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Abstracts and Vitae
• Dr. Carlos Néstor Cámpora (Argentina)
• Dr. Susanne Diez (Austria)
• Ulrike Kessler, MSc Hom (Switzerland)
• Curt Kösters (Germany) instead of
Christoph Laurentius (Germany)
• Michael Leisten, M. Edu. (Germany)
• Mag. pharm. Ilse Muchitsch (Austria)
• Dr. Dominik Müller (Germany)
• Dr Clare Relton (Great Britain)
• Dr. Anton Rohrer (Austria)
• Dr. Irmgard Schnittert (Germany)
• Dr. Anne Sparenborg-Nolte (Germany),
Dr. Klaus Roman Hör (Germany), Andreas Holling
(Germany) und Dr. Anton Rohrer (Austria)
• Dr. José Teixeira (France)
• Dr Elisabeth Thompson (Great Britain)
www.wisshom.de
Abstract
High-quality homeopathic cases represent one of the most
useful tools to understand and improve the outcomes of
homeopathic prescriptions. Homeopathic case documentation plays a key role to make possible high-quality
homeopathic case research. BRECHA, the Argentinian
homeopathic casebank, which uses the strictest standards
for the presentation, the case documentation and the
assessment of outcomes, has developed guidelines that
allow the physician to focus on research in the daily
practice. A BRECHA case study of severe Rheumathoid
Cachexia with a follow up of almost 9 years is presented,
with emphasis placed on the main homeopathic issues
(verbatim expressions; repertory translation;
repertorization; case analysis and approach strategies;
prescribed treatment; follow-up) and the importance of a
precise documentation.
Vita
Carlos Néstor Cámpora was born on April 10, 1964, in La
Plata, Argentina. He can be reached at
Fundación Médica Homeopática Vitalis
Billinghurst 649 (CP C1174ABK)
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: 00 54 221 4216815 or 00 54 11 4865 9955
His email is:
[email protected]
His websites are:
www.homeopatia.org.ar
www.cncampora.com.ar
Dr. Carlos Néstor Cámpora graduated as a physician in
1989 at Universidad Nacional de Ciencias Médicas of the
city of La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, with an
outstanding general point average of 9,40, and obtained
his degree as specialist in Internal Medicine in 1994.
Homeopathy found him at six years old as a patient, but
he has been an ardent student of homeopathy since he
was sixteen years old, when he started reading tirelessly
the old classical masters. He is a certified Master in
Homeopathy by Asociación Médica Homeopática
Argentina.
Two study and research groups have been founded and
directed by him in Argentina: in 1993 the Grupo Clínica
Homeopática Dinámica, and, in 1997, the Grupo de
Estudios e Investigación Médica Homeopática de la
República Argentina.
He has been teaching Homeopathy since 1993; since then
he has been a lecturer in congresses and seminars both
locally and internationally ever since, he has been
teaching in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Spain,
Germany, Holland, Austria and Hungary; he is regularly
asked to lecture as a guest speaker at many homeopathic
institutions.
He has submitted numerous papers about the homeopathic treatment of arterial hypertension, sciatic and
trigeminal neuralgia, infections of the middle ear, AIDS,
etc; he has also performed detailed research on the
homeopathic repertories and materia medica.
In 1998 he has designed the Double Protocol of Homeopathic Pathogenetic Trial (DPHPT) and has organized and
directed the first provings performed in Argentina in fifty
years; based on this, he conducted the proving of
Loxosceles laeta (1998) (brown spider or killer spider) and
Geranoetus melanoleucus (1999) (black-chested buzzard
eagle).
These are full hahnemannian provings performed by
applying high quality methodological standards with the
aim of selecting the most reliable and valid symptoms.
Controversial and critic aspects about methodology of
provings and the placebo symptoms in provings has been
part of his papers and seminars in the last few years, and
is a frequent lecturer at LMHI’s Congresses. He is also the
author of the book: "The pathogenesis of Loxosceles
Laeta, the spider of the corners, brown spider or killing
spider", in 1999.
Dr. Cámpora is also focused on the sistematic
documentation in homeopathic practice and research on
high-quality case reports; he is convinced that the study of
cured clinical cases represents a source of valuable
knowledge and inspiration for homeopaths and with the
idea of sistematically collecting the results of the
homeopathic practice he founded BRECHA (Banco de
Reporte y Estudio de Casos Homeopáticos de Argentina)
in 2003, since then he is the President of BRECHA.
He has developed a sistematic methodology of approach
and case analysis that allows to obtain more consistent
and reliable results, and have made prescriptions more
understandable, reasonable and successfull. He is well
known for the publication of his high-quality reports of
severe and cured clinical cases traditionally considered
incurable.
On 2006 the Faculty of Medicine of the Buenos Aires
University designed him Director of the Annual Postgraduate Course “Theory and Practice of Homeopathic
Medicine”.
