Abstracts and Vitae • Dr. Carlos Néstor Cámpora (Argentina) • Dr. Susanne Diez (Austria) • Ulrike Kessler, MSc Hom (Switzerland) • Curt Kösters (Germany) instead of

Christoph Laurentius (Germany) • Michael Leisten, M. Edu. (Germany) • Mag. pharm. Ilse Muchitsch (Austria) • Dr. Dominik Müller (Germany) • Dr Clare Relton (Great Britain) • Dr. Anton Rohrer (Austria) • Dr. Irmgard Schnittert (Germany) • Dr. Anne Sparenborg-Nolte (Germany),

Dr. Klaus Roman Hör (Germany), Andreas Holling (Germany) und Dr. Anton Rohrer (Austria)

• Dr. José Teixeira (France) • Dr Elisabeth Thompson (Great Britain)

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Abstract High-quality homeopathic cases represent one of the most useful tools to understand and improve the outcomes of homeopathic prescriptions. Homeopathic case docu-mentation plays a key role to make possible high-quality homeopathic case research. BRECHA, the Argentinian homeopathic casebank, which uses the strictest standards for the presentation, the case documentation and the assessment of outcomes, has developed guidelines that allow the physician to focus on research in the daily practice. A BRECHA case study of severe Rheumathoid Cachexia with a follow up of almost 9 years is presented, with emphasis placed on the main homeopathic issues (verbatim expressions; repertory translation; repertorization; case analysis and approach strategies; prescribed treatment; follow-up) and the importance of a precise documentation.

Vita Carlos Néstor Cámpora was born on April 10, 1964, in La Plata, Argentina. He can be reached at Fundación Médica Homeopática Vitalis Billinghurst 649 (CP C1174ABK) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel: 00 54 221 4216815 or 00 54 11 4865 9955 His email is: cncampora@yahoo.com.ar His websites are: www.homeopatia.org.ar www.cncampora.com.ar Dr. Carlos Néstor Cámpora graduated as a physician in 1989 at Universidad Nacional de Ciencias Médicas of the city of La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, with an outstanding general point average of 9,40, and obtained his degree as specialist in Internal Medicine in 1994. Homeopathy found him at six years old as a patient, but he has been an ardent student of homeopathy since he was sixteen years old, when he started reading tirelessly the old classical masters. He is a certified Master in Homeopathy by Asociación Médica Homeopática Argentina. Two study and research groups have been founded and directed by him in Argentina: in 1993 the Grupo Clínica Homeopática Dinámica, and, in 1997, the Grupo de Estudios e Investigación Médica Homeopática de la República Argentina. He has been teaching Homeopathy since 1993; since then he has been a lecturer in congresses and seminars both locally and internationally ever since, he has been teaching in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Holland, Austria and Hungary; he is regularly asked to lecture as a guest speaker at many homeopathic institutions.

He has submitted numerous papers about the homeo-pathic treatment of arterial hypertension, sciatic and trigeminal neuralgia, infections of the middle ear, AIDS, etc; he has also performed detailed research on the homeopathic repertories and materia medica. In 1998 he has designed the Double Protocol of Homeo-pathic Pathogenetic Trial (DPHPT) and has organized and directed the first provings performed in Argentina in fifty years; based on this, he conducted the proving of Loxosceles laeta (1998) (brown spider or killer spider) and Geranoetus melanoleucus (1999) (black-chested buzzard eagle). These are full hahnemannian provings performed by applying high quality methodological standards with the aim of selecting the most reliable and valid symptoms. Controversial and critic aspects about methodology of provings and the placebo symptoms in provings has been part of his papers and seminars in the last few years, and is a frequent lecturer at LMHI’s Congresses. He is also the author of the book: "The pathogenesis of Loxosceles Laeta, the spider of the corners, brown spider or killing spider", in 1999. Dr. Cámpora is also focused on the sistematic documentation in homeopathic practice and research on high-quality case reports; he is convinced that the study of cured clinical cases represents a source of valuable knowledge and inspiration for homeopaths and with the idea of sistematically collecting the results of the homeopathic practice he founded BRECHA (Banco de Reporte y Estudio de Casos Homeopáticos de Argentina) in 2003, since then he is the President of BRECHA. He has developed a sistematic methodology of approach and case analysis that allows to obtain more consistent and reliable results, and have made prescriptions more understandable, reasonable and successfull. He is well known for the publication of his high-quality reports of severe and cured clinical cases traditionally considered incurable. On 2006 the Faculty of Medicine of the Buenos Aires University designed him Director of the Annual Post-graduate Course “Theory and Practice of Homeopathic Medicine”. Since 2009 the Asociación Médica Argentina distinguished Dr. Cámpora choosing him as the Director of the “Biennial Course “Theory and Practice of Homeopathic Medicine”. He is teaching his homeopathic methodology in the Asociación Médica Homeopática del Uruguay dictating a biennial post-graduate course that has begun in the year 2009 and continues at present. In addition to his busy practice in Buenos Aires and La Plata, he is currently the Director of the Fundación Médica Homeopática Vitalis where he lectures since 2000 as the main lecturer of the Annual Continuing Education Post-graduate Course in Homeopathic Medicine.

