HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

-  Anne Vervarcke, ' Homeopathy Strange Rare and Peculiar,'  http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html   www.thewhiteroom.be (AV= Anne Vervarcke   AvdM= An van de Moortel) AvdM: Not only does it sound spooky and rather depressing, it clashes with our daily experience! After all, we are with seven billion out there! AV: I know. You shouldn't take it too literally. What it means is that everything we see is colored by our own symbolic interpretation, very much in the same way as when we see a rainbow when there is light and water in the sky at a certain angle. AvdM: But if we weren’t trained to see it that way, we would still see the same phenomenon, wouldn’t we? AV: How can we know? We can only be ourselves. We don’t know how the tree or the earthworm ‘experiences’ the rainbow. Our symbols are drawn from our sensory input and the way our brain works, both are typical for a human being. We know that certain animals perceive the world very differently than we do, bec

-  - Anne Vervarcke, ' Homeopathy Strange Rare and Peculiar,'  http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html   www.thewhiteroom.be (AV= Anne Vervarcke   AvdM= An van de Moortel) AvdM: Do we have more overlaps between science and homeopathy? AV: There are very interesting results in the so-called Human Sciences. AvdM: The science where humans are the object of research? AV: Yes, a bit funny in itself because it requires a lot of mental exercise to make a human being an ‘object of re-search’ but it is a fascinating field! Psychology, sociology, pedagogy and anthropology are relatively new domains within the scientific curriculum. What is of most im-portance to us is that all their research demonstrates that complete objectivity is not possible, although this seemed to be an imperative for a lot of people when doing scien-tific research. They had to admit that the inner world of the researcher influences the object of research; object and subject cannot be divided. AvdM: Just l

- Anne Vervarcke, ' Homeopathy Strange Rare and Peculiar,'  http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html   www.thewhiteroom.be (AV= Anne Vervarcke   AvdM= An van de Moortel) AV: Now, let’s talk about the developments in neuro-science from the last hundred years. If the 19th century mechanics were downright depressing; the 20th and 21st centuries’ discoveries were so much more exciting and inspiring! With the discovery of the hologram we could explain and understand how the human brain functions. Neurological examination like Pribram’s6 has revealed startling data. Animal experiments did not confirm the original idea that certain functions were localized in certain parts of the brain. Or to put it another way: that there was a well-localized part of the brain with which we see, a part of the brain with which we move, talk and we remember. AvdM: So, it turned out already decades ago that this was an outdated belief. AV: Yes, the invention of the hologram already dates from the

- Dr.sandip dey Dgp, WB India A pt Mrs. Ghosh Dgp came to me with her Thalassemia Type Hb E-Beta Thalassemia during 9 yrs.or more where her hb % was 6.5 gms,ESR 48 1st hr & 92 in 2nd hr with constipation, Amenorrhoea from 10 months etc . P/H Diarrhoea more times before 9 yrs , Ch Pox 26 yrs back, Cesarean done 24 yrs back Health disturb more after this Cesarean . F/H Father Osteoporosis knee pain Elder Unkle Asthma Elder Unkle's two daughters & two sons -Thalassemia & died . Her elder Brother - Thalassemia Unti Asthma/ Hypertension , Grand mother StrokeA/I R/T Chilly Aversion Rainy season Mind Shy Like sour/ chilly/warm foods & drinks, Company avèrs Though all rubrics indicate two medicines Ars alb & Cupr met, but we consider 1 st w.r.t. P/H & F/H Staphysagria , because pt was more sick after cesarean section 24 yrs back & our potency was 0/1 A.M & just after 25 days her hb % rise 9 gms, ESR 24. Now we can feel it that the importency of P/H m

