Classical Homeopathy against chronic diseases

Homeopathy has been widely used as treatment for all types acute and chronic diseases for over 200 years, is without harmful side effects, is not addictive and is the fastest growing alternative treatment in the EU.

Here you will find information on the basis, practice and what to expect from the original Classical Homeopathy as a patient. It is a highly individualized treatment tailored precisely to the condition at hand. Contrary to the conventional view, the organism distributes symptoms and signs in an orderly and, most often, complete way in accordance with its untreated constitution and acquired susceptibilities from traumatic or other physical or emotionally stressful experiences in both minor complaints as well as the most serious conditions. These are discernible in their totality and instructive as to the course of treatment. Both susceptibility and disease are treated simultaneously with the same remedy, producing lasting cures leaving the organism stronger on all levels. This is the reason patients that have been successfully treated tells of its preventive effects and staying well for decades later. Generally speaking and correctly practiced, it is the most potent treatment of chronic diseases yet developed.

“It is no proof of man’s undertaking to be able to confirm what he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and what is false is false, this is the mark of character and intelligence.”

                                                                            Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 –1772)

Definition Of Health

“Health is freedom from pain in the physical body, a state of well being; freedom from passion on the emotional plane, resulting in a dynamic state of serenity and calm; and freedom from selfishness in the mental sphere, having as a result total unification with Truth.

It is obvious that such a state of health is an ideal and that nobody can possess it in its entirety; but the definition points to an ideal Model of Health toward which therapeutic treatments should aspire. The more a patient under treatment approaches this state, the healthier he becomes; and the more he moves away from it, the less healthy he becomes.”

                                                                              Prof. George Vithoulkas (1932- ), Dean of International Academy of Classical Homeopathy 

He was awarded the The Right Livelihood Award for Health, also called The Alternative Nobel Prize by the Swedish Parliament, Riksdagen, for his work to further scientific classical homeopathy and is the recipient of several honorary doctorates from medical universities as well as numerous other honors.

http://www.vithoulkas.com/en/contributions-of-gv/definition-of-health.html

The Origin

The father of medicine, Hippokrates (ca. 460 BC – 370 BC), the author of the Hippocratic oath, recognized the principle of ‘likes cures likes’ and Paracelsus (1493-1541), a pioneer in the development of medicine of his time, regarded likes cures likes the superior principle of healing.

But it was Dr. Samuel C. Hahnemann (1755 – 1843), one of Germany’s most respected medical doctors, chemist, pharmacist, author and translator of medical literature who came to investigate the principle in its many expressions through testing of the actions of the medical remedies and so was able to develop homeopathy into an independent and complete mode of healing.

Because of the strong side-effects of the medicine used at the time, which often were more harmful than the disease itself, he stopped his practice as a medical doctor but continued to write and to translate medical works while seeking to understand the origin and development of disease and how to obtain self-sustained cures. He was not satisfied with the present explanation of why Peruvian bark could cure cases of malaria, it was said it was due to its bitter taste, and started taking it himself just to discover that he developed symptoms like malaria. When he stopped the intakes, the symptoms soon vanished. He studied all available medical records and discovered that only in those very few cases where, after chronically sick persons contracted similar acute diseases, did spontaneous and lasting cures take place. In all other cases, where the acutes were dissimilar to the chronic condition, the chronic disease returned full force after the dissimilar acute disease had run it’s course.

He concluded that a substance that causes symptoms in a healthy individual, cures the same in a sick person; Simila Similibus Curentur, Likes cures Likes, which became the first basis of homeopathy. But the side-effects were still too strong and he started diluting the medicine until all side-effects subsided. But so did also the curative effect. He then came upon the idea, maybe through his knowledge of chemistry, to gradually dilute and also succuss the substance and discovered that while the side-effects disappeared the medical effects were actually both increased and refined through what he now called potentiation, which became the second basis of homeopathy; the minimal dose.

