Theory

• History of homeopathy and its place in our modern world.

• Life of Hahnemann.

• Introduction to the Organon - Commentary and explanation of the main paragraphs of the Organon.

• Comments on the New Model written by George Vithoulkas. All paragraphs will be explained.

• Comments on the different chapters of the "Science of Homeopathy" - a textbook by George Vithoulkas.

• Understanding the human being in its structure and totality.

• Discussion on all different aspects of practical application of homeopathy on live cases and their follow ups for three to four years.

Understanding the human organism in its totality

• The organism as a holistic entity, with an energic structure.

• The structure of the organism in its three levels of functioning.

• The mental-spiritual

• The emotional-psychic

• The physical level

• The practical need for having such an understanding

• Hierarchy Interconnections- between mental, emotional and physical bodies. Dynamics of the interaction.

This is one of the most important aspects of the teaching.

Definition of health and the measure of health

• State of Health: harmonious function of all 3 levels

• Sense of freedom

Evaluation of strength or weakness of a constitution according to the twelve levels.

• This is one of the most recent developments in classical homeopathy where new information is given in order to clarify old problems.

• The student has the possibility to learn to evaluate the degree of health in a completely different way than previously taught.

Understanding the laws of cure

• The law of similars and its implications. Other applications of the law.

• The dynamics of the disease.

• Dynamic action on vital force of medicines and disease

• The meaning of symptoms

• Comparative value of symptoms

• The energic nature of disease

• The suppressions of symptoms - diseases and how they occur.

• The adaptation syndrome-shift syndrome.

The Homeopathic Remedies

• What they are, how they are prepared.

• Pharmacological origin of mother tinctures and preparation of potencies.

• The creation of the homeopathic remedies - provings of remedies

• The preparation for a proving

• Primary and secondary action of drugs.

• The making of a complete homeopathic Pharmacopoeia: the so called Materia Medica

• Preparation of drugs - potentisation and trituration, possible errors

• The potentisation- its implications and measurements.

• Potentisation Modern research Arndt-Schultz Law

• The correct preparation of homeopathic medicine and the care for their maintenance in the pharmacy.

Case taking

• Mental, educational and spiritual preparation of the homeopathic doctor in order to take a homeopathic case properly.

• Techniques for case taking and evaluation of the information -

• The need and the importance of the underlining of symptoms.

• Practical application by live exercises.

• Critique of the case taking of other teachers by the students.

• The psychological aspect of both the patient and the doctor in the case taking process.

Questioning the patient:

• Letting the patient talk

• Leading questions

• Following up answers and double-checking

• The different aspects of Taking an Acute or a chronic case

• The importance of observation: Manner, posture, expressions, personality, physiognomy,

Physical examination

• Physical,

• Laboratory,

• Radiological,

• Pathological vs. functional symptoms - their prognostic value

The meaning of "taking the case of a patient"

• The objective.

• The structure of the case taking- the sources of information-Organon

• The optimum conditions for a successful homeopathic prescription

• Constitutional prescription Acute (specific) prescribing

• Tissue and organ system prescribing

• Strategies for tackling a case

• Strategies for clearing a confused case

• Rules for choosing the potency and the dose -repetition

Live cases in long term treatment

• LIVE CASES will be presented with long follow-ups so the student will get a very good idea of the curative possibilities of homeopathy.

The First Prescription

• Evaluation of peculiarity and intensity

• Record keeping

• Kent's description,

• Importance of Underlining

• Recording of prescription, future ideas, diagnosis, prognosis, medical, family, drug and treatment history

• Homeopathic prognosis after the first prescription

• Repetition of dose - importance of waiting

• Choosing the correct potency for every case.

• Evaluation of the first prescription, all the possible implications.

• The Homeopathic Aggravation -in time - in intensity- in length

• Antidoting, adverse reactions.

Follow-up of the case

• Herring's Law

Second prescription

• All the rules pertaining to the second prescription.

• Prescribing on a superficial or on a deeper level, the meaning and the need of such prescriptions.

• When such prescriptions are right or when they are wrong.

• The dynamics within the family after a correct homeopathic prescription

Obstacles in the homeopathic prescribing.

• Complicated cases after allopathic prescribing

• Complicated cases after wrong homeopathic prescribing.

Analysis of cases

• According to essence - totality -keynotes and causative factors.

Predisposition and the theory of the miasms

• Genetic predispositions and the HLA system

• Susceptibilities -- miasms

• Importance of miasms

• Origin of miasms

• Description of miasms

Acute diseases and their management.

• The management and the evaluation of acute diseases during treatment of chronic conditions. The rules for prescribing in such cases.

• Acute prescribing.

Management of Chronic cases

• Management of mental cases under allopathic drugs.

• Management of severe pathology cases under heavy allopathic drugs, chemotherapy, cortisone, etc.

• Obscure and Disordered Cases - how to deal with them,

• "Clearing" of difficult and complicated cases

• Getting patients off drugs

• Long-term prognosis

• Evaluation and prognosis of the different chronic diseases according to homeopathy.

Scientific homeopathy vs. other homeopathic ways of application.

• Other holistic or natural techniques & how they act.

• Role of allopathic medicine and surgery

Repertorisation

• Structure of the repertory of Kent and Synthesis.

• Structure of other repertories.

• Other repertories explained Methods of repertorisation by hand

• Various repertories

• Kent's Knerr's Boenninghausen, Allen, Clark, Roberts

• The computer repertories

• Kent's Repertory-additions and their relative value.

• Origin of rubrics

• Grading of remedies

• Comparison of rubrics

Different techniques and their value in prescribing.

• How to choose rubrics

• Repertorisation through computers

• Understanding the use of computers for repertorisation, methods of repertorisation and their relative values.

• Methods for improving the information in the repertory.

Materia Medica

• The keynotes and the essences of 120 remedies will be given according to the experience of G. V.

• How to study the Materia medica

• Psychopathology as understood by homeopathy

• Direct study and memorisation vs. study through the cases in practice Comparison of similar remedies

• Comparison of remedies within particular rubrics

• Polychrests vs. lesser-proven remedies

• Pediatrics for beginners-practical hints for finding the correct remedy.

• During the treatment of cases there will always be a comparison of remedies.

Practical matters

• Handling of remedies, Administration of remedies, patient instructions

• Interfering substances

• Placebos

• Presence of friends and relatives during the consultation

• Which cases to refuse treatment

Students of this course should already be familiar with MEDICAL subjects

These lectures are based mostly on the following books:

• "Kent's Lectures on Philosophy",

• G. Vithoulkas "A New Model for Health and Disease",

• G. Vithoulkas "The Science of Homeopathy",

• Hahnemann's "Organon of the Art of Healing".