Programme for the Homotoxicology Course

(Homeopathy as an Adjunct Therapy) Homoeopathic Principles and First Aid Homoeopathy(Saturday, 1 April 12.30 - 6.30 pm)

The aim in this part of the Course is to cover the elements of homoeopathic philosophy, the concept of treating like with like (i.e. Hahnemann's Similia similibus curentur) and giving an appreciation of what goes into making up the character of a remedy. We provide this appreciation through providing thumbnail sketches of a few well-known remedies, especially some that embody both physical and mental/emotional aspects, referred to as 'mentals'. The fact that these comprise an important component of the character of remedies will be brought out clearly.

This is necessary both as a prerequisite for using the remedies yourself for first aid but also to pave the way for understandig the principles of use of the anti-homotoxic remedies that follow in the second weekend of this Course.

We provide also a brief account of how remedies are made and what the different potencies mean, together with an idea of how homoeopaths decide which potency to use in a particular case. In using homoeopathic remedies as an adjunct therapy only low potencies are normally involved, leaving the use of high potencies to the fully trained homoeopath (anti-homotoxicology remediees are all low potency remedies). Nonetheless students should have some general knowledge of the theory covering both high and low potencies.

Next follows an introduction to the use of classical remedies in a first aid setting. The emphasis here is upon being both simple and practical, helping students to know which remedies to use and the potencies to use when problems crop up in our use of wholistic naturopathic medicine, including Nutritional Medicine. These treatable extra problems that occur in the course of a treatment programme may be incidents that would have happened to the patient anyway, either with or without their treatment. Examples would be a bout of influenza, a frozen shoulder, ear ache or some mouth ulcers. Or they may be similar events that occur in the context of a healing or eliminatory response to treatment. Such responses may be harmless, though uncomfortable and require relief. This should cover treatment-related cystitis, ear infections and gum infections, to mention only a few examples.

The general aim will be to help students to keep their patients away from allopathic treatment that would interfere with the work (so long as it is wise to do so), while still dealing with the problems that occur.

This section will include such questions as where to buy the remedies and what potencies to employ for first aid purposes.

Understanding the Homoeopathic Miasms(Sunday, 2 April 10 am - 2.30 pm)
This College's former Nutritional Medicine Course (now at TVU) offers a Distance Learning section that covers a description of the miasms and their relationship to Nutritional Diagnosis. This In-Class taught Course covers this same ground in an interactive situation in which the material is delivered by a practicing classical homoeopath. The aim is to make the miasms come alive as a real concept and to get closer to the personality and character of each miasm. This applies to the three miasms of Samuel Hahnemann, Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis and also the complex miasms, the Tubercular and Carcinosin miasms.

We aim to produce an understanding of both the emotions and the physical manifestations of each of these miasms and of the ways in which the physical and the emotional interact and drive one another. One should come away from this session with an increased sense of the reality of miasms and the ways in which the concept may be used. It probably is true that in Nutritional Medicine itself the main use of the miasms is to enable the practitioner to better understand the depth of disease. However, this exercise goes further so as to prepare the way towards prescribing remedies that are determined by the predominant miasm of the patient and that are then given with the aim of influencing that miasm.

A First Look at Miasmic Prescribing(Sunday, 2 April 2.30-4.00 pm)
In the main the task of addressing, and changing, the homoeopathic miasms in individual patients is mainly the territory of the fully trained classical homoeopath. That statement needs to be understood so that those of us who use remedies as adjunct therapy do not try to extend ourselves too far. We should not attempt treatment aimed at miasmic prescribing in the classical sense.

Nonetheless, it is best for those of us who might want to make fullest possible use of complex remedies to understand the elements of how the classical homoeopath tackles this problem. Therefore, this is what we have scheduled for this final session of the weekend.

In miasmic prescribing the three nosodes, psorinum, medorrhinum and syphilinum, tend to come to the fore, followed by other such polycrest and principal remedies as sulphur, calc. carb., lycopodium, thuja, nat. sulph., arsenicum alb., mercury, aurum, arnica and phosphorus. The decision to treat miasmically at all, at least on a classical basis, involves risk of unleashing strong reactions, and every care, and, indeed, quite a measure of homoeopathic professionalism is called for in doing so. Most of the above important remedies have a complex equivalent, which, being blended, and also often in blended very low potencies, may be used in a gentler manner. We shall discuss this. Once the classical approach to this topic has been understood in principle we look at rather gentle and cautious approach to miasmic prescribing with the low potency complex remedies.

Understanding and Using Complex Remedies of the German School
Saturday May20, 200612.30-6.30 pm
Sunday May21,10.00 am - 4.00 pm

The products available from Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH will be taken as the prime basis for the discussion on the use of complex remedies. First one will need to understand the principles involved and the ways in which they differ in use from classical remedies and classical principles. This will involve appreciating the way in which a single material containing a spread of remedies and a spread of potencies circumvent some of the most difficult tasks faced by classical homoeopaths.

Essentially we try very hard not to address the question of which is better between classical and complex homoeopathy, but rather we acknowledge that the complex remedies are both simpler to use for non-specialist practitioners wanting to use remedies as an adjunct therapy and that the very low potency strategy of complex remedies has a special affinity with the naturopathic objectives of Practitioners of Nutritional Medicine and related disciplines. The point about using remedies of this kind is the way in which they can be used to promote cleansing, the way they can work to support selected organs and systems, and the very close relationship which, their use bears to our forms of diagnosis and to our treatment objectives. An example of the use of these complex remedies would be one called 'Lymphomyosot' which is aimed specifically at the treatment of the lymphatic system.

Many examples of such remedies and their applications will be offered to you during this session of the Course. We shall explain how these may serve to direct the energy generated by nutritional treatment into the direction of specific organs and systems.

The plan of the second weekend will be approximately as follows:
Introduction to the Weekend and the relationship of the Remedies to the practice of Nutritional Medicine. Forms of the Remedies and Methods of Administration (LGP)

The different Classes of Heel Remedies - Part 1 (LGP). Empirical prescribing: The mixed Injeels.

The different Classes of Heel Remedies - Part 2 (LGP). The Homaccords Class of Remedy

The different Classes of Heel Remedies - Part 3 (LGP). Specialised Combination Preparations

The different Classes of Heel Remedies - Part 4 (LGP). Compositum Class of Preparations

The different Classes of Heel Remedies - Part 5 (LGP).

Single Constituent Preparations / Classical Homoeopathic Preparations
Homoeopathically adjusted allopathic medications
Catalysts
Nosodes and the Miasms
Suis Organ Preparations

Prescribing miasmically using the Heel Remedies (LGP)

Accounts of the Heel Remedies and Other Complex remedies in Practice. (Senior Tutor)

Accounts of the Heel Remedies and Other Complex remedies in Practice. (Senior Tutor)