Robert Ullman - Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family

Robert Ullman and Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman
Homeopathic Self-Care
The Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family
ISBN 978-1-940057-03-3
Revised 3rd Edition, 2013
First Electronic Edition 2014
2014 Picnic Point Press
Edmonds, WA 98020

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Oh how I wish I had this lovely book when my son, Daniel, was a baby. He had just turned a year old when he got a bad dose of whooping cough. The homeopathic books we had at the time were too concise to be helpful. But I didnt yet know it. I thought that was just how homeopathy rolled. In an acute illness or an injury I would work my way through some or all of the few remedies listed trying each one in turn until one of them worked.

This time the remedies I gave Daniel only helped for a short time or didnt help at all. The three homeopathic doctors and the one lay homeopath we consulted didnt help either. I gave up on homeopathy thinking it was a hit or miss affair that was only helpful for not very serious illnesses.

How astonishing then that I listened to the advice of a healer who told me Daniel had an inherited weakness and that he needed homeopathic treatment to remove it. She referred us to a professional homeopath and within twenty-four hours of the first prescription Daniel stopped vomiting, and within a week the cough was gone.

I was so impressed and amazed that I wanted to know more. Much more. I enrolled in homeopathy school and I have never looked back. I had had a reasonable grounding in using homeopathy from a lifetime of home prescribing. From my new and improved perspective as a professional homeopath, I wove in the homeopathic knowledge that would have helped me better understand how to use homeopathy for myself and my loved ones and I taught dozens and dozens of first aid classes from a classical homeopathic perspective.

I taught people how to select a homeopathic medicine based on matching the remedys whole symptom picture with their own whole symptom picture. I had so much success using this method the one that classical homeopaths have been using in their consulting rooms for more than 200 years that I wrote The Complete Homeopathy Handbook.

Of course it isnt complete. And thats where Bob & Judyths book comes in. There are times when we all want a simple list and cross references to help us choose a remedy in the middle of the night without having to work everything out from scratch.

Bob and Judyths book is brilliant in this regard. It describes the homeopathic medicines for each complaint in three carefully graded steps. The first step lists the key pointers and differentiating symptoms for the remedies indicated for a particular complaint. The second is a chart that expands on the pointers giving more information on each remedy and including a few general and emotional symptoms. Lastly, there are stand-alone expanded descriptions of each remedy.

Throughout Homeopathic Self-Care the authors encourage the reader to think holistically, and, because both Bob and Judyth are both naturopathic physicians, theres plenty of supportive naturopathic and nutritional advice. There are some unique gems also, like the chapter on what to expect from a homeopathic medicine and how and when to repeat it, and the practice cases where the reader gets to put into practice what they have learned!

Homeopathic Self-Care is a wonderful companion to my Handbook and if I had had a copy all those years ago (a good 20 years before it was even published!) I would have understood more about homeopathic medicines, more about selecting a remedy and assessing its effect, and more about the complexity of this system of healing. It would have led me to seek out practitioners with good credentials and extensive trainings.

I have known both Bob and Judyth for more than twenty years. I received my first invitation to speak in the US from Judyth on behalf of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians in 1992. Meeting the American homeopathic community was such a wonderful experience I decided to move to the US and so Bob and Judyth hold a special place in my heart. Their dedication to this elegant healing art is impressive, a dedication that shines through in all their teachings and writing, including this lovely one!

Miranda Castro, CCH, FSHom, RSHom(NA), author of The Complete Homeopathy Handbook. August, 2012. Gainesville, Florida

There is a powerful popular movement abroad in the land; a movement for a new, more effective, less toxic, more humane, more people-centered kind of health care. One of its rallying cries is homeopathy.

Homeopaths tell us that tiny doses of substances that in larger doses can produce symptoms, can be used to alleviate those symptoms; that like cures like. Though this concept pervades the thinking and practice of most of the worlds great healing traditions, including our own Greek Hippocratic medicine, it is foreign to most of us. It is qualitative rather than quantitative. It seems soft to many, mystical, or, in the words of its critics, even bizarre.