Since 2009 the Asociación Médica Argentina distinguished
Dr. Cámpora choosing him as the Director of the “Biennial
Course “Theory and Practice of Homeopathic Medicine”.
He is teaching his homeopathic methodology in the
Asociación Médica Homeopática del Uruguay dictating a
biennial post-graduate course that has begun in the year
2009 and continues at present.
In addition to his busy practice in Buenos Aires and La
Plata, he is currently the Director of the Fundación Médica
Homeopática Vitalis where he lectures since 2000 as the
main lecturer of the Annual Continuing Education Postgraduate Course in Homeopathic Medicine.
Abstract
Vita
Everything we learn from from the patient in
homeopathic casetaking, as well as all the results of
a homeopathic remedy proving, amounts to
perceptions (inner feelings and sensations and
external impressions), and therefore, above all, of a
subjective nature.
Mag. phil. Dr. univ. med. Susanne Diez, born 1956,
Therefore we can postulate that, along with Similars,
subjectivity is a fundamental principle of homeopathy. In this case the relationship of similarity
corresponds to what is accomplished by establishment of identity in a logical judgement. However, the
absolute certainty of a logical judgement can never
be compared with the establishing of similarity, since
the latter is tied into an infinite network of conditions,
perspectives and relationships, which corresponds
to everything that is alive.
Thus every attempt at formulating Homeopathy as a
science will founder on this difficult question of the
possibilities of generalisation (“objectivisation”) of
subjective experiences and adventures.
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lives and works in Vienna as a homeopathic doctor
and psychotherapist in her own practice.
At the moment her particular interest in the field of
homeopathy is directed at the re-definition of the
scientific nature of homeopathy, at provings of
remedies and at the trituration experience.
• Study of Medicine at Vienna University
• Graduated 1980
• From 1984, supplementary training in
Homeopathy
• Between 1984 and 1993, practice as a statutory
health insurance physician (Vienna)
• Since 1993, private practice in homeopathy and
psychotherapy
• Since 1992, lecturing for the Austrian Society of
Homeopathic Medicine (ÖGHM), teaching at
home and abroad
• 2007 concluded studies in Philosophy at Vienna
University with a thesis on the Scientific Nature of
Homeopathy: “Subjectivity as a fundamental
principle of homeopathy – philosophical
considerations on homeopathy”
• Publication of several articles in professional
books and journals
Since childhood, intensive interest for art and a
passion for travelling
Contact: [email protected]
Abstracts
Lecture
Seminar
Teaching events are most effectual when the desired
learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, as
well as examinations, are closely co-ordinated
(Constructive Alignment).
Within the frame of this seminar we shall confront the
possible ways in which knowledge, accomplishments and
competences of homeopaths can be examined both
formatively and summatively.
This may sound quite obvious; however, in day-to-day
teaching it is only rarely practised. In the final analysis this
is linked with an antiquated understanding of the nature of
training for a professional qualification, which is orientated
above all around the communication of knowledge and
accomplishments. However, it has been recognised that a
training course must ensure that, as soon as the course
has been completed, the learners must be conversant with
the competences that they need so as to successfully
overcome complex challenges that they will face in their
professional context. These include the ability to communicate, to work in a team, or to act autonomously.
This means that contemporary homeopathic training
equips graduates to meet the demands that will be made
upon them if they are to conduct a practice responsibly
and successfully. A part of this is the awareness of the
need to undertake regular ongoing training.
The learning outcomes of such primary and ongoing
training are formulated as activities which the students
must have mastered by the end of the teaching event.
With this in mind, teaching and learning activities are
chosen which will give the students the opportunity of
practising the activities defined in the learning outcomes at
the appropriate cognitive level. Finally assessment is
carried out as to whether - and to what extent - the
students have mastered precisely these activities, with the
students demonstrating their abilities in appropriate test
exercises.
Constructive Alignment, as advocated by Biggs & Tang, is
of positive use here insofar as students orientate themselves towards examinations and the challenges that they
may expect there. If examinations are didactically
designed in such a way that they encourage the students
to deal with the material in a pro-active and self-motivated
way, then learning processes are stimulated in such a way
that not only are the students guided towards a deeper
engagement with the knowledge base and accomplishments of their subject, but also that they acquire
competences.
Reference: Biggs J. & Tang, C., 2007. Teaching for quality learning at
university: what the student does. 3rdedn., Maidenhead: Open University
Press.
Vita
Ulrike Kessler, MSc (Hom), born 1956, studied Chemistry
at Freiburg im Breisgau. However, she has been
practising Homeopathy as a Heilpraktiker for almost 30
years in Germany and in Basle (Switzerland), where she is
a cantonally approved homeopath. In 2003 she founded a
homeopathic teaching practice in Basle (Switzerland). She
leads practical training courses, supervision groups and
provides one-to-one supervision. From 2007 to 2010 she
studied at the University of Central Lancashire (Great
Britain), where she obtained her MSc (Hom) with a thesis
on the quality of homeopathic training. Since 2011 she has
been a member of WissHom and Deputy Chair of the
Research Section. She has been actively involved in
teaching for many years, has given numerous lectures
and seminars and is the author of many publications.
