What exactly does this mean?

You can find the answer to that question at Rudi Verspoor's site:

http://www.homeopathy.com/whatis.html

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Heil = whole remedial kunst = art
Heilkunst is the name given by Dr. Hahnemann to the complete system of medicine and health found in his writings, most notably the Organon der Heilkunst, his central work. Homeopathy is only one part of this remarkable system. Wholeness for Hahnemann is a profound state of spiritual evolution and health that allows each person to fulfill their divine purpose in life. The ability to use natural laws to achieve this state demands deep and careful powers of observation and discernment, which presupposes a profound state of health on the part of the physician. Medicine must be grounded in natural law and operate according to scientific principles. The ability to practice medicine on this basis demands skills that go beyond the purely mechanical or technical. Thus Heilkunst is ultimately an art form, as well as being the highest scientific form of expression of human knowledge. To be a true physician is to be a Heilkünstler, or one who practices Heilkunst, the art of making people whole (at all levels),

Heilkunst encompasses an extensive variety of health-promoting methods developed by courageous and independently-minded medical scientists, ranging from nutrition, exercise and lifestyle choices, through various therapies to support one's innate natural healing power (massage, manipulation, energy work), to medicine (first aid, acute and chronic diseases) and into the realm of spiritual evolution. Each of these methods is interconnected through a dynamic system of timeless principles that allows the true physician to use them scientifically, that is on clear principles, as and when required, according to the form given by Nature herself for the attainment of true health. This is the true system of Western medicine, the evolutionary culmination of historical and creative forces to date.

In studying to become practitioners of this art of making people whole you will enter into your own spiritual journey to health, you will see the wonders of nature and knowledge unfold before you while working constantly to help others on their own journey to transform disease into greater health and discovery of self. The only true knowledge is self-knowledge.
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Heilkunst is not Homeopathy.

It is Rudy Verspoor's 'twist' on it - his own interpretation.

......just to be clear and not mislead you into thinking it is Classical Homeopathy.

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In my opinion, Verspoor's version of "Heilkunst" is extremely warped and verges on allopathy.
Certainly it is not Hahnemannian homeopathy.

For example, Verspoor's followers have a set recipe for anyone with emotional trauma which comprises four polychrests all given together in a 200 - I can't remember what they are, something along the lines of NatMur, Lach, Staph and something else. They do this because some celebrated doctor they follow found that it allegedly had good results. Shotgun therapy if ever there was.
Also they take a timeline of illness from the outset of case-taking and go back in time, prescribing in reverse order for everything the patient mentions such as vaccinations [for which nosodes of the vaccines are given] or traumas of any kind. It depends on the patient remembering all the traumas and being treated "sequentially" for each one.
These pratitioners likely would not recognise a characteristic if it came up and bopped them in the face.

Well, Anna, that's a rather presumptious conclusion you've drawn. Have you read Rudi's book...at all?

Heilkunst is a form of therapy that uses potentized medicines. It is NOT homeopathy--believe me, Rudi knows the difference. Heilkunst is more akin to naturopathic medicine in philosophy. I wouldn't use it, and that's my preference. I find I get pretty good results with homeopathy a la Hahnemann--and just want to continue to learn more about that through practice.

Don't discount Rudi Verspoor's contribution to homeopathy--he's written some excellent work on vaccinations and why they ought not to be used; and he also happens to be a first rate teacher. He is still, primarily, a homeopath--but one who's developed heilkunst out of his own interpretations of Hahnemann's writing. You don't have to agree with him about heilkunst, or use it--but you don't have to put him down, either.

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Hi,

I was reading through the old threads.

No. 1 where has Dr. Mas been. He's a MANIAC !!!!
I mean this in an awesome way. You gotta love this guy. You can tell he is empowered. His words come through the screen at you!!!

On Rudy Verspoor's work. Like him or not, agree with him or not - he has many CURES to his credit. He is an awesome teacher. And when I lived in Canada, I went up to Quebec where he was at the time. A friend was going up to be treated by him.

I am not sure "how" he treated my friend. But she had complete resolution and amelioration of all symptoms and came back into balance.

He did it....

This was after she had seen a few Homeopaths with no results, too.

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Hallo to All
I want to shed a bit of light into this ‘’Heilkunst’’ business.
It comes from the title of Hahnemanns most influential work:

Organon der Heilkunst
Aude sapere

This title means:
Organon= instruction how to gain true knowledge
Der=of
Heilkunst= healing art which is not the same to,,art of healing’’
Aude= have the courage
Sapere=to gain true insight

Heilkunst in the Organon is the collective term for all the therapies available.
This splits into Homeopathic therapy and allopathic therapies.
Under Allopoathic therapies Hahnemann describes several different ones, such like bloodletting, burning of moxa, baths, Mesmerism.

In this context ,,Heilkunst'' has nothing mystic, supernatural, and the title of his work is not ‘’Organon of homeopathy’’. This implies that Hahnemann’s intentions were, that one is to become knowledgeable to all these therapies and then to make an informed decision.

Hans Weitbrecht
Homeopath

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Actually Hans, No...

