Slide 1: Introduction to Homeopathy
Healing the Eye
Vision therapy and restoration
Edward C. Kondrot, MD, MD(H) CCH, DHt
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Slide 2: What is Homeopathy?
Not Herbal Therapy Not Vitamin Therapy Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principal of “like cures like”. Homeos meaning “similar” Pathos meaning “suffering”
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Slide 3: What is Homeopathy?
Not a new idea: Dates back to Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, who said: “Through the like, disease is produced, and through the application of the like it is cured.”
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Slide 4: History of Homeopathy
It was not until the end of the 18th century that a brilliant German doctor and chemist, Samuel Hahnemann, started experimentation which led to the system of medicine we now know as Homeopathy.
1755-1843
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Slide 5: History of Homeopathy
Disillusioned by the savage medical practices of the day, Hahnemann had retired to a life of translating medical texts.
1755-1843
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Slide 6: History of Homeopathy
While translating these medical texts, he noticed that the substance Peruvian Bark or Cinchona, was listed as causing symptoms, such as numbness of extremities, anxiety, intermittent fevers, similar to symptoms of Malaria, which it was then used to cure.
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Slide 7: History of Homeopathy
Hahnemann based this new system of medicine on certain laws and principles: •Law of Similars •Law of Proving •Law of Potentization •Law of the Single Remedy
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Slide 8: The Law of Similars
“Any substance which produces specific toxic symptoms in a healthy person, when given in it's full strength form, will cure a sick person with those same symptoms in a very diluted form.” -Hahnemann
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Slide 9: The Law of Similars
Cold or allergy symptoms such as watery eyes and burning nasal discharge can be treated with the homeopathic remedy, Allium Cepa, made from the common red onion.
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Slide 10: The Law of Similars
The substance Ipecac, known for inducing vomiting in the case of accidental poisonings, can be used homeopathically to alleviate the symptom of incessant nausea or vomiting. For example as in the case of someone with the flu or morning sickness.
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Slide 11: The Law of Similars
Likewise, angry red swellings, however caused, may be treated with homeopathically prepared Apis, which is made from the honeybee.
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Slide 12: The Law of Proving
How Homeopathic remedies are discovered: The knowledge of homeopathic remedies is based on scientific experiments called “provings”.
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Slide 13: The Law of Proving
In a proving, healthy volunteers are given homeopathically prepared doses of a substance until they began to “prove” the remedy, or experience symptoms -- mental, emotional as well as physical.
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Slide 14: The Law of Proving
This information is carefully recorded and repeated many times. The information from provings make up our Homeopathic Materia Medica, which is a description of symptoms caused by each remedy and therefore the symptoms it can be used to alleviate.
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Slide 15: The Law of Proving
These same symptoms are also recorded in texts known as a Repertory, which is an index of symptoms that lists all remedies known to have that symptom.
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Slide 16: The Law of Potentization
How homeopathic remedies are made: In his experiments on himself and others, Hahnemann found that even in small amounts the substances were still capable of producing side effects. Hahnemann found that by diluting further, the side effects disappeared.
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Slide 17: The Law of Potentization
He also established that if the substances were shaken vigorously during the dilution, a practice known as “succussion”, this released a previously dormant energy, making the remedy more potent than before.
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Slide 18: The Law of Potentization
Each remedy was diluted to such an extent that no actual material of the original substance was left. Hahnemann believed that what existed after this dilution and “succussion” was the transference of the energy of the original material into a new, neutral material.
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Slide 19: The Law of Potentization
Dilution 1:100 1:1000 1:1000 1: 100000 1:10(200) Potency 1C 2C 3C 4C 200C
The potency of the remedy is designated by the amount of dilution. The more a remedy is diluted and shaken, the more “potentized” www.healingtheeye.com it becomes.
Slide 20: Potencies
The most common strengths are 3, 6, 30, 200, 1000, 10,000, 50,000, and 100,000. Decimal scale: The ratio is 1:10 and is designated by X after the number. Centesimal scale: The ratio is 1:100 and is designated by C after the number.
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Slide 21: Potencies
Remedies today are made according these homeopathic pharmacological principles, and in accordance with the United States Food and Drug Administration.
