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This practical approach to homeopathy teaches readers how to promote healing in themselves and their loved ones--in their own homes.

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Homeopathy

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 décembre 2004
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781591206422
Langue	English

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The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCabe, Vinton.
Household homeopathy : a safe and effective approach to wellness for the
whole family / by Vinton McCabe.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59120-642-2
ISBN 1-59120-070-9 (alk. paper)
1. Homeopathy. 2. Self-care, Health. I. Title.

RX73.M378 2004
615.5'32—dc22
2004020643
Copyright © 2005 by Vinton McCabe
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editor: Karen Anspach
Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Author’s Note: On Patients and Practitioners
Preface: Who Is John Scudder?
Introduction: Homeopathy in Your Household
P ART O NE : Objective Diagnosis
1. What Is Homeopathy?
2. What Is “Objective” Homeopathy?
3. Case Taking in Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Pattern to Follow
4. Homeopathic Case Taking: Gathering and Considering Patient Information
5. Putting It Together: Managing the Acute Case
P ART T WO : An Objective Materia Medica of Common Acute Homeopathic Remedies
Introduction
THE REMEDIES Aconitum Napellus (Aconite) Allium Cepa Antimonium Tartaricum Apis Mellifica Arnica Montana Arsenicum Album Belladonna Bryonia Alba Calcarea Carbonica Calendula Officinalis Camphora Carbo Vegetabilis Causticum Chamomilla China Officinalis Cina Cocculus Coffea Cruda Colocynthis Dulcamara Eupatorium Perfoliatum Euphrasia Ferrum Phosphoricum Gelsemium Hepar Sulphuris Hypericum Ignatia Amara Ipecacuanha (Ipecac) Kali Bichromicum Lachesis Ledum Palustre Lycopodium Magnesia Phosphorica Mercurius Vivus Natrum Muriaticum Nux Vomica Petroleum Phosphorus Podophyllum Pulsatilla Rhus Toxicodendron Rumex Crispus Ruta Graveolens Sabadilla Sepia Silicea (Silica) Spigelia Spongia Tosta Staphysagria Sulphur Symphytum Urtica Urens
P ART T HREE : Acute Applications for Homeopathic Remedies
Introduction
First Aid
Acute Ailments
Homeopathic Band-Aids

Conclusion: Toward an Objective Homeopathy
Appendices
1. A Bibliography of Books Related to This Volume
2. A Source Guide to Homeopathic Remedies,Organizations, Websites, and Materials
3. TheWisdom of John Scudder,

About the Author
We believe that the expressions of disease are uniform, and always have the same meaning, and that the actions of remedies are something definite and uniform— ‘that like causes always produce like effects.’ If we properly study our cases, so as to determine a definite condition of disease, and know the direct actions of remedies in such conditions, we will have a certain and rational practice of medicine. —J OHN S CUDDER , S PECIFIC D IAGNOSIS
A UTHOR’S N OTE

On Patients and Practitioners
For the purposes of the study of homeopathy, and for simplicity’s sake, I have decided to refer to all those who are in need of homeopathic treatment as “patients.” I do not use this term to imply the traditional doctor/patient relationship as it exists in Western medicine.
Further, for the purposes of this book, I use the term “practitioner” as a general purpose term for all those who make use of over-the-counter homeopathic remedies for self-treatment, and to assist their loved ones and pets in times of need.
When referring to those who have medical degrees that allow them to make use of homeopathic treatments as part of their therapeutic processes, I use the term “medical professional.”
Finally, please be aware that since this book’s focus is on the acute cases the reader may encounter in household situations, I have opted, again for simplicity’s sake, to make use of the masculine pronoun “he” in these pages for all patients, whether male or female. I do this because, while homeopathic remedies may be somewhat gender linked in their constitutional use, these same remedies are gender neutral when they are used in the treatment of those with acute ailments. (The terms “acute” and “constitutional” are explained later in this book.)
P REFACE

Who Is John Scudder?
S
o, just who is John Scudder, anyway? Or, more correctly, who was he, as he has been dead for a good long time now.
The same question may be asked about Samuel Hahnemann, although more readers are likely to have some sort of an answer for that name. But what about Stuart Close? Or Margery Blackie? Or John Clarke? Or James Tyler Kent?
For these names, and for hundreds of others, the answer is the same: they have each contributed a concept, or, in some cases, many different concepts, that combined together have created modern homeopathy. They are the forefathers and mothers of a healing practice considered to be just over two hundred years old, that shot from obscurity to being a household name in the past handful of years. Certainly homeopathic remedies like Arnica, once considered arcane, have become common in American medicine chests.
While most readers may instantly recognize Samuel Hahnemann as the “Father of Homeopathy,” they must also realize that no one person could have created a practice so complex and based on such a wide range of principles and philosophies, as homeopathy. Indeed, a study of the history of homeopathy reveals that many of the ideas that would one day be termed homeopathic were practiced by Hippocrates himself in ancient Greece, and by the wildman-healer Paracelsus, whose methods and origins of practice have largely been lost to the ages. It seems that the drumbeat of homeopathy has always been a part of medicine. Homeopathic concepts have been practiced by herbalists and healers in the Western world from a time that predates written history. Homeopathic concepts are also present in Eastern medicine, as we can see in the practice of acupuncture, which works in a manner closely related to homeopathy. The Eastern concept of treating the patient as a whole being rather than a collection of symptoms, organs, chemicals, and the like reinforces the parallels between Asian medicine and homeopathy.
But more on this later, and more on Chinese medicine in Chapter Four. Here I am discussing this book, Household Homeopathy, and why I decided to put it together. After fifteen years of teaching classes in homeopathy to medical practitioners and lay persons, and after fifteen years of tackling the role of president for the Connecticut Homeopathic Association (a role that always seems to involve begging for money or services from someone so that the not-for-profit educational group could continue to function), I decided that it was time to step aside and let others take on the tasks of teaching, organizing, fund-raising, and class production.
I also decided to try to go out with a bang.
I put together a class called Household Homeopathy. With it, I tried to do something new—I decided to treat acute homeopathy just as seriously as practitioners treat constitutional treatments. Acute treatments are those whose goal is to restore “status quo”—to restore the patient to the level of health they had before the onset of illness. Constitutional treatments are those that seek to permanently improve the overall or given state of the patient’s health; they are both curative and preventative.
Most classes in acute homeopathy are taught for the sake of homemakers who want to know what to do when their child gets a cold or falls down on the playground. And laudable as that goal is, these classes are usually as limited in content as they are in attendees’ expectations.
I decided to try to create the most in-depth and fully rounded class in acute homeopathy possible. It would be a year in the teaching, and each month’s lecture would build upon what had come before and lead into what would follow next. The idea is that acute prescribing is, in actuality, not easier than constitutional prescribing: it is simply different.
It is my belief that the acute prescriber has to know more about the materia medica (the sources, nature, properties, and preparation) of homeopathic remedies—and has to have more working knowledge of homeopathy in general—than do constitutional prescribers.
How many times have we gone to a degreed professional homeopath and had our case taken, only to have the homeopath say that he will call in a day or two with his prescription? Such a thing cannot happen in acute homeopathy because there often is no time in an acute case for deep reflection. The practitioner must be ready with a remedy in mind and an action to be taken.
And I often have been given a remedy by a constitutional practitioner only to have it changed a month later when it failed to work. The acute practitioner, again, needs to get it right the first time. He does not have the grace period of trying one remedy, and then another.
So, you see, those lay persons who l