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The Irish Conference on Homeopathy takes place this year on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of June this year at NUI Galway.

There's an initial website up now with descriptions of this year's speakers , which include Miranda Castro, Brian Kaplan and Misha Norland and looks set to be an interesting conference. A more extensive website will follow shortly.

Visit:
www.irishhomeopathyconference.com

Helios in the UK have a special offer on their excellent kits this Xmas. Buy between 1 and 4 kits and get a 15% discount and a whopping 50% discount applies to orders of five kits or more.

November Newsletter from Alastair Yarrow and Diane Stauder

Is there a link between unpleasant early childhood experiences and SADS?

SADS, what are they? A biological disease or a psychological based recurrent problem?

There is the theory that levels of the "Happy hormone", Seratonin , are down due to a lack of sunlight. But who has ever given a blood sample to check for the appropriate dosage of the "biomedical" answer? Or even advised to avoid dark glasses?

SADS always seems to occur in the autumn with the falling levels of sunlight and the increasing hours of darkness. If it is a biological problem perhaps there is little that can be done naturally when we are told that pollution is cutting out the sunlight and with global warming there is actually more pollution held in the lower atmosphere to which the body reacts.

This article by the late Homeopathic Historian, Julian Winston, dissapeared from the site where I had linked to it earlier and appears to have become hard to find. I found a copy using the Wayback Machine and have reproduced it here. It is a little told but stunning account of Homeopathy's use in various epidemics over the past two hundred years

By Julian Winston, Homeopathic Historian

Some history of the treatment of epidemics with homeopathy

The Chikungunya Virus is a virulent alphavirus spread by the Yellow Fever Mosquito which has been sweeping through many northern and southern Indian states.

There is no vaccine and no conventional cure for the suspected 11 million cases in India (government figures). Indian authorities maintain that this is a non-fatal disease and that no deaths have occured from it as yet.

Helios Pharmacy in Tunbridge Wells, Kent is a highly regarded producer of homeopathic remedies, not least for the conscientious approach they take to the production of remedies and their innovative role in the proving of new remedies. They also are at the forefront of spreading the use of the LM potency in practice.

I reached Cork airport at 8am and flew easyjet to Gatwick, moving smoothly to the train which took me directly to Tunbridge Wells for noon. A helpful lady in a health food store gave me directions to Helios. The journey took me through the town, which is dinky and neat in that most English of ways. Manicured lawns outside the town hall. Statues to Our Glorious Dead. Red postboxes. Respectability and prosperity in the air.

Keep track of Homeopthic Happenings using some of the calendars linked to below. Just the ISH 3rd year schedule for the moment. More calendars will be added in time.

Irish School of Homeopathy, 3rd year '06/'07

Clodagh Sheehy has written a good article on Homeopathy for the Evening Herald entitled "Medical wonder or deceptive placebo? - Scientists shun it but one-in-four Europeans use it". It's about a Dublin family who have all benefited from Homeopathic treatment.

You'll find the article attached to this entry as a GIF graphic at the bottom of the page.

My favourite line: "A three month old baby doesn't know about the placebo effect and it still works"

The Irish Homeopathy Confererence takes place from the 23rd to the 25th of June this year in NUIG, Galway.

There's a fantastic line up of speakers. this year, including Ramakrishnan, David Lilley and Melissa Assilem as well as native practitioners.

More details at their website:
http://www.irishhomeopathyconference.com/

India Express: Big pharma’s bitter pills

The Indian press is often the source of refreshingly clear eyed commentary on global affairs. You don't get direct criticism of big pharmaceutical companies so much here in the west, presumably because they're more of an embedded vested interest.

We also have the fear that complimentary practitioners have of offending the medical establishment and therefore not being "accepted". Even the term "complimentary" is reflective of this. Indian homeopaths have no such complexes as their modality is already recognised by the government and taught in universities.