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by the authors
Vol. 9 / Nr. 3 - first english edition –10/2007
C ONTENTS
Editorial
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Preparation of Remedies in the Gudjons Laboratory
by Brita Gudjons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 10
Journey into the Desert
by Brita Gudjons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 16
Homeopathy in Pedriatrics
at the Children’s University Hospital in Munich
by Dr Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich
and Dr Sigrid Kruse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 28
List of Remedies
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24 – 25
Background Information on the History
of American Homeopathy and its Institutions
by Dr med Dr phil Josef M. Schmidt, PD . . . . . . . . . 29 – 35
Homeopathic Hospitals in the United States of America
by Dr. Heike Gypser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 48
Brita’s Picture Gallery
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E DITORIAL
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t is for 20 years now that homeopathic remedies are being produced at my
laboratory following Hahnemann’s description at the end of his long life
(Chronic Diseases and Organon VI).
Raw substances are broken down by hand grinding 1 gran of the raw substance
with 100 gran (60mg) of lactose (trituration). Dynamization of liquid C remedies
is achieved by taking a ratio of 1 to 99 drops and shaking them vigorously, thereby
using a new bottle for each dilution (multiple-glass
method). These 100 drops are then used to impregnate sugar globules. Owing to the small quantity of 100
drops of impregnation fluid our globules are bottled
in very small units of 1,5g. One of these tiny bottles,
however, contains about 400 globules carrying an extremely intensive impregnation. Experience has taught
us that one of these globules alone is sufficient for a
patient’s dosis (preferably dissolved in some water).
Q-potencies are made according to § 270 of the
Organon VI.
Apart from making remedies I also publish a small booklet twice a year covering
topics that are of interest to the homeopathic world. As we all know different languages here in Europe present quite an information barrier.
For this 20th anniversary I therefore decided to have some of the articles published the last few years translated into English in order to also reach those homeopaths that are not so familiar with the German language.
Apart from the anniversary articles this issue also contains the description of a
trip to the Sahara, where a remedy was made from camel milk in the presence of
a shaman of the Tuareg tribe. It also offers an answer to the question: How could
it happen that all these many, excellent and big homeopathic clinics that existed
in the US two centuries ago, completely disappeared?... an illustrated compilation
of these American clinics is shown.
I also added some special offers regarding my own remedies and historic remedies, so just have a closer look at them...
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he preparation of homeopathic
remedies is so closely interwoven
with my personal life history that I can
no longer consider these two facets separately. It is in this spirit that I would like
you to understand the story which I am
about to tell you.
T
“We live in a very special,
yet very dangerous time,
wherein a new global culture is painfully struggling
to be born. It is the challenge of our times to integrate human culture and
knowledge. It is essential
that this process occurs on
the level of the healing
sciences also. Healing is always a matter of unification. If our healing knowledge cannot be integrated,
how could we as human
beings find unity among
ourselves?”
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B RITA G UDJONS
the D and the C potencies and also the procedure
of potentiation.
In the mid-seventies, not too long after having
graduated as a pharmacist, I fell ill. Yet no one was
able to make a diagnosis. This prompted a first critical analysis of conventional western medicine. It
was thus, that I got to know the different naturopathic methods which
“Heilpraktiker” 2 and
medical doctors applying
naturopathy make use of.
In 1978 I passed the state
examination and became
a “Heilpraktikerin” myself. One of these “alternative methods” which I
got to know at this time
was homeopathy.
It was Dr Mathias Dorsci
who opened the door to
the world of homeopathy
for me. This was in the year
1976 in a training course
in Baden, which is not far
from Vienna. It was he too
who triggered a remarkable healing with merely 3
small white sugar pills.
These lines are taken from
the foreword of a book on
Atzelberg Pharmacy
ayurvedic herbs1 and have
in Frankfurt am Main
been chosen as an introduction here as they also apply for homeopathy.
Dr Dorsci’s talks impressed me so much that I beIt was in the sixties that I decided to study pharmacy. At this time I was neither able to think along
the lines of integrating human culture and knowledge, nor was I able to even sense anything of that
sort. My world view was being shaped by the university and a completely materialistic and mechanistic way of thinking. In total, merely a few days
of our studies were spent on homeopathy. Each
and every one of the students as well as our professor were in agreement that this was something
ever so dubious and that it was merely worth
spending our time on discussing the pharmaceutical aspects of the differences in dilution between
came very enthusiastic about taking part in training courses. This euphoria apparently came to be
by entering into realms new to me and led to a craving that could only be satisfied by pursuing further qualifications and attending all of the homeopathic training courses offered at that time: starting with the repertorisation courses on Spiekeroog
off the North Sea coast of Germany with Dr Künzli, Dr von Ungern-Sternberg and Dr Tiedemann,
the A-B-C courses in Bad Brückenau in northern
Bavaria and those in the hospital for naturopathy
in Munich Harlaching with Dr Braun and Dr Zimmermann and finally the homeopathic courses at
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Weidenkam Castle given by Dr Stübler. The courses
offered by the companies Wala and Weleda gave
me a first glimpse into spirituality.
The piles of books around my bed grew and grew.
In addition to my daily pharmaceutical work I was
given the opportunity of evaluating consultations
in the practice of a “Heilpraktiker” in 1978/79 on
a regular basis. In those days this was always done
by hand with a repertorisation table which most
of you are probably familiar with. The daily advice
at the pharmacy became a homeopathic consultation and this
proved to be a
blessing. How
else would I have
been able to stay
in my profession
as a pharmacist,
if all of my allopathic medicines
and the medical
doctors weren’t
of help to me?
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willingness to acknowledge the fact that it did work,
even if I didn’t have a clue as to how! What is written here in these three last lines is the result of a
challenging inner struggle of trying to maintain my
position, this being: humans know everything and
can do everything, and if not today, then certainly
latest by tomorrow, guaranteed. Take a bet on it…
Finally, I had to abandon this position. Or, to be
more precise, this position had to be transformed
into one of humbleness that is now: I know that I
know nothing.
The questions
“What is matter?
What are we actually potentiating? And what
happens with the
matter in this
process?” became key issues.
The piles of
books around
my bed became
even higher…
Atzelberg Pharmacy in Frankfurt am Main
Slowly but surely
a change began
It was in the creation myths of the different relitaking place deep down inside me. It was an inigions and in the field of physics, with the shamans
tially subconscious development and it steadily
of the Indians and Hawaiians, with Rudolf Steiner
paved the way to new topics in my life. This interand Mrs Blawatzski, with the alchemists and in the
nal growth went along with a gradual change of
Vedas that I searched for an answer to the question
my consciousness and world view: out of the field
“What is matter?”…
of science from my years of studying and into a
field of information patterns in material and nonmaterial states and spheres of spirituality.
It was also about leaving a rational, linear way of
thinking. It was about making a genuine effort for
a nonlinear approach with an outlook onto the
whole instead of the observation and the analysis
of “microscopic parts”3.
In the first ten years after having discovered homeopathy for myself, I could get hopping mad about
not being able to understand how it worked. This
annoyance gradually changed in accordance to my
4
Setting out on this path from solid matter to fine information wave patterns, from the domain of natural
sciences to that of spirituality, I found gateways
into many different realms of our universe.
In all of these realms I received precious gifts for
my later work with the plants and the raw materials
for remedies.
With astonishment and also deeply moved, I
learned the skill of handling plants and all other
beings of nature in books by Native American
shamans like “White Eagle”.
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Capra amazed me with the statement that the becoming of the smallest particles of matter backwards and forewords in time reminded him of the
Dance of Shiva4.
The “Dance of Shiva” set the course for becoming familiar with the Hindu philosophy and the ancient scriptures of India, the Vedas.
With Maharshi, the Indian master of Tiruannamalai
near to the holy Arunachala Hill I realised that
“I am” which led me back to the mystics of Christianity.
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opathy was strong and as I was very dedicated, various personal contacts developed to these teachers in the course of time. As I see it today, Dr
Klunker, Dr Stübler, Dr Gypser and Raimund
Friedrich Kastner were of great support in the production of my remedies. I didn’t invent a single
thing myself. All I did was to merely follow the instructions, ask questions and digest the answers.
A significant question was: what is the key to a high
quality remedy?
Dr Gypser always found new homeopathic topics which needed
Yogananda
further research
helped me to acin order to “put
cept a nonlinear
homeopathy
way of thinking.
onto firm pillars
where the
From Dr Ungernground is yet
Sternberg in
boggy” as he was
Bochum I
inclined to say.
learned to recUlrike Schober,
ognize the signifAndreas Grimm
icance of the role
and I established
that an intention
a small study
Prof. Junius in the Atzelberg Pharmacy
plays as an influgroup. Under Dr
ential energy. It
Gypser’s guidance, we dealt with the reliability of
is the intention which determines the value of
literary sources of raw materials that were unclear.
thoughts and actions in our lives.
Thus the articles about Bryonia5, Murex6, CausWith Dora Schmidt-Nagel, who is known to have
ticum7, Hekla lava8 and the spider remedies9 rebeen a follower of the Hindu philosophy, I got to
sulted, which were published in the German homeknow and appreciate the value of working with
opathic journals AHZ10 and ZKH11.
remedies in a meditative state.
Dr Gypser had dealt with the development of the
These are only a few examples that didn’t all
different repertories and also the origin of single
effect the preparation of remedies, yet certainly
parts of the literary works of various physicians,
influenced my personal growth.
e.g. Hahnemann, Kent and Hering. Therefore he
knew that the homeopathic drug proving symptoms
My Teachers of Homeopathy
of the same drug were from provings of various
The lecturers of the A-B-C courses and other conpractitioners and that the raw materials of a speferences for the homeopathy profession were our
cific remedy were not always exactly identical. It
therapists, medical doctors and “Heilpraktiker”,
is easy to understand that those administering
as they are till this day.
homeopathy would like to use the remedy for
These teachers were willing to answer all kinds of
his/her patients that initially led to the symptoms
questions upon questions. As my relation to homelisted in the repertory. In the beginning this con-
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sideration seemed rather odd to the authors of the
Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of Germany
(HAB12). It is obvious why Hahnemann not only
wanted to administer remedies himself, yet also insisted upon being able to judge the quality of the
preparation himself.
As he says in §264 of the “Organon of Medicine”,
6th Edition:
“The true physician must
be provided with genuine
medicines of unimpaired
strength, so that he may be
able to rely upon their therapeutic powers; he must be
able, himself, to judge of
their genuineness.”