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.ulrikekessler.ch
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Abstract
In homeopathy the concept of certainty of healing is
not only well established, but almost constitutive for
the homeopathic method. In the context of this
lecture we intend to set out why this concept is
epistemologically problematic – and to show that
consciously departing from this notion can open up
additional therapeutic options.
Vita
• Curt Kösters was born in 1958 in
Ellwangen/Jagst.
• 1977-1985: medical studies at Berlin Free
University
• 1985/86: carried out toxicological studies for an
environmental protection organisation
• 1987-1989: clinical training
• since 1982: involved with homeopathy: homeopathic training in Berlin and Hamburg, study visit
in India
• since 1991: private practice in Hamburg
• 1994-2004: committee member and, since 1996,
Chair of the Society of Homeopathic Physicians
in Schleswig-Holstein and the Hanseatic Cities
• 1996-2004: Lecturer in continuing training and
one of a team of lecturers sharing courses at
Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg
• 2002/03: led remedy provings as part of
continuing training courses
• 1996-2004: collaboration in a homeopathic
developmental aid project in Nepal (Bhaktapur
International Homeopathic Clinic)
• 2001: Organisation and scientific direction of the
Conference of the German Association of
Homeopathic Physicians
• since 2002: collaboration with InHom (European
Institute of Homeopathy). Work focussed on: data
banks, case documentation, chronic diseases
and treatment, interventions following the Law of
Similars in social contexts
• 2003: Co-author of „International Debate –
Principles of Homeopathy“
• 2003/04: collaboration in setting up an Internet
Portal and Membership Data Control for the
German Central Society of Homeopathic
• 2004-2010: collaboration in an interdisciplinary
working party on the application of homeopathic
principles in the field of Town Planning
(International Building Exhibition of Replanning of
towns in Sachsen-Anhalt 2010)
• 2004-2011: various functions on the board of the
German Association of Homeopathic Physicians
• 2011: Founding member of the Scientific Society
Homeopathy (WissHom), and Chair of the
WissHom Quality Improvement Departement
Contact: [email protected]
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Vita
The notion of certainty of healing has hounded
generations of homeopathic doctors and
practitioners.
Christoph Laurentius
Even Hahnemann mentioned this notion in his
Organon of the Healing Art. Again and again
successive homeopaths have embarked on the
search for this Holy Grail of homeopathy.
But as soon as we speak of the concept of “healing”
we forsake the safe territory of certainty and venture
into fields where the co-ordinates may simply be
described as relative.
On a forced ride through the history of homeopathy
the various time-dependent ideas of certainty of
healing will be portrayed and we shall venture to get
closer to a definition.
Born 1965, married, 4 children
• Private medical practice in Homeopathy in BerlinCharlottenburg and in Köthen in Hahnemann’s
house
• Chairman of the Hahnemann Society (Hahnemann-Gesellschaft)
• Medical Superintendant of the homeopathic
libraries of the DZVhÄ
Homeopathic Career
• Since commencing study of Medicine, private
study of homeopathy
• Three-year homeopathic training in the Berlin
Society of Homeopathic Doctors
• Three-month course in Augsburg, 1999
• Additional qualification as a homeopath since
2000
• Since 2009 authorised as a trainer in
homeopathic further education
Allopathic Career
• Study of Medicine 1988-1994 at the Free
University of Berlin
• Multiple alternating medical activities in the areas
of Nuclear Medicine, Internal Medicine,
Gastroenterology, Pulmology, Allergology,
Cardiology, General Surgery and Psychosomatics
• Brief intermezzo in quality assurance management with a blood donor organisation
• Complementary professional study of Medical
Information Technology
• Training in Acupuncture
• Since 2001 private practice in homeopathy in
Berlin, full-time since 2007
• Since 2009 second practice in Köthen in Hahnemann’s house
Contact: [email protected]
Abstract Lecture and Seminar
Planning of teaching sessions is one of the essential
tasks of a teacher, including those involved in
homeopathic professional training. To complete this
task, the professional literature offers a large
number of aids: the so-called “didactic models”.
Of course, these differ from one another - in some
cases considerably - with regard to structure and
expression.
The aim of this lecture is therefore, beginning with
clarification of the didactic concept, to present what
is currently probably the best-known model of
modern lesson-planning.
It is a characteristic of the current theory discussion
that a new position which appeared in the mid1990’s, constructivistic didactics, is steadily
becoming established. In the academic and nonacademic areas of homeopathic training, we will
have to integrate its positive innovations, or at least
to check out the extent to which they can be an
effective alternative to the conventional models, and
where its strengths and advantages lie.
