Joy, Shannon put it well. I would just emphasize that the question of PR comes up here regularly: how to spread the good word, minimized damage of negative reporting, prevent possible misunderstandings created by "innovative" practitioners, etc. If I recall (and I don't) I think PR was an ...

I'm not sure what the resistance is about, since usually the non-believer in question professes to be a rational thinker. I guess it usually breaks down around accepting experiences of mind-body connection as evidence for a holistic theory of health and disease. It's so maddening, since everyone kno...

Right, but I thought part of the point was how to communicate homeopathy to the broader world. In that case popular assumptions are very relavent, since it helps to speak in a language that the listner can understand. Even on this list, which is supposed to be discussion among the insiders, assumpti...

Joy, I meant to say that Homeopathy is about as scientific as science is, but that the way people seem to be using the word scientific seems problematic. Science isn't necessarily concrete, fool-proof, or clean of human influence. It's not pure or sterile, that's just it's media image. Homeopathy do...

(In general response to the science thread): The practice of science involves a great deal of creativity. Scientists don't always get the results they were expecting, and repeatability isn't guaranteed. That's after the experiment has been set up and the scientist thinks they know what they're measu...

Dear Minutus, Thankfully, my relative with aphasia is open to consulting a Homeopath. So, I'm turning to your generosity and expertise once again to ask for a referral in the Boston area. They would be most comfortable consulting with someone who is also an MD, but the most important thing is that t...

Hi Navneet, Thanks for your reply. If you read my post you will see that I wasn't asking for remedy suggestions, prescriptions, or long-distance case management. I know that this isn't the way homeopathy works. I mentioned the name of the condition because I thought it communicated certain things ab...

Dear Minutus folks, I am wondering if any of you have successfully treated a patient with Primary Progressive Aphasia. I know very little about this condition on the physiological level, but I have a relative who has it and I'm wondering if I should encourage her to seek homeopathic care, if she's o...

Dear David, You have raised some interesting, if gloomy, points. What if, instead of being concerned with going "back to Eden," we head forward to Eden? The forces that have given rise to the social/cultural diseases you mentioned have been around since the dawn of humanity, or at the very...

Dear minutus folks, I am a patient, and student (Devon School), of Homeopathy. I have heard conflicting information about taking rescue remedy while on a constitutional rx. Is there a party line? Or, is this one of the issues that remains grey and everyone handles differently? I imagine it could mak...