Homeopathic Remedy Arsenicum Album – The Essence of Materia Medica by George Vithoulkas
Arsenicum Album (ars.) is a classic remedy known in its basic outlines to all homoeopaths. Originally proven by Hahnemann himself, Ars. has been exhaustively described in every Materia Medica since. The classic description in Kent’s Materia Medica covers all the essentials in both the acute and chronic states: Anxiety, Restlessness, Aggravated by Cold, Worse 1 – 2 p.m. and 1 – 2 a.m. , Thirsty for Sips, Periodicity, Alternations of Symptoms, Ulcerations, Burning PAINS. A mere cataloguing of symptoms can be misleading in actual prescribing. However, unless the image is rounded out by a understanding of the essential dynamic process …
The Most Important Constitutional Homeopathic Remedies – Kiel Wassily
I prefer to speak of the constitution of our remedies instead of constitutional remedies. You will agree with me that Sulphur, Calcarea carbonica, Lycopodium, and Thuja should be mentioned first, if I am to speak of constitutional remedies, which I shall try to present in pictures. Sulphur is the most important, the main remedy in Hahnemann’s psora treatment. It is the best agent where there is lack of reaction of the body. This lack of reaction is, of course, more or less dependent upon constitutional conditions. It is therefore indispensable also in acute conditions, and the chief remedy in diseases …
Carcinosinum Cancerinum: A nosode from Carcinoma – Materia Medica Viva George Vithoulkas
Carcinosinum Cancerinum: A nosode from Carcinoma Historical background The first to mention and use Carcinosin, the cancer nosode, was James Tyler Kent. He called it ‘Carcinoma’, and this is how he prepared the remedy: The preparation of Carcinoma which I have used, for years, was taken from a mammary cancer. The patient had continual seeping of clear, colourless, watery discharge from the open cancer. A small quantity of this fluid was saved and potentised, and has served satisfactorily, in many cases of advanced carcinoma.’ He used it as a palliative in cancer cases: ‘Carcinoma relieves the sharp, burnin g tearing …
Techniques for Successful Repertorization by George Vithoulkas
Techniques for Successful Repertorization of Homeopathic Case by George Vithoulkas One could say that solving a homeopathic case is easy in theory. One has only to choose the correct symptoms, underline them correctly, and the computer will find the simillimum. Or better still, memorize all the remedies and then give the simillimum based on your knowledge of materia medica without even opening up a repertory. Some cases will lend themselves to these methods. Unfortunately, many cases have such complexity to them that in order to find the simillimum a variety of skills need to be mastered. One’s skills would include: …
Strategies of Homeopathic Case Taking by George Vithoulkas
At times in the case-taking process it is of essential importance to disregard the suggestions that have been made by the computer and ask some basic case-taking questions such as: Is this person really healthy on the emotional level? For example, is he / she able to express his emotions with strength and clarity? Is he flexible or rigid? Is he finding creative solutions to problems or getting more trapped? Does he have a strong sense of purpose, value and meaning in his life, or is there apathy and indifference? How much strength of individuality is in his identity or …
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: Cana person’s own intention prevent or facilitate the action of a remedy ? George : That is good one. The answer in no. What they can do is not let you know what they are doing. The action will be there but they do not want to acknowledge and they will not let you know it. I have seen cases where we have treated with Lyc. She comes back next month and says such and such and so we wait with a placebo. She comes the third month with Nat-m. and says,”I am the …
ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
ABOUT HEALTH AND DISEASE George: I am not going to give you a lecture. I would like to communicate definite ideas to you concerning health, and I would like for you to discover homoeopathy together. Homoeopathy is a therapeutic system – one of the many systems which are outside of the orthodox ideas of medicine. What we are concerned with today is to find out what that system is. Unfortunately you cannot experience it on a purely theoretical basis. Behind the theory of homoeopathy there is a logic which anybody can comprehend and I believe anybody can discover. So …
SOME FACTS ABOUT GEORGE VITHOULKAS’S EARLY LIFE – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
SOME FACTS ABOUT GEORGE VITHOULKAS’S EARLY LIFE George : So I will get away from this a little, and give you some of the history of my life. The highlights are that during the German occupation during the Second World War both my parents were killed. My father was killed when I was ten years old. One year … no, two years later my mother was killed. That was 1942 and 1944. During that time, of course, we were going through great stress. We did not have anything to eat and we were starving, especially the populations in the …
IMPOTENCY – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
IMPOTENCY George: I think somebody asked yesterday why did I prescribe Staph. The reasons why I prescribed Staph. in that case … you see, from the impressions that the interview gave, would you say that this man was preoccupied with sex quite a lot? Response: Yes. George: Therefore, he has a heavy (strong) desire but there is no capacity. What was interesting is that feeling of the brain not taking part in the sexual act. The feeling was mostly on his occiput. It was one year before l decided to give a second remedy. The reason I waited was …
PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION – Talks on Classical Homeopathy Part 3 – Discussion with Geroge Vithoulkas
PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTIC DEPRESSION: Experiences of Stan Mayerson George: I want to make a small introduction. It is interesting for us, because in some cases we will have to deal with hospitalization of cases of mentally ill people during a crisis. It will be very interesting to hear of the experiences of Stan. We saw that case and prescribed a remedy. Somebody said that “George was very sure of what he was prescribing” ‘and yet 1 saw you talking with Stan and he was not so sure and he wanted to know what was going on. I want to make …