It was and still is the case that professional training
in homeopathy is distinguished by an ongoing
dominance of content-learning, with a preference for
styles which involve the teacher being at the front of
the room, lecturing. In the psychology of learning
this is known as “Easter bunny teaching”. The
teacher presents the gifts, drily, in a lecturing style,
and the learner is supposed to oblige by being
pleased. However, this approach has little relation to
bringing forward independent thinking and the
acquisition of competences, and the students gather
knowledge for an examination, and not for everyday
practice.
The Diploma seems to further consolidate this
approach. Interestingly, it uses teaching methods
which put the activity of the teachers in the
foreground, handing out tips on methodology and
technique, which are supposed to reasonably
ensure motivation on the part of the learners.
Constructivistic didactics uses a different approach.
So as to awaken some interest and receptiveness
for this method, my lecture will portray this most
recent theory of learning, along with its methodlogical application, according to the following plan:
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History
Central concept
Methodology
Recommended action
Summary
Critical appraisal
Subsequently, within the framework of the
associated seminar, concrete examples of the
methodological application of constructivistic
didactics to homeopathic training will be
encountered, shared and experienced. This shows
how the WissHom Education and Training Section is
promoting and using this method.
Constructivistic didactics makes resources available,
to enable teachers to arrive at new and different
solutions.
Some of the central principles will be presented.
Furthermore, some important initiatives in current
use in constructivistic didactics will be sketched out.
The point will also be addressed, as to whether not
just teachers but learners too should be regarded as
lecturers. Above all, this comes to light in the area of
methodologies which represent a challenge to
constructivistic didactics.
We shall close with observations on the novelty of
the constructivistic approach and the necessity to
critically discuss and not merely reject other
initiatives.
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Vita
M. Edu. Michael Leisten (Heilpraktiker)
Born 1967 in Würzburg. Married to Gertrud Leisten;
three children; resident in Laub near Würzburg.
From 1987 to 2003 Michael Leisten worked at state
schools as a qualified teacher of R.E. At the same
time he undertook professional training as a
Heilpraktiker and classical homeopath. From 1997
he was a lecturer and homeopathy course leader at
a private training college of Health Education in
Germany.
In 2004 Michael Leisten founded the Academy of
Classical Homeopathy. As a therapist he holds the
certificates of the SHZ and BKHD and he is the
author and translator of various homeopathic books.
In 2009, at the Lutheran University of Applied
Sciences in Nuremberg, he completed his
postgraduate study in Adult Education with
distinction and obtained the degree of Master of
Adult Education (M.Edu.)
Following this in 2009, at the Julius-Maximilian
University in Würzburg he began his educational
studies on Salutogenesis in the work of Samuel
Hahnemann.
Likewise, since 2010 he has been accepted as a
member of the Canadian International Academy of
Homeopathy, in the International Hahnemann Study
Group under the leadership of Dr. André Saine.
In 2011 Michael Leisten was elected to the extended
committee of the Scientific Society for Homeopathy
(WissHom) in Germany with responsibility for the
Education and Training Section.
At the moment Michael Leisten is writing his PhD,
the theme of his dissertation being “Development of
a concept of health maintenance from the
perspective of Salutogenesis and Constructivism.”
His aim will be, on the one hand to convert the
results of his research into modern medical practice
for the benefit of patients, and on the other to
integrate the results into the professional training of
the Academy of Classical Homeopathy.
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.homoeopathie-hof.de
www.praxis-leisten.de
WissHom-Congress ICE 12. 25.-27.10.2012. Leisten: Abstract Lecture and Seminar / Vita
Abstract
Vita
Based on the Hahnemann's Organon we will discuss
different issues in physics and pharmacy.
Mag. pharm. Ilse Muchitsch is working as a pharmacist in Vienna since successfully completing her
university degree in Pharmacy (thesis in
Biochemistry). The main focus of her work is
homeopathic pharmacy.
A historical review of the past will be given:
beginning by the properties of water in the view of
remedy preparation to the latest developments in
water research and homeopathic research.
Facts
• What kind of water is used for homeopathic
remedies according to the Homeopathic
Pharmacopeia?
• What kind of water should physicians
recommend to their patients for a prescription
that includes plussing?
• What is levitated water?
• Structures in water: clusters – do they exist?
• Influence of ions, alcohol and medicines
• Potentisation – is it a necessity?
• What effect do frequencies have on water?
What is the current state of research?
• We are overwhelmed with publications on the
subject of water and homeopathy.
• Do we understand the language of science in
homeopathy?
• What do publications state (Benveniste, Rey,
Montagnier etc.)?
• On the basis of some papers we will discuss
controversial statements in homeopathic
research.
• Future aspects of research into homeopathy and
water.