The Production
Looking back, I can see
clearly that – as if guided by
an unknown hand – circumstances of life, acquaintances and information led to the preparation of
remedies according to Hahnemann’s standards.
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vinced me to start with the Q potencies. It seemed
reasonable to me to begin with those remedies
which corresponded to the development in Dr
Samuel Hahnemann’s later years and to which he
referred to as his “advanced methods”.
Thus, the first remedy was prepared on April 10th
and 11th through a lactose trituration C1, C2, C3 and
then the following steps as described in §270 of the
“Organon of Medicine”, 6th Edition – this remedy
was Mezereum. Later on I
realized that April 10th was
Hahnemann’s birthday. In
the following 10 years we –
that is the physicians in the
area and I – came together
on this day for a big celebration.
Grinding Mezereum, I felt a
hot desert wind blowing.
The impression of being enfolded in a wonderfully soft
and cooling gel arose while
grinding Symphytum.
Approximately 80 remedies
up to Q12 were prepared in
the first year with Dr Gypser
as a mentor and a partner
At a celebration at Lake ConAtzelberg Pharmacy
to discuss the matter “how
in Frankfurt am Main
stance, Dr Klunker exdoes one prepare a finest
pressed the idea that somehigh quality remedy” with. The first general evalbody should prepare all of the important remeuation of these remedies by known physicians was
dies according to Hahnemann’s specifications with
very good.
a corresponding accurate documentation. I was
the only pharmacist amongst the physicians preAfter having started with the production of remesent and this certainly appealed to me. Just like in
dies, I continued further homeopathic training. I
1976 on Spiekeroog when Dr Künzli said that a
accompanied Dr Gypser frequently on his course
pharmacist in Germany should import the high potrips e.g. to Switzerland and to Italy and also took
tencies of Schmidt-Nagel from Switzerland, so that
part in his training courses in Baden and later on
German practitioners would have an easier access
in his Boenninghausen study group.
to these remedies.
With the knowledge that I had acquired from the
many training courses, I was initially considering
preparing C potencies. It was Peter Bartel who con-
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The raw Materials
As of 1988, C potencies were prepared too. The
C3 triturates were diluted according to the direc-
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tions of Hahnemann (CD). Potencies from C4 to
C1000 were made by then manually succussing and
serially diluting at a ratio of one drop to one hundred drops in 7,5ml bottles which were made especially for this purpose. The globules were medicated directly with these liquid potencies: C6, C12,
C30, C200, C1000. Later on, the trituration was
continued up to C6 and then potentiated as a dilution according to the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of Germany (HAB).
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Acetic acid was distilled from wine vinegar. The mineral itself was chosen as a raw material for Calcium
fluoride. Graphites was prepared with a piece of
graphite from the Cumberland Museum in England
(CD). To gain the raw material for Hekla lava, I traveled to Iceland where the volcano Hekla is. Aloe soccotrina originates from the island Soqotra which lies
in the Indian Ocean south of Yemen. I did this journey full of adventure in the company of Dr J.
Wachsmut, who worked in Yemen for many years.
The raw materials were selected
Remedies that had originally
very carefully according to
found their way into therthe specifications in
apy in Hering’s and
“Hahnemann:
other prover’s
The Chronic
times were
Diseases,
prepared acVo l . 1 - 5
cording to
(CD)” and
the synthe“Hahnesising inmann: Mastructions
teria Medica
of Mr VenPura, Vol. 1-6
zago, a Swiss
(MMP)” and
chemist, in the
then freshly ground.
laboratory of the
These instructions
Atzelberg Pharmacy in
were also followed
Frankfurt which I was
when using fluids. In
running at that time.
Members of the Boenninghausen study group
this process one drop
on May 6th 1995
Every single remedy
was equated to one
has its own exciting
grain. We followed Hahnemann’s directions very
story to tell.
carefully in order to ensure an exact accordance
Upon application in 1990, I was issued an authoof the composition of the raw material to that of
risation for the production of remedies according
the first proving. The same impurities were supto Hahnemann’s working methods by the responposed to develop as they did in the compositions
sible supervisory authority in Darmstadt. I had
in his time. Phosphoric acid was prepared from
handed in this application with a precise descripcalcined white bone (CD). Kalium carbonicum
tion of Hahnemann’s methods together with copies
from purified tartar which was allowed to attract
from the original literature.
moisture from the air in a cellar after being brought
to a red heat (CD). Phosphorus was prepared by
triturating yellow phosphor with moistened lactose
(CD). The white vapour rising with phosphorescence green sparks in it, conveyed the eerie feeling
of being in a witches’ kitchen of the Middle Ages.
Move to Bavaria
In 1993 I relocated the production of remedies to
Stadtbergen into a building put up specifically for
this purpose. It was built according to the estab-
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lished laws and its construction was supervised by
software. The registrations and the corresponding
the governmental regulating authority. The civil
documentation papers of the remedies prepared
servants of the Bavarian regulation authority conevery day – even if it was merely a single one (as
firmed my authorisation for manufacturing from
always with 3 signatures) – now fill metres and
Hesse. By moving to Bavaria and producing rememetres of shelves in the office and also the cellar.
dies outside of the pharmacy, my business became
This dampens the optimism and enthusiasm about
a pharmaceutical company and was thus subject
working considerably, drives up the expenses and
to the corresponding laws. Due to the increasingly
turns a remedy producer into a paper producer…
stricter laws for pharmaceutical traders, the lab
A competing company attempted to invalidate my
equipment was continuously being changed. The
authorisation for the production of remedies which
adaptations to these guidelines demanded air
I subsequently lost after a 3-year lawsuit with the
cleaners at workplaces, air-conditioning, division
German health
into hygiene
authorities. I now
zones, further
have an authoridocumentation of
sation for the proall operational
duction of remeprocedures, redies according to
gular training
§13 of the Pharcourses for the
maceutical Law
staff members
(AMG13). In Gerand an overly
many a pharmacomplicated
cist may only sell
multitude of SOPs
his/her medi(Special Opercines if these are
ating Procedure
Gudjons Laboratory in Deuringen
prepared accord= exact descriping to the official
tion of all operations on the premises, including
pharmacopoeia, in my case the HAB.
cleaning and many, many signatures for every sinIt is the interests of the major pharmaceutical mangle step in the course of the production and the
ufacturers that become manifest in this official
packing of the remedies). An external advisor was
pharmacopoeia. Furthermore, this was written by
necessary in order to put all of this into practice.
pharmacists and not by homeopaths. As I had taken
In the long run, I employed an experienced conthe challenge upon myself of providing genuine
trol and production supervisor.
medicines that are prepared correctly (§§264Years passed by before all of the requirements were
265, “Organon of Medicine”, 6th Edition) it proved
put into practice. The laboratory needed approxto be a major balancing act in order to maintain
imately 25-30% more employees for the maintethe quality of the remedies.
nance of the required documentations, SOPs,
How can one replace ordinary kitchen salt, which
specifications of the starting materials and also the
was most likely rock salt in Hahnemann’s time, with
final products, the results of the analysis of all inchemically pure (!) NaCl (CD)? This is just one excoming materials, stability analysis of interstage and
ample of many. All previous complicated attempts
final products, as well as the stability of the remeto work according to our traditional classics now
dies after having opened the bottles, maintenance
not only belonged to the past, they were forbidden.
agreements and validation of equipment and used
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This fact dented my emotional body quite significantly, with results on physical parts of my humble self.
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with the remedy. A question and answer game with
the entity of the drug developed, whereby the answers appeared as pictures.
As of 1998, in the
Having initially
course of the
dealt with this in a
mad cow disease
completely natin Europe, a speural way, I sudcific registration
denly realised
for marketing
with a tremenwas required for
dous shock the
all of the remeextraordinary nadies that were
ture of this state of
prepared from
mind. “Was I
animals to which
ready for the
the nosodes also
loony bin?”
belong. ObtainThe entrance to Gudjons Laboratory
It was people like
ing a registration
Dr von Ungernfrom our governmental health authorities is anSternberg, Raimund Kastner and Dr Stübler to
other sizable and exorbitantly expensive chapter
whom I confessed this thought that I had to, who
that I would merely like to point out here.
comforted me with the words “everything is just
Triturations
fine, this is reality on a different level.” Nevertheless,
I didn’t speak about this issue in public for quite a few
years.
The optimal opening of the
raw materials is obtained
by trituration, as Hahnemann describes for examIn the daily process of tritple in §270 of his
urating remedies for gen“Organon of Medicine”,
eral use, an initial ritual act
6th Edition. The structures
of greeting came to be. This
of the coarse material are
included asking the entity of
released and transferred to
the remedy for assistance.
the chemically bound waMy greeting was a ray of
ter of the lactose in a myslove energy from my heart.
terious and inexplicable
I was able to see this in the
way. The materials disclose
meditative state whilst at
their secrets and the more
often this process is re- A paper warrior in Gudjons Laboratory work as well as seeing the
reaction of the entities and
peated, the more amplified
their
gifts
which
they
lay
into the mortar if I exand more subtle these patterns become.
pressed the desire. All of the entities responded
Quite to my surprise, I experienced several sympwith joy and gratitude.
toms with the first trituration of Mezereum menIt was this gratitude in particular which often
tioned above. At the same time I saw pictures like
moved me to tears.
in a daydream which appeared to be associated
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The result of these encounters is six files full of
notes and records of these triturations, as well as
those of the trituration courses offered for therapists who would like
to experience this
for themselves.
Till this day, I still
don’t really know
where the pictures
which become visible come from.
As I speak the name
of the drug aloud
when I begin a trituration, it may be
the energy field of
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the substance (an old secret of the alchemists
which can be learnt in Goethe’s “Faust”). Dr
Stübler assumed that biographical material also
has a share in this.
When triturating cancerous tissue, I discovered that my field
of consciousness or
the place of perception was not in the
region of my body.
Or my consciousness
was spatially extended. Maybe we
humans unite with
the field of ideas, as
Plato named it.
Gudjons Laboratory – view from the east
Footnotes
1. “The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine” by Dr Vasant Lad and Dr David Frawley – Lotus Light
Publications ISBN 81-208-1172-0
2. Heilpraktiker/Heilpraktikerin:
This is a training and title apparently unique to Germany. It
includes anatomy, physiology and pathology, as well as learning alternative methods of healing. A state examination has
to be passed prior to opening a “Heilpraktiker” practice.
A similar international equivalent might be: naturopath,
holistic healer, alternative or complementary practitioner.
3. “The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine” (see footnote one).
