Education in Homeopathy - Part 1

Summary

Rajan Sankaran presented his theory on ‘The Levels' in Les Herbiers 2002. As he demonstrated with three Argentum nitricum cases, different patients can experience the same remedy at different levels. He illustrated that there is something ’deeper' than the level of delusion, which in turn is beyond the emotional and factual level. These levels of understanding and experience can be applied in homeopathic education. In this way the future homeopath gradually gets familiar with the level of the data, gets to master the anamnesis techniques to delve into these levels and to aim at prescribing at the vital level, where all diseases are located. Often one can dive into the vital or sensation level by probing the main complaint. This links Hahnemann's words to today's most advanced homeopathy. In this series of articles, examples of prescriptions based on different levels of experience are given.

Key words

Education in homeopathy - Levels of education - Levels of case-taking - Vital sensation - Phosphorus

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