Together with a group of doctors they started trying out the different medical substances by taking them themselves and by recording all symptoms created in every minute detail. The testing of the remedies on healthy and sensitive persons is the third basis of homeopathy and differs from the testing of conventional drugs where animals are used for this purpose. Animals can never express the finer symptoms induced in trials. He called it provings, and after six years he in 1810 published it all in Materia Medica Pura and started the practice of Homeopathy, named by Hahnemann himself. (How proving of remedies are conducted is beyond the scope of this page). The same year he also published Organon, the art of healing where in 294 aphorisms he describes the theory and practice of the treatment.
Homeopathy is derived from the Greek words ’omoios’, which means ‘like’, and ’pathos’ which means ’illness’ and together means likes cure likes.

“Hahnemann introduced an entirely novel and scientific
method of studying drug-action. He demonstrated the effect of
drugs on the living human being. Surely a method far superior
to the study of their toxic effect on animals!
Even if drugs did affect animals in precisely the same way
that they affected all other animals and humans, which is not
the case – what animal could initiate us into the suicidal
impulses of Aurum, or the terror of death of Aconite?”
 
“Homeopathic remedies do not act directly on disease; they merely stimulate the vital reactions of the patient, and this causes him to cure himself.”
 
                        ~Sir John Weir, GCVO & Chain CMG MD (1879–1971),
                           Physician to George V, Edward VIII, George VI,  Elizabeth II
                           King Haakon VII (1872–1957) of Norway, whose wife
                           Maud(1869–1938) was the youngest daughter of
                           King Edward VII  (1841–1910).
 

To more easily find relevant remedies in the meetings with patients the first Repertory was created by Dr. James Tyler Kent, the most eminent homeopath at the end of the 19. century, by the systematic listing of remedies under ‘Mind’, ‘Generals’ and symptoms under the different areas and organ systems of the body. It soon became an indispensable tool for analysing patients cases.

During the 19th century the practice of homeopathy grew both in Europe and the U.S.A. The results of the treatment in both the somatic- and the psychiatric homeopathic hospitals far surpassed the results of the conventional hospitals. Particularly the impressive results in the treatments of epidemics including cholera, typhoid and yellow fever where death rates of those treated with homeopathy were dramatically lower than those conventionally treated, got much attention and expanded greatly its use.

Large parts of the population in different countries of Europe are still using homeopathy as the preferred treatment and about 22 % of the EU population are using homeopathic remedies. In Scotland about 60 % of the doctors prescribe homeopathy to their patients and 45 000 medical doctors in the EU have taken some education and training but the general quality of available education has been highly inadequate which has limited the clinical results, also for doctors.

Setbacks

During the 19. century cancer was still a rare disease. For different reasons, not least due to John D Rockefeller, the world’s richest man at the time, and his efforts to use biproducts from his oil industry and successful monopolization of medicine whilst simultaneously broke the judicial bases of the education and practice of traditional natural treatments, made the situation infinitely more difficult and led to much accumulated knowledge being lost. The growth in cases of cancer were first incremental. But in 1971 the US president Richard Nixon, urged by the pharmaceutical industry, initiated the ‘War on Cancer ‘ and massive public resources were subsequently spent, yet it has become the leading cause of death in many especially western countries and without any signs of abating. Additionally a host of other chronic diseases, not least autoimmune conditions, have exploded without curative treatments from the industry. The accepted explanations being bad genes, bad luck and personal lifestyles. Nothing disturbs the incomprehensibly complex immune defense mechanisms more profoundly than medical drugs and vaccines, this is exactly what they are intended to do; get focused, limited outcomes yet with unpredictable individual long term side effects and creation of new susceptibilities to new diseases.

But in India where Mahatma Gandhi became one of its proponents and where the education is still close to equivalent to conventional medical education, the treatment largely retained it’s position.