4. “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between
Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism” by Fritjof Capra
– Flamingo, ISBN-13: 978-0006544890
5. Bryonia: German homeopathic journal ZKH, 35th volume,
2nd issue, 1992, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg
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6. Murex: German homeopathic journal ZKH, 36th volume,
2nd issue, 1991, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg
7. Causticum: German homeopathic journal ZKH, 33rd volume,
2nd issue, 1989, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg
8. Hekla Lava: German homeopathic journal ZKH, 35th volume, 1st issue, 1993, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg
9. spider remedies: German homeopathic journal ZKH, 39th
volume, 5th issue, 1995, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg
10. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Haug Verlag,
Heidelberg (German homeopathic journal)
11. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Haug Verlag,
Heidelberg (German homeopathic journal)
12. HAB: Homöopathisches Arzneibuch
Pharmacopoeia of Germany)
(Homeopathic
13. AMG: Arzneimittelgesetz (Pharmaceutical Law)
J OURNEY
A RTICLE
INTO THE
BY
Marianne and the Desert
It was back in the years of her childhood that
Marianne Roth first started dreaming about the
desert and seeing infinite horizons in front of her
inner eye. Yet it was only in 1988 when she followed the desert’s call and travelled to the Sahara
for the first time, that she found out that these were
in fact pictures of reality ... and that she first met
people of the nomadic Tuareg tribes. In the passage of time she discovered that they shared what
could be called a kindred spirit.
D ESERT
B RITA G UDJONS
who initially didn’t put up any resistance. Through
the tenacity of the “knights” and the concentrated
forces of all medicine men, these battles were put
to an end in April 1995 and the independence of
the Tuareg was declared. Marianne, who was already supporting her friends with clothes and nutrition at this point in time, told me incredible stories about the days of this resistance movement.
Nowadays, the major threat to this culture is the infiltration by the so-called civilisation from all sides
of the desert and the increasing loss of self-confidence of the TuThese beautifully
areg people.
well-proporMany Tuareg lost
tioned, slender
their only repeople living in a
sources, namely
matriarchal way
all of their anigave her a touch
mals – their
of the time of
camels, their
chivalry with its
sheep and their
high ethics. On
goats – during the
her frequent
periods of
journeys, she
drought. Those of
formed close
them who therefriendships with
upon settled
Marianne and Adem
individual famidown in cities like
lies and in doing so experienced a metamorphoTamanrasset show a distinct change of character.
sis and deepening of her own values of her westThe Foundation in Iferouane
ern-oriented world view. In 2001 she married
and Homeopathy
Adem, the son of her friend and mentor, Tana – a
wise woman surrounded by the aura of a shaman.
Marianne’s desire to support her friends led to her
initiating the Foundation Iferouane and this came
The Tuareg
to be as follows: Marianne worked as a homeopath
The nomadic Tuareg people are the inhabitants and
in a tiny village in Switzerland with merely 500 inthe real masters of the Sahara. Politically speakhabitants. In the winter she organised camel caring, the territory of their caravan travels used to
avans to the Central Sahara (Air Massif and Hogextend over what is now Algeria, Libya, Mauritagar Mountains) for Europeans to give them an unnia, Mali and Niger. For a long time, yet particuderstanding of the transforming energy of the
larly since the establishment of borders between
desert, which she herself had learned to apprecithe individual countries and then especially in the
ate as such a beneficial experience. Nowadays, the
eighties and nineties, and mainly in Niger, there
Tuareg families don’t operate the trans-Saharan
were attempts to eradicate the nomadic and hence
trade in salt and other commodities anymore and
uncontrollable tribes and to slaughter the people
therefore only have limited possibilities for earn-
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ing their living. These families are supported with
the income from the camel caravans. Inevitably, she
treated the sick people homeopathically as well; initially her friends and later on also in a wider circle.
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“yes, all right then, next year we’ll really do it”.
So, this was the run-up story to our journey from
Geneva, Switzerland to Algiers, the capital of Algeria and then on to Tamanrasset, Algeria. Then three
days by off-road vehicles from Tamanrasset to Iferouane in Niger and at long last meeting the camel
caravan there in the Air Massif. From there, we travelled for 6 days with the camel caravan as guests
of Marianne’s Tuareg friends. Followed by 3 days
of rest in a beautiful valley and the preparation of
a homeopathic remedy together with Djumbo, the
marabout (title of a holy man) and I. Then another
6 days by camel, 3 days by jeep back to Tamanrasset and flight via Algiers back to Geneva.
For me personally, this turned out to be a very unusual journey in all respects.
The Scenery to the south of Tamanrasset all
One day, a medicine man named Zjumbo came to
her and said that he could see that she was planning to do something with his people which
seemed to be like a bridge between the countries
and the cultures and that since this was in his interest too, he really wanted to take active part in
it. At this point in time she didn’t have a clear plan
for a project, which – after the two of them had
exchanged many ideas – was later to become the
“Foundation Iferouane”. Besides that, he also asked
her about the healings with the homeopathic remedies, some of which he believed to be stronger than
those through his medicine.
Marianne had visited me at the beginning of the
nineties in order to purchase a well-assorted remedy kit. In the years after that, she would ask me
regularly if I would like to travel to the desert with
her. Of course I didn’t have the time for such an
unusual journey. Yet after having put her off with
the words “let’s see, maybe next year” time and
again for the best part of 10 years, in 2002 I replied
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around this trans-Saharan route was of such
solemn beauty and great variety that I soon had to
give up trying to remember everything. It flowed
in through my eyes reaching the very depth of my
spirit and in order not to drown therein, I could
merely keep quiet and let its charm unfold. At first,
there was fine yellow sand, flat as a table as far as
one could see, blue lakes with white islands and
Saharan landscape
gorgeous coastal forms, which disappeared like a
mirage upon coming nearer; groups of rocks in
the shapes of elephant families; bleak slopes with
dark stones that had been sharpened by the wind
jutting out here and there, as forbidding as a lunar landscape; ridges of accumulated rubble of
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round or egg-shaped weathered volcanic rocks
with diameters of up to five meters, for miles, for
hours; winding yellow dunes patterned with ripples made by the wind; mountain ridges with
monoliths shaped like dinosaurs above lovely vales,
Our desert “cars”
lightly powdered with fine white sand, sometimes
covered with huge gorse bushes or tufts of dry
grass, here and there an acacia with thorns like
barbed wire or merely crags and oblong weathered rock as far as the eye could see… The feeling for time vanished completely and became irrelevant. Together with the capacity for remembering it faded away and consciousness existed in
the scene of the present.
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The Encounter with the People of this
region, the light-skinned Tuareg, gave me the feeling of having been somewhere in outer space. Back
in my familiar surroundings, that which I experienced now feels almost unreal, like a beautifully
woven dream. The soul pattern, the spiritual sphere
or the matrix of these people is as if it were from
a different dimension. They are gentle and beautiful, like gazelles in their build and movement,
kind and helpful, knightly and somehow still rather
feminine, open, yes almost naïve to our way of
thinking and nevertheless wise. Of course I can
merely speak about those few whom I got to know.
There are entirely different reports about this ethnic group. Maybe it was the energy of the desert,
the surrounding area itself, which simply enchanted me. Furthermore it took me completely
by surprise to arrive in a sandy desert and to come
across people living out of doors who warmly gave
me a hand with their hearts wide open and who
thanked me for my remedies which had already
helped so many of them. People who just took me
by the hand and led the way through the dunes,
because my steps were heavy and I sank into the
sand, or for whatever reason. In any case this sur-
When we reached this trans-Saharan route, the full
moon was rising in the pale violet sky. Virtually at
the same time the glowing red blazing ball of the
sun was setting in the West. A most enchanting constellation which did however give way to a cold
north-easterly wind which lasted until the new
moon and which occasionally made sitting on the
back of a camel more like riding waves on a surfboard …
Icy cold nights with billions of stars, from which
at times, at least around December 16th, a streak
of light from a shooting star glowed downwards
every single minute.
Mother and baby camel
prised me so much, yes confused me so much, that
all I could do was to merely let it happen…
Nevertheless hot at noon and glisteningly bright,
sometimes with further sanding for man, camel
and luggage…
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Zjumbo, the Medicine Man
We 11 Europeans of the „homeopathy caravan“
met Zjumbo for the first time in Iferouane.
He welcomed us with a blue cloud of blossomy fragrance and burning incense in a circular clay building with a saucer dome. This unusual construction
had the most remarkable acoustics which lifted
everyone’s spirits beyond words. His welcoming gift
came together with a vague suggestion about there
being a connection between all individuals as knots
in a net of healing work on Earth.
Zjumbo
therefore not able to pass on his knowledge, because, as he holds, the quality of time is changing
everywhere on the Earth and something new is developing which is as yet not apparent for us. Older
people of their tribe are of the same opinion. They
have observed that children born nowadays don’t
have the determination and soul strength as it was
the case a generation ago. Zjumbo accompanied our
small caravan for 10 days with his caring and protective presence and only left us on the day after the
trituration of the remedy.
The Preparation of a Remedy
Orginally, the wish to prepare a remedy all together
as a group was expressed by Marianne and
Zjumbo.
Zjumbo
Zjumbo is a very tall, strong man. I’d say he is more
or less 6 foot 4 and he is surrounded by a golden
aura of caring devotion towards everything and
everybody. He is the 8th member of a continuous
line of medicine men in a family in which the
knowledge was passed from father to son. According to Marianne’s reports, this is an incredibly tough and demanding upbringing, especially
in the early days and it hardly leaves any space for
being a child. The line breaks off after him. He was
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Trituration tent
The trituration of a raw material from the desert
with the aim of disclosing its secrets was to be conducted as described in § 270 of Hahnemann’s
„Organon of Medicine, 6th Edition“. As you surely
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know, it has become a phenomenon of our time
that homeopaths triturate raw materials and collect the images and symptoms which surface, in
order to find out about the characteristics of the
material. In point of fact, there is no good reason
to have this kind of work sailing under the banner of homeopathy and I would simply call the
whole lot material research. Yet homeopaths in
particular have become aware of this method described in Hahnemann’s instructions for the prepa-
Triturating the camel milk
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wanted to take part in the trituration and as there
were only 15 mortars and pestles, the decision was
made to have one European working together with
one Tuareg in a defined pattern of time.
Marianne accompanied me to Zjumbos’ “dwelling”
– the shadow of an acacia – to translate our first
talk regarding the course of events.
