A U S T R A L I A N HOMŒOPATHIC ASSOCIATION Similia • Similibus • Curentur AHA Newsletter Autumn 2016 Issue 128 “A Homoeopathic Clinic Staffed by GPs” In this issue In a medical world that decries quack The will itself was the source of much legal dispute and from the court documents it was A Homoeopathic Clinic Staffed treatments and pseudoscience, and by GPs 1 condemns any non- possible to piece together a little more of the From the Editor 2 evidence-based approach to homoeopathic hospital's history. By 1941, International Council for Homeopathy: Kenyan Society of the care of the sick, an demand for the services it was providing had Homeopaths 2 anomaly sits in the grounds of largely dried up. The medical doctors who had Advertising Guidelines 2 Balmain Hospital. practised homoeopathy were gone and Contact Details 2 attempts to find replacements were futile. It From the President’s Desk 3 A homoeopathic clinic staffed In the News 3 seemed nobody wanted homoeopathic Health Australia Party update 3 by GPs that opens five days a Homoeopathic Holiday Snaps 4 month which is run, owned Continued page 4 Practitioner Profile: Erica Gustavsson, Tasmania 4 and managed by the NSW Government. The The Master Key of Homoeopathy; consults are free and the homoeopathic Dr Dinesh Chauhan Seminar 5 Branch News: NSW, Qld, WA 6 remedies prescribed to deal with a range of Surviving in Practice 7 conditions the clinic's doctors treat — Who Said This? 7 What’s On 7 including sleep disorders, anxiety, joint and Vale Ana Teresa Lamaro 8 muscle pain and food allergies — cost patients New Members 8 Noticeboard 8 $5 each. The clinic owes its existence to a bequest from a man called William Moore, a homoeopath who died in 1911. He owned vast tracts of land in Sydney's North Shore, which a century later has become some of the most valuable real estate in Australia. His Last Will and Testament split the money between the clinic and two religious organisations - the Uniting Church and the New Church, whose followers practise Swedenborgianism. Moore's commitment to the homoeopathic cause is apparent from his Will, which contained instructions for one-third of the income from his estate to go to the Sydney Homeopathic Hospital Clinic. The hospital was set up to afford "gratuitous medical and surgical aid under the homoeopathic system to sick persons in destitute circumstances". A H A The Will also contained instructions to run by safeguard Moore's secret recipes for the herbal ointments upon which he is Homœopaths said to have made his fortune, with for which he bought the tracts of land that include part of what is now Lane Cove Homœopaths National Park. www.homeopathyoz.org A U S T R A L I A N Melanie Creedy HOMŒOPATHIC From the Editor Heading ASSOCIATION The first issue for 2016 has something of an international feel with an item on Kenya, a holiday snap from London and another item on working in a Similia • Similibus • Curentur GP practice in the UK. Plus there’s a great article by Joanne Greenland on Dr Dinesh Chauhan’s national tour, as well as a related item on a National President member’s own experience of the Sydney seminar. Martin Costigan [email protected] Very sadly, in this issue, we say farewell to one of our most active and respected AHA members, Ana Lamaro, who many of you will know National Administrator personally or have heard of through her teaching and more recently her Vera Externest representation of homoeopathy in the media. PO Box 7108 Toowoomba South QLD 4350 There was little room for world news in this issue with so many great articles to fill the Ph 07 4636 5081 space, but if you keep an eye on the AHA facebook page this will keep you well informed. [email protected] This issue seems a fitting start to what promises to be a busy year for the AHA with many Advertising Coordinator initiatives on the table and a new National Council to keep the ball rolling. Carolyn Graham Tel: 07 5412 2702 [email protected] International Council for Homeopathy Newsletter Editor Kenyan Society of Homeopaths - Melanie Creedy [email protected] Moving Forward The Kenyan Society of Homeopaths Advertising Guidelines (KSoH) was established in 2007 to bring The newsletter is published 4 times a year together the growing number of in February, May, August & November. homoeopaths in Kenya. Here there are a In the Noticeboard section of the few homoeopathic doctors, mainly Indian newsletter, ads up to 4 standard lines are free for AHA members and cost $44 for or UK trained, and a large group of locally non-members. Additional charges for trained diploma holders. The diploma- extra lines or lines in bold font apply (see level practitioners are from two local + below). training programs, mostly from