Journey to the core of an individual - a systematic step by step process.

During the last few years having understood the concept of the 'Stages' and the process of travelling through the stages to reach the core stage of the individual, has made me realise the surprising and humbling fact that this process is not just about homoeopathy, but that it is universal.

It has been successfully applied, replicated and confirmed in individuals in many other fields of mind and body transfor...

The half truth about constitutional remedies

When we were first introducted to the Kentian constitutional approach, I realised that homeopathy was full of materia medica books for this approach with elaborate details of remedy pictures. Most of them leaned heavily towards the mental constitutional pictures and colourful descriptions of personalities. No doubt it made homeopathy appealing to me as a student. I could spend days reading Catherine Coulter's personalities like an interesting nove...

The ever growing Materia Medica

During his life Hahnemann proved at least a hundred different remedies and built the basis of the Materia Medica that is still being used today. During the hundred and fifty years since, some two and a half thousand remedies have been added, some through rigorous provings, others not quite and many more through noting the effects of accidental poisonings.

I remember one particular lecture in Organon where we discussed the limitation of homeopathy. One of th...

My introduction and exploration into drug remedies -

I remember scrolling through the pages of the mind section in Kent's repertory as a student and being fascinated with the delusional rubrics of one remedy in particular. That remedy was Cannabis Indica. I found that this remedy had one of the most absurd set of delusion rubrics I could find. I always wondered when a patient would walk into the OPD clinic exclaiming that she was a butterfly or a gigantic flower or that he heard the s...

My training in the paediatric OPD

Have you wondered how prescribing for kids can be one of the most simple things in homeopathy , yet at times one of the most challenging ? I still remember the paediatric OPD in our hospital which exposed to me the joy of simple basic homeopathy. I observed how the consultants produced such satisfactory results using a mere handful of remedies. The case taking hardly lasted for more than a few minutes. The prescriptions were mostly at Stage 2 and 3 using...

Introduction

Today, I will share my experiences of working at Stage 3 using both Kentian and Boenninghausen approaches right from my very first introduction to them.

Final year in Medical School

During my last year of homeopathic medical school, we had to compare and study the two predominant approaches in homeopathy ie Kentian and Boenninghausen. It included the study of both repertories, their structure and the philosophy behind them in great detail. Some part of this research wa...