She leads the Interdisciplinary Homeopathic
Working Group for Pharmacy – Medicine – Biochemistry – Physics – Psychology of the Austrian
Chamber of Pharmacy (Provincial Office Vienna)
and of HomResearch.
In the last 12 years in-service training events,
lectures at the University of Vienna (Department of
Pharmacy) and working groups have been
organised by these organisations, dedicated to the
task of exploring scientific models of explanation,
teaching and practice of homeopathic pharmacy.
Furthermore Ilse Muchitsch is an author of the
Austrian Journal of Pharmacy (Österreichische
Apothekerzeitung).
• 2008: organisation of the Congress on “Water –
Information – Meeting – Vienna” (Pharmacy
Centre, Vienna)
• 2008 and 2009: exhibitions: “Pharmaceutical Art”
(Exhibition in the Vienna Hofburg, in collaboration
with Univ.-Prof. Tobias Kühne, and in Bozen –
South-Tyrolean Autumn Discussions)
• 2010: lecture series: “Pharmaceutical
Homeopathy” – Society of Pharmacy Staff
(VAAÖ), Graz (Austria)
• 2011: accredited in-service training of the
Austrian Chamber of Pharmacy, Provincial Office
Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical
Technology and Biopharmaceutics Vienna:
“Extreme Homeopathy” (Radiology, Oncology,
Intensive Care), in collaboration with Univ.-Prof.
Dr. Michael Frass
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.homresearch.org
Abstracts
Vita
Lecture
Dr. med. Dominik Müller
MMRH – Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae: an
interim report
Revising the materiae medicae is the most comprehensive
scientific project in progress in the history of homeopathy.
Since 2006 the Gleeser Materia Medica Revision Work
Group, led by Dr. K.-H. Gypser, has been carrying out a
systematic revision of the materiae medicae. So far 28
remedies have been revised and published.
In this lecture, after a brief introduction to the project,
Dominik Müller, a member of the work group, will explain
the structure, construction, the usefulness and the
advantages of this revised materiae medicae.
In addition, he will present new research results which
emerged during the work of revision and which are
relevant to practice, along with other developments of the
project, such as the concept of a new, homogenous and
reliable repertory.
Seminar
The MMRH – a tool for “genuine practitioners of the
healing arts”: a case analysis using primary materia
medica
There are countless materiae medicae on the market. Do
we really need a comprehensive work such as the Materia
Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae? What distinguishes the
MMRH from other materiae medicae? Is the MMRH
relevant at all to our everyday practice? What does its
practical application look like?
Over the past several years Dominik Müller, a member of
the MMRH project work group supervised by Dr. K.-H.
Gypser, has sifted through several thousand case records
from the 19th and 20th centuries, has checked them and
included them in the MMRH.
With the aid of the most interesting and most informative
case-histories by various authors, selected from the
revision of the materiae medicae, the use of the MMRH
will be practised in this seminar, as will the extremely
precise prescribing technique which it makes possible.
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Specialist in general medicine - Homeopathy
Homeopathy since 1984
Private medical practice in Eichstätt (Bavaria)
Lecturer at the three-month course (Augsburg,
Germany)
Member of the Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae
project work group (ed. K.-H. Gypser)
Publications under the aegis of the MMRH: Lac
caninum, Causticum, Valeriana, Argentum nitricum,
Sabadilla and Anacardium
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.dr-d-mueller.de
Abstract Lecture and Seminar
Vita
In this lecture as well as in the seminar I will
describe the challenges and opportunities of (i)
being a homeopath treating patients in routine
healthcare – collecting data on my own practice for
the purpose of routine audit and (ii) being a
researcher in a busy academic environment in the
UK doing ‘science’ working on pragmatic trials
design (http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1066)
and contributing to the evidence base for
homeopathy.
Dr Clare Relton FSHom, BA(Hons), MSc, PhD
Most importantly, I discuss the interface between
routine practice and the ‘scientific’ evaluation of
treatment by homeopaths.
During the talks I will address a number of questions
relating to practical research in clinical homeopathy
including:
• What type of information do patients, healthcare
providers, healthcare commissioners and
insurers need to make decisions about
homeopathy?
• What do the 160+ randomised controlled trials of
‘homeopathy’ actually mean?
• What is the role of placebos in randomised
controlled trials?
• How can homeopaths contribute to the evidence
base?
I originally studied Philosophy at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne and then I worked in management training/personal development. After having
my sons, I worked as a non medically qualified
homeopath in the NHS and privately for a number of
years.
I joined the University of Sheffield in 2003 when I
was awarded a DH Pre Doctoral Training
Fellowship. I obtained an MSc in Health Services
Research and PhD in pragmatic clinical trial design.
I have been working in the Public Health section of
ScHARR since 2009.
