Dr Shepherd say, 3 remedies that have often been helpful in cholera , Camphor , collapse, cold. Cuprum, cramping better cool drinks desires them. and Veratrum Alb, excessive vomiting . cold sweat from her classic ,Homeopathy in Epidemic Disease.

a U.N spokesperson on t.v. mentioned cholera as being one of the problems that may arise in the asian tragedy.

Mike Law

There is a great little book out, called Cholera. I believe if you catch it at the onset with camphora - use the essential oil in alcohol, and it is rubbed on the limbs, homeopathic to the early stages of the disease.Aparently lots of people can be armed with the camphor and save a lot of lives.

Get the book, if possible. It is worth its weight in gold. I have a small supply of camphora essential oil, it is not expensive and well worth having in your pharmacy, also good for helping to antidote any accidental remedy spills.

Warmly,
Maria

Maria,

While I also use essential oils in my practice, I do so as a trained aromatherapist. PLEASE do not advocate the uneducated use of essential oils as part of a 'first aid' kit or as part of an emergency kit for the tsunami victims. Camphor in particular is very difficult since it is commonly obtained from several sources and has a very wide variety of chemical components depending on the source. The literature is filled with references to champhor but almost always fails to specify the origin (Laurus camphora, Camphor officinialis, Dryobalanops camphora, crystalline camphor (obtained as a production byproduct), Cinnamomum camphora ( with 4 well known commercial subspecies). Each of these has very different chemical components!

When properly used, certain forms of camphor are excellent for use in respiratory infections (particularly bacterial infections), muscular pain, as an insect repellant, and general tonic to the central nervous system (used for shock, fainting, debility, etc.). If not diluted and used properly it is very neurotoxic, abortive, causes irritation and sensitization, and certain varieties are carcinogenic.

Donna

When the original Camphor was used ("Rubini's solution") back in the 1830s, it was made by taking a piece of camphor and putting it in alcohol until it dissolved.

The problem, these days, is to FIND such a piece of camphor. What IS available in most drugstores/chemist shops is the artificial stuff-- NOT the natural stuff. And THAT (while having the right smell!) will NOT do it.

As far as I know, the original camphor was made from an extract of the bark of the Camphor tree. I would have no idea of where to source it these days.

JW

I think camphora could be well indicated for many people in the destroyed areas, because it is also a shock remedy, a fact which we tend to forget. It appears f.ex. in the rubrics

MIND - AILMENTS FROM - mental shock; from
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - fright
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - injuries, accidents; mental symptoms from

and has a lot of axieties.

I have done a trituration proving of camph and many themes related to complete destruction (war, earthquake) came up. I know, some of you think this is psychic quack, but I have learned a lot about the remedies through contact provings.

Frauke Girus-Nowoczyn

i don't understand aromatherapy being strictly a homeopath who leans toward classical prescribing, but why use crude anything? camphor 30 given early works just fine in Cholera according to Murphy's materia medica. i wonder where the pharmacy.s get there camphor to turn into potency. anyone know?

mike law

also under camphora fear at night especially when alone at night,
forsaken or isolated, shock from injury, infection or exposure. [morrison]
what really bugs me is all the death and sickness that could be
prevented at such a low cost, George Bush's inauguration is going to cost
40 million dollars,
the Iraq occupation costs that about every 4 hours,
yet my wife used to produce over 3000 bottles of pet combo in a 8
hour day, for about $50 pay, labels, boxes and everything. the bottles
were maybe a penny a piece how much could it really cost
to produce a few thousand bottles of medicine and fly in a few
dozen homeopaths to teach crash course's in basic disaster homeopathy to
people. i am hoping some of the great Indian homeopaths are working on
this and they are just so busy we are not hearing of it.
how about homeopaths without borders, do they send homeopaths to these
kind of disasters? i would love to help in that kind of situation.
the pictures on t.v. are so heartbreaking it almost requires
ignatia just to view them. mike law
.

> [Original Message]
> From: <homeolist@otherhealth.com>
> To: <homeopathy@homeolist.com>
> Date: 12/30/2004 5:08:15 AM
> Subject: [H] Re: Cholera remedies from Dr Dorthy Shepherd
>
>
> I think camphora could be well indicated for many people in the
> destroyed areas, because it is also a shock remedy, a fact which we
> tend to forget. It appears f.ex. in the rubrics
>
> MIND - AILMENTS FROM - mental shock; from
> MIND - AILMENTS FROM - fright
> MIND - AILMENTS FROM - injuries, accidents; mental symptoms from
>
> and has a lot of axieties.
>
> I have done a trituration proving of camph and many themes related to
> complete destruction (war, earthquake) came up. I know, some of you
> think this is psychic quack, but I have learned a lot about the
> remedies through contact provings.
>
> Frauke Girus-Nowoczyn
>
>
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There is a little talk on Minutus (list for classical homeopathy)
about homeopaths there, but not much
Sheri


