About: Rudi Verspoor
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- Rudi Verspoor is Dean and Chair Department of Philosophy Hahnemann College for Heilkunst, Ottawa. He was Director of the British Institute of Homeopathy Canada from 1993 to early 2001.Part of his time is spent advising the Canadian government on health-care policy and in working for greater acceptance of and access to homeopathy. His publications include: Homeopathy Renewed, A Sequential Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Illness (with Patty Smith); A Time for Healing; Homeopathy Re-examined: Beyond the Classical Paradigm (with Steven Decker); The Dynamic Legacy: Hahnemann from Homeopathy to Heilkunst (with Steven Decker).
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Homeopathy: Understanding the Terminology – IV
Part 5: Dual Nature of Disease Dr. Hahnemann’s medical system is replete with dynamic or functional dualities that derive from the fundamental duality of our life force, which itself is a reflection of the duality built into nature herself. One duality that Hahnemann discovered is the dual nature of disease,... -
Immunization in Hahnemanns System of Medicine
There is an on-going debate as to whether or not there can be such a thing as the use of homeopathic medicines for disease prevention, and whether such an approach can be used in place of conventional medical disease prevention or vaccination. Much ink and ill will has been spilled... -
Homeopathy: Understanding the Terminology – III
Part 4 – Dual Nature of the Disease Process and the Remedial Process As we have seen in Part 2 of this series, the Dynamis and its executive function the life force, has a dual nature. One part of the power of the life force acts to maintain and restore... -
Homeopathy: Understanding the Terminology – II
Part 3 – Dynamic Resonance Dr. Hahnemann’s system is based on the understanding of the dynamic nature of health and disease, which means that there is an animating essence which is the effective actor in both. All matter, as well as substance (and substance is not matter, as in “the... -
Homeopathy: Understanding the Terminology
The foundation of any science is a precise terminology. That is the minimum basis for scientific communication and development. Medicine is no less a science than physics or chemistry; indeed, it encompasses both and many others besides. The current state of homeopathy is far from the science upon which its...