I am interested in the relationship between real
world practice and research in healthcare – (particularly in how pragmatic randomised controlled trial
design can capture and measure the what goes on
in real world healthcare).
My current research focuses on the methodological/
design questions for a wide range of healthcare
conditions and conundrums – from low breastfeeding rates to rising obesity levels.
Contact: c [dot] relton [at] sheffield [dot] ac [dot] uk
Internet:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ph/staff/profiles/clare
Abstract
Vita
“May God preserve every sick person from a
physician, … who does not know in advance which
medicine will heal the patient and which will do him
harm.” [Materia Medica Pura II, 121]
Dr. med. Anton Rohrer has been a General
Practitioner since 1985, with his own practice in
Großlobming near Knittelfeld (Styria, Austria).
At this point in the Materia Medica Pura, and at a
total of 20 other points, Hahnemann speaks up in
favour of a priori certainty of healing.
Does such a thing really exist? If it does, what are
the obstacles that get in the way of this high ideal of
certainty of healing being fulfilled in practice?
Answers to these exciting questions, along with tips
relevant to homeopathic practice, make up the
contents of this lecture.
• Homeopathy training from 1981 with Prof. Dr. M.
Dorcsi in Baden near Vienna
• later with G. Vithoulkas in Greece and London
• 1983 four weeks sitting-in at the Glasgow
Homeo-pathic Hospital, Scotland
• Attended course in Repertorisation taught by J.
Künzli on Spiekeroog island
• Other significant teachers: W. Klunker, R.
Sankaran, A. Saine, A. Geukens, D. Spinedi, B.
Möller (Bönninghausen’s method)
• 1987-2000 committee member of ÖGHM
(Austrian Society of Homeopathic Medicine),
President 1996-2000
• Since 1987, training homeopathic doctors in
Austria, Germany (Freudenstadt, Augsburg 3month course) and Hungary
• 1996-2009 Lecturer in homeopathy at Graz
Medical University (Austria)
• 1999-2007 Consultant physician in homeopathy
at the Sigmund Freud State Psychiatric Clinic in
Graz
• Publications in journals (“Documenta Homoeopathica” and “Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie) and in books
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.hahnemann.at
Abstract
Vita
In my workshop “Integrative therapy – a concept for
practice“ I will demonstrate the development of
designing an ordinary GP practice into a Center for
Integrative Medicine.
Dr. med. Irmgard Schnittert
I want to show that proceeding from Conventional
Medicine to Natural Medicine and further on to
Classical Homoeopathy comprehends the
ingredients for a concept of individualized treatment,
tailored to the needs of a modern urban clientele,
considering the requirements of the spectrum of
modern diseases and patients reasons to seek for
medical advice.
After that I want to point out topics such as how to
organize the office including the instruction of the
Centers staff, thus creating a corporate identity,
emphasizing the need of sharing informations,
networking with professional colleagues, institutions
and patients’ organisations as well as participating in
supervision and yet maintaining one’s own
resources.
It will be demonstrated what it means to work with
an Integrative Concept concerning the relationship
between doctor and patient, the way of examination,
finding an informed consent and choosing the
essentials of treatment.
Furthermore I’d like to demonstrate this with three
case presentations: one patient with arthritis,
another with hypertension and the third one with
chronic inflammation. All are being treated with an
individualized concept of Classical Homoeopathy,
Natural medicine and reasonable Conventional
Medicine.
• 1977-1984 Studied human medicine at the Free
University of Berlin
• 1986-1994 Medical specialist training in Berlin
(Pathology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics/Rheumatology) for general medical
practice
• 1987 Graduation
• 1993 Additional qualification in naturopathy
• 2003 Degree in homeopathy
• since 1995 established in general practice in
Berlin-Schöneberg, Practice Theme: “Integrative
Medicine”
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.drschnittert.de
Abstract
It is a definite fact that, within a plant family, there are
common symptoms. But what use is this fact to us? Totally
confused controversies rage with regard to the question as
to whether one can prescribe according to families and
how we can identify family characteristics.
Various speakers will give short presentations and a
common seminar, using the angle of their own approach
to case analysis to show the part played in prescribing by
remedy relationships.
Short presentations within the framework of
the lecture
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Klaus Roman Hör
Concept of plant family (plant relationship) and the
effect they have on the choice of remedy as in M.
Mangialavori’s work
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Andreas Holling
The realm of nature and plant family (plant relationship) as a criterion for remedy selection in R. Sankaran’s work
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Anton Rohrer
The concept of remedy relationship in Genuine
Homeopathy
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Anne Sparenborg-Nolte
From the medicinal substance to the action of the
homeopathic remedy
In the seminar we shall then also discuss the methodological basis for what they have said:
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Of what practical use are the various approaches for
these colleagues in their practices?
Are there approaches to clarify the recognisable
methodological differences? If not immediately, then at
least as perspectives?
