There are several reasons people in the US do not use their real names.

The first is specific to homeopaths. The legal status of homeopathy is controlled at a state level. We have 50 states, each of them different. In many of these states, they would be commiting a felony by practicing homeopathy regardless of how well trained they are and regardless of any certification. it would be stupid of them to use their real name, which could lead to their arrest.

The second reason is a general one in that we have been warned by the authorities over and over again to NOT ever use our real names when we are on the Internet. Those of us who do use our real name are those of us who are legally practicing homeopthy and already have web sites with our names on them.

I don't know how many times this has to be stated for people in other parts of the world to understand, but PLEASE make an effort to understand our position.

If someone is suggesting a remedy without using their real name, the person requesting the remedy is certainly free to research the remedy themselves and make an informed decision. They also have the option of privately e-mailing the person in question and asking for their credentials.

BTW, unless someone has a web site with their name on it, regardless of how much information they put in their profile, you have no way of knowing if they are who they say they are, anyway. Prior to publishing a web site, just because I gave what appears to be a real name and a real city, there was no way of knowing I was who I said I was. In fact, you still don't know for sure that I didn't merely take Shirley Reischman's name and personal information and use it without her knowledge. Just food for thought.

[ 23. June 2003, 14:02: Message edited by: sreischman ]

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Whatever, Hans.

You know who I am. You have corresponded with me in private and know my name and address.

This information is also, by the way, in big gleaming letters on the windows and signage outside my office building; all this contact information is out there, along with my credentials, where I work and treat patients.

That is the only place it should be.

My patients know how to reach me by phone, where I am locally, how to get in touch with me at my office, my home, or in my car. They also know my email address if they prefer to correspond with me this way. They also know that if they can't reach me for whatever reason they can be helped by my colleague.

I don't treat patients here.
Never have.
Never condoned treatment on line, which you (now) conduct freely.

I'll state it again: your insults reveal a lot more about you than they do about your targets.
You have a lot of contempt for people and ideas, and you have a great deal of contempt for your peers.

It shows. And it will take its toll on you. I just hope your mindset doesn't spread. With "friends" like you, homeopathy doesn't need enemies.

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Hans,
the author of this article is not dead. He is very much alive.If you really want to contact him e-mail dbriggs@xtra.co.nz.

Hans didn't mean the person was dead..he meant the "contact"..as in the e mail address or whatever was dead. If he were dead...that would make him unaccountable in the extreme.

Click http://www.users.bigpond.com/deedub/Bios.htm
for a 50 word bio re Derek Briggs.

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Dear Carol,

Funny thing, Puls. is a "3" under "Mind, anticipation"! Wow, what a coincidence. I wonder if the Puls. your friend got for the heel pain will make her feel better in general?

As a rule, to answer your question about do you ignore the chief complaint, you would ignore it if what they were complaining about wasn't the most limiting in the case. A lot of times people come in complaining of blemishes, acne, etc. and not mention something very serious because it's embarrassing or because they don't think anxiety, for instance, can be treated with homeopathy.

Generally, when taking a case, you have to ask questions like, "If you could change anything at all about yourself, what would it be?" Or, "What's standing in your way of moving forward or of obtaining the things you most want?"
Or, "What would you need to be happy?" Also, "What are your hobbies?" "What are you really good at?" Also, "What have you received praise for? Similarly, when people have criticized you, what has the criticism been about?" In this way, you may find out that the person has anticipatory anxiety. But the heel pain, this is really serious. Pain has to be cured first. A person who is in pain is losing vital energy and becoming weak. Pain must never be pooh-poohed in favor of something more interesting to the prescriber. Even in a cancer case, sometimes the cancer remedy must wait while the person receives a remedy for his pain. Bone pains, &lt; at night--Aurum, for example.


Snoopy

[ 23. June 2003, 23:23: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

So: Derek Briggs has practiced homeopathy for 40 years, reared 3 children with homeopathy alone, run a successful homeopathic college for 19 years and a successful full time practice for 13 years...

Rajan Sankaran was raised in a family where his father, the famous homeopath of that generation, wrote and practiced and taught--and became very well known for his skill as a healer. As a student, the younger Sankaran edited and published his father's works; he trained with clinical requirements which meant he had to treat anywhere for 80-300 patients per day using classical homeopathy for chronic and acute care...he studied and conducted provings on hundreds of remedies, financed and published these provings--as well as his own clinical observations--in several best selling, extremely important books. He teaches very successful seminars all over the world. He has accomplished the monumental task of organizing the materia medica according to botanical families, zoological families, and mineral families--as well as organized those divisions into our understanding of miasms--which, by the way, he has also tried to expand. And he's what...only about 40-50 years old? Oh, I forgot to mention he also runs a private clinic in India where he sees a tremendous number of patients and trains other practitioners.

Scholten has also practiced homeopathy for decades, was a successful scientist before he became a homeopath, and has undertaken the incomprehensible task of organizing the mineral materia medica according to the periodic table, where he's found there are some amazing similarities in effect which correspond to the different elemental periods. Now he's working on the minerals in plants--in an effort to create a deeper understanding on the permutations of these elements according to their uniquely specific arrangements in botanical plants and their families. Scholten also lectures internationally and practices privately.

When you think about the depth and breadth of work these people have managed to accomplish in such short periods of time, it is really quite impressive.

I find it hard to believe that there is nothing of value in all these individual accomplishments. I've also seen that this work has really been a huge boon to the "rebirth" of homeopathy since the 1970's, all over North America and Europe. Certainly, just the number of patients any one of these practitioners would have treated far surpasses the number most nay-sayers have treated (Sankaran alone would have seen more patients in a day--as a student!--than most seasoned practitioners would see in a month--(heck, six months!). On that basis alone, these people have superior experience. Everything else--and the everything else is pretty huge--is just icing on the cake.

How believable is any put down of all these tremendously important works?

[ 23. June 2003, 23:52: Message edited by: Divina ]

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Someone on Lyghtforce requested a current contact for Derek Briggs, so I'll let you know if anyone has it.

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iNFORMATION GIVEN IN ARTICLE ARE NOT NEW TO US. HE GOT AFTER 40 YEARS.... STRANGE

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This should reach Derek Briggs:
www.nzhomeopath.com
taken from http://www.nzhomeopath.com/auck/acontact.htm

Or try: dbriggs@xtra.co.nz

[ 24. June 2003, 05:18: Message edited by: gpm ]

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