> how about homeopaths without borders, do they send homeopaths to these
>kind of disasters? i would love to help in that kind of situation.
> the pictures on t.v. are so heartbreaking it almost requires
>ignatia just to view them. mike law

We seem to have an information lack here when it comes to homeopaths
helping there
Where is everyone?
Sheri




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At 12:46 PM 12/30/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> also under camphora fear at night especially when alone at night,
>forsaken or isolated, shock from injury, infection or exposure. [morrison]
> what really bugs me is all the death and sickness that could be
>prevented at such a low cost, George Bush's inauguration is going to cost
>40 million dollars,
> the Iraq occupation costs that about every 4 hours,
> yet my wife used to produce over 3000 bottles of pet combo in a 8
>hour day, for about $50 pay, labels, boxes and everything. the bottles
>were maybe a penny a piece

Exactly. I jsut saw that same info about
iraq - 40 million every 4 hours and same for the coronation of George

how much could it really cost
> to produce a few thousand bottles of medicine and fly in a few
>dozen homeopaths to teach crash course's in basic disaster homeopathy to
> people. i am hoping some of the great Indian homeopaths are working on
>this and they are just so busy we are not hearing of it.
> how about homeopaths without borders, do they send homeopaths to these
>kind of disasters? i would love to help in that kind of situation.
> the pictures on t.v. are so heartbreaking it almost requires
>ignatia just to view them. mike law

We seem to have an information lack here when it comes to homeopaths
helping there
Where is everyone?
Sheri




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Based in Malaysia - I will email them but the website doesn't exist anymore
not sure if email will
Anyone in Malaysia area know about it?
Sheri


http://www.homeopathyhome.com/directory/barriers.shtml
The Homoeopathic Doctor Without Barriers (International) (link does NOT work)

Parent Body:
The Registered Malaysian Homeopathic Medical Practitioners
Association (MRHP Malaysia)
Address:
No.11, Bangunan Tabung Haji Lama, Jalan Dato Pati, 15000 Kota Bharu,
Kelantan, Malaysia.

Infoline:
Tel: 09-7643349, 09-7440440, 03-2926549
Fax: 09-7646815, 09-7437400, 03-2983242
fahom2@yahoo.com


Prof Dr Nik Omar describes the Organisation:

In early 1987, a land trip by Toyota Land Cruises escorted by Mujaheddin
Freedom Fighters treads its way early in the morning over the treacherous
Khyaber Pass in Northern Pakistan. The vehicles are carrying Malaysian
Homeopathic Medical Volunteers from The Registerd Malaysian Homeopathic
Medical Practitioners Association (MRHP); they were on their way to staff a
Mobile Homoeopathic Clininc in freedom fighters' held territory, near
Jalalabad inside Afghanistan.

There they will treat civilians and Mujahideen wounded in the war between
Mujahideen Afghan Freedom Fighters and the Soviet backed Government.

Around the world, in war zones and areas striken by natural disasters, this
special breed of homeopathic doctor and nurse are infusing the Hippocratic
Oath with fresh force, risking their lives out of commitment to what Prof
Dr Nik Omar, one of the founders of this volunteer-medics movement calls
"The duty to mankind"

These are some of the first ever medical volunteers from homeopathic groups
in the world to treat tribespeople for diarrhoea and malaria in Yala,
Narathiwat, and Nakornsithamarat in Thailand. In slum ares in Colombo, the
same group were giving free treatment for worms and tropical diseases to
children and adults in rural areas of Walliwata Bridge. In the deep jungles
of Malaysia, they treat the 'Orang Asli' ( aborigines ) for skin disesaes
and jaundice.They are there cleaning bandages on victims of land mines and
gunshot under mortar fire and bombing in Afghanistan and giving treatment
for ailments to the refugees in camps around Peshawar, Pakistan, etc.

Every year approximately 50 homoeopathic doctors from Malaysia give up
their annual holidays. They make their medical knowledge and skills
available to the charity - Homeopathic Doctors Without Barriers, free of
charge for a period of a least four days, and up to eight weeks. On top of
this, they even pay for their flight to help the country to which they are
sent.

In 1979 Prof Dr Nik Omar, the President of the Association established the
organisation in Kota Bharu with the aim of providing medical help in
countries with low levels of medical provision. Since then he has been able
to arrange almost 80 assigments worldwide, including Malaysia. They work in
various projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colombo, Sri Lanka, India,
Thailand, and Indonesia.

