Homeopathy Books

The layout of this small book reminds me of a Dover reprint - lots of white space, old type fonts, and very stiff cheap paper. Nothing is wrong with the information though: it's accurate and easy to understand. However, if you have worked with the essences, it will not offer new insights or information. Good basic reference.

I was very happy with this book. It gave great suggestions on using the flowers with children and the different ways you can apply them in general. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the Bach Remedies.

This book is a great idea for someone that wants to solve a minor problem he may be having (such as dry hair, sunburn, or sore throat) without having to pay a doctor or look for advice for hours on the internet. This book lists several ailments and annoyances men suffer from, and provides a 2 to 5 page summary of what it is and how to treat it.

The practical and down to earth advice is something that anyone--even men--will find concise, helpful and authoritative.

AS A PRACTISING HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR THE BOOK IS HELPFUL FOR HOMEOPATHIC STUDENTS AND OTHERS

This is the best review of homeopathy written. It is balance and practical with a clear summary of homeopathy, what it can and cannot do and a practical section on how to use it for common problems.

Any serious student of homeopathy should read this book. I felt like the title was a misnomer, and instead should be "In defense of Melanie Hahnemann." It is a 211 page book and 80 pages of it are devoted to Melanie's childhood and her life after Samuel's death.

Melanie travels to Germany from France in a mail coach, dressed as a man due to the fact that it is not safe for a young woman to travel so far by herself. She goes to see Hahnemann for her own chronic health problem. Three days after her arrival they become engaged. She is 35 and he is 80. They plan their wedding in secret, and shortly after they are married he leaves most of his money and his home to his children and goes to Paris with Melanie. In his will, he specifically states that anything he accrues after his departure is to go to Melanie and that anyone who contests that is to receive nothing.

The next 8 years are the happiest of his life. With Melanie's connections, he develops a thriving practice, with many famous and wealthy clients. He is respected, enjoys the opera, long walks, and daily stops for ice cream. He continues to experiment with homeopathy and modifies many aspects of his protocol.
* He begins giving remedies in water so that they reach many nerves in the mouth.
* He also uses olfaction, or smelling a substance.
* He frequently begins a case with sulphur because he believed all disease was psoric (relating to a skin rash) in origin.
* He began the case with the highest potency and then gradually proceeded to the lower potencies.
* They would dilute the remedy in a combination of alcohol and water with succession in between each dose.
* Repeating every two hours, twice a day, every other day, or every day, according to the need.
* Higher potencies for the chronic phases, and lower for the acute
* It appears he developed the LM potency as an alternative to the Korsakoff and Jenichen methods which reached 1000C and 1500C because Hahnemann was concerned about the severe aggravations they may cause.
* The LM method allowed him to prepare a very dilute remedy by hand without aggravation because there was less succussion involved.
* On numerous occasions he prescribed two remedies at the same time. The author concludes that Hahnemann meant that not more than one remedy should be administered at exactly the same time.
During this time Hahnemann writes the 6th edition of the Organon and talks to two publishers about publishing it. When he becomes ill, his daughter and grandson travel to Paris to see him, but Melanie refuses them until the day before he dies because she does not want them to detract him from his struggle to recover. When he dies, she gets permission from the police to keep his body in the house for up to 14 days. She finally buries him on a rainy day with only a few people present.

She fights with nearly everyone over the course of the rest of her life, Hahnemann's family, the courts, people she loans money to, other homeopaths... There is much discussion of publishing the 6th edition of the Organon, which of course doesn't happen in her lifetime, or even her daughter's. At one point she allows her daughter's future father-in-law to see a few extracts from the journals. He immediately published them with some explanatory comments. Melanie writes a heated letter "the infinitesimal dilutions had been carried so unreasonably far that it must be assumed that the mental debility of old age alone could have induced Hahnemann to fall into such errors."

The author also focuses on how difficult a job it would be of incorporating all of his hand written notes in German. But it was eventually done, so that argument doesn't hold much water. Roger Morrison M.D. stated in one of his videotaped lectures that Melanie demanded $20,000 (over $20 million in today's dollars) for the manuscript. This author did not mention that fact although she does explain that she offers the manuscript for a collection of funds from students.

It was an interesting, yet somewhat depressing read.

