Homeopathy
Foundation Course Content
Hahnemann and some background history of homeopathy; the law of similars; the science of homeopathic provings; the organisation of materia medica; homeopathic pharmacy; symbolic as well as medical interpretation of illness; the vital force and the vitalistic view of life; some exploration of the interactions of psyche and soma, plus: Hering's Law; recognising signs and symptoms; how to take the acute and the chronic case; knowing when to be receptive and when to be proactive and which questions to ask; perceiving what needs to be cured; symbolic as well as medical interpretations of illness; hierarchies of symptoms and evaluation of their relative importance; acute, chronic and iatrogenic diseases; susceptibility; the doctrine of polarity; homeopathic repertory; how to understand and find rubrics. Underpinning the study of materia medica is an exploration of remedy signatures.
CD lectures on materia medica
Aconite, Arnica, Argentum Nit, Arnica, Arsenicum Alb, Aurum, Baryta Carb, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calendula, Calcarea Carb, Carbo Veg, Causticum, Chamomilla, Eupatorium, Ferrum Phos, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Ipecachuana, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Mercurius, Natrum Mur, Nux Vomica, Phosphoric Acid, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rhus Tox, Sepia, Silica, Staphisagria, Sulphur, Tuberculinum.
Units 1-7
UNIT 1 - An Introduction to Homeopathy
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHILOSOPHY
2.1 Samuel Hahnemann & the First Proving
2.2 The Nature of Man
2.2.1 The Body & the Vital Force
2.2.2 Health & Disease
2.2.3 The Mind of Man
2.3 Development of the Fundamental Principles
2.4 Summary
3. MATERIA MEDICA
3.1 Remedy Notes
3.2 Remedies
4. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
5. ASSIGNMENTS
5.1 Philosophy
5.2 Materia Medica
5.3 Repertory
5.4 Personal & Professional Development
5.5 Sending your Assignments
6. DIAGRAMS
UNIT 2 - Provings, Pharmacy & Potentisation
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHILOSOPHY
2.1 The Provings of Medicines
2.2 Pharmacy
2.2.1 Sources of Drugs
2.2.2 Hahnemann's Early Preparations
2.3 Potentization
2.3.1 Soluble Products
2.3.2 Insoluble Products
2.3.3 The Effect
2.4 Summary
3. MATERIA MEDICA
4. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
5. ASSIGNMENTS
5.1 Philosophy
5.2 Materia Medica
5.3 Repertory
5.4 Personal & Professional Development
5.4.1 Personal Journal
5.4.2 Unit Self Reflection
5.5 Sending your Assignments
6. DIAGRAMS
UNIT 3 - The Language of Disease (Signs & Symptoms) & Repertorisation
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHILOSOPHY
2.1 The Language of Disease
2.2 Signs
2.3 Symptoms
2.3.1 Why Symptoms?
2.3.2 Symptoms - An Aid to Recovery
2.3.3 Observation of Signs & Symptoms
2.4 The Totality of Symptoms
2.5 Classification of Symptoms
2.5.1 Characteristic Symptoms
2.5.2 Common Symptoms
2.5.3 General Symptoms
2.5.4 Particular Symptoms
2.5.5 Pathogenetic Symptoms
2.5.6 Spurious Symptoms
2.5.7 Concomitant Symptoms
2.5.8 Discriminative Symptoms
2.5.9 Eliminative Symptoms
2.6 Modalities
2.7 Indisposition & Maintaining Factors
2.7.1 Indisposition
2.7.2 Exciting Causes
2.7.3 Maintaining Factors
2.8 Fundamental Causes - Miasms
2.9 Iatrogenic Symptoms
2.10 The Role of Medical Diagnosis
2.11 Summary
3. REPERTORISATION
3.1 Kent's Repertory
3.2 Knowing Your Repertory
3.3 Conversion of Symptoms Into Repertory Language
3.4 Selection of Rubrics
3.5 Repertorising
3.5.1 Quantifying the Value of Remedies in a Rubric