So I told him, that I had read books written by various Indian shamans in the seventies. And that they
had described how important it was to ask the
plants for their permission to cut off anything, for
example of their leaves or of their roots and to also
ask them if they would be at disposal for the preparation of a remedy. From a wise old woman, Mrs
Dr von Ungern-Sternberg, I knew that the intention
whilst doing something is just as important for the
final product, as the deed itself. And then I went on
to say that since then I just proceeded as I had
learned from the sages. He moved his covered head
from one side to the other and said: “yes, that’s how
I do it too” and we both smiled contentedly.
ration of remedies and have discovered that – if
one “listens” carefully – there is quite a bit more
than meets the eye than merely the technique
…and they love to play therewith …
Several weeks before we arrived, Zjumbo had chosen (and blessed, as he said) a beautiful little valley, situated in the Air Massif. There, in the middle of the wilderness, a tent made of wattle was
put up up by a few Tuareg women. During this time
these women were taken care of by Zjumbo’s
friend Mömöttie, who also provided them with
water and food.
It was at sunset on the 17th December that we arrived in this vale covered with grass, imbedded between the eroding colossi of rocks of the surrounding mountains; the camel mare had already
joined our caravan with her baby on the day before. The following day was to be a day of rest for
most of the participants. A detailed planning for
the trituration was made. In addition to the Europeans and Zjumbo, now the Tuareg friends also
Camel milk
Whereas I had thought of doing research into one
of the medicinal plants from the Sahara, this being
the homeland of the Tuareg people, Marianne was
eager to triturate camel milk, because the camel plays
such a significant role in life of the desert nomads.
The way in which the milk from different animals
is dealt with in homeopathy nowadays has always
seemed kind of suspicious to me and I have a certain aversion towards this “fuss about milk”. After all, personal traits are not symptoms of a disease and therefore not treatable in a homeopathic
point of view …
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But then we agreed upon camel milk after all and
on the next morning first of all a smaller group of
us prepared a C1 together with Zjumbo. As already
mentioned, the next levels were each prepared together by one Targi and one of us. Each of us
recorded his/her symptoms and at the end we took
it in turns to give an
account of what we
had experienced,
felt or seen.
Before we left this valley, Zjumbo invited us to the
„tent“ at sunrise to bid us farewell.
up to the C3. This brought forth a deep loving-amicable closeness between us all and these two arms
of the “European race” (the Tuareg say they are
Europeans like us and that our races stem from
the same root).
He, Zjumbo, would like to pass on his knowledge
in a new form today: his energy would go out into
the world with us all; his strength would initiate a
transformation in us and therefore continue to act
indirectly. This revelation in its simple form moved
us all deeply and I understood it to be a call for
reporting about this, which I have hereby done.
He told us how pleased he was that we had prepared a remedy as a group. Our time spent together
had found special attention in the cosmos and he
had observed quite a few unusual things. On the
morning before
our work began, a
twosome of antelopes had come
What I found parto graze very close
ticularly moving
by to his domicile,
was the notes writcloser than he had
ten in Tifnagh, the
ever experienced
script of the Tuareg.
before. And in the
This consists of
night a fennec had
many small dots,
come to inspect
lines and circles
the tent in which
and makes it likely
we had worked.
that the Tuareg are
We should do well
descendants of the
in heeding the
people who left
omens of the anithese innumerable
mals. Due to her
old rock paintings
virtue of being able
behind.
to nourish, the
camel mare is a
We sat very close to
highly respected
each other, sweatanimal amongst
ing away in this
his people and this
small plaited conWalking in space
gave the remedy
struction built in
which
we prepared
the shape of an
together
an
increased
significance.
igloo and worked in a disciplined way in silence
The notes of the symptoms and pictures can be ordered from Anina Fux (address: Thal, CH-3453
Heimisbach, Tel.: (0041) (0)34 431 23 91) or
from the organisers of the camel caravans (Tel.:
(0041) (0)34 431 1686).
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When bidding farewell, he handed us “the best his
folk and the desert have to offer” in a bowl with
ground millet, dates and camel milk.
B. Gudjons
H OMEOPATHY IN P EDIATRICS AT THE
C HILDREN ’ S U NIVERSITY H OSPITAL IN M UNICH
A RTICLE
BY
D R M IRA D ORCSI -U LRICH , D R . S IGRID K RUSE
Vision
On a beautiful summers day in Munich 1994, Mathias Dorcsi and Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich asked themselves the question whether homeopathy could be
employed under clinical conditions in a Pediatric
Hospital.
In 1989 Mathias Dorcsi, founder of the Vienna
School of Homeopathy, had moved from Vienna to
Munich. His foremost aim was to integrate homeopathy into the
University as part
of an all-embracing medicine.
At this time, contact was made to
Prof. Hellbrügge
who was the director of the Children’s Centre for
Rehabilitation of
Munich University, pioneer in Social Pediatrics, who had introduced many innovative methods including preventive medical check-ups for children.
He had the idea to educate doctors in homeopathy. Mathias Dorcsi and Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich follwed up the idea and offered weekend courses in
homeopathy.
So from 1989 to1997 they had tought 160 physicians the fundamentals of Hahnemann’s homeopathy. Practice orientation was important and 300
patients were demonstrated to these “students”
during this time.
While teaching, Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich decided to let
homeopathic therapy be seen through the critical
eyes of clinical doctors and judged by scientific
standards.
She started looking for a suitable clinic in Munich,
in which the pediatricians were open, curious and
unprejudiced for this proposal. Having collaborated very well for the past ten years, she presented
the project at the Dr. von Hauners Children’s Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich,
one of the pace-setting clinics in Germany.
Realisation of the Project
In order to start a project, the following requirements were to be fullfilled:
1.) Development
of a trusting relationship to the
University Children’s Hospital.
This was achieved
by asking the
right question at
the right time:
“Would anything
speak against accepting homeopathic therapy experimentally in our clinic with the advantage
of an additionel doctor financed externally?”
2.) We found a suitable homeopathic doctor,
Sigrid Kruse, who had taken part in our weekend education sessions. Mathias Dorcsi and
Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich were the ideal team for supervision.
3.) The greatest obstacle was to find a sponsor to
finance the project: We succeeded in convincing the Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation which sponsored us for the first six
years. This foundation has the aim of integrating complementary medicine, especially
homeopathy, into clinical medicine.
So our vision began to be realised on April,
1st, 2007: Sigrid Kruse started as a medical doctor in a normal ward with the aim of qualifying as
a pediatric specialist.
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While getting acquainted with the situation, the
physicians and nurses at the hospital, the wise
words of Mathias Dorcsi were always on her mind:
”Don’t impose yourself upon them, wait till you are
called! And you will be called soon...”
the patient’s progress was the first big step in inspiring confidence for homeopathic remedies.
The first homeopathic Treatment
When and how
is Homeopathy applied in the
University Children’s Hospital?
After four weeks Prof Egger, neurologist, called for
Sigrid Kruse and asked whether homeopathy could
help in a difficult situation. A seven year old boy
with extreme psycho-motoric retardation at a developmental stage
of a new born
baby, was in hospital because of
extreme attacks
of crying and
screaming. The
situation was unbearable for the
child itself, the
mother and all
the other patients
in the room. Nobody could find rest and silence, especially at night.
After checking the child for any organic pathology
explaining these attacks, a detailed homeopathic
history brought us to the specific remedy.
The leading symptoms were as follows:
Sudden attacks of crying with overstretching
backwards
Sudden pain attacks (according to his mother)
Carrying around and shaking him eased the situation and made him more quiet
Symptoms much worse during the night
These symptoms lead to the conclusion that
Chamomilla C 30 could help. And certainly it did:
For the first time since weeks, the child slept
through the night!
This impressed the mother, nurses and doctors.
The unexpected reaction and positive influence on
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Cases such as this with similar astonishing results
helped reduce the initial rather sceptical attitude
towards this complementary treatment.
Homeopathy is now available to all wards of this
University Children’s Hospital.
First and foremost
is the desire or request for homeopathic treatment
by the pediatrician or the parents. This means
that outpatients as
well as inpatients
can receive additional homeopathic treatment on request.
First every child is medically examined and a diagnosis found. Then we decide which therapy or
combination of treatment would help the individual patient the most. In those cases in which
homeopathy is indicated, we differentiate between
acute and chronic disease.
Acute Cases are usually treated in the emergency
ward. The homeopathic remedy is chosen according to the “tried and tested” indication: local
symptoms, the modalities (what releaves the patient and what makes the symptoms worse) as well
as the behaviour of the patient during the acute
phases.
We have achieved good results in the following
acute disorders:
Feveral, viral infections such as rhinits, bronchitis, pharingitis, tracheitis, gastroenteritis, restless-
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ness in new born babies (teething, colics, flatulence,..), itching in chicken pox, insect bites, etc.
Chronic cases always require a complete homeopathic history which takes 1 to 2 hours. The patient is then examined thoroughly and a video is
taken. This supports supervision where our homeopathy team meets to find the remedy suitable for
this individual child in the specific situation. Supervision means repertorisation according to the
leading symptoms followed by the video which helps
determine constitution and diathesis of the patient as
a whole person.
The interest we
show for the individual child impressed the allopathic colleagues
and helped create
trust in homeopathy and our team.
We have seen
positive results in the complementary homeopathic
treatment of the following chronic conditions:
Allergies like neurodermatitis, hay fever, asthma,
susceptibility to infections like recurring otitis, infections of the urinary passage, bronchitis and others, migraine, tic, epilepsy, developmental retardation, restlessness.
Requests for homeopathic consultation come
mainly from the ward for babies, oncology, surgery
and our three intensive care units (neonatology,
pediatrics and pediatric surgery).
In the neonatology ward we had remarkable influence of the outcome of cerebral bleeding III degree. Furthermore, good results were achieved in
cases of restlessness due to colic and drug withdrawal syndrome. The side effects of chemotherapy and radiation in the oncology ward can be
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clearly relieved. During the past 12 years we are
increasingly called to the surgery ward because pain
and wound healing as well as anxieties after an accident or before and after surgery can be positively
influenced by a suitable homeopathic remedy.
Research on Homeopathy
After a few very positive outcomes in single cases,
the question arose, whether similar results could
be achieved under controlled conditions in a study.
Because the doctor-patient-relationship is usually
hampered by
these conditions,
we performed observational studies for the following disorders:
Enuresis, recurring urinary passage infections,
migraine, tic,
Prader-Willi-Syndrome, susceptibility to infections, third degree cerebral haemorrhage in premature and mature newborn babies,
drug withdrawal syndrome, stomatitis as a side effect of Methotrexate.
The results of these studies are promising but we
need to have more comparative studies.It is very
important to find a study design which respects
both homeopathic and scientific requirements.
