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November 2011. The Individual & Society: Exploring Human Rights and Medical Freedom (Vol 14, # 2), Featured Articles
Remedy Profiles: A Method of Integrating Classical & Innovation Understandings of Homeopathic Remedies
To address the debate in recent years regarding how a practitioner determine the nature and quality of the remedy, the author developed the idea of the remedy profile. The remedy profile provides a holistic, inclusive picture of the remedy taking into account the substance in nature from which the remedy comes, as well as all the variety of understandings that allow us to most fully appreciate the remedy. I developed this method of studying remedies as a way of helping students integrate the many different pieces of information that emerge.
Introduction: The Debate
In recent years, there has been a fierce and exciting dialogue that has blossomed within the homeopathic community considering what had been called classical and innovation homeopathy. In many ways, the debate hinges on the manner in which the practitioner determines the nature and qualities of the remedy and the steps taken to find the client /remedy match.
Sankaran[1] and Scholten[2] have pioneered methods of finding a remedy that are unfamiliar and seeming iconoclastic. Those who deem themselves classical are strict adherents to all remedy data coming only from provings, cured cases and known data of various poisons. The approach of some of the innovators is to conceptualize a system in which remedies we know via the classical system are seen in a systemic manner and speculation about materials as yet unproven are theoretically placed within the system. In many ways it is the old inductive deductive debate. Do we learn by observing or do we learn by organizing observations and speculating; theory building versus strict empiricism?
In this article, we will look at a method of studying remedies which incorporate both traditional classical and innovative approaches. What are all the things we know about this remedy from every perspective in order to fully appreciate its essence.
Rajan Sankaran: The Vital Sensation
Sankaran’s method called the Vital Sensation conceptualizes each remedy as manifesting in a sensation within the patient. When studying material medica, it is helpful to remember that Sankaran thinks of the families of remedies found in nature as having a common baseline. Minerals manifest structure; plants manifest reactions and sensitivities; and animals manifest aggression and competition. The sensation that the remedy manifests in nature, i.e. the withdrawal and speed of the cuttlefish, Sepia, will be seen within the symptom manifestation of the patient.
Jan Scholten: The Periodic Table
Scholten developed an approach to material medica which focuses on those elements within the periodic table of elements. Many of these elements are already proven remedies. He uses a method of looking at the periodic table which takes an understanding of those remedies already proven and uses a predictive or speculative understanding of the remedies nearby, an approach that explores the relationship of mineral remedies to each other. He then developed a thematic which looks at stage of life using the periodic table as a prototype. Looking down the columns of the periodic table we see an Ericksonian[3]-like developmental chart: being incarnate, individuality, connection/family, work, creativity and leadership. Looking across the Periodic table are 18 stages of life: starting out; finding space, comparing, establishing, preparing, proving, prevailing, perseverance, success, mastery, preserving, division, withdrawal, formal, loss, remembering, letting go and rest.
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Dr. Butehorn is a licensed psychologist, nationally certified homeopath and consultant.
Her psychological training was quite eclectic and combines developmental psychology, cognitive behavioral theory, family systems, psycho-dynamic conceptualizations and transpersonal approaches. In addition to her traditional training, since 1985 Dr. Butehorn has explored complementary/alternative approaches to health, recovery and healing.
Dr. Butehorn has extensive training in shamanism, hypnosis, EMDR, DBT and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and is a Fellow of the British Institute of Homeopathy. She is also CoDirector of The Sidewalk School in Boston offering homeopathic education integrating classical and innovative approaches to homeopathy; and is a directing senior faculty of Teleosis School of Homeopathy in Cambridge. She is on the faculty of Boston College and the American College of Homeopathy. Always interested in providing excellent care, she is an executive board member of the Council for Homeopathic Certification.
In addition to teaching both undergraduate psychology students and graduate management students at Boston College's College of Advancing Studies, Dr. Butehorn consults and teaches nationally on topics ranging from homeopathy, health and recovery, substance abuse/addiction and treatment, violence, family work and child welfare. She has a private practice in Boston consulting with both psychological and homeopathic clients
Contact: lbutehorn@earthlink.net or www.lorettabutehornphd.com or www.thesidewalkschool.com.
More Featured Articles
Homeopathy and the Legal Question - An Historical Perspective
When Samuel Hahnemann in the 1800’s wanted to justify his Theory of Chronic Diseases intellectually, he began by tracing his argument back historically. Similarly, it will serve our purpose----to understand the present legal situation of homeopathy---to begin with a very broadly painted picture of the historical development of Western Society.
Vaccine Damage Denial and the British Press
The contemporary deep silence on vaccine damage, and the role of the press appears to be a complete reversal of the position forty years ago when, for example, The Sunday Times and its journalists campaigned over a seven year period, under the leadership of the paper's editor, to bring to light the cases of mothers and their children affected by Thalidomide. The media in Britain has now almost completely shut down on the Dr. Wakefield related MMR story. Although journalists themselves and people 'in the know', tend to offer blasé explanations for the lack of media investigation, such as 'the story is written-out', it would be quite irrational to imagine that the massively funded science lobby groups are not burrowing away in the background, achieving their objectives.
Homeopathy - Its Time is Coming
Excerpt: As Bob Dylan said, “The times they are a’changing.” Slowly but surely, a new and deeper kind of awareness and consciousness is spreading across the globe. Once relegated to the “New Age” set or to mystics, more and more people in the mainstream are engaging in meditation and are beginning to develop an awareness that humanity, nature, and the Earth itself are all interconnected on a deeper level. We may be on the cusp of a revolution in human consciousness. And a world populated by more deeply conscious humans will also be a world in which alternative energy-based medicines, like homeopathy, will be the norm.
Ghana Diaries Homeopathy in the Field, Part Two
Part Two of Richard Pitt's diary of his time working in Ghana in 2010. Many interesting cases and photos are included in this piece!