Wonderfull book, it gives us a clear understanding of SH & Melanie's life together, it also enunciate the last days of the Master of Homeopathy, and show us the last way of his practice in Paris

The book was pretty interesting, but the title was a littlemisleading. Even with the "or so" added to the title, onemight think of a book of pressure points, herbal remidies, and other alternative methods of healing. Must of the book is planning what you eat, and keeping diaries of what's going on, all long term things. The books does have a few things, but they are not nessarily completely developed. In the pain chapter, it says to find "trigger points", explaining that they are sevsetive areas, and that's really it...

But htough it is week in some areas it is helpful, even though slightly mislead.

THE ONE-MINUTE (OR SO) HEALER is a little book packed with big wisdom concerning natural remedies for a wide variety of common ailments. Thirty-one chapters on topics as diverse as acne, allergies, arthritis, constipation, coughs, depression, earaches, fatigue, influenza, insomnia, migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, pain, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), sinusitis, tension headaches, and ulcers contain a multitude of short paragraphs packed with ideas for alleviating the problem at hand. This is the kind of book that I envision a new age mother giving to her children, to remind them to remember things like "eat the BRATY bunch (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast & yogurt) if you have diarrhea," and "relieve asthma by touching the pressure point in the web of your hand between your thumb and index finger."

If you are facing menopause and are concerned with finding good replacements for hormone replacement therapy, you'll find the twenty natural remedies suggested by Dana Ullman to be very timely advice. Bee pollen, the Bach walnut flower remedy, natural clothing, spirulina and chlorella, soy, black cohosh, and dong quai are just a few of the wonderful possibilities you can try.

Any time you find yourself wondering how to naturally alleviate a particular health issue, THE ONE-MINUTE (OR SO) HEALER will likely be the reference book you'll want to read first. Parents, health-care providers, and people who prefer to begin their health treatments with natural solutions will adore this book!

-- Cynthia Sue Larson
author of AURA ADVANTAGE: How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain What You Desire and Attract Success

Homeopathic treatment manual for severe third-world sicknesses, including cholera, malaria, meningitis, and snakebite. Although serious diseases are fairly rare, it is not unusual for a world traveller to be caught in an epidemic or get severe food poisoning when far, far from a conventional hospital. It happens often enough to merit carrying this book. We own a Himalayan trekking business and we regularly send people into the villages of India, Nepal, and Tibet. I recommend this book to all our travelers familiar with homeopathy. I personally when travelling outside the first world with my children often need good homeopathic evaluation on strange and complex symptom patterns. Colin B. Lessell's volume is good both for making diagnosis and prescribing remedy for urgent illness. Sturdy plastic cover, strong paper pages. The best carry-along medical guide of its kind.

The wonderful thing about this book is that it covers many nasty tropical disease conditions that are difficult to treat even with quality medical assistance. I would want it handy in any third world situation where medical service is inadequate. From common everday ailments such as sunburn and hangover to the frightening and obscure like Shistosomiasis and Chagas Disease, Dr. Lessell has the cure. The book efficiently extracts and distills from the massive volumes of homeopathic literature knowledge relevant to the traveller and packs it into a nice portable softcover manual. Particularly noteworth is the chapter on homeopathic immunization helping the prospective traveller avoid the standard dangerous and expensive conventional treatments. Homeopathic dilutions and some traditional herbal substances are used. A few of the remedies are uncommon and may require stocking up on depending on anticipated needs. The book is of a high quality manufacture and includes attractive old sketches. Browsing through the book, one can imagine being wracked with fever in an Amazon hammock desperately turning pages with shaking fingers, or at a quaint Paris bistro graciously recommending a particular wine that may settle the stomach of a travelling companion. An excellent reference.

I am so excited to have come upon this book. I have been studying the Bach flowers and using them on myself as well as family, friends, and my beloved pets. I have seen some really great results with the use of the flower essences taken internally, so I was very eager to see their amazing powers when applied topically. And that's exactly what happened. I was able to help my grandfather who was going through a very difficult time emotionally, and had a terrible pain in his head that the doctors were not able to help relieve. He is now pain free. I am very excited and feel confident to be able to help others through the use of the essences applied topically when the need arises.

This book is of a rare kind. It contains maps of the body in order to work skillfully on the body with Bach flower remedies. I had up to the point that I found this book ingested the remedies orally, however now I do it both ways. Manually and orally.

