Homeopathy for Parents and Other Caregivers: Introductory Class with Didi Pershouse, CCH
Homeopathic medicine is one of the most sustainable forms of medicine and well-suited to home care for both adults and children as it is safe, easy to use, inexpensive, and environmentally sound. It is used extensively by primary care doctors in Europe and India. Clinical trials have shown homeopathy to be very effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Knowing how to use a homeopathic first-aid kit and look up remedies in a “repertory” are going to be essential community health care skills for a post-oil economy (as they were for working-class communities in 19th century New England.)
Here are some cases I have treated recently that could have easily been treated at home if someone in the patient’s family had taken this class:
1. Someone broke out in hives from emotional upset, and the hives weren’t going away even after a full day and night. A single dose of homeopathic apis took them away within half an hour.
2. A woman had a croupy cough that persisted long after her cold symptoms went away. A dose of homeopathic spongia took care of it.
4. A man had continuing swelling and pain in his leg a month later after a skiing injury. After two days on arnica, the swelling and pain were gone.
In this class you will learn the basic principles of homeopathy: how it works, how it is different from naturopathic and herbal medicine, how to look things up in homeopathic reference books, and which kinds of symptoms you can treat at home safely and inexpensively with homeopathy–and which cases you should leave to a professional physician or homeopath. We will also be looking at some research studies on homeopathy and how homeopathy has been used in epidemic illnesses in the past and present. You will also learn what sorts of conditions should be treated by a professional homeopath, or seen by an MD. This class stands on its own but will also serve as a foundation for future advanced classes on differentiating remedies for:
Colds and Flus
Epidemic Illness
Hiking and Outdoor Injuries
Children’s Illnesses
Gardener’s Aches and Pains
and more…
WHEN: Saturday, September 26th 1-4:30 pm, (the same class will be offered again on November 21st.)
COST:$45
WHERE: Upper Valley Food Coop, White River Junction, VT
To sign up or for more information call (802) 785-2503
or email sustainablemedicine@gmail.com
About the Instructor:
Nationally certified homeopath Didi Pershouse, CCH, LAc, has provided gentle and affordable health care for over 15 years.She is co-author of the latest homeopathytextbook: Vital Expression: A Manual on Homeopathic Casetaking, and was editor of the preparatory course for the national exam in Homeopathy.She is the founder of The Center for Sustainable Medicine, and the Two Rivers Clinic in Thetford Center. You can read her Sustainable Medicine Manifesto online at www.sustainablemedicine.org
A recent article by Dr. Molly Punzo, M.D., shows that homeopathy may well be our best bet for treatment of Swine Flu , H1-N1. Historically, homeopathy has an excellent track record in treating epidemic illness, without the side effects of anti-viral medicines and vaccines–which are also slow to develop and unable to keep up with the brilliant mutations of ever-changing viruses.
Mothers and fathers are the first line of care for most children’s health issues. It is up to parents to decide when to call the doctor, and what to do at home. Homeopathy is well suited to home care as it is safe, easy to use, inexpensive, and environmentally sound. It is used extensively in Europe and India, where it is practiced by MDs. Clinical trials have shown homeopathy to be very effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Children respond quickly to homeopathic care even with difficult to treat conditions such as tracheal malacia, RSV, allergies, nightmares, and behavior issues (though these should be treated by a professional homeopath.
In this class you will learn the basic principles of homeopathy: what it is, how it works, and how you can safely treat many of your family’s short-term health problems such as bee stings, fevers, colds, coughs, headaches, bruises, indigestion, poison-ivy, and more with the use of inexpensive homeopathic remedies.You will also learn when such conditions should be referred to a pediatrician or other health care professional.
Saturday, February 21st12-4 pm$40
Thetford Center, Vermont (see directions page)
To sign up or for more information call (802) 785-2503
Julian Winston, (1941-2005) was one of our best scholars and historians of Homeopathy. His article about homeopathy in the treatment of epidemics has been widely republished. I include it here as it is becoming more relevant each year as global warming and antibiotic-resistant bacteria create new generations of epidemic illness that standard pharmaceutical medicine is unprepared for.
Homeopathy, on the other hand, is far more flexible than pharmaceutical medicine, and is routinely used to treat epidemics in India and other countries.
Some History of the Treatment of Epidemics with Homeopathy
by Julian Winston
From its earliest days, homeopathy has been able to treat epidemic diseases with a substantial rate of success, when compared to conventional treatments. It was these successes that placed the practice of homeopathy so firmly in the consciousness of people world-wide. (more…)
In this systems model of homeopathy, each person or organism contains patterned information about all the other organisms in the larger system of the universe. Theoretically, a healthy person should be able to draw on resources from any other substance at an appropriate time, and move fluidly through life using different energy patterns as they are needed—both in the outer world, and in the inner workings of the body itself. When cleaning one’s house, a person draws on mineral energy to create structure and order out of chaos, putting thing in their proper place, and lining things up into neat and predictable rows. In the human body, minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and silica create structure in forming bones, teeth, nails, and hair. Other minerals function to break down and rearrange other structures, form bonds, and convert energy into matter, and matter into energy.
When attacked by an assailant, that same person should draw on animal energy for survival—to run away quickly, hide, or fight back. (more…)