What is the role played by hypotheses regarding
remedies and the verification by means of successful
prescribing?
What generalisations and extrapolations from Materia
medica are methodologically justifiable, and in what
way?
We shall discuss these questions using inter alia the
example of the Liliaceae family – this includes Colchicum
autumnale, Helonias dioica, Lilium superbum, Lilium
tigrinum, Paris quadrifolia, Sabadilla officinarum,
Sarsaparilla officinalis, Veratrum album, Trillium
pendulum, Xerophyllum tenax.
Andreas Holling represents the Sankaran method, Klaus
Roman Hör the technique of Mangialavori, Anton Rohrer
the Genuine Approach and Anne Sparenborg-Nolte
Kentian Case Analysis.
Seminar themes
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Klaus Roman Hör
Plant family (plant relationship) and its effect on
remedy selection, using the Liliaceae as example
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Andreas Holling
The realm of nature and plant family (plant
relationship) as a criterion for remedy selection, using
the Liliaceae as an example
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Anton Rohrer
What influence is exerted by the relationship of
medicinal substances on the action of the remedy and
remedy selection, using the Liliaceae as an example
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Anne Sparenborg-Nolte
Towards the discovery of the healing energy of
medicinal substances: formation of groups and
relationships and remedies from Hahnemann up to
modern times
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Vitae
Dr. med. Klaus Roman Hör
Dr. med. Anton Rohrer
Born in 1950. In 1980 had an incisive experience which
called his attention to the homeopathic method of healing.
Since 1985 General Practitioner, with his own practice in
Großlobming near Knittelfeld (Styria, Austria).
His first tutors were Dr. Michael Barthel and Dr. Willibald
Gawlik. Then he continued his studies for years with
Dr. Vassilis Ghegas, finally turning to Dr. Massimo
Mangialavori and his complex view of homeopathy.
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It is now 29 years since he settled in Waldmünchen
(Bavaria, Germany) as a dentist and homeopathic doctor,
using homeopathy across the whole spectrum of treatment
in general practice and obstetrics.
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For 20 years K. R. Hör has also been actively involved in
the training of homeopathic doctors in the DZVhÄ
(Deutscher Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärzte).
The quality circle/ work group in Regensburg (Bavaria,
Germany) has been led by him since 1988. Since 1990 he
has led the Regensburg regional group of the Bavarian
branch of the DZVhÄ. For many years he has been
lecturing regularly in Bad Herrenalb (Baden-Württemberg,
Germany) on Crete, on Mallorca and in Windhoek
(Namibia).
Further activities: emergency doctor and head emergency
doctor in the Cham District (Bavaria, Germany), duty
doctor for the local Bavarian Red Cross branch and
Kneipp-Society in Waldmünchen (Bavaria, Germany)
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Homeopathy training from 1981 with Prof. Dr. M.
Dorcsi in Baden near Vienna
later with G. Vithoulkas in Greece and London
1983 four weeks sitting-in at the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, Scotland
Attended course in Repertorisation taught by J. Künzli
on Spiekeroog island
Other significant teachers: W. Klunker, R. Sankaran,
A. Saine, A. Geukens, D. Spinedi, B. Möller (Bönninghausen’s method)
1987-2000 committee member of ÖGHM (Austrian
Society of Homeopathic Medicine), President 19962000
Since 1987, training homeopathic doctors in Austria,
Germany (Freudenstadt, Augsburg 3-month course)
and Hungary
1996-2009 Lecturer in homeopathy at Graz Medical
University (Austria)
1999-2007 Consultant physician in homeopathy at the
Sigmund Freud State Psychiatric Clinic in Graz
Publications in journals (“Documenta Homoeopathica”
and “Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie”) and in
books
Contact: [email protected]
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.hahnemann.at
Andreas Holling
Dr. med. Anne Sparenborg-Nolte
General practitioner, homeopathy; since 1986 private
practice in Homeopathy in Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Medical doctor specialising in General Medicine, Childand Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; additional
qualifications in Homeopathy / Psychotherapy / Naturopathy; main thrust of practice: classical homeopathy
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trained with J. Künzli, H. Gerd-Witte, J. Becker, G.