Abstract Everything we learn from from the patient in homeopathic casetaking, as well as all the results of a homeopathic remedy proving, amounts to perceptions (inner feelings and sensations and external impressions), and therefore, above all, of a subjective nature.

Therefore we can postulate that, along with Similars, subjectivity is a fundamental principle of homeo-pathy. In this case the relationship of similarity corresponds to what is accomplished by establish-ment of identity in a logical judgement. However, the absolute certainty of a logical judgement can never be compared with the establishing of similarity, since the latter is tied into an infinite network of conditions, perspectives and relationships, which corresponds to everything that is alive.

Thus every attempt at formulating Homeopathy as a science will founder on this difficult question of the possibilities of generalisation (“objectivisation”) of subjective experiences and adventures.

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Vita Mag. phil. Dr. univ. med. Susanne Diez, born 1956, lives and works in Vienna as a homeopathic doctor and psychotherapist in her own practice.

At the moment her particular interest in the field of homeopathy is directed at the re-definition of the scientific nature of homeopathy, at provings of remedies and at the trituration experience.

• Study of Medicine at Vienna University • Graduated 1980 • From 1984, supplementary training in

Homeopathy • Between 1984 and 1993, practice as a statutory

health insurance physician (Vienna) • Since 1993, private practice in homeopathy and

psychotherapy • Since 1992, lecturing for the Austrian Society of

Homeopathic Medicine (ÖGHM), teaching at home and abroad

• 2007 concluded studies in Philosophy at Vienna University with a thesis on the Scientific Nature of Homeopathy: “Subjectivity as a fundamental principle of homeopathy – philosophical considerations on homeopathy”

• Publication of several articles in professional books and journals

Since childhood, intensive interest for art and a passion for travelling

Contact: susanne.diez@chello.at

Abstracts Lecture Teaching events are most effectual when the desired learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, as well as examinations, are closely co-ordinated (Constructive Alignment).

This may sound quite obvious; however, in day-to-day teaching it is only rarely practised. In the final analysis this is linked with an antiquated understanding of the nature of training for a professional qualification, which is orientated above all around the communication of knowledge and accomplishments. However, it has been recognised that a training course must ensure that, as soon as the course has been completed, the learners must be conversant with the competences that they need so as to successfully overcome complex challenges that they will face in their professional context. These include the ability to communi-cate, to work in a team, or to act autonomously.

This means that contemporary homeopathic training equips graduates to meet the demands that will be made upon them if they are to conduct a practice responsibly and successfully. A part of this is the awareness of the need to undertake regular ongoing training.

The learning outcomes of such primary and ongoing training are formulated as activities which the students must have mastered by the end of the teaching event. With this in mind, teaching and learning activities are chosen which will give the students the opportunity of practising the activities defined in the learning outcomes at the appropriate cognitive level. Finally assessment is carried out as to whether - and to what extent - the students have mastered precisely these activities, with the students demonstrating their abilities in appropriate test exercises.

Constructive Alignment, as advocated by Biggs & Tang, is of positive use here insofar as students orientate them-selves towards examinations and the challenges that they may expect there. If examinations are didactically designed in such a way that they encourage the students to deal with the material in a pro-active and self-motivated way, then learning processes are stimulated in such a way that not only are the students guided towards a deeper engagement with the knowledge base and accomplish-ments of their subject, but also that they acquire competences. Reference: Biggs J. & Tang, C., 2007. Teaching for quality learning at university: what the student does. 3rdedn., Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Seminar Within the frame of this seminar we shall confront the possible ways in which knowledge, accomplishments and competences of homeopaths can be examined both formatively and summatively.

