Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick & Easy Guide For The Whole Family Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, LCSW and Robert Ullman, ND List price: $19.95 Our price: $19.95

This is an excellent, graphic-laden guidebook that teaches you what symptoms to look and listen for, what questions to ask to select the best remedy, and what dosage to give. It also tells you what to expect from homeopathic self-care and what other self-care measures should be considered.

This book review is reprinted from RESONANCE (July/August, 1997) with the permission of the International Foundation for Homeopathy

Reviewed by Mitchell A. Fleisher, M.D, Nellysford, VA

With the publication of Homeopathic Self-Care, the Doctors Ullman have produced yet another well-written, informative, and useful book. This new text is designed to give the neophyte, and more experienced lay practitioner alike, a solid foundation upon which to build an understanding of the clinical application of homeopathic medicines in 69 different primary health care problems, which are alphabetically arranged from "abscesses" to "vaginitis."

Each medical condition is elaborated according to its description, symptoms, complications, what to look and listen for, what specific questions to ask, pointers for choosing the correct homeopathic medicine, the appropriate dosage to give, what to expect from homeopathic care, and other self-care suggestions. The specific homeopathic remedies for each condition are then outline a pictorial format that is very easy to follow, including key symptoms, mind symptoms, body symptoms, what makes one worse or better, and food and drink desires and/or aversions. The medical conditions section is then followed by a materia medica of 53 homeopathic medicines, outlined in a similar, easy- to-use, pictorial format.

I found the section entitled "What You Need to Know" to self-prescribe particularly clever. It clearly and simply explains homeopathic history, philosophy, theory, case analysis, remedy selection, and appropriate administration of remedies, illustrating their points with pertinent, successfully treated case histories. There is also a chapter of practice cases for self-prescribing to test one's knowledge, which would be prefect for study group exercises. Additionally, the Ullmans have designed a homeopathic self-care home medicine kit to be used with this book.

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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."