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For help with your membership call us at 856.437.4752 or email [email protected] Winter 2017 Volume 37, Number 4 ISSN: 0886-1676 www.HomeopathyCenter.org Your Guide to Health through Homeopathy Featured Articles 16 16 What’s the Diff? 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EDITOR Mitzi Lebensorger Subscriptions are complimentary with NCH membership: DESIGNER $55/year for individuals (outside US/Canada $75); $150/year for Denise Adams professionals or organizations (outside US/Canada $170). EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE Teresa Kramer Freya Godard EDITORIAL ADVISORS Ann E. Jerome Miranda Castro Homeo-Speak acute illness: A condition that is usually brief in duration and self-limiting; that is, either the illness runs its course or the patient dies—as opposed to chronic illness that usually develops more slowly, lasts indefinitely, results in deterioration of health, and does not resolve without some sort of healing intervention. Examples: acute illness—colds, flu, ear infections; chronic illness—arthritis, hyper tension, diabetes. characteristic symptom: A symptom of an unusual nature—strange, rare, What is homeopathy? peculiar, striking—that gives the case a pronounced individ uality (i.e., “characterizes” the case). For example, chilliness with desire for ice cold omeopathy is a safe, effective system of natural medicine, drinks, or dizziness that is better from motion. Such a symptom often points used by millions of people worldwide for more than 200 directly to the curative remedy. Hyears to achieve wellness. Homeopathic medicines are pre- chronic illness: (See acute illness.) pared from natural sources, are used in extremely small amounts, common symptoms: Symptoms that are commonly found in a particular and are recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. disease, for example, spots in measles or swollen glands in mumps. They are non-toxic and, when properly administered, can be constitutional treatment: Treating the whole person, rather than the safely used with infants, children, adults, and animals. symptoms alone, thereby attempting to enhance the general level of health rather than just getting rid of the symptoms. How does homeopathy differ from materia medica: Latin for “materials of medicine.” A reference book listing conventional medicine? homeopathic medicines and their therapeutic actions/indications. This Homeopathy is based on the principle that “like cures like.” That information comes primarily from the provings of the medicines; also from is, if a substance can cause symptoms of disease in a healthy clinical observation. person, then it can cure a sick person suffering from similar miasm: A block to health, usually left by a disease. This can be inherited symptoms. Suppose a person has hay fever, with watery eyes and or acquired and is an obstacle to cure. a burning nasal discharge. Instead of giving an antihistamine to Organon: The Organon of Medicine, by Samuel Hahnemann, founder of dry up the discharge, a homeopath might prescribe Allium homeopathy, is the book in which he set down the fundamental principles of homeopathy. He wrote 6 editions, the last in 1842; current homeopaths cepa—a tiny dose of onion, specially prepared by a homeopathic refer primarily to the 6th and sometimes the 5th editions. pharmacy in accordance with FDA-approved guidelines— potency: The strength of a homeopathic remedy according to the number because onion is known to cause watery eyes and a burning nasal of times, during preparation, it has been diluted and succussed (i.e., poten- discharge. tized). Potency is represented as a number attached to a remedy name Homeopathy regards symptoms as the body’s healthy attempt (e.g., Aconite 30c or Arnica 6X—the letter c or X refers to two different to restore itself to balance. A homeopath will choose a remedy methods of dilution during remedy preparation).