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Ideas for Change in America – Health Care Freedom

With the change in administration we will begin to see a reorganization of the medical care system and a trend toward more research. The voice of the people must be heard using internet technology as a vehicle to disseminate information, provide a forum for all points of view and new ideas, and to help connect like-minded individuals. Please participate in any way you can to promote preventative health care and complementary-alternative care opportunities initiated research and development.

First, we must applaud those who have been in the forefront of this work and have been doing studies in homeopathy. Second, we need more professionals to step up to the plate by proposing research topics and writing grants to receive funding.

• We need to stress that, unlike traditional medicine, the homeopathic approach is unique to each individual and conventional double-blind studies will not show the efficacy of our energetic remedies, except in particular situations, such as epidemic disease when a few remedies usually cover the majority of symptoms.

Change is the word for this decade:

• We must work to change the perception of homeopathy in the health care community at large and in the eyes of the general public.

• We must counter those who tag homeopathy’s positive outcomes as due to the ‘placebo’ effect, instead of it’s just due – the homeopath’s ability to discern the matching pattern and resonate remedy to the individual’s disorder based upon fundamental homeopathic principles.

There are those in the health care and science community that set out to disprove the conclusions, methods and quality of surveys and studies that are done by qualified professional homeopaths.
[see: Commentary Exploring homeopathy by E. Ernst of Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, 25 Victoria Park Road, Exeter EX2 4NT, UK printed in Preventative Medicine www.elsevier.com/locate/ypmed available online 22 June 2007 Science Direct]

On that note, we applaud Norway’s resident homeopath, A. Steinsbekk, who has published a number of papers in online health journals. The articles discuss the results of survey tabulations to dispel the notion that homeopathy simply is placebo medicine, and data analysis that shows what types of people visit a homeopath annually. The data suggests that those who regularly visit a homeopath feel that homeopathy has been beneficial to their well-being.

• More specifically, Steinsbekk tabulated a health survey given to a cross section of adults in Central Norway [65,495 participants] in 1995-1997. Variables in the analysis were age, marital status, education, being a social welfare recipient, lifestyle (daily smoker), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-T), global health perception, self-reported health complaints and a variety of diseases.

• To summarize Steinsbekk’s conclusion: Females who thought they had lower than average global health were most likely to visit a homeopath. Persons ages between 30-39 and those 60 and older, or on welfare had a small significance factor toward visiting a homeopath. If a person had Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HAD-S], hay fever, a recent health complaint or chronic disease they were rated on the scale to possibly visit a homeopath. If one was a daily smoker or widow(er) they were less likely to visit a homeopath.

• Steinsbekk also recommends that more studies on visits to homeopaths from other populations (countries, children and adolescent) are needed.

Are there other data analysts who could tabulate trends in usage of homeopathic remedies and visitations in countries around the globe?

Steinbekks says,

USA: “There was a 500% increase in overall use of homeopathy
in USA from 0.7% of the population in 1990 to 3.4% in
1997. The proportion of the users of homeopathy who visited
a practitioner in USA was stable at about 20% from
1997 to 2002 although there was a reduction in the overall
use of homeopathy in the same period.

UK: There was an increase in the proportion who had consulted a homeopath from 1.2% in 1998 to 1.9% in 2001.

Norway: There was an increase, with 1.8% of the
*Correspondence to: Aslak Steinsbekk, Department of Public
Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (NTNU), 7489 Trondheim, Norway.

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This One Is For You - Call To Action for All Homeopaths
Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell, I’ve written a couple of blogs about success.
Everyone wants to be successful and be at the top of their game.
Who doesn’t want to achieve their goals and make their dream a reality?

When someone literally tells you the game plan and suggests how to do that, what do you do?

1. Say, yeah, yeah, sure and forget about it
2. Right, I’ll put that on my to do list
3. Discuss the concept
4. Tell a friend, because two heads are better than one
5. Put at least one of those suggestions on your priority list and do it!
6. Add your own reaction to this list [comment below]

Here are four short videos talking about the basics of what I gleaned from “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell.