For those who are sensitive, like me, and who have worked with these remedies and other healing systems for a long time, yet have obstacles in the body, Kramer's way to work with the remedies can be highly rewarding.

This is cutting edge and it is cutting the edge to being more natural in the world, free of of old compensations.

Kramer's work of mapping the body by flower types is the most important work since Bach's original book. Infact, you could say that Kramer's work continues Bach's work.

Kramer shows that areas of the body respond to particular flowers. For example, the bronchial passage corresponds with Oak, Star & Century. By applying these to the passage you can directly influence the broncial passage.

If you then combine superfically corresponding flowers with flowers corresponding to emotinal conditions (Bach's original method), it is possible to come to a full cure; even if previously you had reached a plateau with Bach's original method.

Don't miss this one.

I had been self treating with a few flowers for a couple of months, taking them orally, as I was undertaking a challenging activity that has repeatedly frustrated me in the past. I am quite confident I saw clearly the remedies needed at the time. I was not really experiencing much support from the remedies; the distress persisted. My wife helped me with 2 compress treatments one day, and I experienced a profound shift in myself with regard to the issues involved. I felt a greater inner peace than I had in months. I continue to reinforce the influence with a once-daily topical application of the remedies in a hand lotion. This has served me very well in the midst of the challenging situation where I have placed myself. I don't think this result would have been possible without Kramer's knowledge.
I have just started to work topically with patients and am eager to see what results obtain. Thank you.

this is an excellent source for Bach flower usage due to the maps. I was able to recongnize the source of my back pain, and therefore, be able to aliviate it. It also includes a table of what flowers combine with which ones to prevent illness or improve well being.

This is a mildly interesting book. The majority of the book covers case studies of children on the spectrum. The authors do a good job of describing the children, their challenges, and their special gifts. Almost all of the children they describe are verbal and high functioning. They then give a brief description of the homeopathic remedy they prescribed and why. They prescribe one remedy to be given occasionally, say maybe 3 times a year, but that could vary.

They do not unfortunately, tell the potency, which I absolutely hate. Potency is one of the most controversial aspects of homeopathy. You really can't evaluate a protocol without knowing what potencies they use and how they select it.

They then go on to describe how the child improved after the remedy. On a few occasions they had to prescribe a different remedy. That is normal. I was actually surprised at how rarely they had to do so.

They acknowledge the role vaccines play in autism just a tiny bit, but appear to believe that genetics and other environmental insults are more important. It is hard for me to understand how a homeopath and a naturopath can be so blind to vaccine induced autism.

They don't do any homeopathic vaccine clearing, which granted is just catching on in this country, but none the less, very important.

So the description of the children was interesting in the beginning, but I eventually got bored with it. I did enjoy reading their selection of remedies, but felt the book lacked the key detail of potency.

Homeopathy is often mentioned in alternative treatments for ASD and autism, but usually it's only glancingly mentioned.

This book fills in more detail and understanding to what Homeopathy is and how it specifically relates to these special needs children. Most of the book is filled with sample cases (some actual cases and some that are amalgams of different cases used to illustrate specific tendencies). A couple of times, I found myself crying because I related to the experiences that the parents and children have. . .and other cases which, although not applicable to my family, were interesting to read.

I appreciated that it wasn't preachy. It takes into consideration the enormous exhaustion experienced by parents of high-needs children, and the ways that subtle (and not-so-subtle) family dynamics often shift when one or two family members find balance within themselves.

I read this book just after it came out, and it is one of the books I have read in recent years that have really encouraged me to "think outside the box".

I have Asperger's myself, and by the time I read this book, I had started working with someone who has Asperger's quite severely. After reading the case studies in this book of people with Asperger's who were very difficult cases before receiving certain treatments, but changed dramatically after these treatments, I started to wonder if the difficult case whom I was working with would benefit from these treatments. It just so happened that when I was reading this book, I was already getting NAET treatments to eliminate some of my allergies (I found out about NAET treatments from other sources), so I asked the naturopath who was giving me my NAET treatments if he knew of anybody in Ottawa who gives homeopathic treatments. He then gave me the name and phone # of a homeopath whom he knew, and then, I contacted him, and asked him if he treated autism. He told me that he did, so I then told the mother of the Asperger client I work with about him, and then she proceeded to take her to him.