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Slide 22: Potencies
The remedies are made from natural Substances -plant, animal and mineral. They are considered to be very safe, available over-thecounter and completely non-toxic.
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Slide 23: Potencies
Each homeopathic remedy bears a National Drug Code number, ensuring the consumer that the product has been made in accordance with The Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States.
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Slide 24: Placebo Effect?
Because homeopathic remedies are in such minute doses, physicians and scientists frequently assert that they cannot work. An increasing number of controlled studies are proving them wrong.
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Slide 25: Placebo Effect?
There are many scientific studies on homeopathic medicine indicating its effectiveness. There are studies published in respected scientific journals such as The Lancet and The British Medical Journal.
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Slide 26: Lancet Study
The Lancet published the most significant and comprehensive review of homeopathic research, which appeared in its September 20, 1997 issue. This article was a meta-analysis of 89 double-blinded, randomized, placebocontrolled clinical trials. The authors conclude that the clinical effects of homeopathic medicines are not simply the results of placebo.
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Slide 27: Lancet Study (cont’d)
The researchers uncovered 186 studies, 119 of which were double-blind and/or randomized placebo-control trials, and 89 of which met pre-defined criteria for inclusion into a pooled meta-analysis. The researchers found that by pooling the 89 trials together that homeopathic medicines had a 2.45 times greater effect than placebo. --Dana Ullman, M.P.H.
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Slide 28: Current Research
Breakthrough discoveries in quantum physics show: Water retains memory when substances are diluted and shaken. Instead of molecules separating, some actually combine. (Lo, SY, 1996, 1998)
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Slide 29: Law of the Single Remedy
Individualization:
Classical Homeopathy is based on the principal of the single remedy. That is, no matter how many symptoms are experienced, only one remedy is taken, and that remedy is aimed at all those www.healingtheeye.com symptoms.
Slide 30: Law of the Single Remedy
Individualization:
In this way, Homeopathy is truly holistic, treating the whole person -- mentally, emotionally as well as physically.
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Slide 31: The Vital Force
The concept of life force energy or vitality is an important one in Homeopathy.
Hahnemann named this energy the “Vital Force” similar to the concept of Chi meaning life force in Eastern Medicine or Prana meaning vital energy in Ayurveda or Yoga .
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Slide 32: The Vital Force
He maintained that this “Vital Force” constantly seeks to maintain balance. Symptoms, no matter how uncomfortable, are always the body attempting to restore itself to health.
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Slide 33: The Vital Force
For example, we can observe it in action with an illness such as a fever or a cough. The fever is the body's defense mechanism used to burn up the infection and the cough is there to prevent accumulation of mucus in the lungs.
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Slide 34: Susceptibility
The issue of how vulnerable different people are to disease and ill health is an interesting one. Some people have amazingly robust constitutions, rarely succumbing to illness, regardless of their lifestyle.
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Slide 35: Susceptibility
Others are susceptible to every illness imaginable, even if they exercise daily eat a balanced diet.
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Slide 36: Susceptibility
Genetic inheritance is an important factor in the strength of constitution. Illnesses and weaknesses that run in families are often passed down through generations.
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Slide 37: Susceptibility
Many people have health patterns, such as a tendency to asthma or eczema or one area that is always affected during stressful times such as headaches or digestive upset. Homeopathy can help strengthen the weak areas in ones constitution and change one's pattern of susceptibility, thereby not only acting curatively, but as www.healingtheeye.com a prevention of disease.
Slide 38: Hering’s Law of Cure
1. Healing progresses from within, out. From the deepest level (mental and emotional) to external (skin and extremities). 1. Healing progresses in reverse order of the original appearance. 1. Healing progresses from above down. From upper parts to lower parts.
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Slide 39: Conventional Medicine
Allopathy:
“Allo" meaning other, gives substances that cause symptoms different than what they are experiencing. Conventional medicine seeks to eliminate symptoms and manage the illness, taking each symptom as a separate part of the system to be eliminated.
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Slide 40: Conventional Medicine
Allopathy:
A patient with recurring cystitis, eczema, and depression would be treated in parts -- antibiotics, cortisone, and antidepressant medication to control the symptoms -- doing nothing to address the underlying disorder.
