Homeopathy: Principles and Practice

From the Book

• Based on many years of clinical experience with case studies
• Continually refers real and complex situations back to the principles underlying homeopathy
• Draws on the classic works of Hahnemann, Kent and Vithoulkas
• Covers important subjects such as the second prescription, allopathic drug withdrawal, complex cases and miasms
• Clearly laid out with useful diagrams, further reading and exercises to each chapter

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Author

Ernest Roberts began his study of homeopathy in the 1970s, at first with Thomas Maughan and then at the newly founded College of Homeopathy in London.

In 1983 Ernest returned to his home town of Manchester and began a full time practice. He founded the North West College of Homeopathy in 1994

Ernest has co-authored the popular desktop guide "Warning Signs and Similar Symptoms" and contributes regularly to "The Homeopath" and "Homeopathic Links".

He continues to practice and lecture at the college he founded and elsewhere in the UK

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Contents

CHAPTER I
A PROFILE OF HEALTH
Introduction
Models of Mankind
To Cure or Not to Cure
The Vital Force and the Dynamic Nature of Disease
The Direction of Cure
The Requirements for Health
The Hierarchy of Sacrifice
How Disease Arises
The Meaning of Symptoms
Susceptibility
Conclusion
Notes
The Four Kingdoms
Natural Hierarchy Systems and Organs
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
The Seven Main Chakras

CHAPTER II
A PROFILE OF DISEASE
Categories of Disease - Acute Endemic Chronic Epidemic
Symptoms - What are they?
Causes
What is to be cured
Provings
Potentization - Dynamic Medicines
Similars - an empirical law
Enhancing symptoms
Suppression
Notes
The Care and Storage of Homeopathic remedies.


CHAPTER III
A PROFILE OF THE PATIENT
The Hierarchy of Symptoms
Totality and Beyond
Case Taking - The First Interview
- Hints on How to Question the Patient
- Assessment of Case Notes
Introduction to the Repertory.
Notes
Definitions of symptoms
Casetaking Checklist Chronic Disease.
Casetaking Checklist Acute Disease.
Casetaking Checklist Babies, Infants and Children
Casetaking Checklist Old People
Kent's Correspondence of Organs

CHAPTER IV
OBSTACLES TO CURE - MIASMS, AN INTRODUCTION
What are Miasms?
Hahnemann's Three Miasms - Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis
Additional Miasms
Identifying Miasmatic Influences
Prescribing on Miasms
Conclusion
Notes
Classification of Disease
Some major anti-miasmatic remedies

CHAPTER V
ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE CASES
Causation
Vaccination
Diagnosis
Prognosis
What is to be Cured
Case Analysis - Different Types of Cases
Different Approaches to Case Analysis
The Origin of different types of Symptoms
Before the First Prescription
Notes
Case Example
Alternative Methods of Diagnosis
Therapies Conflicting with Homeopathy
Therapies Complementary to Homeopathy
Background Factors Affecting Prognosis

CHAPTER VI POTENCY
CHOICE AND THE FIRST PRESCRIPTION
Introduction
The Medicine
The Patient
The Disease
Measuring the Strength of Disease and of Potency
Obstacles to Cure
Choosing Potency
Acute Disease
The First Prescription
Methods of Administration of Remedies

CHAPTER VII
CONTINUING CARE OF THE PATIENT. REACTION
Introduction
The Second Interview
The Nature and Quality of Reaction
Guidelines on Remedy Reaction
Signs of Change - Aggravation of symptoms
- Removal of symptoms
- Amelioration of symptoms
- No Change in symptoms
- The Appearance of New Symptoms: acute and chronic
The Constitutional Prescription
The Second Prescription
Patients Who Relapse
Notes - The Treatment of Patients taking Allopathic Drugs

CHAPTER VIII
MIASMS AND COMPLEX CASES
Introduction
Primary and Secondary Miasm
Contagion of Chronic Disease
Additional Miasms
Practical Definition of Miasm
Limitations of Miasm Theory
Value of Miasm Theory in Practice
Nosodes
How Complex Cases Arise
Prescribing in Multi Layered Cases - How to find the top layer.
Acute
Chronic
Prescribing in one sided cases.
Notes - Some Guiding Qualities of the Miasms.

CHAPTER IX
ADVANCED CASE TAKING AND ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX CASES
Introduction
Advanced Case Taking And Case Analysis
Components of Case Analysis
Repertory
Complexity of Cases and Difficulties of Analysis
Symptoms as Changes in Sensation and Function
Potency choice and Repetition

CHAPTER X
THE TREATMENT OF ADVANCED PATHOLOGY
Introduction
Incurable Patients
Intercurrent Remedies and Lack of Reaction
Palliation and Euthanasia
Clinical Examination and Diagnosis
Advanced Pathology
Deep acting and Complementary Remedies
Expectations and Prognosis (Aude Sapere)
Potency Choice in Advanced Pathology
Therapeutics
Alternative Models of Prescribing:
Sequential Prescribing
Toxic Overload Theory
Eizayaga model of Layers
Jan Scholten's Method of Group Analysis
Conclusion
Notes
Kent's few acute diseases
Kent's View of Indiscriminate Prescribing

CHAPTER XI
THE CONTEXT OF HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE
Introduction
Communication skills
Ethics - Boundaries
Ethics - Bounds of Competence
Self Awareness and Self Development

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