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Ulrike Kessler, MSc (Hom), born 1956, studied Chemistry at Freiburg im Breisgau. However, she has been practising Homeopathy as a Heilpraktiker for almost 30 years in Germany and in Basle (Switzerland), where she is a cantonally approved homeopath. In 2003 she founded a homeopathic teaching practice in Basle (Switzerland). She leads practical training courses, supervision groups and provides one-to-one supervision. From 2007 to 2010 she studied at the University of Central Lancashire (Great Britain), where she obtained her MSc (Hom) with a thesis on the quality of homeopathic training. Since 2011 she has been a member of WissHom and Deputy Chair of the Research Section. She has been actively involved in teaching for many years, has given numerous lectures and seminars and is the author of many publications.

Contact: info@ulrikekessler.ch Internet: www.ulrikekessler.ch

Curt Kösters (Germany)

Abstract In homeopathy the concept of certainty of healing is not only well established, but almost constitutive for the homeopathic method. In the context of this lecture we intend to set out why this concept is epistemologically problematic – and to show that consciously departing from this notion can open up additional therapeutic options.

Vita • Curt Kösters was born in 1958 in

Ellwangen/Jagst. • 1977-1985: medical studies at Berlin Free

University • 1985/86: carried out toxicological studies for an

environmental protection organisation • 1987-1989: clinical training • since 1982: involved with homeopathy: homeo-

pathic training in Berlin and Hamburg, study visit in India

• since 1991: private practice in Hamburg • 1994-2004: committee member and, since 1996,

Chair of the Society of Homeopathic Physicians in Schleswig-Holstein and the Hanseatic Cities

• 1996-2004: Lecturer in continuing training and one of a team of lecturers sharing courses at Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg

• 2002/03: led remedy provings as part of continuing training courses

• 1996-2004: collaboration in a homeopathic developmental aid project in Nepal (Bhaktapur International Homeopathic Clinic)

• 2001: Organisation and scientific direction of the Conference of the German Association of Homeopathic Physicians

• since 2002: collaboration with InHom (European

Institute of Homeopathy). Work focussed on: data banks, case documentation, chronic diseases and treatment, interventions following the Law of Similars in social contexts

• 2003: Co-author of „International Debate – Principles of Homeopathy“

• 2003/04: collaboration in setting up an Internet Portal and Membership Data Control for the German Central Society of Homeopathic

• 2004-2010: collaboration in an interdisciplinary working party on the application of homeopathic principles in the field of Town Planning (International Building Exhibition of Replanning of towns in Sachsen-Anhalt 2010)

• 2004-2011: various functions on the board of the German Association of Homeopathic Physicians

• 2011: Founding member of the Scientific Society Homeopathy (WissHom), and Chair of the WissHom Quality Improvement Departement Contact: curt.koesters@hamburg.de

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Abstract The notion of certainty of healing has hounded generations of homeopathic doctors and practitioners.

Even Hahnemann mentioned this notion in his Organon of the Healing Art. Again and again successive homeopaths have embarked on the search for this Holy Grail of homeopathy.

But as soon as we speak of the concept of “healing” we forsake the safe territory of certainty and venture into fields where the co-ordinates may simply be described as relative.

On a forced ride through the history of homeopathy the various time-dependent ideas of certainty of healing will be portrayed and we shall venture to get closer to a definition.

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Christoph Laurentius

Born 1965, married, 4 children

• Private medical practice in Homeopathy in Berlin-Charlottenburg and in Köthen in Hahnemann’s house

• Chairman of the Hahnemann Society (Hahne-mann-Gesellschaft)

• Medical Superintendant of the homeopathic libraries of the DZVhÄ

Homeopathic Career • Since commencing study of Medicine, private

study of homeopathy • Three-year homeopathic training in the Berlin

Society of Homeopathic Doctors • Three-month course in Augsburg, 1999 • Additional qualification as a homeopath since

2000 • Since 2009 authorised as a trainer in

homeopathic further education

Allopathic Career • Study of Medicine 1988-1994 at the Free

University of Berlin • Multiple alternating medical activities in the areas

of Nuclear Medicine, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Pulmology, Allergology, Cardiology, General Surgery and Psychoso-matics

• Brief intermezzo in quality assurance manage-ment with a blood donor organisation

• Complementary professional study of Medical Information Technology

• Training in Acupuncture • Since 2001 private practice in homeopathy in

Berlin, full-time since 2007 • Since 2009 second practice in Köthen in Hahne-

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Abstract Lecture and Seminar Planning of teaching sessions is one of the essential tasks of a teacher, including those involved in homeopathic professional training. To complete this task, the professional literature offers a large number of aids: the so-called “didactic models”. Of course, these differ from one another - in some cases considerably - with regard to structure and expression.

