homeopathy

After her son Devin was born last October, Grainne Ostrowski of Arlington was determined to do whatever she could to protect him from the flu.

When he was a few weeks old, Ostrowski let her newborn suck on the same little pellets she had taken during her pregnancy: an over-the-counter drug called...

Here's a sampling of active pharmaceutical ingredients used in homeopathic remedies, but in highly diluted amounts.

The homeopathic name is listed first along with its recommended homeopathic use, then the conventional name for the same drug, and a recommended conventional use....

Homeopathy subscribes to three main therapeutic principles:

• the law of similar,
• the use of single medicine,
• and the use of minimal doses.

The law of similar is based on the concept of treating "like with like". According to the law of similar

• The symptoms of an illness are the result of the body's effort to restore itself to health.
• Medicines producing symptoms that mimic the symptoms of an illness can be used as a treatment for the illness.

Jane Cicchetti's wonderfully and clearly written book gives us a profound framework for us to continue to grow and explore the topic of psyche and soma. It is ideally useful for those practicing homeopathy, but equally interesting for those who are...

Published in 1980, this book remains the best comprehensive overview of Homeopathy available to date. I am a faculty member of the Center for Health and Healing in New York City. I practice and teach homeopathy there. Our fellows are required to read this...

Ullman and Ullman's book is lucid and quite accessible--what I feel anyone new to homeopathy would want. I have ploughed through any number number of books on this subject, most of them organized encyclopedically. They offer nothing to me by way of...

I have been using Homeopathy for my wellness for quite a few years now. Dr. Papon has written an easy to follow way to better wellness using Homeopathy. There are no side affects, it's natural, less expensive than traditional medicine and it works. If...

I found this to be one of the most comprehensive treatments of Samuel Hahnemann's groundbreaking work. It makes his masterpiece easily accessible even to a novice like me and offers great insight into the original German text. The glossary and index are...

As a desparate last measure I tried homeopathy for my two sons with Asperger's. I no longer worried about how 'kooky' it would seem because I was desparate for help. I visited Dr. Riechenberg-Ullman with my sons on the recommendation of one of my...

I got this book when I was pregnant with my second child. How I wish that I had it for the first! With this book I was able to get rid of my morning sickness completely. I just read the stories and picked the story that most closely described the symptoms...