Silly fantasies

Additionally many thousands of new very poorly proven remedies ( there are less than a thousand in ordinary practice ) have been introduced together with absurd ideas, like “dream-provings” which means putting a new one under the pillow, sleep on it and in the morning determine its healing properties by analyzing the night’s dreams. Or by using moonlight and music as bases for homeopathic remedies, or by writing the name and potency of a remedy on a piece of paper, put a glass of water over it and, as by magic, the water is potentized to the same and proceed to use it as if its real. One may ask how come some can be so gullible, so naive, as to believe such absurd ideas. Still, there are schools insistently promoting these things and which have seriously corrupted and undermined homeopathy as a treatment and contributed to a degradation of it’s public stranding and led thousands of initially motivated students astray. The same ‘teachers’ can tell patients that, unfortunately, at this time there is no remedy for you as there are hundreds of thousands of unproven substances, but maybe in a hundred years the one you needed will be found. This is untrue and deeply saddening and attempts to disguise own incompetence because there is always a right remedy. Then it’s just not identified. That is the problem.

Renewal

Over the last decades there has been a revitalization and resurgence of homeopathy, much due to the committed work of Prof. George Vithoulkas ( 1932 – ), Greece. (see EDUCATION / LITERATURE) Dean of International Academy of Classical Homeopathy.

Through his adherence to and practice of the natural laws of healing discovered and formulated by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, his thorough knowledge of Materia Medica coupled with a most profound understanding of human nature he has brought homeopathy forward to a most practicable treatment for our time.
He has earned worldwide recognition through six decades of consistently successful treatment of complex and serious cases where conventional medicine had failed and where other homeopaths had gotten stuck, and is recognized and respected worldwide as the preeminent homeopath of our time. Classical Homeopathy is a very complex subject matter to master, not least the fact that only one remedy is correct and will lead to progress at any stage of disease and so the right understanding and conclusion determines the outcome. His insight into of the process of cure and how different remedies are recognized in different patients are still of invaluable importance.

By taking part in the development of computer programs, as well as the most comprehensive e-learning which simplifies the use of his and other homeopathic masters compounded knowledge, he has made the work of doctors and other practitioners considerably easier, improved substantially results and made homeopathy the superior mode of healing for our time. For many years he was leading a large homeopathic center with 30 medical doctors in Athens, Greece. In addition to his many lecture tours and books, he has written numerous articles for international medical publications.

The Swedish Parliament, Riksdagen, awarded him
The Right Livelihood Award for Health, also called
The Alternative Nobel Prize in 1996.

He is also the recipient of nine
Honorary doctorates from medical universities.

Why Homeopathy

Classical homeopathy sees the organism as one indivisible dynamic whole that creates symptoms in the face of different mental and physical stresses, and also as part of the inherent but untreated ageing process and are natural attempts to overcome or, if that proves impossible, to maintain a new, lower state of equilibrium as defense against affecting even deeper levels of functioning and cause more severe pathological degradation. These are signals not to be suppressed but seen together provide precise and decisive information about what is needed, what individually selected homeopathic remedy can initiate a deeply healing process.

The natural immune response and the ability to cope with stresses varies greatly depending on inherited, acquired or weakened resilience and not least how previous illnesses have been treated. In particular, repeated suppressions of acute fevers and frequently repeated courses of antibiotics early in life present a risk of impaired health with susceptibilities to later to develop chronic diseases. A relatively long and detailed consultation is usually necessary to get a sufficiently complete picture of the condition to be able to to find the one remedy that stimulates the organism towards self-healing. A correctly chosen one (other homeopathic remedies do little or nothing) provides precisely the stimuli the organism needs to revitalize the organism. It is strengthened and empowered to start overcoming the condition at all levels in contrast to conventional treatment where symptoms are suppressed individually with all its side effects and long-term consequences. After many years of such treatments many elderly suffer several chronic diseases simultaneously and are prescribed large amounts of medicial drugs for complex conditions where diseases and side effects can hardly be distinguished and with severe consequences both for prognosis and quality of life. The insidious and consistent increase in frequency of a multitude of chronic diseases, from dementia to a host of autoimmune diseases, affects a large majority of families especially in the west, but any understanding or credible strategy as how to halt or reverse this pernicious deterioration of health is conspicuously missing. 

How has it become possible for a chemical industry, which is cannot cure chronic diseases, to make the western population completely dependent on it’s products and simultaneously been able to have natural time proven treatments which supports and enhance the organism as a dynamic whole and cure diseases, not least classical homeopathy, maligned and even despised?