3.5.2 The Mechanics of Repertorization
3.6 Further Study
4. MATERIA MEDICA
5. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
6. ASSIGNMENTS
6.1 Philosophy
6.2 Materia Medica
6.3 Repertory
6.4 Personal & Professional Development
6.4.1 Feedback Form
6.5 Sending your Assignments
7. DIAGRAMS
UNIT 4 - The Direction of Cure & the Nature of Hierarchies
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHILOSOPHY
2.1 The Direction of Cure
2.1.1 Constantine Hering
2.1.2 The Development of Hering's Law
2.1.3 The Centrifugal Direction of Growth and Cure
2.2 From the Centre to the Circumference
2.3 From Above Downwards
2.4 From Vital Organs to Less Vital Organs
2.4.1 Hierarchy of the Physical Level
2.4.2 Hierarchy of the Mental Level
2.4.3 Hierarchy of the Emotional Level
2.5 In the Reverse Order Of Appearance
2.6 Summary
3. MATERIA MEDICA
4. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
5. ASSIGNMENTS
5.1 Philosophy
5.2 Materia Medica
5.3 Repertory
5.4 Personal & Professional Development
5.5 Sending your Assignments
6. DIAGRAMS
UNIT 5 - Taking the Case
1. INTRODUCTION
2. TAKING THE CASE
2.1 The Purpose of Case Taking
2.2 Allopathic & Homoeopathic Consultations
2.2.1 An Allopathic Consultation
2.2.2 A Homoeopathic Consultation
2.2.3 Achieving the Homoeopath's Aims
2.3 Case Taking - General
2.3.1 Acute or Chronic Case?
2.3.2 Observe
2.3.3 Note Objective Symptoms
2.3.4 Listen & Write
2.3.5 Grading Symptoms
2.4 The Case Taking Process
2.4.1 The Start
2.4.2 The Art of Case Taking
2.4.3 Review & Co-ordinate
2.4.4 Question
2.4.5 Some Important 'Don'ts'
2.4.6 Discovering Mental & Emotional Symptoms
2.4.7 An Outline of Areas to be Covered
2.5 Summary
3. MATERIA MEDICA
4. CASE STUDIES
5. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
6. ASSIGNMENTS
6.1 Philosophy
6.2 Materia Medica
6.3 Repertory
6.4 Cases
6.5 Personal & Professional Development
Sending your Assignments
7. DIAGRAMS
UNIT 6 - Evaluation of Symptoms
1. INTRODUCTION
2. EVALUATION OF SYMPTOMS
2.1 Homeopathy - The Art & the Science
2.2 The Totality of Symptoms
2.3 The Procedure
2.3.1 The Hierarchy of the Totality of Symptoms
2.3.2 First Steps
2.3.3 The Intensity of a Symptom
2.3.4 A Symptom's Degree of Peculiarity
2.3.5 Location in the Hierarchy of the Organism
2.4 The Kentian Approach to the Evaluation Of Symptoms
2.4.1 Early Techniques
2.5 Keynotes
2.6 Examples
2.7 Summary
3. MATERIA MEDICA
4. CASE STUDY
5. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
6. ASSIGNMENTS
6.1 Philosophy
6.2 Materia Medica
6.3 Repertory
6.4 Cases
6.5 Personal & Professional Development
6.6 Sending your Assignments
7. DIAGRAMS
UNIT 7 - Susceptibility & Acute, Chronic and Iatrogenic Disease
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHILOSOPHY
2.1 Susceptibility
2.1.1 The Susceptibility of Plants and Animals
2.1.2 The Susceptibility of the Human Organism
2.1.3 The Morbific Agent
2.1.4 Childhood Contagious Diseases
2.1.5 Susceptibility to Maintaining Causes
2.1.6 Constitutional Weakness
2.1.7 Family Susceptibility
2.1.8 Racial Susceptibility
2.1.9 Conclusion
2.1.10 Susceptibility to Medicines
2.2 Acute, Chronic & Iatrogenic Disease
2.2.1 Acute Diseases
2.2.2 Classification of Acute Aetiology
2.2.3 Classification of Acute Disease
2.2.4 Chronic Diseases
2.2.5 Iatrogenic Diseases
2.3 Summary
3. MATERIA MEDICA
4. SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
5. ASSIGNMENTS
5.1 Philosophy
5.2 Materia Medica
5.3 Repertory
5.4 Cases
5.5 Personal & Professional Development
5.5.1 Assignment Self Evaluation
5.6 Sending your Assignments
7. DIAGRAMS
