Dear Parents,

My original unedited message follows. I add to it only this paragraph that will offer you as a parent several guidelines so you can begin to separate good homepathic advise from faulty advise here. If you find it necessary to visit and post on these message boards in order to make homeopathic remedy decisions, always look for the signs of good homeopathic reasoning. In particular, a good homeopath asks many many questions. Once he or she is satisfied that there is enough info gathered, he or she usually studies for awhile before rending a suggestion of remedy. In chronic illnesses or conditions of rather long-standing, and given the special slow nature of posting back and forth on this board, I feel that from a homeopathic perspective one week (or more!!) of discussing a case is reasonable BEFORE ANY REMEDY RECOMMENDATIONS are made. This is my suggestion to you. Also, all remedy recommendations MUST be accompanied with lots of substantiation. For example, the homeopath/orstudent-homeopath says to you that he or she is suggesting Remedy Such-and-such because the patient is showing the following important keynote symptoms and believes the patient has the character for this remedy because of such-and-such, etc. Look for explanations!! Then if you disagree with the homeopath's understanding of something, it can be clarified and the homeopath may have to restudy the situation. If there is an urgent situation, an "acute" illness, quicker remedy suggestions may happen, but, again, always look for lots of questions and answers, and the substantiation/explanation of any remedies suggested.

Here follows my original complaint and warning:

There is a gentle but insistent ALERT/WARNING to any parent wanting to use this message board to make decisions on what remedies to give their non-adult dependent children:

As you know, whether you are deciding to give your children homeopathic or allopathic medicine, you as parents must be sure that the prescribing doctor is following the highest standards of his or her chosen profession.

In the time I have been reading these message boards here, I have been dismayed to see an overwhelming quantity of wrong logic being used to make so-called "homeopathic" prescription suggestions. If you are adult seeking assistance for yourself here, that is fine. But, please, I caution you not to use these message boards to make decisions on what remedies to give your innocence children. Too much faulty reasoning is going on here.

I am truly a classical homeopath with 25 years of personal practice, and my mother was a well-known classical homeopath for 70 years before me. I had hoped to be able to contribute here. In the few days of my trying to post guidance for one parent (Ens) here, I have been shocked by messages of several of the members posting to him/her. And it concerns me greatly that the parent Ens prefers their faulty "homeopathy" over my genuine homeopathic reasoning/guidance.

Please, parents, be careful. If you are studying homeopathy, make use of the other excellent resource on this website (books on line, etc), and not this message board. Something is going on here, but it is NOT classical homepathy. And REAL homepaths like me will not want to stay around and take the abuse from those others.

Again, you probably enjoy talking on these boards, but please do NOT use info here to make decisions on what remedies to give your innocent children who are depending on your good judgment as parents.

Thank you.

[This message has been edited by kevin seymour (edited 08 October 1999).]