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Slide 41: Conventional Medicine
Inherent problems:
· If the disease cannot be diagnosed there can be no treatment. All tests indicate you are in perfect health, yet you feel terrible. Many patients have symptoms years before the disease can be diagnosed. May be told to use one drug or another for symptomatic relief until a definitive diagnosis can be made.
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Inherent problems:
· For many diagnosable problems, no treatment exists. For example in the case of Viral disease, antibiotics are useless.
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Inherent problems:
· Treatment for recurrent problems does little to prevent future incidents. Health problems occur due to susceptibility of the patient. The conventional approach rarely addresses susceptibility. Each recurrence is like a revolving door experience.
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Slide 44: Conventional Medicine
Inherent problems:
· Drug side effects · Adverse reactions · Bacterial resistance to antibiotics due to their overuse
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Inherent problems:
· High cost of health care. A few benefit, but most are merely undergoing increasingly expensive evaluations only to find out they have a disease where no satisfactory treatment exists.
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Slide 46: Conventional Medicine
Indications:
· Urgent problems that require immediate control of the disease for the preservation of life or limb. · Life threatening infectious diseases, such as bacterial spinal meningitis, myocardial infarction, hypertensive crisis.
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Slide 47: Conventional Medicine
Indications:
· Surgical Care: hit by a truck or appendicitis. Homeopathy can be started while waiting, some resolving without surgery. Overuse of surgery: •Children getting tubes placed in the ears •Gynecological problems. www.healingtheeye.com
Slide 48: Complementary Medicine
Homeopathy can also be used as a compliment to conventional treatment. For example in the case of severe asthma, it would not be safe to abruptly stop an allopathic medication. Often homeopathy makes weaning off allopathic medicines possible.
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Slide 49: Advantages of Homeopathy
· Homeopathy is effective. When the correct remedy is taken, results can be complete and permanent. · Homeopathy is completely safe. Even babies and pregnant women can use homeopathy without the danger of side effects, interactions with prescription drugs, herbs or vitamins.
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Slide 50: Advantages of Homeopathy
· Homeopathy is natural. Homeopathic remedies are normally based on natural ingredients. · Homeopathy works in harmony with your immune system. Unlike some conventional medicines which suppress the immune system. For example, cough medicines suppress the cough reflex, which is your body's attempt to clear the lungs.
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Slide 51: Advantages of Homeopathy
· Homeopathic remedies are not addictive. Once relief is felt, you should stop taking them. If no relief is felt, you are probably taking the wrong remedy. · Homeopathy is holistic -- it treats all the symptoms as one picture. In practical terms, means that it addresses the root cause, not just the symptoms. This often means that symptoms alleviated by homeopathy do not recur.
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Slide 52: Finding a Homeopath
National Center of Homeopathy
Maintains a national directory.
Online: www.homeopathic.org Telephone: 877-624-0613
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Slide 53: Finding a Homeopath
Council of Homeopathic Certification
Maintains directory of practitioners who have passed rigorous national certification in classical homeopathy.
Telephone: 866-242-3399
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Slide 54: Buying Homeopathic Books
Homeopathic Educational Services www.homeopathic.com 800-359-9051 Minimum Price www.minimum.com 800-663-8272
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Slide 55: Home Remedy Kit
Slide 56: Homeopathic Pharmacies
Hahnemann Pharmacy 888-427-6422 Washington Homeopathic Pharmacy 800-336-1695 Dolisos Pharmacy 800-365-4767
Slide 57: Suggested Reading
· Homeopathy: Beyond Flat Earth Medicine by Timothy Dooley, N.D., M.D. · Homeopathic Medicine at Home by Panos and Heimlich · Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicine by Dana Ullman and Steven Cummings
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Slide 58: Suggested Reading
· Homeopathy: Science or Myth? by Bill Gray, M.D. · Poisons that Heal by Eileen Nauman · Materia Medica with Repertory by Boericke Kent’s Repertory By Kent
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Slide 59: Suggested Reading
· Divided Legacy by Harris Coulter · Desktop Guide Roger Morrison Organon Samuel Hahnemann For more info contact Dr. Edward Kondrot at info@healingtheeye.com ·
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