Heil = whole remedial kunst = art

FROM RUDY: START QUOTE:
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Heilkunst is the name given by Dr. Hahnemann to the complete system of medicine and health found in his writings, most notably the Organon der Heilkunst , his central work. Homeopathy is only one part of this remarkable system. Wholeness for Hahnemann is a profound state of spiritual evolution and health that allows each person to fulfill their divine purpose in life. The ability to use natural laws to achieve this state demands deep and careful powers of observation and discernment, which presupposes a profound state of health on the part of the physician. Medicine must be grounded in natural law and operate according to scientific principles. The ability to practice medicine on this basis demands skills that go beyond the purely mechanical or technical. Thus Heilkunst is ultimately an art form, as well as being the highest scientific form of expression of human knowledge. To be a true physician is to be a Heilkünstler, or one who practices Heilkunst, the art of making people whole (at all levels),

Heilkunst encompasses an extensive variety of health-promoting methods developed by courageous and independently-minded medical scientists, ranging from nutrition, exercise and lifestyle choices, through various therapies to support one's innate natural healing power (massage, manipulation, energy work), to medicine (first aid, acute and chronic diseases) and into the realm of spiritual evolution. Each of these methods is interconnected through a dynamic system of timeless principles that allows the true physician to use them scientifically, that is on clear principles, as and when required, according to the form given by Nature herself for the attainment of true health. This is the true system of Western medicine, the evolutionary culmination of historical and creative forces to date.

In studying to become practitioners of this art of making people whole you will enter into your own spiritual journey to health, you will see the wonders of nature and knowledge unfold before you while working constantly to help others on their own journey to transform disease into greater health and discovery of self. The only true knowledge is self-knowledge.
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Homeopathy is the powerful healing modality in the world,

BUT there is a little more to good health and there is more to recovery than homeopathy alone.

Hahanemann was actually one of the first Internal Hygenists.

Diet, Exercise, Oxygen Intake....

How much more profoundly would homeopathy work in an organism that isn't functioning under the energetic blanket of a completely demented diet, or of pounds and pounds of rotting waste matter in the bowel, to which the body lends a large percentege of it's vitality to keep that poison neutralized, etc...

There is some merit to this man's (Rudy Verspoor's) work. A segment of his practice IS strict CLASSICAL HOMEOPTHY. He also helped design CARA - PRO software. The difference in this man's practice and teaching is that he goes in another direction as a portion of his methods.

And iS very clear about it when he does.

Many, Many people scoff at him. But he has too many cures to his credit, too many. So many that he is highly respected by people such as Jeremy Sherr, Jan Schoulten, Miranda Castro, etc...

I think if we just scoff at people like this without thorough research into their methods, reasons, results, we are becoming the same people that supressed, scoffed, ignored, ridiculed Hahnemann in his day because it was different than what they knew and accepted as truth.

[ 11 January 2002: Message edited by: smiles ]</p>

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Hallo smiles

I maintain, what I said in my earlier post is correct and back it up with the following:

Schoeffler -Weiss Deutsch –Englisch woerterbuch (Verlag Klett)
Lists under: Heilkunst
=Healing Art

(Collins no entry)

''Heilkunst'' is used as an idiom and not as to separate terms throughout the Organon and in the German language.
I grew up in Germany in a publisher's household and used to proofread a lot.

Whatever Rudi does there is his own thing, and we can invite him to discuss his views.
My intention in my earlier post is to clear up misunderstandings caused by misleading translations such as yours.

Historically ‘’Heilkunst’’ was used long before Hahnemann. Hippokrates already used this term in his Aphorisms more than 2000 years before Hahnemann.
(Aphorismen des Hippokrates nebst den Glossen eines Homeopathen, vorwort
Clemens Maria von Boenninghausen, 1864)

Hans Weitbrecht
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Hi all

Well I won’t give my opinion on this form of treatment because it really doesn’t matter but I can offer my actual experience as I did seek treatment with a practitioner.

The person I saw was listed in the directory of NCH and I was under the impression was a Classical Homeopath. I spoke with her first over the phone and discovered she did not practice classically anymore but had for 11 years previously and she claims that she has much more success with the current mode of practice.

I decided to give her a try as Classical treatment was not working for me anyway. The initial consult was similar to a consult with a classical homeopath and took about an hour and a half. After the consult she sent me (all water potencies) NSOL 1M. This is what Anna was referring to and is Nat Mur, Staph, Opium and Lyc to cover such areas as grief, anger, embarrassment etc. And yes this is a standard prescription given to most everyone. This was to be taken daily for the duration of time until my next appt. 3 weeks later. I was also given Arg Nit1m, Med1M, Acon1M, Ignatia1M, Cimif1M and another Nat Mur30c. Most to be taken daily or even 3 times a day. I did follow the regime for about a week and half but everyday was a struggle to take the remedies as that kind of prescribing screams against all I know about homeopathy and quite frankly scared me. I did speak with her about this and although she did try to allay my fears saying she never saw someone prove a remedy or have hard aggros I just couldn’t reconcile my beliefs to continue treatment.

I do know too that after the initial treatment the next step was to do a timeline just as Anna described.

So I am sure that this mode of treatment must help some but it wasn’t for me.

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