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Jas Villaschi

P.S. I don't know about anyone else, but personally I feel Homeopathy
self-promotes through positive results in the face
of medical scepticism and often astonishment. Our time is best spent not
trying to convert ..but satisfying the ever-increasing demands
for gentle solutions to chronic health problems of those who are
accepting of the possibility of cure... the others will catch up when
they are ready to take Homeopathy on board mentally.
Dear Soroush,
I agree with James (see above).

How many of our clients have come to us because they have failed to find
satisfaction with conventional medicine?

Most of the sceptics you have been communicating with have apparently not
reached that point of frustration that opens the mind to test new
possibilities. If they are content with their perception, why should they
change it? Just because someone who they perceive as a fanatical homeopath
prods them to?

Greater and greater numbers of people are trying alternative medicine, and
finding treatments that work better for them than regular medicine. They
are voting with their feet and their pocketbooks, leaving conventional
medicine and seeking alternatives. Sceptics can ridicule and taunt all they
want, this will still continue. It is up to them whether they just dismiss
all these people as ignorant and misguided, or decide to take a serious look
at why this defection might be happening.

I am concerned with proving being used as a weapon. In my mind, a prover
automatically becomes a patient (I know I had a different perspective about
seminar provings--to me provings among practitioners are somewhat
different.) It is important to give the same respect, confidentiality, and
concern to any prover that we give to our clients/patients. I am uneasy
with the adversarial tone from the outset of this project, calling the
sceptics cowards, for instance, even if they accuse homeopaths of worse.
Perhaps it would be best not to dignify their disrespect with a response.
If we prove anything to these sceptics, I feel it would be most enlightening
for them to see how differently an individual is treated under homeopathic
care: with the utmost consideration and understanding. They can't even
know to expect this, as that is not the usual experience for a patient in
regular medicine. I so clearly remember the young neurologist telling me 30
years ago after I had one gran mal seizure, "You're epileptic, you will be
all your life, and you will have to take one of these drugs all your life.
Why are you resisting me?" That's when I investigated homeopathy, and found
a completely different patient/practitioner relationship as well as healing
of my seizure disorder.

I think it is giving too much power to conventional thinking to say they win
if we do not prove homeopathy according to THEIR terms. Hahnemann reminds
us our first and only duty is to cure the sick. That certainly is adequate
proof for our patients. If the sceptics can produce better cures, let them
do so. Our concern is not how homeopathy can work or whether it should
work, but that it DOES work--at healing the sick.

It's a delicate matter, our intent and attitude. I have had some powerful
lessons in this regard. Sometimes when I have given unusual remedies I have
been more focused on proving myself in the cure than on the needs of my
clients, and have been upset if they drop out of treatment before giving the
remedy enough of a chance. I had to acknowledge that if my priority is to
heal, I would not be upset by people leaving before I could show off the
cure with a small remedy. Divya Chhabra says people will leave if they
don't feel respected, no matter how good the prescription is.
Warm wishes,
Charlotte

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Hi Charlotte,

it's Jas (jazz) ... don't worry I get many versions of my name ...
although I'm new to Homeopathy
(1st year licentiate, LCCH) I recognize that there is a temptation to be
very forceful in our support and promotion
of our medical views, we do not add to the acceptance of diversity
through this zealous enthusiasm, just seem to create
people who want to give us a wide berth !
Also we've got to remember we're in this for life ... and are bound to
find that the current trend for people abandoning
allopathic medicine will increase as the current diabolical practices of
surgeons continue. e.g. my mother went in for
standard laproscopy, suffered a cardiac arrest on the table, she
realised only because in her drowsy state overheard
the surgeon/consultant talk about it to the sister... there was no
mention of it on any document and she was told to go home
the same day although she had severe breathing difficulties.
Needless to say, as soon as I talked to her post-op, I could something
serious had happened and she asked what those technical
terms were ... I immediately got her to see her homeopath and then
monitored her progress. She took a week to recover from the breathing
problem s caused by fluid build-up in lungs.
To obtain her test results she obviously went her GP who she asked what
the terms she overheard were about ,
then the story was explained to the GP, he just became irritated and
said with disgust
"it's getting worse day by day ... these people just keep on covering up
these serious cases ... we get left to pick up the pieces, that is if we
can"
needless to say no test results were available.

The time has come for the complementary medical scene:
people accept that no doctor has all the answers(and have probaly been
told so by them )... they need and want to be pro-active and
participate in the maintenance of their natural "wealth". They just are
fed up with being talked down to, they need a partner to help them and
we can be the best type of help if we do not close our minds to other
regimes but recognize the qualities they offer which will serve our
patients best. (i.e. we do not behave as the establishment have towards
us) We fail only ourselves and our patients if we forget their needs
for it is that
alone which gives our profession the efficacy and respectibility it
truly deserves.
Charlotte Gilruth wrote:
--
she reads homeopathy....she talks homeopathy...she studies homeopathy ...........she's an insomniac!!

Soroush,

I guess this is one situation where it is not advisable to treat like
with like
leave the ineffectual mud-slingers to their game , we know what's what

enjoy life!

Jas

Charlotte Gilruth wrote:
--
she reads homeopathy....she talks homeopathy...she studies homeopathy ...........she's an insomniac!!