By Richard Pitt

Any system of medicine needs to have a lively, active intellectual dialog in the form of journals, magazines, books etc. that can share the experiences and ideas of the profession. This journal is one contribution to this endeavor and this, the 7th edition of the new journal since its revival in 2006, after a break of over 100 years is committed to celebrating the work we are doing today. Now in 2011, we are keeping it alive and are now producing the journal online only. We want to spread the work of the journal, not only in California but in the rest of North America and beyond. There is no need now to be limited by geographical barriers. This journal has articles on a variety of subjects. It explores the work of homeopaths in Ghana, Africa and other parts of the globe.

by Richard Hiltner, MD

A brief review of the activities of the California Homeopathic Medical Society

by Carol Boyce, MCH, CCH, RSHom(NA)

This is an interesting report on the first ever International Conference on Homeopathy in the Developing World- a gathering of diverse humanity, but all with a particular shared experience, a group used to working out in the field, used to relying on their own resources, used to living on the edge, and to putting themselves on the frontline for the greater good.

By Harry van der Zee, MD

The author has explained with a lot of illustrative cases how we can treat endemic and collective trauma effectively and thus by using a genus epidemicus approach heal the collective and prevent whatever else would have grown out of the trauma – repeated trauma, epidemic diseases, chronic diseases. He emphasizes that we can treat epidemics effectively, with no side-effects and ignorable costs neither. The consequence is that in countries lacking homeopathic skills nevertheless all suffering from epidemic diseases can be treated homeopathically. All that is needed is a short training and a simple network of storage and distribution. This article also opens your eyes to the fact that classical homeopathy and clinical homeopathy are allies instead of foes and together can successfully answer to the needs of our time.

by Simon Taffler PCH RSHom

This is a transcript of the welcome address to a summit to re-vision the future with a homeopathic mindset that existing and future patients understand and can trust. A trust that is rock solid and invincible, and one that can’t be undermined by inflammatory press reports.

by Angie Metzger, RSHom;

This article is a report on the Ghana Homeopathy Project, run by a small team of homeopaths in the U.K. (Linda Shannon, Angie Metzger and Sheila Ryan) and supported by volunteers from all over the world. From humble beginnings the Project since has become rooted in Ghana and is a UK registered charity, committed to ensuring accountability and adherence to the objectives set out to meet. 

From its inception the Project team has aimed to promote homeopathy in partnership with local community developments and initiatives in Ghana. This means establishing sustainable and affordable homeopathic clinics in partnership with community initiatives, providing short courses in homeopathic 1st aid, supervision to the local trainee homeopaths, running low cost community clinics and to educate communities in health matters, hygiene and diet with a view to disease prevention and to maintain health within the community.

by Richard Pitt

Richard Pitt, former Director of the Pacific Academy, San Francisco spent over 8 months in Ghana as the Project’s volunteer and initiated a two year professional training program in Accra. This articles describes his experiences in treating the local population with homeopathy.

by Dada Daneshananda

This is an exhaustive newsletter of the activities and achievements of AMURT in West Africa.

By Peter Tumminello

The information in this article is gathered from 10 years of proving experience and 16 years of prescribing these medicines clinically. Over those 10 proving years a core group of 10 individuals and sixty-six others who attended between one and six provings worked to produce the foundation material which underpins all that I and my associates have written in ‘Twelve Jewels’. In addition to this, many hundreds of hours were spent in discussing, distilling, analyzing and understanding this material in the light of long term experience and the application of the remedies in a clinical setting.

This produced a deeper understanding and the ability to write about these medicines in a grounded and penetrating way in all the arenas that comprise the human epic: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. The results have been gladdening to all who receive and prescribe them with due attention to their enormous healing and transforming potentials.

by Peter Tumminello

This case involved a woman, age 20, who had made substantial improvement in chronic fatigue of seven years standing, and a painful condition of the TM joint with Phosphorus and Hypericum. On this occasion she complained of headaches that ‘split me down the middle’. She was an intuitive type and since the headaches began she decided to work on her masculinity/femininity balance. 

by Barbara Seideneck, CHom, CCH, RSHom (NA)

Five different groups of students of the Homeopathy School of Colorado proved this remedy over a period of five years (42 provers).  A strong resemblance to the substance was evident in dreams of caves, crowded rooms, levels of high and low, up and down and openings with light. Mental themes relating to the substance include extreme clarity, a feeling of being drunk, and excessive mental energy. The list of physical symptoms is substantial; the proving showed Amethysts strong affinity for head pains, female symptoms and nerve involvement of the extremities.

by Deirdre Holmes

The actinides, or radioactive elements, belong to the 7th and final row of the periodic table; they relate to extreme or final stages of life, and the ailments of these times. In physical form, these substances have immense capacity to destroy, either by inducing serious or fatal illness or from the effects of nuclear weapons, or from their capacity to pervert the course of natural existence via damaging genetic change. Yet, paradoxically, they can too offer hope for life, through radiotherapy treatment for disease, medical imaging for pathology that would otherwise be hidden, and in homeopathic usage.

by Dana Ullman (Extracted from the Homeopathic Revolution)

This is indeed a fascinating story of Charles (“Boss”) Kettering (1876–1958) (who served as vice president of General Motors, and was widely recognized as the greatest American inventor and engineer since Thomas Edison) and his affinity and contributions towards to homeopathy. It is also delves into the history of animosity of the AMA towards homeopathy and how the in-fighting between groups of homeopaths shaped the future of homeopathy in the USA.

by Ildiko Ran

Healing through Homeopathy has many innate attributes that are not fully utilized as practiced by the majority of today’s homeopaths. The vast amount of clinical and research material from the field of psychology has many answers homeopaths do not pay attention to. On the other hand, there is a growing need in the field of mental health to recognize the body’s role in psychological processes: a field, where homeopaths can contribute with their understanding of the body- mind connection.

A thought provoking article by Carol Boyce:

Do we truly trust in the effectiveness of homeopathy? In the power of its transformative process – for the individual, for global health, for the consciousness of the planet itself? We can’t have it both ways and we do ourselves and homeopathy a disservice if we try. Either we are convinced of our own worth and stand confidently (not arrogantly) in the knowledge that homeopathy is a system of medicine that works, is safe, effective, environmentally sustainable and inexpensive, and that we are in the company of half a billion other users. Or we doubt ourselves in the face of the opposition railed against us – in which case, we should stop struggling and seek out another vocation.

by Varda Wilensky, RSHom(NA), CCH

This essay is an attempt to describe the homeopathic challenges and lesson learnt in the process of treating side effects of conventional cancer treatments.

by Richard Pitt

This book is a fascinating and informative exploration into Lyme Disease and the homeopathic treatment of this disease. The relevance of knowing whether a case may be attributable to Lyme infection is discussed in detail by Alex and his conclusions are important in the broader homeopathic discussion of the relevance in having a diagnosis, or knowing the bacterial origin of a disease and the chronic susceptibilities that may lead to chronic complications of an infection. One of the most important contributions of the book is an exploration of the remedy Aurum arsenicosum as one of the most “specific” remedies for chronic Lyme cases.