Summary
During the past 12 years homeopathy has been successfully integrated into the University Children’s
Hospital of Munich.
This complementary method has become an accepted component of the possibilities for treatment
in finding the best therapy for the individual child.
In the year 2002 Sigrid Kruse was given an award
by the Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation for
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the first successful integration of homeopathy into
an university pediatric hospital.
• The synthetical way using the clinical signs and
phenomena of the disease
When the financial support of the Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation ran out after six years, we
searched for a new sponsor. Surprisingly, the health
care insurances AOK and TK jumped in and are
still financing two positions for a medical doctor
with education in homeopathy. This shows clearly,
that the optimal therapy for the little patients at the
University Children’s Hospital includes homeopathy, even in the eyes of the insurances.
• The analytical way using the repertorium
Homeopathy is
part of a wide
range of possibilities in finding the
best therapy for
the individual
child with the
least side effects
in this very specific situation.
Positive results in
many individuals
have demonstrated that homeopathy is an important option because it is predictable, observable
and repeatable.
Our guiding statements are:
• Meeting the patient as an individual in the detailed homeopathic history
• Deep knowledge of homeopathic remedies and
their action
• Personal commitment to the patient
• The young patient is the focus of our medical
actions and procedure.
In finding the best remedy for the individual patient in our daily work, we follow the guidelines
of Mathias Dorcsi, founder of the Vienna School
of Homeopathy:
• To understand the patient and his disease in order to find the suitable remedy for him
Whichever way we choose to take, the homeopathic
remedy itself is of utmost importance. This being,
like ourselves, part of creation to which we bow
down to in humble respect.
Plans for
the Future
Our team is dedicated to three
main aims:
• To further establish homeopathy in the Children’s Hospital
• To perform
well planned
studies at the university clinic in order to convince even the more
sceptical doctors of the value of this additional
means of therapy
• To have homeopathy accepted in children’s hospitals all over Germany as an integral part of
therapy.
In order to achieve these aims we need more
capacities and financial support. To encourage
private and company sponsoring we founded
GLObulus e.V., a registered association:
“Association for the Promotion of Medical Homeopathy in Pediatric Clinics”.
For more information please visit our website:
www.globulus.org
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China
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Niccolum
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Phosphorus
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Pilocarpinum
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Selenium
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Sepia
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Silicea
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Sol
Solanum lycopersicum
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continued from page 20
Case Study: “Little Ludwig”
the following happened: the child became stable,
the distension of the fontanel decreased and reOn the 2nd of April 2001 little Ludwig was transturned to normal, the dramatic growth of the head
ferred to our neonatology intensive care unit at the
became slower. So the signs of acute brain presDr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital. Prematurly
sure disappeared. The shunt-operation could be
born in the 29th week of pregnancy as a twin, he
cancelled.
was now almost 4 weeks old. On the 4th day of his
life he had developed 3rd degree intracerebral
The next remedy following Arnica was the Black
haemorrhage. During the further course of his illWidow, Latrodectus mactans C12, 2x3 globuli per
ness, posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus with sigday for six weeks. Knowledge of the toxicology of this
nificant extension of the ventricles was diagnosed.
spider shows the close relationship to blood clotThere were imting. Ludwig
portant, critical
Sonography of the brain
was often restsymptoms
less and his
which signalsleep suddenly
ized that immeinterrupted by
diate action was
startled alertnecessary: disness. These are
tension of the
leading sympfontanel, bradytoms typical for
cardia during
Latrodectus
For comparison:
Clearly dilated ventricles
drinking and
mactans.
normal feature
on both sides
dramatically inThe child becreasing head circumference of 1cm per day. Norcame
more
and
more
stable,
began
to drink and
mally we need surgical intervention to reduce the
could
go
home
together
with
his
twin
brother
Axel,
brain pressure by implanting a ventriculoperitoneal
one
week
before
reaching
the
calculated
day
of
shunt. Everything was prepared for the operation
birth.
To
support
his
development,
Ludwig
was
while parallel to this, Sigrid Kruse was requested
given Christmas rose, Helleborus niger C6, as a folfor a homeopathic consultation because of the poslow-up remedy, 3x3 globuli per day for eight
itive experience with similar cases in the past.
weeks. In our experience Helleborus has shown
In this threatening situation the despaired parents
to be a very important remedy in children with deagreed thankfully to a complementary homeolayed response time, as well as retarded physical
pathic treatment. We took a very detailed history
and mental development.
and decided that the most suitable remedy was ArAt the age of corrected 8 months Ludwig and his
nica, which had proved in the past to be very helpbrother Axel were judged as very normally develful in internal bleeding, especially in intracerebral
oped children. At the age of 13 months they started
haemorrhage. Arnica is expected to support reto walk, discovering their environment and chatsorption of the intracerebral haemorrhage. Ludting happily the whole day long...
wig was given Arnica C200 on three following days
additional to intensive medical care. Unexpectedly
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The Homeopathy Team at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Munich
Dr Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich, pediatrician
Dr Sigrid Kruse, pediatrician
Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich was born
1943 in Calcutta, India, and
studied medicine in Tübingen,
Germany. She has been practising pediatrics since 1973, in her
own practice in Munich offering
homeopathy since 1983. Her vision of the integration of homeopathy into university pediatrics was initiated in 1995 with
the project “Homeopathy in Pediatrics” and has in the
meantime been accomplished in the Children’s University Hospital, Munich. She is clearly a follower of the Vienna School of Homeopathy. She is actively involved in
the supervision of the patients treated by the project team
at the Children’s University Hospital.
Sigrid Kruse was born 1965 in
Sindelfingen, Germany and studied medicine in Tübingen. The
PHD (doctoral thesis) was
aquired by a study on conventional treatment versus homeopathic treatment in acute otitis
media in children. She was
trained in homeopathy especially by Prof. Mathias Dorcsi.
Since 1995 she leads the Department of Homeopathy in
the Children’s University Hospital Munich. Sigrid Kruse received an award by the Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation in the year 2002 for the first successful integration
of homeopathy into an University Pediatric Hospital.
Dr Katharina Adam
Prof Dr Mathias Dorcsi, (1923 – 2001)
Prof. Dr. Mathias Dorcsi founded
the Vienna School of Homeopathy and was Primarius of the department of physical therapy in
the Hietzing Hospital in Vienna.
He introduced homeopathic
therapy into several hospitals
and outdoor wards in Vienna.
He was invited to start research on homeopathy and on
this behalf he was presented an award by the LudwigBoltzmann-Institut. 1975-1989 he initiated and led the
so-called “intensive” courses in Homeopathy in Baden
near Vienna. Since 1985 he had a chair for Homeopathy in the Medical Faculty of Vienna where he regularly
held lectures for medical students. In 1989 he came to
Munich. 1995 – 2001 he supervised the project “Homeopathy in Pediatrics” in the Children’s University Hospital Munich.
Katharina Adam was born in
1978 in Oeventrop, Germany and
studied medicine in Greifswald.
Her PHD (doctoral thesis) was
on the benefit of crisis intervention. Since 2005 she is part of
our team “Homeopathy in Pediatrics” at the Children’s University Hospital Munich while qualifying as a specialist
for children. In the first year she was in the Department
of Pediatric Oncology, now she is in the Neonatological
Intensive Care Unit.
Stefanie Schetzek
Stefanie Schetzek was born in
1979 in Berlin, Germany and
studied medicine in Berlin and
Munich. During her medical
studies she was actively engaged
in organising homeopathy seminars for medical students.
Since 2006 she is part of our
team “Homeopathy in Pediatrics” in the Department of
Pediatric Oncology in the Children’s University Hospital
Munich during her education to pediatritian.
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I NTERNATIONAL S YMPOSIUM
“H OMEOPATHY IN CLINIC , PRACTICE AND RESEARCH ”
AT THE C HILDREN ’ S U NIVERSITY H OSPITAL IN M UNICH
very year in autumn the International Symposium “Homeopathy in clinic, practice and
research” takes place in the Children’s University
Hospital in Munich, organised by the children’s hospital and the registered association GLObulus e.V.:
(“Association for the Promotion of Medical
Homeopathy in Pediatric Clinics”).
E
The aims of the Symposium are the international
exchange of experience and the presentation of
new results of research in homeopathy and their
discussion.
The first International Symposium took place in
2002 in memoriam of Prof. Dr. Mathias Dorcsi,
the second in honour of Dr. Veronica Carstens
(Main topic: Neurology). Since the third symposium the dialogue between conventional and
homeopathic medicine is in the centre of our interest. The aim is to encourage communication between homeopathic and allopathic medical doctors. We would like more acceptance of homeo-
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pathy and its applications, particularly in other
children’s hospitals for the best possible treatment
of each single ill child.
We invite you to visit our website: www.globulus.org
for more information on our project and for the
abstracts of the past five symposiums.
Dr Mira Dorcsi-Ulrich
Benderstrasse 7
D-81247 München
e-mail: mira_dorcsi@yahoo.de
Dr Sigrid Kruse
Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Lindwurmstrasse 4
D-80337 München
e-mail: sigrid.kruse@med.uni-muenchen.de
ON THE
A RTICLE
B ACKGROUND I NFORMATION
H ISTORY OF A MERICAN H OMEOPATHY
AND ITS I NSTITUTIONS
BY
DR
MED
DR
PHIL
Introduction
Examining the reasons for the spreading of healing systems (including their personal and institutional infrastructure) brings up a question that unto
this date no science department has been able to
answer satisfactorily. Neither statistic proofs of efficacy nor philosophical
syllogisms alone suffice,
nor sociological, economical, psychological
or similar points of
view, to fully understand
why homeopathy in the
US for example witnessed such a powerful
rise in the 19th century
followed by such a dramatic fall in the 20th
century.
J OSEF M. S CHMIDT, PD
asscociations, a free medical market and interested
pharmaceutical companies and editors were not
always and everywhere available to the same extent. Varying national configurations of factors like
these resulted in an amazing time difference regarding the respective institutionalisation of homeopathy (in form of societies, training centres,
hospitals, pharmacies,
journals and text
books), the professionalisation of homeopathic doctors (including their relations
towards practicing
homeopathic laymen)
or official recognition.
