Eileen Nauman - Homeopathy for Epidemics

Many thanks to my publisher, (Melody) ORyin Swanson. Without her belief in the information contained here and in the fact that it may well save lives, this book would not have been brought into being.

Thanks also to my homeopathic colleagues Dr. Gail Derin, Doctor of Oriental Medicine and classical homeopath, who worked with me on the hantavirus epidemic to find remedies that would save lives and who helped me with her work on locating the Ebola virus remedies; Dr. Vickie Menear, MD (H), homeopathic teacher at Hahnemann College, Albany, California; and Julian Evinston, homeopathic historian, for their information about remedies used during the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic.

To Kathy Leonardi and Joanne Matkovich of Cottonwood, Arizona members of the Kachina Affiliated Study Group of the National Center of Homeopathy who took the bull by the horns in locating all the known Ebola virus symptoms, collating, researching and digging for them. Without their efforts, we homeopaths would not know which remedies to use to treat this deadly virus.

To my brave, intrepid homeopathic team: Dr. Gail Derin of Sacramento, California; Rosemarie Brown of Cottonwood, Arizona; Ardella Hecht of Phoenix, Arizona; Luanne Somers-Yazzie of Rough Rock, Arizona; and Mary Masuk of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thank you for your individual and collective contributions, which have, in some way, helped make this book what it is a life saver. Yahtehay!

To Catherine Creel, medical researcher, who provided a lot of amazing, updated information on SARS and anthrax; and to Debra LeRoy, FBIH, Canadian homeopath, who provided the information on smallpox. Without their contributions, this book would not be as whole as it presently is.

To the botanical gardens around the world where the people so kindly allowed me to photograph their beautiful plants, many of which we use in homeopathy. In particular, Id like to thank the following: Le Jardine Botanical Garden in St. Triphone, Switzerland; my thanks go to owner William Aviolat. La Thomasia Botanical Garden, Alps of Switzerland; my thanks to Mme. Michle Burdet, who kindly drove me to this wonderful high-mountain garden and to Le Jardine many times over a four-year period. Dunedin Botanical Garden, Dunedin, New Zealand; thank you, Barbara Ward, for taking me there, driving me around and helping me. De Kruidhof Botanical Garden, Buitenpost, Netherlands; thanks to Dr. Jean Pierre Jansen, homeopath and MD, and his wife, Marina, who so kindly drove there many times from their home in Grningen. Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas, California. Pacific Horticultural Botanical Garden, Victoria, Canada. Naturescape Flower Garden, Langar, Nottinghamshire, England; thanks to David Witko, owner of ISIS homeopathic software, England, for taking me to this lovely spot. Geneva Botanical Garden, Geneva, Switzerland; thanks to Gail Carswell, who patiently helped me that day.

I wish to thank my husband, David Nauman, for spending untold hours helping me as I puttered around in botanical gardens in utter bliss. And thanks go to my intrepid friends who took on the task of helping me find those elusive homeopathic plants: Mme. Michle Burdet of Chesires, Switzerland, who not only loaned me her chalet to stay at, La Palette, but also her array of flower identification books, a bed, her amazing flower and vegetable garden and a Mac computer what a friend! On top of that, Michle took me on numerous hikes in the Alps to find those elusive homeopathic plants too numerous to count. Some of my most enjoyable times during the research were being out on the trail with her, on the hunt!

To Barbara Ward from Dunedin, New Zealand, who took me to the Dunedin Botanical Garden, but the flowers at her home were just as beautiful! To David Witko from Nottingham, England; Jan Dingemans from the Netherlands, who showed me a flower market many years ago where I found real, live Aconitum napellus for the first time. To Gail Carswell, friend and photographic carrier and scribe what would I do without you, sidekick? To Ingrid Kropf of Witte Paarden, Netherlands, who owns her own herbal medicine business and has a beautiful herb garden, for her support and information. And last, but never least, to my New Zealand friend who lives in England, Diana Corrigan, who spent nine days with me at the wonderful Kew Gardens library doing some very serious, heavy, nonstop research this was her vacation and Im gratefully indebted to her for her love of and passion for flowers, which is equal to my own.