How to Learn Homeopathy - Homeopathic Methodology

by Dana Ullman, MPH ©2006

• Achieving and Maintaining the Simillimum: Strategies for Case Management, Luc De Schepper, MD (a very useful textbook for the serious student or practitioner on how to practice classical Hahnemannian homeopathy)
• Hahnemann Revisited, Luc De Schepper, MD (a very useful textbook for the serious student or practitioner on how to practice classical Hahnemannian homeopathy)
• Homeopathic Methodology: Casetaking, Repertory, and Case Analysis, by Todd Rowe, MD, CCH (Written by the former President of the National Center for Homeopathy and a teacher at the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy)
• The Handbook of Homoeopathy, by Dr. Gerhard Koehler
• Principles of Homeopathic Philosophy, by Margaret Roy (Originally written as a textbook for those doing distance learning, this is an excellent course in homeopathic thinking!)
• The Homeopathic Conversation, by Dr. Brian Kaplan (This is the best book on homeopathic casetaking.)
• Potency in Homeopathic Prescribing, by Julie Bernard (This is the best book on determining the dose and potency.)
• Hahnemann Revisited, Luc de Schepper, MD, PhD. (This is an excellent book on homeopathic methodology, with some emphasis on the use of LM potencies, Hahnemann's last major contribution to homeopathy.)
• A Tutorial and Workbook for the Homeopathic Repertory (with Solutions Guide and CD-ROM!) by Karen Allen, RSHom (This is the best guidebook for learning how to use a homeopathic repertory.  This book is usually required reading for students in homeopathic training programs.)
• What About the Potency? A comprehensive guide to homeopathic potency and dosage by Michelle Shine, a British homeopath.  (This book includes interviews with a dozen or so leading homeopaths and asks them how they determine the potency in a variety of situations. It is very instructive for showing the logic of different systems of prescribing.

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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."