Homeopathic treatment is non-invasive and without toxic side effects. Both pregnant women and newborns are safely treated. The life force, a not directly measurable quality, but which nevertheless is the source of the functioning of the organism as one dynamic whole as we are more than a collection of individual parts, is stimulated, revitalized. We can all see the fundamental difference in energy that is reflected in the whole organism’s vitality between a child and an old person, and also feel how our own energy level changes over time and is affected by different types of stresses. This innate power of  healing, which seeks at all times to keep the organism in balance, this vitality is strengthened to a degree conventional treatment with all its progress is unable to achieve and is today an ignored medical subject.

The earlier the treatment starts, the better. No physical pathology is needed as we also take into account other symptoms that are not directly related to the condition but which together can still provide sufficient information to identify the correct remedy. Not only will the disease itself go towards healing, also other symptoms and ailments will gradually get better or just vanish.

Homeopathy is not a form of herbal or mineral therapy but can be argued is more akin to classical acupuncture. The raw substances homeopathic remedies are developed from have very limited, many none at all, therapeutic value. It is through the manufacturing process that the specific properties are refined and given the ability to strengthen organisms with similar symptom pictures as the remedies are known to cure. They are manufactured through old standardized procedures and, unlike conventional medicines, have been tested on healthy individuals to bring out their healing properties at all three levels of the organism. Most have been used for over 200 years and are very well described from provings and obtained cures in the Materia Medicas.

It may appear, with the long initial consultation, as an impractical and time-consuming treatment unsuitable for today’s needs. But the opposite is true. As the whole is treated and strengthened where even the minor symptoms are vanishing, there is no need for frequent new investigations or treatments and the improvement can continue undisturbed. The remedies are inexpensive and the total cost is usually only a small fraction of the cost of conventional treatments.

The Consultation

To get a complete, coherent and meaningful picture of the particular individual condition much more than the medical history, different tests and diagnoses are needed. How the organism functions and reacts to stresses needs investigation as do seemingly insignificant other symptoms which may have no obvious relation to the main issue and it might seem strange that such things are asked at all. But this completes the highly individualized picture of symptoms, making it possible to find the only corresponding and curative remedy in Materia Medica. 

The organism does not give out symptoms in a haphazardly and randomized way, but coherently dependent on the basic constitution and personal history.

Just about all symptoms and complaints are subject to improvement or might disappear altogether during the course of treatment where the constitution is strengthened on all levels as simultaneously susceptibilities are lowered and with greater feeling of well-being and freedom on all levels. Not infrequently were the same remedy indicated years earlier and had it be given then the present condition may have been averted.

The first consultation in a chronic case usually takes 1 to 1 1/2 hours depending on the overall condition and age of the patient. A follow up will usually take place after about a month. When the treatment is well under way, usually only a few and far between follow-ups are needed. Later the frequency will be individually set depending on the condition.

Reactions And Improvement

In most chronic cases one single dose of the chosen remedy is given and the curative action are left to evolve without undue interference. Usually the first reactions appear within 12 to 48 hours with a mild aggravation that may lasts a week or longer depending on the condition. Some tiredness, slight headache and some more excretions of bodily fluids than usual are most common, are harmless and should as much as possible be left undisturbed. In acute conditions the correct remedy will normally, within minutes or a few hours, relive the intensity of the symptoms, maybe require a few repetitions the first hours and soon resolve the whole issue.

In chronic cases the following weeks most patients experience a initial and slowly augmenting general relief with a heightened sense of well being, increased energy and vitality as have not been felt in a very long time extending beyond amelioration of the main complaint. Symptoms such as improved quality of sleep, lowered stress level with a sense of inner calm are signs that the organism is in a more balanced state and has started counteracting the more severe aspects of the condition, all reactions to the single dose.

