How to Learn Homeopathy - Constitutional Types: Homeopathic "Bodymind" Personalities

by Dana Ullman, MPH ©2006

After learning the basics of homeopathy, some people love to study various homeopathic medicines as a way of finding their own and their friends' constitutional medicine.  Although it is not recommended one self-prescribe a constitutional medicine, it is still a useful exercise.  The process of reading about the var­ious typologies and of finding the appropriate one is a mixture of detective work, self-discovery, rational analysis, and intui­tive assessment. 

• A Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and Compatibility, Liz Lalor (a truly fascinating book that describes 19 key remedy and their bodymind personalities and then what remedy-types are personally compatible with others)
• Homeopathic Psychology, Philip Bailey, MD (This book is an excellent review of the personality of 34 leading homeopathic medicines.)
• Psyche and Substance:  Essays on Homeopathy in the Light of Jungian Psychology, Edward C. Whitmont, MD. (This is a truly brilliant book written by a Jungian psychiatrist and homeopath who provides insight into the cosmology of homeopathy as well as insights into 10 leading homeopathic medicines.)
• The Soul of Remedies, Rajan Sankaran (Written by one of the most respected homeopaths in the world, this book summarizes the essence of 100 remedies in one or two pages each.)
• Emotional Healing with Homeopathy, by Peter Chappel, RSHom (This newly updated edition of an invaluable book for homeopaths and patients.)
• Prozac Free: Homeopathic Alternatives to Conventional Drug Therapies. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, MSW, and Robert Ullman, ND. (This book provides insights into constitutional types as well as important medicines for acute anxiety and depressive states.)
• Dreams, Symbols, and Homeopathy: Archetypal Dimensions of Healing.  Jane Cicchetti, RSHom, CCH (This is a brilliant book that integrates Jungian psychology and homeopathy.)
• Homeopathic Remedies for Life Stages.  Didier Grandgeorge, MD.  (This French pediatrician and classical homeopath provides great insights into the important remedies at the varying stages of life.)
• The Spirit of Homeopathic Medicines:  Essential Insights to 300 Remedies.  Didier Grandgeorge, MD (This book provides brief but lucid insights into 300 medicines.)
• The Homeopathic Treatment of Children: Pediatric Constitutional Types, Paul Herscu, ND.  (This book describes the 9 leading pediatric constitutional types.)

• Homeopathic Remedy Pictures: Studying with Cartoons. Alexander Gothe and Julia Drinnenberg (This is a fun and clever way to learn about many of the most commonly prescribed homeopathic constitutional medicines.  Whether you are a student or a practitioner, we all want to enjoy learning. This book is particularly useful for teachers.

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DANA ULLMAN, MPH, is one of America's leading advocates for homeopathy. He has authored 10 books, including The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, Homeopathy A-Z, Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants, Discovering Homeopathy, and (the best-selling) Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines (with Stephen Cummings, MD). He is the founder of Homeopathic Educational Services, America's leading resource center for homeopathic books, tapes, medicines, software, and correspondence courses. Homeopathic Educational Services has co-published over 35 books on homeopathy with North Atlantic Books. Dana writes a regular column for the wildly popular website, www.Huffingtonpost.com (to access these articles, click HERE!).

For people interested in some of Dana Ullman's earliest writings, you can read his undergraduate thesis at U.C. Berkeley in 1975 on "Human Learning." Honor students at UC Berkeley who wish to have an independent major (and who do not want to have a regular generic major) are required to write a thesis.  This paper on "Human Learning" provides insights into Dana's early synthetic and integrative thinking.  The beginning of the article and its definition of "science" may be of special interest.  Also, Dana creatively chose to use his own invented pronouns to replace the masculine emphasis of "he," "him," and "his," with "che," "chis," and "cher."