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The California Homeopath is the Journal of the California Homeopathic Medical Society. The Journal was founded in 1882 by Dr. William Boericke and Dr. W.A. Dewey. Published in San Francisco, the bimonthly journal existed under this name until 1892, when it was replaced by The Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy. The California Homeopath was revived in 2006, co-edited by Richard Pitt CCH and Premananda Childs. Our first online edition was released in January 2009.
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This is the inagural issue of the new California Homeopath, founded originally in 1882 by Dr. William Boericke and Dr. W.A. Dewey. Dr. Boericke's editorials in the original journal were influential in the founding of the Hahnemann Medical College in San Francisco, which opened its doors in 1883. The Editors of the new California Homeopath are Richard Pitt and Premananda Childs.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
This re-publishing of the California Homeopath Dedicated to Dr. Allen Neiswander
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
There are a number of factors to be considered when treating children. These considerations have both practical and philosophical implications for wider general practice. Successful treatment of children (and adults) should be prophylactic as well as initially curative. Included is a discussion of what constitutes constitutional prescribing and indications for the most commonly used nosodes in children.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
The creation of a homeopathic medical school in the United States is a long held dream of the homeopathic community. The Desert Institute School of Classical Homeopathy (DISCH) envisions the creation of a fouryear full time homeopathic medical school in Phoenix, Arizona. This would be an expansion of services from the three-year, part-time program that DISCH currently offers. The name of this new program would be the American Medical College of Homeopathy (AMCH).
Sun, Apr 02, 2006
Bacillinum has been one of the more under-described and under-prescribed homeopathic remedies until recently. Although Farrington and other homeopaths in the past made several references for its efficacy over Tuberculinum, it still remained obscure. In the past few years, having treated many cases successfully with Bacillinum, the clinical presentation of Bacillinum has clearly emerged to me as a distinctly different remedy. Bacillinum is prepared from the macerated lung tissue containing not just bacillus but also lung tissue in all phases including the tubercle phase whereas Tuberculinum is prepared from the glycerin extract of a pure cultivation of tubercular bacillus. Just by the nature of the preparation, one can imagine the difference between the two. While Tuberculinum reflects the perspective of the bacillus, Bacillinum is the manifestation of the intense struggle between the bacillus and the immune response of the host.
Sun, Apr 02, 2006
Doctor A. O. H. Hardenstein. He was Samuel Hahnemann’s student. Some twenty years later, he became the only homoeopathic physician to have known and studied with Hahnemann and to have practiced medicine in California.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
Case of a 50-year old woman who sustained a serious brain injury when a developmentally disabled client dropped a brick on her head from a second story balcony. Subsequent to the injury she had memory loss and developed chronic intractable seizures. Between 1998 and 2004 I had prescribed Helleborus, Oenanthe, Caulophyllum, Cimicifuga, and Zinc Metallicum, with no visible improvement in her seizures or her uterine pain.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
Few subjects are as controversial as medical astrology. When one considers that virtually all of ancient as well as some of the present day medical systems such as Ayurvedic, and other indigenous complementary and alternative systems use medical astrology, one should take a serious look at its potential.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
A review of Massimo Mangialavori and Hans Zwenke's book on spider remedies.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
A report on the International Health Conference on Homeopathy for the Treatment of Avian Flu, held November of 2005 in Paris.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
A proving of American Alligator (Alligator misssissippiensis), performed by the Society for the Establishment of Research in Classical Homeopathy (SERCH) in the fall of 2001. The proving consisted of 15 subjects who began taking Alligator mississippiensis 30C on 9/1/2001. The proving was double blinded, neither the provers or the supervisors knowing what the remedy was until the proving was completed. There were 7 male participants and 8 female participants. The ages ranged from 28-58 years old. Each prover was supervised through out the proving. This was a full Hahnemannian proving.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
Feeling confident in which potency to use for each unique situation in a homeopathic practice comes with clinical experience. Materia Medica dominates post graduate courses and seminars, but clinical posology is often left to the practitioner. There may be limited written information accessible today for determining the dose, but there are reliable guidelines, and it becomes very beneficial to hear what good homeopathic doctors have done in their practices.
Sat, Apr 01, 2006
A selection of short cases excepted from The Homeopathic Physician & Medical Advance, both journals from the 1800's.
Sun, Apr 02, 2006
What Constitutes a Cure? As Samuel Hahnemann exclaims, health occurs when: “In the state of health the spirit-like vital force (dynamis) animating the material human organism reigns in supreme sovereignty. It maintains the sensations and activities of all the parts of the living organism in a harmony that obliges wonderment. The reasoning spirit who inhabits the organism can thus freely use this healthy living instrument to reach the lofty goal of human existence.” (Organon of Medicine, para. 9, pg.14)
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