The aim of this lecture is therefore, beginning with clarification of the didactic concept, to present what is currently probably the best-known model of modern lesson-planning.

It is a characteristic of the current theory discussion that a new position which appeared in the mid-1990’s, constructivistic didactics, is steadily becoming established. In the academic and non-academic areas of homeopathic training, we will have to integrate its positive innovations, or at least to check out the extent to which they can be an effective alternative to the conventional models, and where its strengths and advantages lie.

It was and still is the case that professional training in homeopathy is distinguished by an ongoing dominance of content-learning, with a preference for styles which involve the teacher being at the front of the room, lecturing. In the psychology of learning this is known as “Easter bunny teaching”. The teacher presents the gifts, drily, in a lecturing style, and the learner is supposed to oblige by being pleased. However, this approach has little relation to bringing forward independent thinking and the acquisition of competences, and the students gather knowledge for an examination, and not for everyday practice.

The Diploma seems to further consolidate this approach. Interestingly, it uses teaching methods which put the activity of the teachers in the foreground, handing out tips on methodology and technique, which are supposed to reasonably ensure motivation on the part of the learners.

Constructivistic didactics uses a different approach. So as to awaken some interest and receptiveness for this method, my lecture will portray this most recent theory of learning, along with its method-logical application, according to the following plan:

• History • Central concept • Methodology • Recommended action • Summary • Critical appraisal

Subsequently, within the framework of the associated seminar, concrete examples of the methodological application of constructivistic didactics to homeopathic training will be encountered, shared and experienced. This shows how the WissHom Education and Training Section is promoting and using this method.

Constructivistic didactics makes resources available, to enable teachers to arrive at new and different solutions.

Some of the central principles will be presented. Furthermore, some important initiatives in current use in constructivistic didactics will be sketched out. The point will also be addressed, as to whether not just teachers but learners too should be regarded as lecturers. Above all, this comes to light in the area of methodologies which represent a challenge to constructivistic didactics.

We shall close with observations on the novelty of the constructivistic approach and the necessity to critically discuss and not merely reject other initiatives.

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WissHom-Congress ICE 12. 25.-27.10.2012. Leisten: Abstract Lecture and Seminar / Vita

Vita

M. Edu. Michael Leisten (Heilpraktiker)

Born 1967 in Würzburg. Married to Gertrud Leisten; three children; resident in Laub near Würzburg.

From 1987 to 2003 Michael Leisten worked at state schools as a qualified teacher of R.E. At the same time he undertook professional training as a Heilpraktiker and classical homeopath. From 1997 he was a lecturer and homeopathy course leader at a private training college of Health Education in Germany.

In 2004 Michael Leisten founded the Academy of Classical Homeopathy. As a therapist he holds the certificates of the SHZ and BKHD and he is the author and translator of various homeopathic books.

In 2009, at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, he completed his postgraduate study in Adult Education with distinction and obtained the degree of Master of Adult Education (M.Edu.)

Following this in 2009, at the Julius-Maximilian University in Würzburg he began his educational studies on Salutogenesis in the work of Samuel Hahnemann.

Likewise, since 2010 he has been accepted as a member of the Canadian International Academy of Homeopathy, in the International Hahnemann Study Group under the leadership of Dr. André Saine.

In 2011 Michael Leisten was elected to the extended committee of the Scientific Society for Homeopathy (WissHom) in Germany with responsibility for the Education and Training Section.

At the moment Michael Leisten is writing his PhD, the theme of his dissertation being “Development of a concept of health maintenance from the perspective of Salutogenesis and Constructivism.” His aim will be, on the one hand to convert the results of his research into modern medical practice for the benefit of patients, and on the other to integrate the results into the professional training of the Academy of Classical Homeopathy.

Contact: info@homoeopathie-hof.de Internet: www.homoeopathie-hof.de www.praxis-leisten.de

Abstract Based on the Hahnemann's Organon we will discuss different issues in physics and pharmacy.

A historical review of the past will be given: beginning by the properties of water in the view of remedy preparation to the latest developments in water research and homeopathic research. Facts

• What kind of water is used for homeopathic remedies according to the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia?