After some time the improvement might stagnate and a repetition or sometimes a new remedy is needed, but the time-frame is highly individual. During the evolving process of cure some old symptoms in a milder form will return in the reverse order of how they originally appeared before permanently removed. Some patients, usually those who are dependent on conventional medical drugs and/or due to the nature of the pathology, might by prescribed the remedy daily in low potencies / low strength. As the condition improves and the medical drugs are reduced or discontinued, a single dose in a higher potency might be given. If there are no clear reactions within about a month, usually the remedy was incorrect, yet It can happen that there is no initial reaction and only when examining the condition some months later one will see the complaints are less while strength and vitality have increased. In incurable cases palliation and increased quality of life is the objective of the treatment.

The prognosis varies much depending on the pathology, previous treatments and the patient’s vitality. Very roughly speaking one month of treatment corresponds to one year of disease suffered but some conditions may require much less time while others more.

Obstacles to cure 

Medical drugs have a tendency to mask the real condition and limit the ability of the organism to respond. Vaccines and also injections of anesthetics like during dental work frequently cause some degree of relapsee. Also ointments containing strong medications, like cortisone, should be reduced or discontinued altogether if the condition allows. Daily use of coffee has a stimulating effect which also limits the long term action of the remedy, especially when taken as a single dose and can bring a relapse as can also serious psychological upheavals.

Caffeine-free coffee, moderate amounts of tea and alcohol however have no influence on the treatment. Most times no changes of lifestyle are needed.

Education and Literature

International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, founded and developed by Dean Prof. George Vithoulkas (see RENEWAL), the most renowned homeopath of our time, into the leading academy of homeopathy, firmly rooted in the Hahnmannian tradition. It is situated on the Greek island of Alonnissos and with branches in major cities across the globe.

It’s comprehensive and unique E-learning program sets a new and higher level of teaching and includes a large variety of cases managed over time and is the best preparation for proficient treatment available.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann; Organon the art of Healing, the laws of cure in 294 aphorisms as discovered by Hahnemann; the basis of homeopathy.

Dr.James Tyler Kent; Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy, a classic text that expands on Hahnemann’s ‘Organon’.

Dr. James Tyler Kent, M.D.; Lesser Writings. Over 100 years old observations and experiences with timeless, invaluable information on the practice of homeopathy by the most eminent homeopath of his time.

Prof. George Vithoulkas; The Science of Homeopathy, volumes 1-2, brings the most comprehensive and truly groundbreaking description with up to date information of where classical homeopathy is today with the perspective of his more than six decades of experience and having treated about 200.000 patients. In the newly issued volume 2, he delineates levels of health, how it is undermined by the use of medical drugs and other strains and how it is lifted by precise homeopathic treatment with complex cases as examples. A must have for those sincerely interested in the subject of homeopathy.

Prof. George Vithoulkas; Medicine for the New Millennium gives a thorough yet easy accessible introduction to homeopathy.

Prof. George Vithoulkas; Materia Medica Viva, volumes 1-13. Gives vivid and elucidating remedy-pictures including cured cases. The most inspiring reading of materia medica in modern language.

My Background

2000 – 2026 Private homeopathic practice, Lillehammer, Oslo and Fredrikstad, Norway 

2001 – 2019; International Academy of Classical Homeopathy,
Alonnissos,
Greece; Yearly one week courses
(see EDUCATION /LITERATURE)

1996 – 2000; International Academy of Classical Homeopathy,
Alonnissos, Greece.
4 year part-time study taught by Prof. George Vithoulkas
Graduated with the Diploma. See vithoulkas.com

1994 – 1997; Skandinavisk Institutt for Klassisk Homeopati, Oslo, part-time study

1994 – 1996; Encephalon, now Bjerknes Høyskole, Oslo, Norway: bachelor medicine.

Prices

The initial consultation

Initial cons. usually 1 – 1 1/2 hrs  
Adults  kr 600
Children and students up to age 20 kr 500

Follow-ups

Usually about 1/2 hr  
Adults 350
Children and students up to age 20 300

Questions during treatment are encouraged and will be answered without charge.

Contact

Oyvind Kvamme Nilsen

Stenbråten 55

1628 Engelsviken 

Fredrikstad 

Norway

Mob 004790759274
E-mail  oyvknil@hotmail.com

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