- Anne Vervarcke,  http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html  , www.thewhiteroom.be  (AV= Anne Vervarcke   AvdM= An van de Moortel) AV: Isn’t it! Something as ‘basic’ as mass is so difficult to comprehend; it escapes our imagination and defini-tions. The presence of a ‘something’ that can be shaped is an obvious prerequisite for ‘mass’. Goswami argues that this ‘something’ is consciousness: ‘The unseen universe is necessary to explain the seen.’3 Isolated electrons are an ab-straction; they are lifted out of the universe. There is no such thing as ‘an electron’.“The continuum can be divided into parts but the properties of the continuum cannot be found in the isolated parts. The discontinuous parts can-not be conceived without their continuous relationships. Likewise atoms and molecules would be incapable of ex-istence and not perceivable in the absence of a continuum bearing them”, David Bohm.4 said Each part influences the whole. In layman’s language this means that all parts know

- Anne Vervarcke, ' Homeopathy Strange Rare and Peculiar,'  http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html  www.thewhiteroom.be   (AV= Anne Vervarcke   AvdM= An van de Moortel) AV: That is a good idea.  First, I would like to go over a few things we went over during the training. Science as we know it today has in-doctrinated us with the idea that the universe is a kind of machine that moves according to certain laws, called natural laws. Within this view, the human consciousness is considered an epiphenomenon of the material brain, which is the basis or the origin of our reality. With the discovery of DNA we cracked the human code and when each gene has been mapped, it will become possible to create life, without the help of God. As everyone knows this optimis-tic prediction has not quite worked out the way scientists promised at the end of the last century. Nevertheless, there remains a stubborn group of materialistic scientists denying any other purpose in life as a whole than

- Anne Vervarcke, Homeopathy Strange Rare and Peculiar,  http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html  www.thewhiteroom.be   With life expectancy continuously growing and the increase in research, study, work and contemplation hap-pening, our amazement about “all that is” is growing too. Amazement is not only a precondition for the philosopher within us but a state of mind that motivates us for art and science. It is the curiosity to try to fathom mysteries with-in us and around us. In the course of a process it seems that the more we learn, the more we realize we don’t know anything and the bigger the mysteries that surround us be-come. Springtime, a growing tree from a budding seed, the return of migratory birds, our subconscious or intuition that guides us, the birth and death of loved ones: its impli-cations and vastness escape our comprehension. And yet, the mystery of life in all its varieties does not cause chaos but rather fills us with deep respect, humility and joy in the knowl

- Anne Vervarcke, " Homeopathy Strange Rare and Peculiar, " http://www.thewhiteroom.be/Books.html  www.thewhiteroom.be   More than twenty years ago I founded the school Center for ClassicalHomeopathyorCKH,createdafiveyeartrainingfor classical homeopaths and trained many people. Organizing the school, the teachers’ team, teaching in all classes and having a busy practice meant a fulfilling but hectic life. With the idea of ‘slowing down’ and ‘doing something dif-ferent than homeopathy from dusk till dawn’ I handed the school to Christel Lombaerts, a highly competent student and later colleague in my practice. About a year later, I had started my own publishing company (The White Room1), published two books 2, managed an international work-shop3 and established a post-graduate program and Master Classes4. With the day-to-day responsibilities for the CKH5 no longer there, I was also able to focus also on international seminars and trainings. This wasn’t exactly ‘taking i

- Anne Vervarcke, It is my conviction that everything we can know is already there and that individual acquiring of knowledge is only a matter of connecting to this source. In order for the new information to become a new insight, we need to under-stand and integrate what we have just learned. This is a process that can happen in different stages; sometimes we understand it right away, but more often we need to go over something several times. We might need to hear or see or think something over and over again before we get it. Have you ever experienced coming to a complete understanding of some piece of advice or information you have received or shared many times before? It seems that it is not this information or this truth itself that is expanding but our capacity to understand, which seems to be closely linked to a growing life experience and deliberate research. This way our insights gain both depth and breadth. We’re not only learning new things, but are getting a deeper unde

