Standards and Competencies for Homeopathic Education in North America (ACHENA)
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 11:55 pm
The document is at http://www.achena.org/Docs/2013/S&C%20F ... 202013.pdf and dated September 2013.
Was there be an updated one based on 2014 comment process?
Some observations...
Organon 4-6 are required as LM potencies are included as competencies and some links included to O'Reilly 6th edition Organon.
While terms miasms and miasmatic are sprinkled throughout including under Classification of Disease,
no mention of Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases as where one is to learn what miasms are by incorporating into case management and treatment methodology nor that Chronic Diseases IS where miasm theory originates.
Types of cases include: First Aid; Acute; Chronic/constitutional; Acute symptoms in the midst of a chronic case.
Term chronic are used in various ways, chronic disease, illness, condition, care
Clearer differentiation of these in this formal standards and competencies w/b helpful to ensure there is a fully understood approach in treating a miasmatic vs. non-miasmatic chronic entity.
My experience has been since 1996 that many homeopaths take a case solely based on the Organon, totality of symptoms looking for one similimum when additional knowledge from Chronic Diseases are necessary when the chronic diseases are miasmatic and may require one or more remedies, usually antipsoric and nosodes, usually miasmatic.. While awareness of miasms is there, how to use the Organon in conjunction with Chronic Diseases is lacking.
The full study of miasms should be grad level but basic intro knowledge and awareness in the standards is useful, just needs to be more clearly defined.
Here's how USA Homeopathy is defined if this is to be the adopted recognized professional standard:
Homeopathy is based on natural laws and practices of health and healing as described by Doctor Samuel Hahnemann and others, including:
Recognizing as the fundamental basis of health and healing the necessity of working cooperatively with the innate life principle that distinguishes living from nonliving things, the "vital force"
Selecting remedies based on holistic and individualized consideration and by applying the "Law of Similars" (a substance that causes particular symptoms in a healthy person can address them when they arise during an illness)
Employing proven potentized microdose medicines manufactured from natural sources ("potentization" is the homeopathic preparation method in which a raw substance undergoes a series of successive dilutions with a "succussion" [a shaking or pounding motion] being applied to each dilution)
Following the Hippocratic principle "First, do no harm"
Susan
Was there be an updated one based on 2014 comment process?
Some observations...
Organon 4-6 are required as LM potencies are included as competencies and some links included to O'Reilly 6th edition Organon.
While terms miasms and miasmatic are sprinkled throughout including under Classification of Disease,
no mention of Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases as where one is to learn what miasms are by incorporating into case management and treatment methodology nor that Chronic Diseases IS where miasm theory originates.
Types of cases include: First Aid; Acute; Chronic/constitutional; Acute symptoms in the midst of a chronic case.
Term chronic are used in various ways, chronic disease, illness, condition, care
Clearer differentiation of these in this formal standards and competencies w/b helpful to ensure there is a fully understood approach in treating a miasmatic vs. non-miasmatic chronic entity.
My experience has been since 1996 that many homeopaths take a case solely based on the Organon, totality of symptoms looking for one similimum when additional knowledge from Chronic Diseases are necessary when the chronic diseases are miasmatic and may require one or more remedies, usually antipsoric and nosodes, usually miasmatic.. While awareness of miasms is there, how to use the Organon in conjunction with Chronic Diseases is lacking.
The full study of miasms should be grad level but basic intro knowledge and awareness in the standards is useful, just needs to be more clearly defined.
Here's how USA Homeopathy is defined if this is to be the adopted recognized professional standard:
Homeopathy is based on natural laws and practices of health and healing as described by Doctor Samuel Hahnemann and others, including:
Recognizing as the fundamental basis of health and healing the necessity of working cooperatively with the innate life principle that distinguishes living from nonliving things, the "vital force"
Selecting remedies based on holistic and individualized consideration and by applying the "Law of Similars" (a substance that causes particular symptoms in a healthy person can address them when they arise during an illness)
Employing proven potentized microdose medicines manufactured from natural sources ("potentization" is the homeopathic preparation method in which a raw substance undergoes a series of successive dilutions with a "succussion" [a shaking or pounding motion] being applied to each dilution)
Following the Hippocratic principle "First, do no harm"
Susan