Minutus

I would like to respond to David's posting.
I am a British Homeopath who has worked in several different countries with Frontline Homeopathy, as well as in my own semi-urban practice in the UK. As you say, David, Dr Banerji raises some interesting points, and I too think their is some truth in what he says, but would also disagree with him in roughly the same areas as yourself.
Time ad again I have been faced with serious and complex disease in a patient who is living on less than US$1 per day. My own concerns re: my ability to treat this person successfully have so often proved to be unfounded - the patient responds beautifully - gently and rapidly - to the appropriate remedy. Dare I add - permanently, too? I have treated several cases of advanced (life-threatening) pathology and have 5yrs of follow-ups on most, with no re-emergence of the presenting pathology.
Conversely, similar patients in the UK have done less well - OK but far from the response I have seen in poorer places. These UK patients are living with their disease, rather than moving forward towards "cure". Often I believe the obstacle to cure is not just the allopathic suppressive treatment they have taken alongside my treatment, but more importantly the psychological suppression brought about by what you describe as the disease of over-civilization - neuroses, mood disorders, the "spoiled brat" characteristics of many westerners is a major stumbling block.
I agree that the inner terrain of the body and psyche is being annihilated by the onslaught of poor - inappropriate diet, by the destruction of environment and the detachment form the "real" - natural world.
As I get older I am becoming the feminist who is advocating staying home with the kids - rear your own kids - they need you more than the extra money you might earn to pay someone else to mind them - and they certainly need you more than the latest Gap kid fashions or latest toy. The developing world think we are quite mad - and I believe they are right.
This madness is producing sociopathic adults, and a host of other severe mental and emotional disorders.
Then there is processed food - this is the best way to undermine health as fast as possible - processed food IS junk - we are evolved to eat fresh food, not this crap, to which we are becoming ever more allergic and suppressed. "Slow food" is the way forward! Lastly I am "for" parents not being over-worked and under-rested, obsessed with material things rather than the quality of the relationships within the home, especially with their kids.
I have worked in countries where clean water is rare - and it kills people, where measles is a killer on a regular basis, where malaria is omni-present and lethal, where food is not abundant and kids (and adults) have no choice - they eat what is put in front of them rather than being picky and throwing large amounts away.
Happiness is something that comes from within - it is most emphatically NOT money and NOT things. Happiness comes when you nourish your soul as well as your body. Be grateful for what you have - and SHARE with others - happiness follows.
Liz
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Dear Liz,

I so whole-heartedly agree with you! I feel in the UK and perhaps other
western societies, there is almost an illness industry, with hospitals
almost becoming the illness factories - people go in with one condition and
come out usually with several, including the psychological "mindset" of
having a certain condition, whether it has been healed or not.

And as for your comments on child raising - YES!!

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Angela

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Well put
Simon
If you want to do what you love it will be easy - Courtney Pine

At 08:33 PM 4/30/2005, you wrote:

Dear Liz,

I am always happy to hear from a like-minded colleague with similar
experience. Working in the 3rd world is a wonderful experience because it
shows how Homoeopathy can be used as frontline medicine in general
practice. When I practice in the West I am not exposed to the wide variety
of cases extreme emergencies, or late stage pathology that I am in
developing countries. In the West the medical industrial complex has such
complete control in place that most of these types of cases are
institutionalized or under the control of the medical, drug company and
insurance monopoly.
What I am noticing is that universal immunization and the medical
industrial complex are also slowly but surely getting control of the
markets in the 3rd world. They call this "progress". Unfortunately, the
level of allopathic treatment introduced is also of a very, very poor
qualties. Antibiotics are becoming very popular and are given immediately
for almost any compliant! Drugs not permitted in the Europe or the USA are
being dumped in these markets. The modernization of the medical system is
making no real attempt to deal with causes or supply better nutrition,
cleaner water, and better sanitation. The situation is getting much worse
very quickly and it is hard to find persons who have not been exposed to
drugs these days.
I have noticed this also. It is not just the suppression and the drugs
because many of the cases in the 3rd world also have been exposed to
allopathic treatment before they see a homeopath. There is another factor
at work. It seems to be a collective psychosomatic breakdown based on
"diseases of over civilization". This syndrome needs to be investigated and
a group anamnesis of its characteristic symptoms created from the symptoms
of many patients. Then these details need to be repertorized and a group of
homogeneous remedies collected and tested in the clinic.
Mother Gaia is in serious trouble! Her self regulating mechanisms are
being forced into extreme reactions. She will find a way to balance the
situation in the geological time but human beings are in danger of mass
extinction. What we see in outer Nature is a reflection of what is
happening to the minds of human beings. At the same time, our leaders are
fiddling while Rome burns.
My family has always worked as a team. We all helped run the free
clinics, work on the literary projects, take care of the home and raise the
children. I have always been in the home and my wife as always been in the
clinic. Our children have always helped us in both endeavors. This has been
a great blessing. I know this is not possible for everyone but where a
family business is possible it is always best. Children need mothers and
fathers and they need a role to play for the greater good the
family. Children that have no "chores" end up lazy and irresponsible. That
was just not possible on the farm!