After my client started getting treatments from this homeopath, I started getting treatments from him as well. Even before I started getting homeopathic treatments, my Asperger symptoms were not as severe as those of my client, but I still wanted them to be even less severe! Why have Asperger symptoms (even mild ones) if you don't have to? Eh? I believe that I am further ahead now than I would be if I hadn't "thought outside of the box", and this is one of the books that has encouraged me to "think outside the box"!

This book does not contain a single useful piece of information. The content is made up entirely of generalities, vacuous comments and superficial case descriptions. Someone buying this book (like I) is already aware of homeopathy as a treatment option and would be looking for information that could actually be implemented. If I wanted primitive stories, I would buy "Three little pigs".

The sole purpose of this book is to extract money from desparate parents and to promote/advertise the services and facilities of the authors.

I found this book to be a collection of stories. It is therefore very similar to their other book ritalin free kids. I would have found it more useful if it contained more concrete information as to what aspects of autism can be helped.

Schiff's account of the 'persecution' of Jacques Benveniste, the French scientist who produced strong experimental evidence that homeopathic dilutions can have significant biological effects, reveals that science, the great project of enlightenment and reason, has mutated into something similar to fundamentalist religion.

This religion of true science has its own high priests, taboos and holy dogmas. The high priests are the editors of scientific journals such as Nature, who self-righteously decide which of nature's phenomena can and cannot be admitted into scientific scripture. Consideration for scientific canonization of a phenomenon usually depends on compatability with dogma and tradition.

Benveniste's research, described in the first half of this book, did not meet this criterion. It challenged the dogma that living system can be reduced to the mechanical interaction of molecules, and it violated a scientific taboo by suggesting that homeopathy, that old heresy on the systematic ridicule of which whole sceptical careers have been built, might be legitimate after all. A historical embarrasement for scientific orthodoxy seemed imminent.

Beneveniste had to be discredited by any means necessary. The second half of Schiff's book is devoted to a detailed discussion of what these means were. Among them are accusations of incompetence and fraud, rumors of mental instability, censorship, ridicule, misinterpretation of statistical data, mock replication of experiments and 'scientific harassment' (a barrage of invalid criticisms and poorly thought through alternative "explanations" that do not explain the observations, combined with escalating demands for more evidence, even though it has already been decided that no amount of evidence will be considered convincing), and ultimately, the withdrawl of funding.

Schiff's account of the lengths that the scientific establishment will go to to defend preconceived notions of how nature ought to work leaves no room for doubt that 'big science' is broken and needs to be fixed. An excellent, highly educational book that is deserving of five stars.

Let's get one thing straight, water has no more memory than a CD or cassette! BUT they all have the ability to store organized patterns representing information.

This book doesn't get into the know how but more the struggles of being accepted by main-stream medical doctors and researchers. Only a great read if you are interested in learning about the many objections homeopathy has encountered.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about homeopathy

There it is, a book about a researcher who claims to be a prophet while just being a unthorough researcher. Serious efforts to reproduce the results of Mr Beneveniste failed, for a brief outline I recommend H2O: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball (Phoenix Press, 1999). But as Mr Ball states: the belief in homeopathy is "symptomatic of a frustration at the broader cultural flight from rationality" (p. 291).

The history of science is a history of new ideas against old ideas. "Official" scientists try by all means and forms to impede
the advancement of science. This has been so since the dawn of
times. Almost always a new idea only finds its place after the
present generation of scientists and dea and buried. Organizations seem to exist with the only purpose to work as a
gatekeeper deciding which ideas are acceptable to science an which are not.

Trough history, how many brilliant ideas have been turned down by established high priests of science? Hundreds. Some eventually mae their way to the light and filled of shame the censors who could not distinguish a new idea from quackery.

Even great minds may be victimized by arrogance and prepotency. Comes to mind Harrison's fight against the Royal Academy of Science in the chronograph/longitude issue when Newton himself (among other geniuses like Halley) shamefully barred Harrison from his well-deserved prize an pride.

This book is a MUST READ. If you ever suspected that established science may be working against your interests, rest assured it is. Read this book.