Ÿ 4 lines, 32 characters per line standard economically challenged rural and urban font (8 point) - free or $44 Practitioners all over the world face Ÿ each additional line of standard font - areas. It currently has about 50 active $6.60 members who have grown together as a similar challenges. While homoeopathic Ÿ each additional line of bold font - $13.20 cohesive group. schools may have many students, Ÿ to change any line to bold font - $6.60 relatively few of them actually Ÿ All free ads for members will be placed in transition into professional alphabetical order. Please note the life. In Kenya, practitioners booking deadline at the footer. have faced similar problems An AHA Noticeboard Advertising form is and KSoH decided to address available for all Noticeboard advertisements. You can download this these problems to support the form from the AHA website practitioners and help the www.homeopathyoz.org. profession to grow. When you are on the AHA homepage, click on the link below the 'Advertise HERE' Practitioners know their art panel at the top of the page. You can find well but what is often lacking the display advertising rates sheet and the are the business and Noticeboard advertising form for download on the display that follows. marketing skills. Another All Noticeboard advertising is to be prepaid p r o b l e m m a n y o f t h e where fees are applicable. practitioners face is raising the capital for their endeavours, Disclaimer s o K S o H e v o l v e d t w o Statements, opinions, cases and solutions. advertisements in the AHA Newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinion of, or With help from Abha Light have the endorsement of, the Australian Foundation and expert Homoeopathic Association or the editor, consultants, they initiated the unless stated. Success Programme, a three month hands-on training in Next Issue: Winter 2016 business and marketing which Issue 129 is tailored to the profession. Published approx 1 May 2016 Continued page 7 Contributions 8 April 2016 Similia Advertising Bookings: 8 April 2016 All things Australian! Material: 15 April 2016 Cases, provings & other items of interest. Contributions to [email protected] by 28 Feb 2016 2 www.homeopathyoz.org AHA Newsletter From the President’s Desk Health Australia Party Update The Health Australia Party (HAP) was formed to protect the There are two ways of spreading future of natural medicine in Australia. The first national light: to be the candle or the executive meeting of the HAP was held in Melbourne on 12 mirror that reflects it. July 15, the second in Melbourne on 13 September 15, and the third in Sydney on 22 November15. Edith Wharton The HAP aims to represent all natural therapists from all modalities. But homoeopaths know better than most why we Dear Members, need to be honestly and forcefully represented in Canberra. Welcome to 2016! Our profession is under sustained attack by well-resourced forces that have strong contacts in both the health I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Christmas bureaucracies and parliaments. The advice given to most and New Year. The year ahead will, as always, be filled with politicians is biased and fails to describe the true worth of lots of challenges and also many rewards. I often reflect on natural medicine, including homoeopathy. We propose to what a great privilege it is to practice homoeopathy and change that. make a big difference in the world doing so. In just over five months we have changed the name and the The AHA will continue in its efforts to expose the direction of the old Natural Medicine Party, changed the methodological flaws and bias contained within the NHMRC Preamble and Constitution and developed a new website with Review. As you would know from the Bulletin updates last a back-end database capable of managing a million members year this process is well down the road. A great thanks goes and friends, allowing immediate email contact if required. We to all of our sponsors who are supporting this process have established an Advisory Board of distinguished Australians with a range of experiences and this is continuing, through their sponsorship. especially in the areas of the environment and indigenous The AHA 2016 National Conference with its theme Strange, affairs. Rare and Peculiar will occur in October of this year. It We have established broad policies, especially relating to our promises to be a wonderful event bringing together a range five pillars – healthy people, healthy economy, healthy of national and international presenters. The QLD AHA environment, healthy democracy and healthy society. These Branch will host the Conference and I would like to extend a need to be reviewed and refined.