• What kind of water should physicians recommend to their patients for a prescription that includes plussing?

• What is levitated water? • Structures in water: clusters – do they exist? • Influence of ions, alcohol and medicines • Potentisation – is it a necessity? • What effect do frequencies have on water? What is the current state of research?

• We are overwhelmed with publications on the subject of water and homeopathy.

• Do we understand the language of science in homeopathy?

• What do publications state (Benveniste, Rey, Montagnier etc.)?

• On the basis of some papers we will discuss controversial statements in homeopathic research.

• Future aspects of research into homeopathy and water.

Vita Mag. pharm. Ilse Muchitsch is working as a pharma-cist in Vienna since successfully completing her university degree in Pharmacy (thesis in Biochemistry). The main focus of her work is homeopathic pharmacy.

She leads the Interdisciplinary Homeopathic Working Group for Pharmacy – Medicine – Bioche-mistry – Physics – Psychology of the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacy (Provincial Office Vienna) and of HomResearch.

In the last 12 years in-service training events, lectures at the University of Vienna (Department of Pharmacy) and working groups have been organised by these organisations, dedicated to the task of exploring scientific models of explanation, teaching and practice of homeopathic pharmacy.

Furthermore Ilse Muchitsch is an author of the Austrian Journal of Pharmacy (Österreichische Apothekerzeitung).

• 2008: organisation of the Congress on “Water – Information – Meeting – Vienna” (Pharmacy Centre, Vienna)

• 2008 and 2009: exhibitions: “Pharmaceutical Art” (Exhibition in the Vienna Hofburg, in collaboration with Univ.-Prof. Tobias Kühne, and in Bozen – South-Tyrolean Autumn Discussions)

• 2010: lecture series: “Pharmaceutical Homeopathy” – Society of Pharmacy Staff (VAAÖ), Graz (Austria)

• 2011: accredited in-service training of the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacy, Provincial Office Vienna, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics Vienna: “Extreme Homeopathy” (Radiology, Oncology, Intensive Care), in collaboration with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Frass

Contact: ilse.muchitsch@homresearch.org Internet: www.homresearch.org

Abstracts Lecture MMRH – Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae: an interim report

Revising the materiae medicae is the most comprehensive scientific project in progress in the history of homeopathy. Since 2006 the Gleeser Materia Medica Revision Work Group, led by Dr. K.-H. Gypser, has been carrying out a systematic revision of the materiae medicae. So far 28 remedies have been revised and published.

In this lecture, after a brief introduction to the project, Dominik Müller, a member of the work group, will explain the structure, construction, the usefulness and the advantages of this revised materiae medicae.

In addition, he will present new research results which emerged during the work of revision and which are relevant to practice, along with other developments of the project, such as the concept of a new, homogenous and reliable repertory.

Seminar The MMRH – a tool for “genuine practitioners of the healing arts”: a case analysis using primary materia medica

There are countless materiae medicae on the market. Do we really need a comprehensive work such as the Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae? What distinguishes the MMRH from other materiae medicae? Is the MMRH relevant at all to our everyday practice? What does its practical application look like?

Over the past several years Dominik Müller, a member of the MMRH project work group supervised by Dr. K.-H. Gypser, has sifted through several thousand case records from the 19th and 20th centuries, has checked them and included them in the MMRH.

With the aid of the most interesting and most informative case-histories by various authors, selected from the revision of the materiae medicae, the use of the MMRH will be practised in this seminar, as will the extremely precise prescribing technique which it makes possible.

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Dr. med. Dominik Müller • Specialist in general medicine - Homeopathy • Homeopathy since 1984 • Private medical practice in Eichstätt (Bavaria) • Lecturer at the three-month course (Augsburg,

Germany) • Member of the Materia Medica Revisa Homoeopathiae

project work group (ed. K.-H. Gypser) • Publications under the aegis of the MMRH: Lac

caninum, Causticum, Valeriana, Argentum nitricum, Sabadilla and Anacardium

Contact: mail@dr-d-mueller.de Internet: www.dr-d-mueller.de

Abstract Lecture and Seminar In this lecture as well as in the seminar I will describe the challenges and opportunities of (i) being a homeopath treating patients in routine healthcare – collecting data on my own practice for the purpose of routine audit and (ii) being a researcher in a busy academic environment in the UK doing ‘science’ working on pragmatic trials design (http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1066) and contributing to the evidence base for homeopathy.

