came in for an appointment after a hiatus of over a decade. Originally, she had been successfully treated for some menstrual issues as well as skin rashes, but I lost touch with her after she moved away. With the prospect of moving back into the area plus the [...]
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Smallpox & Other Poisons
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Center for HomepathySMALLPOX & OTHER POISONS — l I hadn’t heard from him in quite a while, but as soon as I answered the phone and heard the voice at the other end, there was little doubt who it was. The combination of the thick Eastern European accent, breathy smoker’s tone and the plaintive quality brought instant [...]
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Slippery Elm
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Center for HomepathyA while back I saw a patient on an acute basis who was coughing up a lot of fresh blood for about a week. Although it wasn’t the first time in her life that she had experienced this symptom, it had never lasted this long and the amount of blood had never been this heavy. [...]
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Salt – Good, Bad or What?
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Center for HomepathySALT – GOOD, BAD OR WHAT? One of my first forays into the world of alternative medicine took place soon after my arrival in Japan when I was in my early 20’s. Not feeling particularly energetic and without any helpful feedback from conventional sources, I sought the advice of elderly Japanese man who placed me [...]
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