Contents | Zoom in | Zoom outFor navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page Beat the Away Winter Blues with Let your light shine Warts! Welcome back smooth skin Chase Away Colds & Flus! The Gift of 3 remedies you can Palliative Care rely on Historical Marker Honors Homeopath 7INTERs HomeopathyCenter.org Display until March 31, 2016 Contents | Zoom in | Zoom outFor navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Free for all NCH members! NCH Webinar Series NCH’s monthly webinar series covers a wide variety of timely and practical topics – including both introductory and advanced presentations. Each webinar is hosted by an expert practitioner, teacher, or researcher; conducted live, recorded, and posted in the NCH webinar archive. 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National Center for Homeopathy 7918 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102 | www.homeopathycenter.org qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Winter 2015 Volume 35, Number 4 ISSN: 0886-1676 Homeopathywww.HomeopathyCenter.org Your Guide to Health through Homeopathy Featured Articles 16 16 Warts … and All! The homeopathic approach to treating people with warts by Robert Signore, DO, DIHom, Dermatologist 24 Beating the Winter Blahs, Feeling Happier All Year Long Shining a light on seasonal affective disorder (SAD) by Amy Rothenberg, ND 30 Final Gifts: Homeopathic Care at the End of Life Easing suffering and offering comfort to the dying … and the living by Loretta Butehorn, PhD, CCH 24 7 2EGISTER.OW!SCENDTO.EW(EIGHTSs!PRIL s *OINT!MERICAN(OMEOPATHIC#ONFERENCEs7ESTMINSTER #/ 8 Reaching the Summit with Homeopathy: Schedule-at-a-Glance FOR*!(# 10 &4#7ORKSHOP(OMEOPATHIC-EDICINEAND!DVERTISING4HEMES impressions, and refl ections 14 #ATCHING)LLNESS%ARLYAND#HASING)T!WAY!TlRSTSIGNOFCOLDS or fl u, remember 3 remedies NURSES: Earn 1 Contact Hour 22 $OROTHYTHE,IMP .ECKED#HICKENxANDHERAMAZINGTRANSFORMATION 23 &IVE2EASONS.OTTO-AKEA7ILL 30 37 7HAT-ATTERS-OST#OMINGTO4ERMSWITH-ORTALITY 38 Story of Transformation: At life’s end, homeopathy eases the way for a father and a daughter 40 .#('ETS(ISTORICAL-ARKERIN$OWNTOWN0HILADELPHIA /FlCIALLYHONORING(ERINGANDHOMEOPATHY)TTAKESAVILLAGE 45 "OOK2EVIEWSMilking Bats on the Amazon, 60 New Remedies for (OMEOPATHYs4HE(EALING0OWEROF0LANETARY-EDICINEIN !NTHROPOSOPHICAND(OMEOPATHIC-EDICINE 47 )N-EMORY(ARRY%RIC0RIOR DEPARTMENTS 5 WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY? 6 FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 44 CONTRIBUTIONS 47 CALENDAR OF EVENTS qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Founded in 1974, the National Center for Homeopathy (NCH) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting health Homeopathy Today is published quarterly by the through homeopathy by advancing the use and practice of National Center for Homeopathy (NCH). homeopathy. 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Examples: acute illness—colds, fl u, ear infections; chronic What is homeopathy? illness—arthritis, hyper tension, diabetes. characteristic symptom: a symptom of an unusual nature—strange, rare, omeopathy is a safe, effective system of natural medicine, peculiar, striking—that gives the case a pronounced individ uality (i.e., USED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE FOR MORE THAN “characterizes” the case). For example, chilliness with desire for ice cold drinks, or dizziness that is better from motion. Such a symptom often points years to achieve wellness. Homeopathic medicines are pre- H directly to the curative remedy. pared from natural sources, are used in extremely small amounts, chronic illness: (See acute illness.) ANDARERECOGNIZEDBYTHE53&OODAND$RUG!DMINISTRATION They are non-toxic and, when properly administered, can be common symptoms: Symptoms that are commonly found in a particular disease, for example, spots in measles or swollen glands in mumps. safely used with infants, children, adults, and animals. constitutional treatment: Treating the whole person, rather than the symptoms alone, thereby attempting to enhance the general level of How does homeopathy differ from health rather than just getting rid of the symptoms. conventional medicine? materia medica: Latin for “materials of medicine.” A reference book listing (OMEOPATHYISBASEDONTHEPRINCIPLETHAThLIKECURESLIKEv4HAT homeopathic medicines and their therapeutic actions/indications. This is, if a substance can cause symptoms of disease in a healthy information comes primarily from the provings of the medicines; also from PERSON THEN IT CAN CURE A SICK PERSON SUFFERING