- BORLAND Douglas M, The next problem I want to touch on is the patient suffering from acute pain.  Pain killers are a little difficult to systematize, and I thought probably the most helpful way would be to consider the cases of acute pain which one meets with in general practice, and these I think one can classify to a certain extent. One gets acute neuralgias, acute inflammation of one of the serous membranes, and acute colic. I think that more or less covers the ordinary conditions one meets with in general practice.  To tackle these from the homoeopathic standpoint is not very difficult. If one considers the acute neuralgias from the prescribing point of view one takes the character of the pain and the circumstances which make it better or worse, and to a lesser extent it s situation. It is on these that one mainly prescribes : in other words, on the character of the pain and the modalities. It is exactly the same as regards serous inflammations; again it is partly on the si

- BORLAND Douglas M,  If you go to a patient who is suffering from violent earache, acute stabbing pains in the the ear, and tenderness over the mastoid region, when you first look at it from the homeopathic standpoint you are completely lost. After a little experience you find that these cases are very satisfactory, you get your relief astonishingly quickly, and often a case which you expect would require incision of the membrane within the next few hours quickly subsides ad the patient is comfortable when you go back in the evening. That is the sort of thing you should be able to do in these acute conditions.  In cases of acute otitis with violent pains all round the the mastoid region there are three or four drugs I want to consider.  Supposing you take the the case which has come on very suddenly, with a history of the patient having been out in a very cold north-east wind, he is intensely restless, the pains are very violent, usually burning in character. He is irritable, a

- BORLAND Douglas M. There is another group of conditions of the same type, the post-herpetic neuralgias, which are sometimes very troublesome. You know the ordinary shingles neuralgia where the patient comes with acute burning pain along the course of the intercostal nerve and gives a history that he has had a small crop of shingles, very often so light that he paid little or no attention to it. Well, if you can get the same modalities as you got in the facial neuralgias under Mag. Phos., that remedy will often relieve. Much more commonly you find that these post-herpetic cases respond to Ranunculus. The particular features for this drug are the history of herpes, the very sharp shooting pains extending along the course of the intercostal nerve, that the painful area is very sensitive to touch, that the pain is induced or aggravated by it, and you may get the statement that the patient is extremely conscious of any weather change because it will cause a return of the neuralgia aga

- BORLAND Douglas M. Then you get another type of neuralgia - the sciaticas. And there again you can get helpful leads. In cases of sciatica, in which I can get no indications at all but the ordinary classical symptoms of sciatica, that is to say, acute pain down the sciatic nerve, which is aggravated by any movement, is very sensitive to cold, more comfortable if kept quiet and warm, then it depends which leg is involved what drug I give. If it is a right sided sciatica I give Mag. Phos., but if it is a left sided I give Colocynth. And you would be astonished how often one gets almost immediate relief from either Mag. Phos. or Colocynth.  Some sciatica patients are frightfully uncomfortable the longer they keep still, they have got to start moving, and there are two drugs which seem to cover the majority of these cases. If the patient is warm-blooded, and the sciatic pains tend to be more troublesome when warm, particularly warmth of bed, and rather better when moving about, in t

- Anne Vervarcke,  www.thewhiteroom.be  , http://walkforhomeopathy.wordpress.com/ , http://annevervarcke.com/blog/ In a very condensed way I tried to give a taste of what I call the ‘Vital Approach’. The most characteristic feature of this method is how to spot the vital disturbance on the levels of experience. Although it’s only a schematic representation of the mind and body unity of a human being, the five level diagram, as I use it, isn’t coincidental. In geometry as well as in numerology the number fives symbolizes the human being and self-regeneration of life. The body is represented in its two aspects: matter and energy as is the mind: thoughts and emotions. In our homeopathic jargon we are treating the disturbed ‘vital force’ or ‘dynamis’ that lies beyond mind and body but expresses itself on them. If we can guide the patient along the levels of experience during case taking and we can make him express the disturbance of his vital force (his vital disturbance) in w