Homeopathic Principles and Philosophy
A large part of Year One will deal with homeopathic philosophy and principles. Homeopathy is essentially a holistic energetic approach to healing. This dynamic and holistic nature of health, disease and cure as outlined primarily by Hahnemann in The Organon and Kent in his Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy, will be stressed and discussed in great detail.
The following topics will be covered in Year One:
- Homeopathic history
- Nature of health, disease and cure
- Vital force; Susceptibility
- Totality and hierarchy of symptoms
- First aid, acute and chronic disease differentiation
- Law of similars and Law of direction of cure
- Acute casetaking, analysis and prescribing; Genus epidemicus
- First aid prescribing; Potency and repetition related to first aid and acute prescribing; Primary and secondary action
- Repertory structure and usage
- Homeopathic therapeutics in acute diseases, e.g., flu, colds, ear complaints, headaches, childhood problems, digestive problems, etc.
- Introduction to chronic casetaking, simple chronic case analysis
- Introduction to miasms
- Schussler’s biochemic tissue salts
- Study of material medica
- Prognosis
Materia Medica will include major remedies for first aid usage and remedies that are commonly used in everyday acute problems. Some of the major polychrests will also be studied.
