INTRODUCTION TO HOMOEOPATHY

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WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT RECENT WORKSHOPS
"Loads of information, remedies to use ... good grounding. Excellent. The course exceeded my expectations. Good visuals. Well illustrated. Excellent handouts. Loved (the) additional reading list." (Lynda Peachey, Community Development Worker, Edinburgh 2/10/11)

"Excellent, thorough and well delivered: relaxed and informal. Covered all expectations and more, especially discovering miasms. Excellent value." (Gillian Drysdale, Drug Treatment, Joppa, Edinburgh. 2/10/11)

"Good, plenty of information and pointers to more information. It helped me to further understand general health and not to rely on Western medicines ... whets the appetite for more." (Alice Wilson, Civil Servant, Edinburgh, 20/8/11)

"Very informative and easy to understand. Good course structure and room for discussion and questions." (Pat Boyd, Podiatry, Edinburgh 20/8/11)

PROGRAMME AIM: that by the end of the workshop you'll have a basic grasp of homoeopathic philosophy and be looking forward to using homoeopathic remedies at home

So, what's included in the course?
- The Four (4) types of medicine and where Homoeopathy fits in
- The Three (3) issues you need to know about homoeopathic History and Background
- The Two (2) vital ideas you need to know about the Law of Similars
- The Single most important thing you need to know about homoeopathic provings
- The Essential Inspiration Missing from modern medicine: and what are suppression and miasms?
- and what are the Real Causes of Disease; how does illness invade our bodies and, importantly - what to do about it!

We shall also cover:
- Remedies (homoeopathic medicines) in general: potentising, keeping and using them
- 9 important remedies for Children & Adults: how they work and how to use them

COURSE NOTES and morning and afternoon refreshments are included, but not lunch (Bring packed lunch or visit nearby restaurant)

Fees Non-patients £60: Patients £40. Payable with booking. (Fully refundable if you cancel up to 48 hours before course starts, after which only half refundable. Full fees are refundable to you if WE have to cancel.)
Access The location (in Murrayfield) lies on Lothian Bus routes 12, 26, 31 & 48 and parking is usually available in nearby streets. Alternatively, the address (which will be sent when your booking is confirmed) is 5 minutes by taxi from Haymarket Railway Station. The 48 bus is a park and ride bus from Edinburgh airport.

TO BOOK: contact Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott at jncw@enhc.co.uk or ring 07950 012501.

Although there are several thousand substances in use as homeopathic remedies, only a proportion of these have received a proper ‘proving’. Our knowledge of the others arises in a number of ways, the most common being clinical experience.

A ‘proving’ is an experiment carried out on healthy volunteers under careful conditions to discover what happens to the health of each participant after taking the substance being ‘proved’. Only when proved on a sufficiently large number of people can one say with fair certainty that a remedy is known sufficiently well to be useful.

Once proved, we know what conditions that remedy can cure. So new provings are an important activity for homeopaths. But they take time and considerable care and patience. Provings are carried out by keen volunteers from time to time. It is not the proving itself that inhibits quick access to this new knowledge, but the care needed to carry it out and the time taken to assemble and organise, then understand, and finally tabulate in an easily understandable and useful form, the results of the proving.

Here is Uzma Ali’s contribution to the understanding of a recent proving. In due course we hope to add to this on a periodic basis.

Before you read it, you might like to reflect that the remedy is being looked at from a homeopathic point of view, and as you read through it, some of the homeopathic attitudes, ideas and ‘slang’ begin to appear in the text. To someone without a background in homeopathy, some of this will be hard to accept, because the author is assuming that the reader has a working knowledge of the subject.

As a matter of interest, Uzma's article is accessed by homoeopathic students from all over the world on a regular basis!

NEW, SMALL AND PECULIAR REMEDIES IN HOMEOPATHY an essay by Uzma Ali [click to view]