Most importantly, I discuss the interface between routine practice and the ‘scientific’ evaluation of treatment by homeopaths.

During the talks I will address a number of questions relating to practical research in clinical homeopathy including:

• What type of information do patients, healthcare providers, healthcare commissioners and insurers need to make decisions about homeopathy?

• What do the 160+ randomised controlled trials of ‘homeopathy’ actually mean?

• What is the role of placebos in randomised controlled trials?

• How can homeopaths contribute to the evidence base?

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Dr Clare Relton FSHom, BA(Hons), MSc, PhD

I originally studied Philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and then I worked in manage-ment training/personal development. After having my sons, I worked as a non medically qualified homeopath in the NHS and privately for a number of years.

I joined the University of Sheffield in 2003 when I was awarded a DH Pre Doctoral Training Fellowship. I obtained an MSc in Health Services Research and PhD in pragmatic clinical trial design. I have been working in the Public Health section of ScHARR since 2009.

I am interested in the relationship between real world practice and research in healthcare – (parti-cularly in how pragmatic randomised controlled trial design can capture and measure the what goes on in real world healthcare).

My current research focuses on the methodological/ design questions for a wide range of healthcare conditions and conundrums – from low breast-feeding rates to rising obesity levels.

Contact: c [dot] relton [at] sheffield [dot] ac [dot] uk Internet: http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ph/staff/profiles/clare

Abstract

“May God preserve every sick person from a physician, … who does not know in advance which medicine will heal the patient and which will do him harm.” [Materia Medica Pura II, 121]

At this point in the Materia Medica Pura, and at a total of 20 other points, Hahnemann speaks up in favour of a priori certainty of healing.

Does such a thing really exist? If it does, what are the obstacles that get in the way of this high ideal of certainty of healing being fulfilled in practice?

Answers to these exciting questions, along with tips relevant to homeopathic practice, make up the contents of this lecture.

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Dr. med. Anton Rohrer has been a General Practitioner since 1985, with his own practice in Großlobming near Knittelfeld (Styria, Austria).

• Homeopathy training from 1981 with Prof. Dr. M. Dorcsi in Baden near Vienna

• later with G. Vithoulkas in Greece and London • 1983 four weeks sitting-in at the Glasgow

Homeo-pathic Hospital, Scotland • Attended course in Repertorisation taught by J.

Künzli on Spiekeroog island • Other significant teachers: W. Klunker, R.

Sankaran, A. Saine, A. Geukens, D. Spinedi, B. Möller (Bönninghausen’s method)

• 1987-2000 committee member of ÖGHM (Austrian Society of Homeopathic Medicine), President 1996-2000

• Since 1987, training homeopathic doctors in Austria, Germany (Freudenstadt, Augsburg 3-month course) and Hungary

• 1996-2009 Lecturer in homeopathy at Graz Medical University (Austria)

• 1999-2007 Consultant physician in homeopathy at the Sigmund Freud State Psychiatric Clinic in Graz

• Publications in journals (“Documenta Homoeo-pathica” and “Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöo-pathie) and in books

Contact: rohrer@hahnemann.at Internet: www.hahnemann.at

Abstract In my workshop “Integrative therapy – a concept for practice“ I will demonstrate the development of designing an ordinary GP practice into a Center for Integrative Medicine.

I want to show that proceeding from Conventional Medicine to Natural Medicine and further on to Classical Homoeopathy comprehends the ingredients for a concept of individualized treatment, tailored to the needs of a modern urban clientele, considering the requirements of the spectrum of modern diseases and patients reasons to seek for medical advice.

After that I want to point out topics such as how to organize the office including the instruction of the Centers staff, thus creating a corporate identity, emphasizing the need of sharing informations, networking with professional colleagues, institutions and patients’ organisations as well as participating in supervision and yet maintaining one’s own resources.

It will be demonstrated what it means to work with an Integrative Concept concerning the relationship between doctor and patient, the way of examination, finding an informed consent and choosing the essentials of treatment.

Furthermore I’d like to demonstrate this with three case presentations: one patient with arthritis, another with hypertension and the third one with chronic inflammation. All are being treated with an individualized concept of Classical Homoeopathy, Natural medicine and reasonable Conventional Medicine.