The history of homeopathy and its institutions in the US is in so
A comparative study of
far something special
its history shows that
as the seed of homeothe spreading of homepathic medicine – havopathic medicine
ing travelled over the
founded by HahneAtlantic in the 1820s –
mann and left to us in
produced the most imcanonical form
pressive fruit world(Organon of the Art of
wide until the end of the
Healing) took place in
19th century in the soThe Allentown Academy, approx.1900
very different ways accalled land of unlimited
(first
homeopathic
school
in
the
US,
cording to the cultural,
opportunities. In 1898
founded 1835)
scientific, religious, pothe US listed around 20
litical, economic and
homeopathic colleges, 140 homeopathic hospitals,
other basic conditions in each country and period.
57 homeopathic dispensaries, 9 national, 33 state
No universal pattern of a seemingly linear world
and 85 local homeopathic societies and 31 homehistory of homeopathy can therefore be deteropathic journals.
mined. Although the arguments of advocates and
This story of success, until then unsurpassed, could
critics with regard to the contents always remained
only be noted by European homeopaths from afar
the same, charismatic doctor-personalities, benewith amazement and presumably with some envy
volent rulers and patrons, politically active patient
as well.
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B ACKGROUND I NFORMATION
H ISTORY OF A MERICAN H OMEOPATHY
AND ITS I NSTITUTIONS
Meanwhile the direction of the appreciating eye has
again switched sides, presumably. Compared to the
small number of around 100 nationally organised
American homeopathic doctors today (in the AIH),
homeopathy in Europe, in Germany in particular,
has slowly reached a more stable status in the long
term (German Central Association of homeopathic
Physicians, supplementary title by the State Medical License Board, integral part of the medical license law, etc.)
In founding their first national organisation, the
American Institute of Homeopathy (1844), homeopathic doctors were even quicker than their colleagues of regular medicine who only joined in 1847
to form the American Medical Association (AMA)
– as a reaction to homeopathic competition.
The main reason for founding the AMA was, on the
one hand, to regain – by introducing new standards
of education – the respect conventional doctors had
lost with the people, yet on the other, to demarcate
themselves from
The Medical
homeopathic
Market
doctors with
in the 19th
whom they were
Century
henceforth not allowed to cooperThe perspective
ate (consultation
of the medical
clause, code of
market – as one
ethics). These
aspect among
politics of exclumany – is a suitsion on the part of
able lead-in to
the complex and
regular medicine,
Hahnemann Hospital – Buffalo, N.Y.
multifacetted
however, favoured
topic of the rise and fall of homeopathy in the US
the spreading of h o m e o p a t h y rather than
(as a background for understanding the appearharmed it. It helped homeopathic doctors to a corance and disappearance of several stupendous
porate (heterodox) identity and to support by a
homeopathic hospitals). From this perspective,
great part of the population.
homeopathy in the US at the beginning of the 19th
Given the liberal American conditions in the midcentury had by far the best chances for a good start:
dle of the 19th century, regular medicine – failing
registration law for doctors had been eliminated
to produce neither better cures nor a scientific bain the antimonopolistic spirit of the Andrew Jacksis for its treatment nor enjoying any national privson era henceforth allowing „irregular“ healers to
ileges – seemingly was not able to come up with
offer their treamtents on a legal basis. This regional
anything better against homeopathic competition
advantage created by politics enabled American
than this questionable form of political fight.
homeopathic doctors to establish their own sociHowever, when the first city hospitals were estabeties, colleges and later on hospitals from the very
lished in the second half of the 19th century and
start, instead of having to undergo painstaking endeavours – mostly to no avail – to obtain the recoghomeopaths demanded equal rights for filling the
nition of nationally sanctioned Offices of Health, as
wards, the joint defensive action of „regular“ docwas the case in Europe.
tors proved efficient. Although most town admin-
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B ACKGROUND I NFORMATION
H ISTORY OF A MERICAN H OMEOPATHY
AND ITS I NSTITUTIONS
istrations agreed to assign about a fourth of the
wards to homeopathic doctors, regular doctors
managed to prevent these concessions with a threat
of boycott until 1880 approximately.
lem of how to preserve its identity in a world lacking the „heroic“ medicine, from which it had been
able to strongly demarcate itself in former days,
even more so as rigidly holding to dogmas in times
of scientific discoveries did not seem to bear any
future prospects.
At that time state universities supported by tax
money showed up as a second battlefield between
On the one hand this dilemma resulted in the founhomeopathy and regular medicine. For a long time,
dation of the International Hahnemannian Assoregular professors refused to continue teaching
ciation (IHA) in 1881, with which the purists
students attending supplementary courses given by
among homeopaths distanced themselves from
homeopaths, as this would have sufficed for betheir eclectic coling accused by
leagues. On the
the AMA of violatother hand, the
ing the code of
tendency of a
ethics. In fact,
number of reguprofessors in
lar doctors to indanger of being
terpret the ban on
expelled in the
cooperation with
end had to defend
their homeothemselves before
pathic colleagues
the AMA court of
more and more
arbitration with
laxly, led to a
arguments such
Homeopathic Hospital, Iowa City, Ia
split in regular
as the following:
medical profession in 1882 – it was only in 1903,
not even the church punished representatives of
after the old code of ethics of 1847 had been rea religious dogma for occasionally also preaching
vised, that they reunited.
to incidentally present unbelievers.
The last decades of the 19th century even witnessed
In the second half of the 19th century the two meda downright cooperation between regular and
ical schools, existing apart from one another and
homeopathic doctors – concerning the joint defighting against each other, gradually came closer.
marcation from new medicinal „sects“ such as osRegular medicine dropped its heroic treatments of
teopaths, chiropractors, Christian Science and othpast decades and increasingly prescribed single
ers. It was agreed that a doctor’s license should
remedies as well as lower medicinal doses and achenceforth only be granted to a person who had
cepted a great number of substances from the
passed an examination by certain (mixed or sephomeopathic Materia Medica for their own mediarate) boards made up of regular, homeopathic
cine cabinets. On the other hand, more and more
and eclectic doctors exclusively.
homeopaths often turned to the same regular patent
Already since the middle of the 19th century the inmedicines of unknown content in an empiric and
terest of the numerous private colleges in training
eclectic way as their „allopathic“ colleagues.
as many (paying) students as possible clashed with
After the 1870s the homeopathic medical profesthe interest of the medical profession to limit the
sion therefore saw itself confronted with the probnumber of doctors and to standardise the training.
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With this continuous stalemate the level of medical education remained alarmingly low for a long
time. Finally, around the end of the century, the following joint objectives crystallised in medical societies, license boards and a leading block of colleges: Raising of admission requirements, specification of curricula, closing of the financially weakest private schools and a reduction in the number
of graduates.
ical colleges (166 colleges in 1904) to 31. At the
same time „The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching“ conducted a complementary study. The results published by Abraham
Flexner in 1910 (Flexner Report) produced farreaching consequences.
Due to the newly determined standard based on
the model of Johns Hopkins Medical School (established in 1893) the majority of existing colleges
henceforth lost their right to exist. Apparently 20
The Reform
schools even
of Medical
closed before the
Education
report was published to avoid
in the 20th
being mentioned
Century
at all. Further 92
The nationwide
schools merged
reform movement
with others or for
of medical educaever closed their
tion that followed
doors between
was mostly
Homeopathic Hospital – Ann Arbor, Michigan
1904 and 1915
favoured by the
facing the disexpansion of the cities, the growth of communicrepancy between the new standards and their fication means and the impression left by the scinancial options – among them many homeopathic
entific success of medicine in Germany and France
colleges and almost all „black“ colleges. Since no
where there were considerably less medicinal facpossible role for smaller colleges was considered,
ulties, yet considerably more fulltime professors.
practically all financial means were focused on the
Financially the reform became possible thanks to
extension of the big renowned universities. Almajor foundations of American philanthropists
though fund contributions were reduced during
emerging a the turn of the century, the most imthe Great Depression the modern structure of big,
portant being the Carnegie Foundation (1906) and
well equipped medical centres had been irrevothe Rockefeller Foundation (1913). While e. g. all
cably established by then.
medical colleges together owned around US$
In spite of the fact that John D. Rockefeller senior
500.000 in 1891, in contrast, nine foundations dounderwent homeopathic treatment and explicitly
nated alone US$ 150 million to medical institutes
stated in his letters that homeopathic colleges
between 1903 and 1934.
should continue existing, his son together with his
From 1906 to 1907 the „AMA Council on Medical
consultants Starr J. Murphy and Frederick T. Gates
Education“ had their representatives and those of
distributed the millions of the foundation in such
the license offices visit individual colleges and rank
a way that not a single homeopathic college was
them into quality classes. This was based on the
favoured. A total of approximately US$ 600 mildeclared objective to reduce the number of med-
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lion went into the reform of regular medical colleges until 1960. In contrast, the means of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia amounted
to a total of US$ 325.000 in 1921 and those of the
Hahnemann College of Chicago to US$ 537.000.
Both were the homeopathic colleges that lasted the
longest.
and the option of establishing smaller medical colleges.
Politics that the AMA also had an influence on determined the course for medicine of the 20th century. It is marked by an increasing specialisation,
high-tech medicine, an emphasis on palliative and
emergency medicine, an interlacing with the pharmaceutical-technical industry, governmental subsidies, international options of standardisation and
last not least a strict time economy that is reflected
in the relatively low fees for medical conversation.
The one-sided orientation towards a unified medicine that is taught in ever bigger hospitals neglects
to consider the necessity of alternative approaches
Retrospectively, due to the poor sources, it is hard
to determine in how far the numerous hospitals
managed by homeopathic doctors and societies actually deserved the term „homeopathic“ in those
days of syncretism and eclecticism. Given the fact
that even today in times of gold standards, guidelines and quality controls genuine puristic homeopathy is by no means the only treatment in all hospitals and offices that call themselves homeopathic,
a certain restraint in one’s opinion seems to be appropriate.
Homeopathic Hospitals
These are more or less the big lines constituting
the setting for the rise and fall of homeopathy and
its institutions in the US. Besides the relatively trouble-free, unbureaucratic establishment of homeCritics of the political decisions of those days toopathic societies, journals, colleges and hospitals
day speak of an „anti-homeopathic bias“ in the
during the entire 19th century, the growing closeFlexner Report. In their opinion the criteria of the
ness of both
then constituted
schools, particumedical stanlarly from the
dards put in par1880s onwards,
ticular homeohad enabled
pathic colleges at
homeopaths to
a disadvantage
send graduates
and that Flexner
from homeohimself openly
pathic colleges to
took sides against
city hospitals (or
homeopathy in
Homeopathic Hospital – Rochester, N.Y.
individual
his report which
wards), enter millater served as a
itary service or work in mixed license boards. Apart
guideline for foundations in their decisions refrom a few exceptions regular and homeopathic
garding the support deserved by individual procolleges offered a fairly comparable education
jects. Out of 22 homeopathic colleges in 1900, 10
(leaving a great deal to be desired in both), eswere left in 1913, 5 in 1919, and 2 in 1923 – both
pecially as the subject matter solely differed in rewere to stop their courses in homeopathy within
gards to homeopathic therapeutics and materia
the next decades to come. The last homeopathic
medica.
diploma was issued in Philadelphia in 1950.