Lang, G. Vithoulkas, J. Scholten, J. Shah, R. Sankaran;
for many years active in training doctors for the
postgraduate homeopathy qualification in Münster
Author of the HomöoQuest Learning Card File
from 1992, intensive training with Jayesh Shah
from 2001 with Rajan Sankaran in Bombay (6 clinical
workshops 2001-2008)
since then he has predominantly used the Sankaran
method in his own practice
regular seminars on the new method in Münster,
Kassel, Munich, Freiburg, Aarau, Mönchengladbach,
Berlin and Kiel (Germany)
Leader of the 3-year course in Sankaran’s systematic
homeopathy
Co-organiser of the Munich Sankaran Conferences
building on Scholten and Sankaran, developed own
concept of the Periodic System of the Elements
(Dimensions)
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Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.praxisholling.de
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since 1983, in practice as a homeopathic physician
1984 -1988 homeopathic practice in Auroville (South
India)
1990-2000 general practitioner with homeopathic
specialty in Greifenstein (Hessen, Germany)
since 1995 active in professional ongoing training of
homeopathic doctors in Freudenstadt, Heidelberg,
Marburg (Germany)
2000-2005 training and practice at the Clinic for Childand Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in the
Rehberg-Park in Herborn (Hessen, Germany)
since 2000 medical supervision (advanced level) in
homeopathy in Marburg (Hessen, Germany)
since 2006 general medical practice in partnership with
Dr. Stephan H. Nolte (paediatrician) in Marburg
since 2008 course leader, ongoing training in homeopathy for doctors in Freudenstadt (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) under the auspices of the ZAEN
(Zentralverband der Ärzte für Naturheilverfahren)
since 2009 dual qualification in both General Medicine
and Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, with homeopathy as main thrust of practice
co-editor of the AHZ (Allgemeine Homöopathische
Zeitung) with G. Bleul and M. Teut
Lecturer in General Medicine at Marburg University
Contact: [email protected]
Internet: www.sparenborg.com, www.homdoc.de
Annual WissHom-Congress ICE 12. October 25-27, 2012. Sparenborg et al.: Abstract Lecture and Seminar / Vitae
Abstract Lecture
Vita
Water is the most abundant compound on Earth and
life is not possible without the presence of its liquid
form. The shape of the molecule, its large electric
dipole and the formation of intermolecular bonds
are, together, at the origin of peculiar properties
sometimes very different from those of other liquids.
José Teixeira, PhD, Docteur-ès-Sciences, is
Directeur de recherche at Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Laboratoire
Léon Brillouin, the French facility for neutron
scattering that uses neutrons from the research
reactor Orphée at Saclay, suburbs of Paris.
The complete knowledge of the properties of water
is always the subject of intense research work.
He is a specialist of water, its thermodynamic and
transport properties, structure and molecular
dynamics. His present domain of research is
confined water or water under external conditions
that limit its dynamics. This activity concerns the
behaviour of water molecules around ions, colloids
and macromolecules as well as solid interfaces and
porous materials. In the domain of homoeopathy he
gave advices for Boiron (France) and collaborated
with other groups, namely using thermoluminescence or Rayleigh scattering techniques.
After a short introduction reminding some of the
more interesting properties of liquid water within the
context of biology, an overview of the present
research will be presented. It will focus particularly
on interfacial properties and situations where water
forms bonds with organic substrates modifying the
local properties, thus generating specific behaviours
often essential in biophysical processes.
The interplay with present views of homoeopathy
and prospective actions will be a thematic of
discussion.
He taught at the Universities of Paris, Versailles,
Grenoble, Lisbon and Coimbra and contributed also
to low temperature solid state physics, fractals and
physics of colloids.
He is the author of more than 200 papers and
several chapters of books. He was the General
Secretary of the French Physical Society and
Deputy Director of the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin.
Contact: [email protected]
Abstract
Vita
This presentation will describe my approach over the
past 11 years to prescribing homeopathy within the
Integrative Cancer Care Service at the Bristol
Homeopathic Hospital.
Dr Elizabeth Thompson, DMOxon, MBBS, MRCP,
FFHom
Improving symptoms and quality of life has been my
primary aim rather than suggesting that homeopathy
might affect survival. However over the years, a
number of patients have lived longer than expected.
The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Office of
Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(OCCAM) was established in October 1998 to
coordinate and enhance complementary and
alternative medicine activity in cancer care in the
USA.
OCCAM funds research and provides evidence
based information about complementary therapies.
OCCAM has encouraged complementary cancer
prescribers to submit cases where outcome has
been particularly good as a best case series.
Here I present a number of patients see over the
past ten years where improvements in symptoms,
well being, scan results and apparent survival have
been noted. A range of remedies will be discussed.
Elizabeth Thompson is a Consultant Homeopathic
Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative
Medicine. She is an NHS consultant and Lead
Clinician for an outpatient service from the Bristol
Homeopathic Hospital with a team of seven doctors.
She runs the Integrative Cancer Care Service and
was awarded her DM thesis from Oxford University
in 2009, the first homeopathic thesis to sit in the
Bodleian library describing the use of homeopathy
for the cancer patient. She is a Fellow of the Faculty
of Homeopathy and was made Vice President of the
Faculty of Homeopathy in February 2011. She is the
Academic Director for a seven-year academic
teaching programme.
Her research interests have included cancer, child
health and outcome measures that reflect health
gain. Special clinical interests: Integrative Cancer
Care.
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/patients-andvisitors/your-hospitals/bristol-homeopathic-hospital/