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Hi All,
I've been invited to give an introductory talk about homeopathy to a high
school biology class. The teacher stressed that the students really
appreciate a "hands on" approach. Do any of you have any suggestions about
how to give a presentation that will be engaging for teenagers?

Many thanks,
Charlotte

How about having them each prepare/make a remedy?
Donna

well, obviously the remedies. have some there--maybe a neat looking kit

perhaps mix up some low potencies from a tincture. or have the students
do this.

show before and after photos of a healing.

talk about homeopathy and house plants or in the garden

some photos/slides of common flowers/plants and what they do as remedies.
rhus tox is a favorite example of mine and you can also add the way Native
Americans ate the tips of new shoots in the spring to build immunity.

give some examples of common conditions that are treated successfully with Homeopathy

pets and homeopathy is a good one. maybe some articles from Homeopathy Today that are
readable and always have sweet photos.

charts of plant families and the remedies they make or the drawing 'homeopathy man' that
is in Hershoff's book on Muscular/skeleton first aid.

just some thoughts that you can play with

tanya

I think they'd enjoy hearing some of homeopathy's more spectacular history
-- can someone suggest sources? E.g., I recall Harris Coulter's book on the
history of homeopathy gives some examples of where homeopathy shone in
comparison to the medical methods of the day (homeopathic patients lived;
allopathic patients sometimes didn't). Sandra Perko's book *H'c Treatment
of Influenza* gives fascinating info regarding comparative survival rates of
h'c and allopathic pts during the 'flu epidemic of (I think it was) 1918.

I think this sort of info (which might require some digging for info, but
should be awfully interesting to research) would be of great interest to HS
students (and I'll bet they'd be interested to hear some about the medical
practices of Hahnemann's day -- and you wouldn't need to be shy about
admitting "we've come a long way, baby", yet some things are still the
same...). Also the statistics are impressive, and that shouldn't hurt
either...

(Sorry this is rushed -- let me know if I should clarify...)

BTW Coulter's book (argh, the name escapes me! Someone help?) re history of
homeopathy is one that IMO should be required reading for all of us. It's
long, but *very* readable, quite fascinating, I thought!

What a wonderful project your talk should be!!!
Best luck, and let us know how it goes!!

Shannon
on 2/11/03 8:11 PM, tanya marquette at tamarque@frontiernet.net wrote:

hello Charlotte
i'm a doctor from india and treat chronic illness,
for presentations to teenegers i suggest you the following
to make a really very intresting presentation and let them think and feel
about the wonders of how homoeopathy works , the presentation must be in
such a way that they are intrested in a new science which has results , and
when you finish the lecture there must be atleast 80% of teenegers back
asking youfor treatment, or info on homoeopathy,
charlotte ,
doing presenations in class specially teenegers and if they are impressed
you get a lot of 1) teenagers as patients ,
tips for presentation ,
founded it and the medicine or detials of medicnes then not much will be
intrested, you give a lecture and come out and then days are as before.

so what i suggest you to do is
teenagers have diffrent problems) if you could tell me exactly i would guide
you , here in india the major problem for teenagers is acne , weight gain ,
may be in your town (teenager must be obese and want to reduce their
weight), etc,
presented a presentaiton on homoepathy may be a new system to you at that
time, and in the presentaiton you see how homoepathy removes acne and makes
the face clear up permentatly, woulnt you be intrested in the lecture and
treatment ????

each section only
theory as given below as odd numbers are even numbers where you just diver
the theory saying for example , there are cases like ..........and then come
back to the theory,
works,
problems ,
like asthma , psoriasis, leucoderma, with vital stastics, for example such
and such figure suffer from asthma in this country and people keep taking
medicaiton like the pump and get no relif , where in homoeopahty people feel
much better and stop using the pump ect etc, then give stastics, of country
suffering ,
(suppose),like depression, obesity, acne , migraine etc with examples of
cure. give them examples of chronic , like such and such suffered from
migraine since 8 yrs and with homeopahty felt better,
survival rate is only 6-7 months and how they survive for 3-4 years and
more,
best of luck, and do try to get before / after pic of some diseases make
then feel how homopathy works,
regards
macx

I've found appeal with the making of a remedy in class - handing round the
test-tube, diluting and succussing as you go. Also pairing off with face
paints and an acute remedy description e.g. a bright red phosphorus nose
bleed, or a ledum bruised puncture wound, a Pulsatilla snotty cold with
tears, an Arnica "I'm alright" head injury etc. Encouraging of course the
actor in each student to be shown, whilst emphasing each holistic remedy
picture.