On the farm everyone had their natural place and all worked together
for the good of all. The industrial revolution has so completely taken
over that the entire family unit has been broken up and institutionalized
by the "takers". The "I, me and mine" brainwash is part of the subliminal
hypnosis used by the powers that be to divide and rule The must keep
everyone on the treadmill like a rat in a cage. If they can keep you in
your "place" long enough you won't flee even if the cage door is open!

One of the ways of destroying the women's movement is to get women
trapped in the same world the "controllers" have trapped the common man.
Men and women are complementary opposites that make a perfect functional
polarity. Men and women are different and equal - not the separate and the
same. If the natural qualities of men and women can be neutralized by the
media-medical-military industrial complex all the better! Then in the end
they can turn everyone into neutered automations and robots who stay in
their place without question.
Diet is very important but it has also been taken over by chemical
industrial complex. All these "complexes" are control by the same people.
With the advertising business and their subliminal seduction controlling
the senses individuals hardly stand a chance and children are brainwashed
from the start. Lifestyles is also controlled by the media which again is
under the control of the same monopolies. . Men, women and children are
just consumers for them to feed on. We're all just laboratory rats that
need to have our reflexes conditioned properly. Ring the bell and we drool!
The takers can't allow the family unit to last anymore than the
monopolist can allow the "mom and pop" businesses to survive. It does
matter if it is communist or the capitalists they idea is the same. The
family unit is too powerful of a force for good if it stays together.
Families make love not war. Families look out for other families. A healthy
society is really one big family. Families are greater than the sum of
their parts. Greater and lesser families must be broken up so everyone
must become "individuals". It is simply the application of the "divide and
rule" method. Individuals are very easy to control one by one.
Yes, and this is when over developed countries subsidize farmers not to
grow food and just dump the excesses to keep the prices up. Tariffs are put
on the products of developing regions while the 3rd worlds markets are
forced open to Western multinationals. Free trade does not mean fair
barter. It means the takers protect the 1st world while they take over the
3rd world. If developing countries were given a even playing field they
could complete but the deck is still stacked against them. This is pure
neo-colonialism run by bankers and politicians who control most world bodies.
Hahnemann once spoke about going "back to Eden". He was not speaking of
a physical paradise in the future. He was talking about an internal garden
where the Soul, intellect and emotional disposition all work in
harmony. If we want to change the world outside we must first start with
ourselves, our families, our friends and our neighborhoods. Then like a sea
of candles each small light fuses into a greater glow that can light up the
world. We are that light and no one can take that away from us!

Similia Minius
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This conversation reminds me of books that came out in my early
twenties "Future Shock" and "Super nature" - if I have remembered the
names and content right - they discussed these very issues, way way
back then. (70's)

Sadly as then, I think 'what can be done about it?'
I have not had the pleasure of practicing outside Europe but many
colleagues have commented similarily that when treating Px in the
'under developed ' countries they respond much more thoroughly and
faster to homeopathy, and they have been stunned at the level of
pathology that has shifted
Simon