Homeopathic Medicine Course

This is an exciting adventure into the world of homeopathy – a science that has always had its proponents but also its opponents. Once mastered in the right hands, homeopathic medicine can become a powerful healing tool that can work instantaneously where no other therapy can. This homeopathic medicine course can be taken from the comfort of one’s home while learning enough to begin practicing with other health modalities.

The Homeopathic Medicine Course consists of 14 Lessons with over 600 pages of reading material, all downloadable .pdf files that can be stored on your hard drive and reviewed even on your travels. Also included are videos of documentaries and lectures on various aspects of homeopathy and homeopathic medicine. There is a wealth of information to absorb, and your learning curves will be at the right angle while you are being intellectually stretched.

COURSE CURRICULUM

• Lesson 1 – History of Homeopathy

This looks at the history of homeopathy from the main Father of Homeopathy, Dr. Hahnemann in the mid-1700s with the main historical events at the time. There is also a brief history of homeopathy in the US, UK, Russia, Pakistan, Germany, Italy, India, and Australia. There is also a discussion of the homeopathic resurgence at the beginning of this century which leads to the present status of homeopathy in the world today.

• Lesson 2 – Philosophy and Principles of Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a unique therapeutic system that treats the whole patient whose disorder or disease is expressed by a complex of symptoms, which involve emotional and/or mental symptoms as well as physical symptoms. Philosophically it is based on the Principle of Similars, “Similia Similibus Curentur” (let likes cure likes). This lesson looks at the fundamental principles on which homeopathy is based on such as laws of simplex, minimum, the doctrine of drug provings, chronic disease, the theory of vital force, the doctrine of drug dynamization, the doctrine of miasms, the doctrine of the totality of symptoms, the doctrine of individualization, the law of direction of cure, the law of repetition of the dose and the law of drug relationships.

• Lesson 3 – Homeopathic Pharmacy: Preparing Remedies

Homeopathic remedies are made from the elements found in nature – mineral, animal, and plant extracts are the base of these natural remedies, which are then diluted by altering the degree of concentration to avoid creating side effects that can be disagreeable. Paradoxically, the more a homeopathic remedy is diluted, the more effective a remedy will work. This lesson looks at the sources of remedies, trituration, dilution, and succussion, potency, dilution, some of the more common homeopathic remedies as well as some interesting videos.

• Lesson 4 – Introduction to Reportorising

A homeopathic repertory is a systematic listing of symptoms with the remedies, either in a book or electronic form. Repertorising is the skill of finding rubrics that accurately encapsulate the individual symptomology expressed by the patient in the repertory. In this lesson, you will learn about case taking, rubrics, steps to repertorisation, repertory selection, and methods and techniques of repertorisation.

Lesson 5 – Homeopathic Case Taking

As every homeopath takes a case somewhat differently, in this lesson, there will be a number of versions of case-taking written by well-known and highly experienced homeopaths. In this lesson, we will examine the interview, acute vs chronic presentations, remaining unprejudiced during case taking, recording the case, communication skills, being observant, and using Case-Taking Questionnaires. There are also a number of case studies as examples of case-taking.

Lesson 6 –  Modalities of Remedies in Homeopathy

Many ailments are aggravated or ameliorated (becoming better) by different factors. Such factors may be anything like a specific climatic condition, specific posture, particular condition or situation, a particular time of the day, a particular food item, or whatever. Such influencing factors are called “Modalities”. In this lesson, you will learn how these modalities are important for the final diagnosis and determination of the remedy.

• Lesson 7 – Dosages, Potency, and Aggravation

This lesson examines the complex topic of dosages, what are the rules regarding the dosage and frequency of the dosage, the energy, and sensitivity of the patient, homeopathic aggravation, the direction of cure, and the potency of the homeopathic medicine.

• Lesson 8 – The Study of the Materia Medica

Materia Medica is the study of medicines (remedies) the Homeopathic practitioner uses. These come from a wide range of sources, categorized into plant, animal, and mineral. There are over 2,500 remedies that have been tried and tested over the last 200 years and more are added every year. Each of these remedies undergoes a Proving to determine its own distinctive characteristics and healing powers.

• Lesson 9 – Homeopathic Medicines: Polycrests

Homeopathy has a great treasure of medicines, but some are more commonly used. Such remedies are called “Polycrest Remedies”, “Polycrest Medicines” or simply “Polycrests” and generally range between 40 and 60 in number. There is no standard and final list of such remedies. Each practitioner makes his own list depending on the type of cases received and the needs of his/her clinic. This lesson examines 60 Polycrest remedies in detail, looking at their Keynotes as well as using quizzes with questions to determine which is the appropriate Polycrest for the patient.

Lesson 10 – Miasms and Nosodes

In Hahnemann’s words,”the true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, when left to themselves, improper treatment, go on to increase, growing worse and torment the patient to the end of his life.” – 78 Organon.

Hahnemann spent 12 years of his life investigating miasms, collecting proof of these findings going unnoticed by others in the medical professions, “the chronic diseases” was written. He describes how using antipsoric medicines used on the psora miasm would enable a practitioner to cure effectively. In this lesson, we will look at what are miasms, nosodes, and their physical expressions as well as the personality types, the development of the Miasmic Theory, and the development of Nosodes.

• Lesson 11 – Homeopathic First Aid

In this lesson, a number of remedies outlined are excellent to have in a First Aid Homeopathic Kit at home but also while traveling.

• Lesson 12 – Schussler’s Tissue Salts

Dr. William H. Schuessler of Oldenburg, Germany, published Shortened Therapeutics in 1873. This eminently practical work concentrated on just 12 simple mineral combinations, or salts, which he believed to be crucial to the health of the body. In this lesson, you will learn how to prescribe all 12 Schussler Salts and what symptoms they can alleviate.

Lesson 13 – Field Control Therapy and Computerizing Homeopathy

This lesson will go through some of the computerized software products that are available and will examine how these can be used to make repertorizing much more efficient. Also, other methods of testing for the appropriate remedy will be looked at, such as Autonomic Response Testing and other tests of Autonomic Nervous System functioning.

Lesson 14 – Homeopathic Research

Having as much research information as possible about your chosen topic is important. This lesson will provide most of the scientific research studies that have been done, with full referencing.

ASSIGNMENTS AND FINAL EXAMS

The Homeopathic Medicine course contains assignments with ten questions, each taken online after each lesson, and a final exam – all timed online.

COURSE MATERIAL

All the Homeopathic Medicine course material, assignments, and final exams are online, so no additional books are required for this course. However, many online antique books and articles are available in .pdf format that you can download onto your computer so that you may read these at leisure.