Regards
Tessa Mackenzie RC Hom NZ

Pretty hard to imagine demonstrating homeopathy at the level of instant
gratification

You might want to see if any of the students are familiar with the
rthur C. Clarke's Third Law:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

See if you can quickly sell them the idea of the scientific process -
inquiry, postulation, demonstration, refinement of inquiry, and so on.

Homeopathy has been proven empirically, experientially.. but today's
science is just beginning to come to a point where it may before too
long be able to measure & explain any part of it (other than dismissing
it as magic

At the moment, the only thing I can think of which could be demonstrated
with facility is homeopathic psychology -- perhaps enlisting a couple of
young women into demonstrating how emotional distress can be relieved
thru homeopathic conversation.

Maybe some ideas would come to you after browsing here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/water1.php#1

Maybe collect a number of short descriptions of clinical studies of
homeopathy such as
http://www.homeopathic.org/controlled.htm

-get students to volunteer to read them to the class..
Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)464-8127

You could always start by asking them whether they would like to be able to
approach exams with fewer palpitations and less anxiety and be able to
retain more when they study! That should capture their imagination? Another
idea is to ask them whether they would find it interesting if they could
recover quicker and with less pain and fewer complications from sports
injuries. I could think of a few more angles but I think the above should
be more than enough?

Have fun, I would just LOVE to do a presentation like that!

Be well
Eleana
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Charlotte wrote:
about

At my first ever college weekend studying homeopathy, one of the lecturers
passed around some rock salt crystals and invited each of us to take one and
put it in our mouths (or, if we were leery of that, just focus on salt), and
describe anything that came into our heads about it or any physical
sensations we noticed suddenly appearing.

We were all very curious, wondering where this was going, but also
comfortable with such a familiar substance. The lecturer started the ball
rolling just asking us about the associations salt brought up (easy
enough -- we can all relate to them). As people started to get into it, the
descriptions moved from what any of us could reasonably derive
intellectually from our knowledge of salt into more associative, feeling,
right-brain stuff. Deeper feelings of the remedy and then some physical
sensations started to surface very clearly. The lecturer only intervened to
occasionally reflect back to help clarify the symptoms she was recording on
the board (as you would in a case-taking). This was starting to get
exciting, but what happened next went way beyond even what the lecturer had
anticipated -- one person collapsed!

From one tiny crystal of salt!! It was scarcely believable. Far less than
most of us put on just one meal. It shocked us all right out of thinking
within the confines of the materialist box. None of us have ever forgotten
it. It also gave us a very useful "in" to studying materia medica.

Undoubtedly the drama of the person collapsing added an extra dimension to
the experience and it's probably not something you necessarily want to
encourage (!!), but the general idea of taking a common, everyday,
"harmless" substance like salt and getting a group of people to tune into it
like this is a great way of demonstrating quite a few homeopathic
principles, as well as encouraging them to think about things in a new way.
It works well with people because it's as much their process as yours; it's
creative and unpredictable, rather than dry and controlled, it gets people
out of sponge-mode and into working as a group, and it hooks them right into
you and whatever else you want to talk about. Great way to start a talk!

Regards
Wendy

thanks for that wendy. it reminds me of a jeremy scherr workshop in which he was discussing
the remedy chocolate. he handed out pieces of chocolate and did the same type of thing as you
describe. it was so interesting to see the reactions on all levels. now that might be a good
substance to use with high school kids.

tanya