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Florence Ward may serve as an example of a seemingly „typical“ homeopathic carreer at the turn of
the century. She graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in San Francisco in 1887 and after several postgraduate studies in Europe opened her
own Florence Ward Sanatorium in San Francisco
as a surgeon in 1911.
as non-material support they closed their doors
or merged with regular medical institutions – usually on condition that the „sectarian“ term „homeopathic“ was dismissed.
One of the longest lasting „homeopathic“ hospitals for example was the Hahnemann Hospital in
San Francisco. It managed to keep its name in spite
Although she was regarded as a homeopath all her
of merging with the University of California in 1918.
life and was even elected first female vice president
In 1975 it was renamed Marshal Hale Memorial
of the AIH, strangely enough not one of the many
Hospital in honour of the sponsor of the third new
clinical articles
building. In 1988
she published in
it merged with
homeopathic
the neighbouring
journals, contains
Children’s Hospia reference to a
tal which again
homeopathic prejoined the Presscription nor to
byterian Hospital
homeopathy itself.
in 1991 to form
It is most probatoday’s California
ble that this extraPacific Medical
ordinary woman
Center. Homeoand threefold
pathy has ceased
Homeopathic Hospital – Rochester, N.Y.
mother who beto be practiced
came Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
there since many decades.
in 1915 was primarily geared towards the carreer
as a surgeon and only completed the compulsory
Outlook
four years of medical school at a homeopathic colInspite of the fact that all important institutions and
lege because women did not have many alternabuildings have disappeared, homeopathy contintives to turn to in those days. At least her later pracues to be alive in the US, although in reduced form
tical-therapeutic work did not seem to differ much
and in different ways. In order to prevent a comfrom that of her „regular“ colleagues – and if so
plete disappearance of homeopathy Julia M. Green
– only marginally.
established the American Foundation of Homeopathy in 1921, together with a group of homeThe contrast between regular and homeopathic inopaths working with high potencies. Its major aim
stitutions became more and more blurred due to
was the organization of postgraduate homeopathic
the increasing approximation of the subject mattraining for allopathic doctors. However, as she
ters of its colleges and the reglementation of techalso agreed to include laymen, the AIH refused to
nical standards in hospitals. Thus fate would have
cooperate and the demand on the part of the docit that homeopathic hospitals experienced the same
tors she had hoped for did not arise.
downfall as the homeopathic colleges after the
Flexner Report (1910). In lack of material as well
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When homeopathy reachedi ts bottom in the midin Berkeley/California in the 1970s which – due to
dle of the 20th century, in 1959 the IHA rejoined
several intermediate stages of fragmentation among
the AIH after having split off the parent organisahis students – led on to a general debate on hometion in 1881. Meanwhile homeopathic colleges had
opathy. Reflecting our modern times it generated
vanished from the
new sources in
medical scene
the internet
and even at the
(www.grundlafew state universigen-praxis.de).
ties, where chairs
In this respect the
for homeopathic
history of homelectures had been
opathy has not
established for
come to an end
some time, most
for a long time
students lost their
yet.
interest. When it
became clear that
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he following – presumably incomplete – list
may give a first impression of the multitude
of homeopathic hospitals that were established
in the US at the end of the 19th century. It was
then that American homeopathy was at its peak
and as popular with patients as orthodox medicine, as respected – or even preferred.
T
American homeopathy began with the Danish doctor Hans Burch Gram (1788-1840) who came to
It was not only due to the initiative of doctors that
these hospitals were established – T. F. Allen (18371902) for example strongly supported the Laura
Franklin Free Hospital for Children – but also nonprofessional and women movements promoted the
building of hospitals as well as numerous private
donations that often included property or equipment. Apart from general hospitals special clinics
for gynaecology, surgery, paediatrics and ophtalmology were founded.
Homeopathic Hospital – Rochester, N.Y.
New York City in 1825. Soon students had gathered around him and further homeopathic doctors from Europe followed so that homeopathy was
able to spread out quickly. It was during the cholera
epidemic of 1832 that the first homeopathic hospital was established in Philadelphia. However, as
soon as the epidemic was over, it closed again.
There was still some time to go until most of the
homeopathic hospitals would open their doors.
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Sometimes the realisation of this form of hospital
met with resistance. Thus the decision to establish
the Westboro Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane
was made in 1815, but it was not until 1886 that
it opened its doors.
Some of the homeopathic training centres affiliated with hospitals such as the Hahnemann Medical College with the Hospital of Philadelphia, the
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Hospital of Baltimore, the New York Homeopathic
Medical College with its Hospital, the Southwestern Homeopathic Medical College with the Hospital in Louisville and the Hering Medical College
with the Hospital in Philadelphia. Many hospitals
had so-called „Training Schools for Nurses“. In
general, the hospital was managed by a „Board of
Trustees“, consisting of doctors, in many cases.
pathic Hospital in New Jersey or the Cook County
Hospital in Illinois. With the downfall of American
homeopathy at the beginning of the 20th century,
however, the reverse case was more apparent.
Thus, the Hahnemann University Hospital today still
exists in Philadelphia, yet it is no longer a homeopathic hospital but merely carries a name indicating its former orientation.
The number of beds ranged from a few to up to
800 in the Ward’s Island Hospital.
The following survey shows the clinics listed according to states with the year referring to the opening date. Double entry of hospitals cannot be ruled
out as names in the sources often appear twisted
and fail to disclose whether they refer to the same
hospital or to different institutions. In some cases,
the opening year of the hospital could not be determined.
The New York State Asylum for the Insane in
Middletown even reported 2.046 beds in 1912.
Some of the hospitals were established as traditional allopathic hospitals and then converted into
homeopathic clinics, such as the Passaic Homeo-
Alaska
SIKITA MISSION HOSPITAL: 1890
Colorado
ARAPAHOE COUNTY JAIL AND POOR HOUSE HOSPITAL: 1871 (hospital: opened 1871, homeopathic hospital
in 1881 and from 1883-1884)
DENVER HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1898
SICK BABIE’S SUMMER HOSPITAL, Denver
Conneticut
ELMCROFT, Enfield: 1890
DR GIVEN’S SANITARIUM: 1891
GRACE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, New Haven: 1892 under construction and inaugurated
CREST VIEW SANATORIUM, Greenwich: 1894
GREY TOWERS, Stamford
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Delaware
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF DELAWARE: 1888
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, WILMINGTON: 1888
Homeopathic Hospital – Wilmington, Del.
District of Columbia
NATIONAL HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: 1884
Florida
HOMEOPATHIC DEPARTMENT OF ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL, Jacksonville: 1878, closed 1888-1889
Illinois
CHICAGO HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1854-1857
CHICAGO CITY HOSPITAL: 1857, planned as homeopathic hospital, but was taken over by the US army
SCAMMON HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO later THE HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: 1870
JOILET STATE PENITENTIARY HOSPITAL: 1878, was converted into an allopathic hospital shortly afterwards
CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL: 1882
CHICAGO SURGICAL INSTITUTE: 1884, 1885, only existed for a short time
SOUTH SIDE HOME, Chicago: 1885, only existed for 3 years
STREETER’S HOSPITAL, Chicago: 1888
STREETER’S PRIVATE HOSPITAL: 1890
BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: 1891
WEST CHICAGO SANITARIUM, Chicago: 1892
SKILE’S ORIFICIAL SANITARIUM, Chicago: 1893
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THE WORLD’S FAIR HOMEOPATHIC EMERCENCY HOSPITAL: 1893
ILLINOIS WESTERN HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, Watertown: 1898
CHICAGO HOMEOPATHIC COLLEGE
FRANCES WILLARD HOSPITAL
THE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL
Indiana
O.S. RUNNEL’S PRIVATE HOSPITAL, Indianapolis: 1891
Iowa
WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HOSPITAL, Council: 1883
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL OF IOWA CITY: 1886
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City: 1887
ST. BERNHARD’S HOSPITAL, Council Bluffs: 1888
DES MOINES HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY: 1891, existed for a few months
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Iowa City
California
NEVADA CITY HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1854-1862
SAN FRANCISCO HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1881, was closed between1884-1885
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL OF SAN FRANCISCO: 1887-1890
PHOEBE HEARST COTTAGE HOSPITAL: was meant to be a children’s hospital
SAN FRANCISCO SURGICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: 1872, existed for a short time
HOSPITAL OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN, San Diego: 1889
OAKLAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION, later THE FABIOLA HOSPITAL: 1876
STATE REFORM SCHOOL HOSPITAL, Los Angeles: 1891
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL: 1891
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: the site for the hospital was aquired in 1891
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STATE ASYLUM FOR INSANE AND INEBRIATES, Patton: 1893
HOMOEOPATHIC SANITARIUM, San Francisco: 1896.
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL, San Francisco
Kansas
KANSAS SURGICAL HOSPITAL OF TOPEKA: 1882
WICHITA HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1889
KANSAS CITY HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1889
Kenntucky
SOUTHWESTERN HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL: 1895
Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: the site was aquired in1892
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Maine
MAINE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1891
Maryland
CARROLL SPRINGS SANITARIUM, Forest Glenn: 1887
MARYLAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Baltimore: 1890
MARYLAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Baltimore: 1890
BALTIMORE HOMOEOPATHIC SANITARIUM, Baltimore: 1893
DR IRVING MILLER’S SANITARIUM, Baltimore: 1895
DR BARNARD’S PRIVATE SANITARIUM, Baltimore: 1897
Hahnemann Hospital – Worcester, Mass.
Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Boston: 1871
NEWTON COTTAGE HOSPITAL: 1886
WESTBORO HOMOEOPATHIC ASYLUM FOR INSANE: 1886
BOOTHBY SURGICAL HOSPITAL, Boston: 1889
MORTON HOSPITAL: 1889
MALDEN HOSPITAL, Malden: 1890
QUINCY HOSPITAL,Quincy: 1890
RUFUS S. FOREST GENERAL HOSPITAL, Chelsea: 1890
BOOTHBY’S HOSPITAL, Boston: 1891
SOMERVILLE HOSPITAL, Somerville: 1891
NEWTON NERVINE, Newton: 1892
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NEWBURYPORT HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1893
WORCESTER HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1893
LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL, Lowell: 1893
NEWTON SANITARIUM, Newton: 1894
FRAMINGHAM NERVINE, Framingham: 1896
MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTIVES AND TUBERCULAR DISEASES, Rutland: 1898
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Newburryport
WORCESTER HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL
MURDOCH’S FREE SURGICAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN
HAMPDEN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, SPRINGFIELD
Michigan
HOSPITAL OF THE MICHIGAN STATE PRISON: 1859-1862, homeopathic hospital between 1872-1876
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: 1878
DETROIT FREE HOSPITAL (GRACE HOSPITAL, primarily THE MCMILLAN AND NEWBERRY FREE HOSPITAL): 1888
HOSPITAL OF THE GRAND RAPIDS UNION BENEVOLENT HOME: 1891
REED CITY SANITARIUM, Reed City: 1895
HOMOEOPATHIC CLINICAL HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Homeopathic Hospital – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Minnesota
STILLWATER HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1881
THE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF MINNEAPOLIS: 1883
MATERNITY HOSPITAL, Minneapolis: 1886
ST. PAUL HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1887
STATE HOSPITAL, Fergus Falls: 1890
MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE: 1890
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Mississippi
MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSPITAL AT NATCHES: from 1854 on, only existed for a short time
Missouri
PROTESTANT HOSPITAL OF ST.LOUIS later GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF ST.LOUIS: 1857
CALVARY BUREAU HOSPITAL, St. Louis or POST HOSPITAL, BENTON BARRACKS HOSPITAL: 1864, only existed only for a short time
ORTHOPRAXIC INSTITUTE, ST. LOUIS: 1878, only existed for a short time
ST. LOUIS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: 1880
THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, ST. LOUIS: 1880
KANSAS CITY HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1889
WOMAN’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF MISSOURI: 1891
THE WOMEN’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF ST. LOUIS: 1891
THE FREE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF ST. LOUIS: 1896
THE STATE ASYLUM FOR INSANE AT FULTON: 1897-1901, was run as an allopathic institute
THE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL OF KANSAS CITY: 1900
Montana
DR BLACKBURN’S HOSPITAL, Butte: 1892
New Jersey
WEST NEW JERSEY HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Camden: 1877
PLAINFIELD SANITARIUM, Plainfield: 1879
CAMDEN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION: 1885-1890
TRENTON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Trenton: 1888
TRENTON CITY HOSPITAL: 1889
THE WILLIAM MCKINLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Trenton: 1889
BROOKSIDE RETREAT, Plainfield: 1889
ST. MARY’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Passaic: 1895
WEST JERSEY HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1892, formerly THE CAMDEN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL
AND DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION
THE PASSAIC HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1897
THE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF ESSEX COUNTY, Roseville: 1903
HAGENSACK HOSPITAL
New York
HOSPITAL OF THE PROTESTANT HALF-ORPHAN ASYLUM, New York: 1835, homeopathic hospital as of 1847
HOSPITAL OF THE AUBURN STATE PRISON: 1840, homeopathic hospital for a short time
BROOKLYN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL later THE BROOKLYN HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL: 1852
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: 1852
NEW YORK OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL: 1852, homeopathic hospital since 1867
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF THE FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY: 1856
LAIDSLAW’S PRIVATE HOSPITAL, New York: 1859
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NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, New York: 1863
WOMAN’S INFIRMARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, New York: 1864, later affiliated with the WOMEN’S
DEPARTMENT OF HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL
BUFFALO INGLESIDE HOME AND HOSPITAL: 1869
HOSPITAL OF THE NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN: 1869
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL, New York: 1870. NEW YORK HOMOEOPATHIC SURGICAL HOSPITAL (1874) and NEW YORK
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN (1875) later the HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL
BROOKLYN HOMOEOPATHIC LYING-IN ASYLUM later THE BROOKLYN HOMOEOPATHIC MATERNITY: 1871
FLATBUSH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AND NURSERY, later THE BROOKLYN NURSERY: 1871
BROOKLYN NURSERY AND INFANT’S HOSPITAL, Brooklyn: 1871
Homeopathic Hospital – Utica, N.Y.
ALBANY CITY HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL later ALBANY CITY HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY: 1872
BUFFALO HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1872
ST. LUKE’S HOME AND HOSPITAL, Utica: 1872
MIDDLETOWN STATE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Middletown: 1874
FAXTON HOSPITAL, Utica: 1875
NEW YORK HOMOEOPATHIC CHARITY HOSPITAL, Ward’s Island: 1875
BROOKLYN WOMEN’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY, Brooklyn: before 1883 MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
FOR WOMAN AND CHILDREN
HELMUTH HOUSE, New York: 1886
THE LAURA FRANKLIN FREE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: 1886
BROOKLYN WOMEN’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY later THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: 1887
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HOUSE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN DEACONESSES: 1887
CITY HOSPITAL, Binghamton: 1887
HARGOUS MEMORIAL HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL OF ROCHESTER: 1888
HAHNEMANN HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Rochester: 1889
ISABELLA HELMUTH HOSPITAL: 1889
ROCHESTER HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1889
ST. MARTHAS SANITARIUM AND DISPENSARY, Brooklyn: 1889
FLORENCE HOSPITAL OF NEW YORK CITY: 1890
FLOWER SURGICAL HOSPITAL, New York City or NEW YORK FREE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1890
Hahnemann Hospital – Buffalo, N.Y.
LEXINGTON HEIGHTS HOSPITAL, Buffalo: 1890
METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL, Blackwell’s Island: 1894
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, WARD’S ISLAND: ceased to exist after 1894
UTICA HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Utica: 1895
MUNCIE SANATORIUM, Brooklyn: 1895
SYRACUSE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Syracuse: 1896
HARLEM HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY: 1896
THE YONKERS HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND MATERNITY HOME: 1896
THE MT. VERNON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1897
TWENTY-SIXTH WARD HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Brooklyn: 1899
MUNCIE SEASIDE SANITARIUM, Babylon: 1897
LIBERTY HOMOEOPATHIC SANITARIUM FOR TUBERCULOSIS, Liberty: 1898
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HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY, Mount Vernon: 1899 has not yet opened
HARLEM HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, New York: 1899 has not yet opened
UTICA CITY HOSPITAL
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Middletown
HOMOEOPATHIC INSANE ASYLUM, Middletown
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Rochester
NEW HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Albany
MIDDLETOWN STATE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL
Ohio:
CLEVELAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL (LAKE STREET HOSPITAL): 1856, only existed for a few years
ST. VINCENT’S HOSPITAL: 1860
WILSON STREET HOSPITAL, Cleveland: 1866
CLEVELAND PROTESTANT HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL (HURON STREET HOSPITAL): 1868
UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL, Cleveland: 1869, was later converted into an allopathic hospital
CLEVELAND WORKHOUSE HOSPITAL: 1870-1881
Homeopathic Maternity Hospital – Yonkers, N.Y.
CINCINNATI OPHTHALMIC AND AURAL INSTITUTE: 1872
TOLEDO PROTESTANT HOSPITAL: 1877
CLEVELAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Cleveland: 1867
TOLEDO HOSPITAL, Toledo: 1874
OHIO HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, CINNCINNATI later WOMEN’S FREE DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION
OF CINNCINATI: 1882
MATERNITY HOSPITAL, Cleveland: 1891
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DR C.E. SAWYER SANITARIUM, Marion: 1895
HOSPITAL OF THE STATE PENITENTIARY AT COLUMBUS: only for a short time a homeopathic hospital
CLEVELAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL COLLEGE
SIXTH AVENUE PRIVATE HOSPITAL, Columbus
Oregon
PORTLAND METHODIST HOSPITAL: 1886, 1886, homeopathic hospital since 1895
Pennsylvania
CHOLERA HOSPITAL, Philadelphia: 1832
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PENNSYLVANIA later HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF THE HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE
OF PHILADELPHIA: 1852
LANCASTER ALMSHOUSE HOSPITAL: 1860
WAR HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: 1862, closed after the war
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY OF PITTSBURGH: 1866
Homeopathic Hospital – Pittsburg, Pa.
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: 1871-1886
PENNSYLVANIA HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: 1877, affiliated with the HAHNEMANN COLLEGE HOSPITAL
CHILDREN’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: 1877
MEDICAL, SURGICAL AND MATERNITY HOSPITALS OF THE WOMEN’S HOMOEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA: 1882
EYE AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, Philadelphia: 1886
GYNAECOLOGICAL HOSPITAL, Philadelphia: 1888
HAMST HOSPITAL, Erie: 1881
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ST. VINCENT HOSPITAL: Erie: 1875
WALTER’S SANITARIUM, Walter’s Park: 1877
THE HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HOSPITAL OF READING: 1887
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HOSPITAL OF READING: 1891
READING HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL: 1891
THE WOMEN’S SOUTHERN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: 1895
ST. LUKE’S HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: 1895
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL, Scranton: 1897
Hahnemann Hospital – Scranton, Pa.
ELMWOOD HALL, Elmhurst: 1898
EASTON SANITARIUM, Easton: 1894
WOMAN’S SOUTHERN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Philadelphia: 1896
HAHNEMANN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, SCRANTON: 1897
THE WEST PHILADELPHIA HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY: 1903
HARRISBURG HOSPITAL: later a homeopathic hospital
CONVENT INFIRMARY OF BENEDICTINE SISTERS, Erie: a regular hospital,
but the nurses offer homeopathic treatments
ALLENTOWN HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL
STATE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Allentown
CHESTER HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Reading
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Scranton
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Pittsburgh
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THE U NITED S TATES OF A MERICA
PENNSYLVANIA HOMOEOPATHIC STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE
THE PENNSYLVANIA HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
J. LEWIS CROZER HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES
Rhode Island
RHODE ISLAND HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, Providence: 1881
Rhode Island Homeopathic Hospital – Providence, R.I.
Vermont
THE SPARHAW SANITARIUM, Burlington: 1887
Wisconsin
PENNOYER SANITARIUM, Kenosha: 1889
Reference
Bradford, T. L., Homoeopathic Bibliography of the United States. Philadelphia 1892
Haehl, R., Samuel Hahnemann, Vol. I. Leipzig 1922
King, W., History of Homoeopathy and its Institutions in America, Vol. I-IV., New York and
Chicago 1905
Smith, T., Homoeopathic Organisations and Institutions in the United States,
Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy 55(1899)
Original postcards from the collection of Dr K.-H. Gypser
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