"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident" - Arthur Schopenhauer

The book' author Schiff worked in Benveniste's lab and documents successful replication work, as well as attempted replication work by others. The book is not written to support any particular conclusions about possible memory of water so much as to document events ensuing from publication of extraordinary data. The investigators are not drawing hard-and-fast scientific conclusions (no hint of Schopenhauer's third stage) as to the specific nature and mechanism of the apparent discoveries. So, it is not only inappropriate to ridicule those curious about the subject, but it is anti-scientific to be making ad hominem attacks when the investigators are proceeding in an erudite fashion, from what I can see by reading the book.

The situation of the apparently rational laboratory director Benveniste (p. 98 reports Science Citation Index records more than 1000 references to his work in the period 1986 - 1991, five times greater than the average number of citations among those 30 scientists who directed a laboratory belonging to the same section in INSERM as Benveniste) has been and is willing to risk his every career gain to continue the work. It is most unfortunate that easy attacks have been the scientific community's preferred method of response to this remarkable man's unusual claims.

The book is mainly a pleading to allow science to proceed as science ought to proceed, uncertainty and all. Schiff does not claim to know that Benveniste is correct in all his assertions.

I like this book a lot. it is a great materia medica for flower essences! I could have given it five stars for the materia medica, but I would have loved to have a part in the book where the remedies also were listed per se, but he do give guidelines for where you can find this. But i do recommend this book for everyone seriously working with or interested in floweressences, really great work!

I have to start with the Perfect Part; I love this book for it's indispensable qualities. There is not a better book out there that covers more and offers more insight into so many essences as Mr Sharpiro's book. I refer to it every day and it is dog eared and cross referenced and page marked; hence the SECOND part of the review, the IMPERFECT part. Such a WASTE of reference here since there is no cross reference or list of essences, even if only in an index form, so that one can at least go back after one's initial discovery work (I.E. looking up a condition to resolve), and take the list of essences possible and then cross check them, find thier suggested uses better and faster and AT ALL. See overlaps, double uses, etc etc. quicker and without having to only have the symptoms to start with. I have purchased so many more obscure essences based on the suggestions in this book, only to find then , I while I do compile large volumes of essence information from thier makers,and I do use them for remedies for what this volume suggests them for, there remains no easy look up if I were to want to re-visit the initial use or purpose for buying any one bottle. It would be so helpful, just from a practical point of view to have at lEAST included an index. This would have saved many post-its, folded page corners and piles of notes in no particular order to re examine. It would help me make use of so many essences I have on hand, also, I am sure. This is not a happy review to write since I wnat to emphasize how terrific this volume is in what it achieves and I am so grateful for it. I wish a couple other lines of essences were also included, but Mr Shapiro can't be slighted for that, but mostly I am hoping Mr Shapiro reads this and creates an index of essences at least to his second printing of this book. I will buy it immediately. It would make combination remedies simpler and less time consuming to create as well. There is one FANTASTIC part to this book; the end where actual physical symptoms and conditions are listed with remedies and I have had such great success with every one or combination I have tried, it is amazing, and leaves me wanting MORE of this genre of suggested uses for essences. I am a believer in the intuitive side of essences selection, and have seen that work wonders even alone, but a volume such as this, so full of information, is also invaluable to open and use as a spring board to using flower essences for real healing.

another book of choice that goes into the descriptions of the indivudal flower essences. This book covers the essences of the wellknown makers, but does not go into any depth, at all, of the descriptions. It's very comprehensive and easy to understand as far as the repertory and ruberics go....

This is a good book for quick references. It's good to have some practicality and clarity with essences so "everyone" can have the opportunity to use the them. If the essences are kept too confusing and too mystical then people will not want to even try the essences. If they would happen to need them, then that would be sad if it was too confusing for them to use. One thing I wish is that the author had included the list of essences with some descriptions of them, separate from the other listings. The listings that are in the book are by symptoms. Then the essences that are needed for that symptom are underneath. The essence is then described there. It's a very handy and understandable book!!

From my personal perspective, I did not find this book helpful. Possibly this was because, as one reviewer put it, it tries to take the mystery out of flower essences. Think about it - the workings of the essences are a mystery, even though the community is learning a lot about the situations in which a particular essence is most suited. I believe that it is a mistake to treat them as though they were drugs in the PDR, which I feel is the overall message of this book: find a sympton; prescribe an essence; Voila! An essence is a gift from the plant to the animal/human world and needs to be respected as such.