Vita Dr. med. Irmgard Schnittert

• 1977-1984 Studied human medicine at the Free University of Berlin

• 1986-1994 Medical specialist training in Berlin (Pathology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Ortho-paedics/Rheumatology) for general medical practice

• 1987 Graduation • 1993 Additional qualification in naturopathy • 2003 Degree in homeopathy • since 1995 established in general practice in

Berlin-Schöneberg, Practice Theme: “Integrative Medicine”

Contact: info@drschnittert.de Internet: www.drschnittert.de

Abstract It is a definite fact that, within a plant family, there are common symptoms. But what use is this fact to us? Totally confused controversies rage with regard to the question as to whether one can prescribe according to families and how we can identify family characteristics.

Various speakers will give short presentations and a common seminar, using the angle of their own approach to case analysis to show the part played in prescribing by remedy relationships.

In the seminar we shall then also discuss the methodolo-gical basis for what they have said:

• Of what practical use are the various approaches for these colleagues in their practices?

• Are there approaches to clarify the recognisable methodological differences? If not immediately, then at least as perspectives?

• What is the role played by hypotheses regarding remedies and the verification by means of successful prescribing?

• What generalisations and extrapolations from Materia medica are methodologically justifiable, and in what way?

We shall discuss these questions using inter alia the example of the Liliaceae family – this includes Colchicum autumnale, Helonias dioica, Lilium superbum, Lilium tigrinum, Paris quadrifolia, Sabadilla officinarum, Sarsaparilla officinalis, Veratrum album, Trillium pendulum, Xerophyllum tenax.

Andreas Holling represents the Sankaran method, Klaus Roman Hör the technique of Mangialavori, Anton Rohrer the Genuine Approach and Anne Sparenborg-Nolte Kentian Case Analysis.

Short presentations within the framework of the lecture • Klaus Roman Hör

Concept of plant family (plant relationship) and the effect they have on the choice of remedy as in M. Mangialavori’s work

• Andreas Holling The realm of nature and plant family (plant relation-ship) as a criterion for remedy selection in R. Sanka-ran’s work

• Anton Rohrer The concept of remedy relationship in Genuine Homeopathy

• Anne Sparenborg-Nolte From the medicinal substance to the action of the homeopathic remedy

Seminar themes • Klaus Roman Hör

Plant family (plant relationship) and its effect on remedy selection, using the Liliaceae as example

• Andreas Holling The realm of nature and plant family (plant relationship) as a criterion for remedy selection, using the Liliaceae as an example

• Anton Rohrer What influence is exerted by the relationship of medicinal substances on the action of the remedy and remedy selection, using the Liliaceae as an example

• Anne Sparenborg-Nolte Towards the discovery of the healing energy of medicinal substances: formation of groups and relationships and remedies from Hahnemann up to modern times

Annual WissHom-Congress ICE 12. October 25-27, 2012. Sparenborg et al.: Abstract Lecture and Seminar / Vitae

Vitae Dr. med. Klaus Roman Hör Born in 1950. In 1980 had an incisive experience which called his attention to the homeopathic method of healing.

His first tutors were Dr. Michael Barthel and Dr. Willibald Gawlik. Then he continued his studies for years with Dr. Vassilis Ghegas, finally turning to Dr. Massimo Mangialavori and his complex view of homeopathy.

It is now 29 years since he settled in Waldmünchen (Bavaria, Germany) as a dentist and homeopathic doctor, using homeopathy across the whole spectrum of treatment in general practice and obstetrics.

For 20 years K. R. Hör has also been actively involved in the training of homeopathic doctors in the DZVhÄ (Deutscher Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärzte). The quality circle/ work group in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany) has been led by him since 1988. Since 1990 he has led the Regensburg regional group of the Bavarian branch of the DZVhÄ. For many years he has been lecturing regularly in Bad Herrenalb (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) on Crete, on Mallorca and in Windhoek (Namibia).

