I.A.C.H.: Homeopathy Course & Curriculum This is a homeopathy course where the earnest student really learns the proper application of classical homeopathy. The homeopathic training includes the following subjects :

Homeopathic Theory

• History of homeopathy and its place in our modern world.
• Life of Hahnemann.
• Introduction to the Organon - Commentary and explanation of the main paragraphs of the Organon.
• Comments on the New Model written by George Vithoulkas. All paragraphs will be explained.
• Comments on the different chapters of the"Science of Homeopathy" - a homeopathic textbook by George Vithoulkas.
• Understanding the human being in its structure and totality.
• Discussion on all different aspects of practical application of homeopathy on live cases and their follow ups for three to four years.

Understanding the human organism in its totality

• The organism as a holistic entity, with an energic structure.
• The structure of the organism in its three levels of functioning.
• The mental-spiritual
• The emotional-psychic
• The physical level
• The practical need for having such an understanding
• Hierarchy Interconnections- between mental, emotional and physical bodies. Dynamics of the interaction.

Definition of health and the measure of health

• State of Health: harmonious function of all 3 levels
• Sense of freedom

• This is one of the most recent developments in classical homeopathy where new information is given in order to clarify old problems.
• The student of the course has the possibility to learn to evaluate the degree of health in a completely different way than previously taught.

Understanding the laws of cure

• The law of similars and its implications. Other applications of the law.
• The dynamics of the disease.
• Dynamic action on vital force of medicines and disease
• The meaning of symptoms
• Comparative value of symptoms
• The energic nature of disease
• The suppressions of symptoms - diseases and how they occur.
• The adaptation syndrome-shift syndrome.

The Homeopathic Remedies

• What they are, how they are prepared.
• Pharmacological origin of mother tinctures and preparation of potencies.
• The creation of the homeopathic remedies - provings of homeopathic remedies
• The preparation for a proving
• Primary and secondary action of drugs.
• The making of a complete homeopathic Pharmacopoeia: the so called Materia Medica
• Preparation of homeopathic drugs - potentisation and trituration, possible errors
• The potentisation - its implications and measurements.
• Potentisation Modern research Arndt-Schultz Law
• The correct preparation of homeopathic medicine and the care for their maintenance in the homeopathic pharmacy.

Case taking

• Mental, educational and spiritual preparation of the homeopathic doctor in order to take a homeopathic case properly.
• Techniques for homeopathic case taking and evaluation of the information
• The need and the importance of the underlining of symptoms.
• Practical application by live exercises.
• Critique of the homeopathic case taking of other teachers by the students of the course.
• The psychological aspect of both the patient and the doctor in the case taking process.

Questioning the patient:

• Letting the patient talk
• Leading questions
• Following up answers and double-checking
• The different aspects of Taking an Acute or a Chronic case
• The importance of observation: Manner, posture, expressions, personality, physiognomy

Physical examination

• Physical,
• Laboratory,
• Radiological,
• Pathological vs. functional symptoms - their prognostic value

The meaning of "taking the case of a patient"

• The objective.
• The structure of the case taking - the sources of information - Organon
• The optimum conditions for a successful homeopathic prescription
• Constitutional prescription Acute (specific) prescribing
• Tissue and organ system prescribing
• Strategies for tackling a case
• Strategies for clearing a confused case
• Rules for choosing the potency and the dose - repetition

Live cases in long-term homeopathic treatment

• LIVE CASES will be presented with long follow-ups so the student of the course will get a very good idea of the curative possibilities of homeopathy.

The First Homeopathic Prescription

• Evaluation of peculiarity and intensity
• Record keeping
• Kent's description,
• Importance of Underlining
• Recording of prescription, future ideas, diagnosis, prognosis, medical, family, drug and treatment history
• Homeopathic prognosis after the first prescription
• Repetition of dose - importance of waiting
• Choosing the correct potency for every case.
• Evaluation of the first prescription, all the possible implications.
• The Homeopathic Aggravation - in time - in intensity - in length
• Antidoting homeopathic remedies, adverse reactions.

Follow-up of the case

• Herring's Law

Second Homeopathic prescription

• All the rules pertaining to the second prescription.
• Prescribing on a superficial or on a deeper level, the meaning and the need of such prescriptions.
• When such prescriptions are right or when they are wrong.
• The dynamics within the family after a correct homeopathic prescription

Obstacles in the homeopathic prescribing.

• Complicated cases after allopathic prescribing
• Complicated cases after wrong homeopathic prescribing.

Analysis of homeopathic cases

• According to essence - totality - keynotes and causative factors.

Predisposition and the theory of the miasms

• Genetic predispositions and the HLA system
• Susceptibilities - miasms
• Importance of miasms
• Origin of miasms
• Description of miasms

Acute diseases and their management.

• The management and the evaluation of acute diseases during treatment of chronic conditions. The rules for prescribing in such cases.
• Acute prescribing.

Management of Chronic cases

• Management of mental cases under allopathic drugs.
• Management of severe pathology cases under heavy allopathic drugs, chemotherapy, cortisone, etc.
• Obscure and Disordered Cases - how to deal with them,
• "Clearing" of difficult and complicated cases
• Getting patients off drugs
• Long-term prognosis
• Evaluation and prognosis of the different chronic diseases according to homeopathy.

Scientific homeopathy vs. other homeopathic ways of application.

• Other holistic or natural techniques & how they act.
• Role of allopathic medicine and surgery

Repertorisation

• Structure of the homeopathic repertory of Kent and Synthesis.
• Structure of other repertories.
• Other repertories explained Methods of repertorisation by hand
• Various homeopathic repertories
• Kent's Knerr's Boenninghausen, Allen, Clark, Roberts
• The computer repertories
• Kent's Repertory - additions and their relative value.
• Origin of rubrics
• Grading of remedies
• Comparison of rubrics

Different techniques and their value in prescribing.

• How to choose rubrics
• Repertorisation through computers
• Understanding the use of computers for repertorisation, methods of repertorisation and their relative values.
• Methods for improving the information in the repertory.

Homeopathic Materia Medica

• The keynotes and the essences of 120 homeopathic remedies will be given according to the experience of G. V.
• How to study the Materia Medica
• Psychopathology as understood by homeopathy
• Direct study and memorisation vs. study through the cases in practice Comparison of similar remedies
• Comparison of remedies within particular rubrics
• Polychrests vs. lesser-proven remedies
• Pediatrics for beginners - practical hints for finding the correct remedy.
• During the treatment of cases there will always be a comparison of remedies.

Practical matters

• Handling of remedies, Administration of remedies, patient instructions
• Interfering substances
• Placebos
• Presence of friends and relatives during the consultation
• Which cases to refuse homeopathic treatment

Students of this homeopathic course should already be familiar with MEDICAL subjects

These lectures are based on the following books:

• "Kent's Lectures on Philosophy"
• G. Vithoulkas "A New Model for Health and Disease"
• G. Vithoulkas "The Science of Homeopathy"
• Hahnemann's "Organon of the Art of Healing"

The Homeopathic Academy is planning to have a presentation of the four year course on video 500 hours as originally taught in the Homeopathic Academy in Alonissos. This video course will be complemented by the presence of George Vithoulkas an hour every day during which time questions will be answered by George Vithoulkas. Some new cases could be presented by the students of the course during this time.