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.

This is one of the most important aspects of the teaching.

Definition of health and the measure of health

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

Evaluation of strength or weakness of a constitution according to the twelve levels.

• 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"