There is a lot from some responses that is not what is requested as roll call, and THAT is very interesting. What kinds of healing activities people take part in for example.
So I retract my objection.
Have studied and used homeopathy since 1984, and am most involved in two areas:
* Innate Constitutional Type, ICT, defined by all aspects of inherited traits, not just genes,...thus including movment traits, physical features, inherited predispositions, and literally any inheriter trait, includoig those that ae different between identical twins. The groups of ICT are discrete, and not random per gentics theory. Each discrete group of traits is associated with a single homeopathic remedy.
Documenting all this is a huge task, and will need to continue long after I do what I can complete in this lifetime.
But it has immense usefulness not only in homeopathic treatment of illness including inherited miasms (epigene switch positions in modern parlance) , but also in farming, breeding of animals, and illness prevention.
Examples in farming/breeding:
Knowing the ICT types suited for a specific climate, will enable farmers to select, buy or breed, animals more suited to to farm activity and place in question. For example if breeding alpacas for ther fleece, in a hot climate, you want a Phos ICT rather than a Sulphur one. But in a cold climate it is the other way round.
For example if you want a single dairy cow, a Lachesis cow will give maximum milk production, but in a herd you would only want one Lach cow. (Lach has to be queen, more than one queen is not cool for herd equilibrium.)
For example if you are breedig pets and want to avoid hip dysplasia you would not breed two Lyc ever, but would be sure to breed a wide hipped type with the narrow hipped Lyc, to encourage polygenes for a better hip socket shape.
For prophylaxis:
Over the past 15 years, I have used the ICT of a healthy animal, to build its health and resistance (and remove miasms) so that it is not subject to chronic diseae. Entire farms, kennels, catteries etc using ICT on all the animals, esp the breeding ones, experience:
No chronic illness.
Births are easy and death rate zero ro close to zero.
No more abortions and other breedig issues.
Far fewer acutes, and they heal faster.
Feline Infectious Peritonitis, and other chronic immune compromise diseases.
Here the ICT is the main remedy, matched to the entire individual, not just the illness rubrics in the repertory, and it restores the immune system, allowig the individual to use that to overcome whatever illness is present.
It can be used in conjunction with a simillimum if needed or a local remedy if needed, to speed progress, where there is disease damage that is too fast to wait for immune system rerpair.
My work in FIP has resulted in the first ever longterm survivors of that illness.
This is clearly new and wider use of homeopathy than was used in Hahneman's time, although it is based on the principles of Hahnemann from the homeopathy side and on the facts of geentics on that side.
So esentially I have discovered where genetics and homeopathy intersect, and found it of great use to meet Hahnemann's aphorism one plus preventive medicine plus several other uses.
I use the Fibonacci series of potencies, for improving genetic/ICT health, and for healing when needed.
Healing is appoximately twice as fast witih F series than without it.
Healing is also much better with ICT as remedies are much better matched with ICT than by traditional methods.
ICT also makes prophylaxis more certain. Aph 141 says that proving numerous remedies will only increase the health. But if you choose an ICT, you need only that one individually exact remedy match, to improve the health of a specific individual so as to prevent chronic disease AND build robustness etc as described in Aph 141
(The principle behind Aph 141 was the trigger to my work added to my past genetics in cats studies. ( I published a cat genetics book in 1994 with some new ways to plan cat breeding based on sets of traits.)
The standard repertory does not help much in finding this ICT match, as it lists mainly illness symptoms and this ICT use is for an apparently healthy individual. The repertories NEED to list healthy and illness characteristics both, and they differ at diferent ages (as some ICTs start runts and end up gants, or some are tiny babies, but huge adults, and others arre plump early and late ages, but skinny in youth ..some shoot up tall all at once, others grow slowly taller., etc) and that also needs to be recorded, as they are all associated with a specific remedy - whether the individual is in health or not, newborn, teenage, adult o geeriatric. The ONE remedy has all these features for ONE specific ICT.
But te repertory is not currently designed that way, it has only illness issues.
Radar for example, currently has at most 1% of rubrics related to an ICT, listed for a remedy, and they are not proving symptoms but documented experience features, well hidden in the records. (eg Sepia is inelegant, red hair commonly occurs in some remedies, everything looks small to Plat who is very large, and Ars enjoys being nasty to others with practical jokes.)
Yet - That 1% (of an average 10,000 rubrics per remedy) can be JUST enough to connect the ICT type with a specific remedy - with GREAT difficulty, a lot of examples for confirmation, and a LOT of work.
SO that is an ongoing project.
I have the International Veterinary Homeopathy School, IVYHOM, registered in WA state, for advanced veterinary homeopathy....and I accept just a very few students, essentially by invitation, if I receive an application I like by email. (My health and life goals on ICT, preclude more.)
It is one on one customized training after some basic course prerequisites such as understanding of the Principles of Homeopathy & Organon/Chronic Diseaes study.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.Furryboots.info
(Info on Feline health, genetics, nutrition & homeopathy)
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