They volunteer for all kinds of reasons. Some serve out of moral duty,
others adventure and challenge. Some grasp the opportunity to be in the
real life laboratory where nearly every case is an emergency.

Many of these members discover that much of what they learned at The
Faculty of Homeopathy Malaysia is irrelevant to the life and death crises
and health needs of millions of the world's poorest people and finally
decided to venture forth as the Malaysian Homeopathic Volunteer Medical
Corps.

Prof Dr Nik Omar, 49, the founder member of the group, vividly recalls his
apprehension. Early one morning in Autumn 1987, the Malaysian Volunteers
were discussing some of the cases they had treated the day before. As it
happened, the mountainside also made an excellent lookout from which to
scan the skies for approaching MIG 25 Fighter Bombers. All of a sudden, a
dozen bombs dropped around our hospital, but they were poorly targeted and
we all were safe. It became so, that throughout our service in
Afghanistan, the bombing was a routine and there was bombing at our camp
near the Pakistani border almost every day and night. It was a strain to
our voulnteers, who had also to cope with the lack of equitment and
medicines, and a workload of over 150 patients a day with artillery shell
exploding overhead.

" There is a tremendous responsibility in knowing that you are the only
doctor in the desert for 20,000 to 50,000 people. You are often alone in
making a decision on who should treated and who should be sent for further
emergency treatment in a hosiptal 300 to 400 kilometers away. And when you
are alone, you are always thinking, "Maybe I was wrong."

The idea of forming the volunteer group in Malaysia, started in London in
1975 when Dr Nik Omar met with a member of the French-based organisation
M?cines Sans Fronti?s who invited him to join the group but he refused due
to his pressing studies in England. He came back to Malaysia in 1977 and
wondered about the possibilities of setting up a similar volunteers' group
based on Malaysian cultures.

The nucleus started in 1979 during the flood seasons on the East Coast of
Kelantan. When it was started the sole member was Dr Nik Omar, but by the
end of 1998 there were 500 members of MRHP and 50 active members in the
volunteer group. Ever since it started in 1979 more than 50,000 Malays in
rural areas already get free tretament from this group, with various
projects all over Malaysia.

Prof Dr Nik Omar is always ready with new assignments and duties to carry
out charity's organisational work and he is proud of the fact that almost
all his assignemtns are successfully done well in time.
" We are not carrying out development works. We are not able to bring any
changes in our patients' living conditions, nor in structures of the
countries concerned," adds Dr Che Musa Che Mohammad, an active volunteer
who has served on many missions abroad.

Nevertheless the work in the slums, where the doctors also live during
their stay in the Third World, gives personal satisfaction. It is not only
important that acute hardship and pain can be alleviated. "In relation to
the experience we take home with us, we take a lot more from the people
there, than we actually invest ourselves," says homeopathic paediatrician
Associate Professor Dr Mohd Nasir bin Mohd Zain, who has just returned from
Colombo, in Sri Lanka slum areas off Waliwata Bridge. He is also the
secretary general of The Asian Homeopathic Medical League (AHML) for the
Malaysian Chapter.

Dr Mohammad Ali Hamzah, who served in Pakistani Refugee Camps, told us that
he has learnt a great deal from the people in those areas who radiate
vitality and confidence in spite of their poverty. " When you return from
such trip, you stand above the everyday concerns of the normal Malaysian, "
says Professor Dr Mohammad Hairuddin Hamid, who is also president of MRHP
Johor Branch. He has served in Afghanistan and Pakistan, while his brother
Dr Maohmad Fauzy Hamid served in Sri Lanka for two weeks.

Inexperienced doctors are not sent to the projects. "The doctors have to
fulfil certain requirements. In addition to qualification, character is
also important. Anyone who is squearmish and can't do without
sweet-smelling bath water would do better to stay at home," sums up Dr
(Mrs) Faridah Awang Hamat, another volunteer who just returned from Nakorn
Sithamarat, Thailand's worst flooded disaster area.

The aid provided by Doctors Without Barriers is financed exclusively by
members of MRHP, donations and support from a group of sponsors who bear
the administrative costs. "One hundred percent of the money donated goes
directy to the projects, " stated Dr Mohd Nasir, who is also finance
conroller of the association. With five volunteer staff he runs an office,
a small room attached to the Homeopathic Medical Center owned by Dr Nik
Omar, at Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 450 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur, near the
Thai border.

Thank you.

From: Prof Dr Nik Omar
No.11, Bangunan Tabung Haji lama,
Jalan Dato Pati, 15000 Kota Bharu, Malaysia.

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