Number One - Ten Thousand Hours
You have taken courses, opened your office, created your letterhead and flyers, started advertising and now you are sitting there waiting for clients to knock on your door.

Build up your skill level with an investment in TIME.
We tell our clients that healing is approximately one month for every year of life.
Well, the Scale to Success is TEN THOUSAND HOURS of PRACTICE.

Number Two - The Right Place and the Right Time
Become Aware of the Opportunities That Surround You.
You are placed on earth at a specific Time and Location.
What messages are you receiving?
What direction are you moving in?
What path are you taking?

Number Three - Improve Your Social Skills
Improve your communication skills.
Advocate for Homeopathy
Attend conferences
Get out in the community and get your voice heard

Number Four - Homeopathy is Our Legacy
We are following in the footsteps of great leaders of their generations.
We are presently making our footprints in the sand. We are making an impression for future generations of what Homeopathy can do to heal the earth and the State we are presently confronting. Hahnemann had to fight for what he believed. He gained followers through the healing results of his art. Can you imagine the number of HOURS it took for him to do PROVINGS, Write up materia medica and rubrics? It must have been painstaking work. He didn’t have a computer. But he was a genius and had incredible insight into his world.

Now, we must take up the torch and light the way. It is our Right. It is our Duty!

Please become part of the homeopathic community generating new students, new programs, new journal articles, more classes and healthy interaction. Please Visit This Blog Page About Creating Success in your Life.

Obama wants to put a cap on the price big pharma can charge for new, advanced drugs meant for treating disease. How about homeopathy? It is inexpensive, safe and easy to use for many diseases that are very costly to Medicare, insurance companies and patients.

This is the time for homeopaths to get involved and tell the new government how important it is to consider homeopathy in the new health care plan. Simple studies could be set up where parents can elect to choose homeopathy for ADD, Autism, ADHD in towns where the cost of taking care of children with these disabilities is seriously reducing the other services the town can provide.

It would cost so little to implement homeopathic clinics to take care of some of these epidemics that are poorly treated by conventional medicine. Make your voice count write comments, suggestions and start to make homeopathy a household word!

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The Sensation Method is an extraordinary way to take your cases deeper and have your patient reveal the qualities of the remedy they need. This method, originated by the Bombay Group led by Dr. Rajan Sankaran, opened new avenues for us homeopaths to understand the state of our patients.

The Sensation Method is based on the most fundamental Classical Principles of homeopathy as dictated by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. The strange, rare and peculiar symptoms that we are looking for in a Sensation Method case in homeopathy are just that much more strange, rare and peculiar. We are looking for universal language that is not situational or emotional words or story based.

For example we want to know about attack, sharp, dark–not I hate my mother and can’t get along with my boss. Another example: we want to know about prickly, heat, stretchy–not I got a sunburn when I was on the beach.

When this universal language starts to form a pattern then we can recognize the kingdom and sub-kingdom. We match the homeopathic remedy that fits this pattern based on language that is strange, rare and peculiar in the most minimum dose possible. This prescribing has all the basics of homeopathy: minimum dose, like cures like, and extracting out strange, rare and peculiar symptoms.

There are many great homeopathy courses and trainings how to analyze and prescribe using the Sensation Method. What is missing is how to take the case…especially how to take the case from recognizing the kingdom and sub-kingdom to Source language where the patient actually speaks the language of the remedy they need.

There are specific techniques and ways to take a case that ensures you have a map to know where you are going, where you are in the case, and how to confirm what you are seeing. This is essential to improve your success rate in your practice and to know you are properly using the Sensation Method.

We have all seen the lucky cases where the patient only speaks about cats, everything they relate to is described in cat like terms, and then you give them the homeopathy remedy lac felinum (cat’s milk) and it’s a miracle. All their physical, mental and emotional problems are gone. It was easy, safe and happened in one visit. But how many other cases were there like this one and the patient did not need lac felinum? And you don’t know why it didn’t work.

Check out Inner Health’s Apprenticeship Training to learn how you can take a case to Source. For more information visit: http://innerhealth.us/for-homeopaths/index.html

Melissa Burch, CCH, RsHom(NA)