Editorial – June 2018

In December 2017, the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK recommended that GP’s stop providing homeopathy, claiming there was no evidence to support it. The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) challenged this in the High Court, but after a four-day hearing in May 2018, the judge dismissed BHA’s challenge.   Now doctors have been told to stop prescribing homeopathy on the NHS.  Simon Stevens, NHS Chief, welcomed the decision, stating, “There is no robust evidence to support homeopathy which is at best a placebo.”  This follows years of anti-homeopathy propaganda by Pharma surrogates in the press and government. They waged a disinformation campaign which resulted in the closure or vitiation of all seven homeopathic hospitals in the UK.

 

The homeopathy community had always responded to those attacks by offering reasoned argument, providing more evidence and more studies. That approach works when you’re dealing with people of good will who simply have a different point of view. But that was never the reality. Those who sought to bring down homeopathy already knew that it was a potent, safe and affordable healing method. That’s exactly why they wanted to destroy it. You don’t reason with pathological greed.

For its part, the medical community has attacked homeopathy without ever having bothered to explore it. They willingly accepted the lies, and thus became an accomplice and unwitting surrogate of Pharma.  In 2010, the deputy chairman of the British Medical Association, called homeopathy “witchcraft”, and a year later the junior doctors of that organization voted to ban the teaching of homeopathy to trainee doctors.

The suppression of homeopathy will result in needless suffering and death. The order to forbid homeopathy on the NHS was due to a combination of unscrupulous greed and willful ignorance. Those in government who betrayed the people’s trust for personal gain, should be held accountable. And the medical community bears a special responsibility. The eminent homeopath, Sir John Weir, expressed it well:

  “I believe what prevents men from accepting the homeopathic principles is ignorance, but ignorance is criminal when human lives are at stake. No honest man faced with the facts of homeopathy can refuse to accept it.”

—Sir John Weir, physician to King George VI and to four generations of British monarchs

Another sentiment was expressed by Dr. Henry Wigand in 1849, when he chastised the allopaths for their blind opposition to homeopathy:

“Shame upon you, Gentlemen,—when you thus close your minds against, and refuse to investigate a new system of medicine, merely because it clashes with your favorite mode, notwithstanding it is presented to you by men of as gifted and cultivated minds and generous hearts, as ever graced any age of our world.”

In this issue:

EDITORIAL 

–  “Corruption Wins the Day in the UK” – Alan V. Schmukler

–Feedback from June 2018 – Hpathy.com

HOMEOPATH IN THE HOT-SEAT

Professor Martin Dinges archivist and deputy director of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mannheim is interviewed by Siegfried Letzel.

ARTICLES :

– The Homeopathic Dose of a Mother – Paola Brown

– Questions Patient’s Ask   – Elaine Lewis

– Notes About Cure and Healing – Dr. Luis Detinis

– Radical Honesty  – Catherine O’ Driscoll

– Soul of Remedies – Naja – Dr. Rajan Sankaran

–  The Law of Similars and Polarity   –  Hillel Zvi Friesel

– A Deeper Look at Calcarea phosphoricum – Dr. Janice Block

– Dr. Luis Detinis – In Memoriam – Katja Schütt

– Homeopathy in Bangladesh – Dr. Salma Afroz

– George Vithoulkas  Seminar Report – Maria Chorianopoulou

– George Vithoulkas Message to Delegates  – Prof. George Vithoulkas

– The Philosophy of Holism in the World view of Homeopaths – Inna Zinovieva

– Tips & Secrets April 2018 – Alan V. Schmukler

CLINICAL CASES

– Iritis in a Boy of 13 – Ana Cristina Pombo

– Small Medicines in a Drug Dependent Pathology – Dr. Saptarshi Banerjea

– Cases of Vertigo & Infertility – Petr Zacharias

– Thyroidinum: A Deeper Acting Remedy-Dr. Gaurang Gaikwad

– Schizophrenia in a Boy of 14 – Dr. Kavita Chandak

– A Case Study – The Lillaceae Family – Dr. Sujit Chatterjee

– Three Cases of Baryta Carbonica – Wiet van Helmond

– Irregular Menses, Anemia, Depession – Dr. Tatiana Saviuc

-Two Cases of Jonesia Ashoka  – Dr. Shamin Sherwani

– Acute Ulcer in a Man of 30 – Dr. Rajiv Peres

– Phimosis in a Baby Boy – Dr. Rohit Gupta

-Recurrent Cold and Cough – Dr. Disha Chheda

– Mucocele in a Girl of 9 – Dr. Shirisha Pulgam

– Chronic Sneezing – Fiona Chaff

– IBS in a Man of 29 – Dr. Pankaj Katekaris

– PCOD in a Woman of 25 – Dr. Priya Shinde

BOOK REVIEWS

Conquering the Fevers with Homeopathy – Gajanan Dhanipkar

Heymischer Homeopathy – by Chaim Yankel (aka Jerry Kantor) – is reviewed by Rochelle Marsden.

VETERINARY

– Ask the Holistic Vet – Dr. Deva Khalsa – June 2018

PLAY CROSSWORDS!

– Crossword June 2018 – Alan V. Schmukler

CARTOONS  –  “Here Comes the Judge” –  Alan V. Schmukler

SOLVE THE CASE QUIZ

– And Now…”Pliglet” Has The Flu! – Elaine & Shana Lewis

– Revisiting: Plooh Got The Flu – Elaine & Shana Lewis

AGROHOMEOPATHY

– The Plant Doctor – June 2018 – Radko Tichavsky

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