List of true Hahnemanian Homeopaths

I think a better way of choosing a practitioner (if that is what you are looking for) is to find people who have visited a homoeopath, and ask them about methods, results, manner, how accessible the homoeopath was, how open to questions he/she is, how many remedies they prescribe, how often they change prescriptions etc.

 

Even in your last sentence I can see some possible avenues for exploration - trapped, restricted for example. Straight away there is peculiarity. Perhaps a strict traditional Hahnemannian approach is actually not the best for you. I have had a number of clients respond well to using the newer Sensation method who had spent years without real success under the care of more traditional prescribers (who were quite capable of curing other patients by the way).

Perhaps it would be easier to quote from an great website by Ildiko a californian homoeopath:

 

"The key to the Sensation Method lies in the structure of the initial interview. When we conduct a homeopathic interview we take the client by the hand and walk them through their inner reality step by step, guiding them deeper into the levels of experience. The first level people usually start telling their story at is by naming their ailment. The next step is when they describe the symptoms in detail: conditions, how their ailment appears or improves, the location, the severity of those and other descriptions. One level deeper, people talk about feelings - the emotions these symptoms evoke or are born into. At this level people tend to take a broader route and relate their experience in more general terms from the emotional perspective. Most people have strong emotional reactions and are quite aware of them, so this is a level of experience people can talk freely about. One step beyond this is the level of images - the situations the person relates to. This is the first level that we do not tend to go to easily in casual conversation. It can be a stretch for many people to realize that underneath our emotional reactions there are fixed images that we unconsciously believe in. This is the layer people draw from when describing their situation in metaphors.
Once this level is well described, we go further into the realm of sensations. At this level people relate to the physical sensation a certain image, dream or situation brings forth. This level correlates to the local sensations and brings out the global sensation that manifests everywhere in the person. Without reaching this level we cannot be sure of the core sensation that feeds the images, the emotions, the symptoms and the ailment the person is suffering from.

Flow of Interview
There is no fixed pattern of case-taking, no set questions we need to ask our clients. Nevertheless, we want to touch upon all the Levels of Experience as discussed earlier. There is a natural flow that takes people through their story. In the beginning of the interview we ask about the nature of the complaint. Once that is described, we further question specific aspects of it. Nowadays, health care consumers are very well informed. With the widespread use of the Internet, information is just a click away. Consequently, people tend to know a great deal about their condition. However, this does not replace the actual symptoms one experiences. These symptoms are more personal than the average, general description of an illness. People can go into minute details about their pains and discomforts. This is important terrain for the homeopath, who can then dive deeper into even more personal experience of these symptoms. This is the starting points from which people then usually describe their emotional circumstances of their complaints. Once they are talking about the emotions it is just one step further to understand their beliefs that those emotions are based on.

This is a depth which typical conversation seldom reaches. It’s the level at which we need to encourage our patients to go ahead and describe their inner reality, however absurd or unreasonable it might sound. For some, it is as senseless as dreams. It has vague relation to reality but they are not sure what the connection is. They do not act as predictably as they usually do in their waking life. Indeed, at this level people talk about their dreams, pictures, images of their daydreams, the goals they want to achieve, hobbies they enjoy, favorite movies, books, stories and heroes. Once a person is talking about these things they experience certain sensations. There is a reason we feel good at the sight of an awe-inspiring piece of art or scenery. There is a reason we engage in a particular sport or activity. Once we can tackle that sensation the activity brings up, we are in a very different realm than describing symptoms of a disease. In this realm we can navigate through with ease; there are no norms we have to comply with. At this level it is also easy to name the sensation and the opposite of it, which brings on unpleasant associations. Often two polarities can be elicited here, and that can secure our understanding of the vital sensation. We arrive at the root of the problem, the key to healing. "

 

Vital Sensation is well established, based on Hahnemannina principles,has been proven repeatedly in clincal situations (sometthing that my previous students and colleagues here in Australia have experienced), is very well documented and has been adopted by some of the most well-known practitioners in the world. 

 

Hardly the characteristics of something  'baseless' and 'flimsy'.

 

Vital Sensation does not replace the Hahnemannian method, it expands and builds upon it.

 

And you are correct in what you say, since Vital Sensation and Classical Method are not really seperate methods at all, but one is an extension of the other. Therefore all cases respond to that method, but can the practitioner go deeply enough or choose a remedy with enough precision - that is the real question.

 

Those patients that I have seen who complained of not being cured by otherwise reputable homoeopaths, mostly needed remedies from outside the more commonly prescribed polycrest group. It was easy enough following the reasoning of the homoeopaths who had treated previously - you could see the strands of their logic throughout the case.  A person may have needed Black Mamba, but only been prescribed remedies such as Naja or Lach. Or they may have needed Mangifera, but been prescribed Rhus-tox. Or they may have been given Nat-mur, Nat-carb, but actually needed Nat-fluor. That list goes on - Hydrogen, Piper-meth, Falco-pe, Codeine, Ammonium-brom, Ammonium-phos - those off the top of my head from cured cases.

 

Following the more traditional approach, how easily can such remedies be found? If a patient needs Nautilus over Sepia, Oyster over Conch, Lac-leo over Lac-can - how will you be lead to them via the older method? I certainly would not have been able to prescribe most of them with confidence, if at all.

 

All homeopaths have their failures, all methods fail some patients - every method can stand to be improved upon. I have practiced classical methods for 16 years now - I certainly had my successes using what I had access to before Sankaran,Scholten,Morrison and Vermeulen amongst many others - I just have more of them now. You will hear homoeopaths all over the world saying this. Understanding the patient, to the depth that Vital Sensation allows, gives you the ability to choose remedies with a greater level of precision than before - allows you to see the fine difference between substances.

 

 

 

Clearly your initial face to face goes somewhatbeyond what most homeopaths i have experienced do

 

I think also that a patients like me is different depending on how they are on the day

 

I guess when i do manage to find one like yourself or Brisbane homeopath i need to deliberately make myself ill for the appointment

 

This of course is the one thing i strive not to do because i rigidly avoid any contact with Aluminium for obvious reasons

 

Brisbane homeopath could you expand on the differences between Nautilus and Sepia please

The one Homeopath who has done their best to help me via e mail rather suspects that one of the "newer /unusual " remedies may be needed in my case .............on the face of things Sepia is a match but response is either slow /blocked or partial

 

I cant find anyone near me who has the experience or skills to solve the problem hence my search