Happy New Year

I hope 2025 is a wonderful year for you, full of fulfilled dreams and memorable, happy moments!

I'll be going into year two of Dynamis School with Jeremy Sherr, learning more and more about how to be an effective "homœopathist," as Dr. John Epps called the profession.

Dr. John Epps was a homeopath in the mid-nineteenth century and I love how he describes homeopathy in "The Rejected Cases." The book contains several cases that he sent to the editor of the Lancet, Mr. Wakley, in the mid-1800s. It also contains the letter he wrote to Mr. Wakley as a result of the rejection of those cases. The editor refused to publish the additional homeopathic cases after publishing a previous one caused "an avalanche of letters from all parts of the country, couched in such terms as to make it next to impossible for us to insert any further communication of the kind."

Yes, homeopathy has always caused a stink in the standard medical community, but we (the homeopathic community) are feeling a shift—a good shift. I highly recommend that you give a listen to The Homeopathy Health Show sometime in 2025. Atiq Ahmad Bhatti, a 4th generation homeopath, hosts the podcast and interviews many homeopaths. He has a burgeoning audience and his more recent shows give hope about the future of homeopathy. I've linked to him on YouTube but you can find his podcast on Spotify and other channels.

Now back to Dr. John Epps' words to Mr. Wakley:

Homeopathy presents certainty, in presenting a law.

It teaches that a law regulates the action of medicines on diseased bodies: this law being, DISEASES ARE CURED MOST QUICKLY, SAFELY, AND EFFECTUALLY, BY MEDICINES WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SYMPTOMS SIMILAR TO THOSE EXISTING IN THE PATIENT, AND WHICH CHARACTERIZE HIS DISORDER.

It maintains that this law is universal; that all medicines acting curatively, have acted, do act, and will forever act, in accordance with the principle embodied in this law; in fact, that all medicines are specifics—each one being specific to the given disease, of which, if taken by a healthy person, it produces the resemblance.

This clear, well-defined law gives certainty, and presents simplicity. It affords the foundation on which the homœopathist builds. It affords the mariner's compass, which enables him to steer clear of all the quicksands which the misdirected ability of Cullen, Boerrhave, Brown, Clutterbuck, Broussais, Armstrong, and others, have thrown up, to the destruction of medical navigators, and of the crews with which they were entrusted.

The homœopathist ensconces himself in this one point. He cannot be charged with beating about the bush. He stands upon a unity. He has no loophole of retreat. He gives his opponent the knowledge of his vital part. Disprove the law, and homœopathy is undone.

But in thus propounding his principle he feels his strength to be, that his foundation is in a law of the Creator—a law, the discovery of which arose from careful deduction, resulting from a happy coincidence which affected the mind of Hahnemann; even as a happy coincidence affected the mind of Newton, and led to the discovery, by deduction, of the law of gravitation.

Having this law, we need not be troubled, in our curative proceedings, by the contending opinions and never-ending inquiries respecting counteraction, revulsion, stimulation, depletion, palliation, and hoc genus omne.

We have one rule.

We have certainty; we have more, we have simplicity.

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In the Castlewood Trilogy, Fiona's confidence in homeopathy grows throughout. In book one, Love on the Vine, she learns about homeopathy for the first time and by book three, Love from the Past, she understands homeopathic law fully. If you haven't read the series, you can find it on Amazon!

Warm regards, Lucille