Further activities: emergency doctor and head emergency doctor in the Cham District (Bavaria, Germany), duty doctor for the local Bavarian Red Cross branch and Kneipp-Society in Waldmünchen (Bavaria, Germany)

Contact: k.hoer@t-online.de

Andreas Holling General practitioner, homeopathy; since 1986 private practice in Homeopathy in Münster (North Rhine-West-phalia, Germany)

• trained with J. Künzli, H. Gerd-Witte, J. Becker, G. Lang, G. Vithoulkas, J. Scholten, J. Shah, R. San-karan;

• for many years active in training doctors for the postgraduate homeopathy qualification in Münster

• Author of the HomöoQuest Learning Card File • from 1992, intensive training with Jayesh Shah • from 2001 with Rajan Sankaran in Bombay (6 clinical

workshops 2001-2008) • since then he has predominantly used the Sankaran

method in his own practice • regular seminars on the new method in Münster,

Kassel, Munich, Freiburg, Aarau, Mönchengladbach, Berlin and Kiel (Germany)

• Leader of the 3-year course in Sankaran’s systematic homeopathy

• Co-organiser of the Munich Sankaran Conferences • building on Scholten and Sankaran, developed own

concept of the Periodic System of the Elements (Dimensions)

Contact: andreas@praxisholling.de Internet: www.praxisholling.de

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Dr. med. Anton Rohrer Since 1985 General Practitioner, with his own practice in Großlobming near Knittelfeld (Styria, Austria).

• Homeopathy training from 1981 with Prof. Dr. M. Dorcsi in Baden near Vienna

• later with G. Vithoulkas in Greece and London • 1983 four weeks sitting-in at the Glasgow Homeo-

pathic Hospital, Scotland • Attended course in Repertorisation taught by J. Künzli

on Spiekeroog island • Other significant teachers: W. Klunker, R. Sankaran,

A. Saine, A. Geukens, D. Spinedi, B. Möller (Bönning-hausen’s method)

• 1987-2000 committee member of ÖGHM (Austrian Society of Homeopathic Medicine), President 1996-2000

• Since 1987, training homeopathic doctors in Austria, Germany (Freudenstadt, Augsburg 3-month course) and Hungary

• 1996-2009 Lecturer in homeopathy at Graz Medical University (Austria)

• 1999-2007 Consultant physician in homeopathy at the Sigmund Freud State Psychiatric Clinic in Graz

• Publications in journals (“Documenta Homoeopathica” and “Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie”) and in books

Contact: rohrer@hahnemann.at Internet: www.hahnemann.at Dr. med. Anne Sparenborg-Nolte Medical doctor specialising in General Medicine, Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; additional qualifications in Homeopathy / Psychotherapy / Naturo-pathy; main thrust of practice: classical homeopathy

• since 1983, in practice as a homeopathic physician • 1984 -1988 homeopathic practice in Auroville (South

India) • 1990-2000 general practitioner with homeopathic

specialty in Greifenstein (Hessen, Germany) • since 1995 active in professional ongoing training of

homeopathic doctors in Freudenstadt, Heidelberg, Marburg (Germany)

• 2000-2005 training and practice at the Clinic for Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in the Rehberg-Park in Herborn (Hessen, Germany)

• since 2000 medical supervision (advanced level) in homeopathy in Marburg (Hessen, Germany)

• since 2006 general medical practice in partnership with Dr. Stephan H. Nolte (paediatrician) in Marburg

• since 2008 course leader, ongoing training in homeo-pathy for doctors in Freudenstadt (Baden-Württem-berg, Germany) under the auspices of the ZAEN (Zentralverband der Ärzte für Naturheilverfahren)

• since 2009 dual qualification in both General Medicine and Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psycho-therapy, with homeopathy as main thrust of practice

• co-editor of the AHZ (Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung) with G. Bleul and M. Teut

• Lecturer in General Medicine at Marburg University

Contact: anne@sparenborg.com Internet: www.sparenborg.com, www.homdoc.de

Abstract Lecture Water is the most abundant compound on Earth and life is not possible without the presence of its liquid form. The shape of the molecule, its large electric dipole and the formation of intermolecular bonds are, together, at the origin of peculiar properties sometimes very different from those of other liquids.

The complete knowledge of the properties of water is always the subject of intense research work.

After a short introduction reminding some of the more interesting properties of liquid water within the context of biology, an overview of the present research will be presented. It will focus particularly on interfacial properties and situations where water forms bonds with organic substrates modifying the local properties, thus generating specific behaviours often essential in biophysical processes.

The interplay with present views of homoeopathy and prospective actions will be a thematic of discussion.

Vita José Teixeira, PhD, Docteur-ès-Sciences, is Directeur de recherche at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, the French facility for neutron scattering that uses neutrons from the research reactor Orphée at Saclay, suburbs of Paris. He is a specialist of water, its thermodynamic and transport properties, structure and molecular dynamics. His present domain of research is confined water or water under external conditions that limit its dynamics. This activity concerns the behaviour of water molecules around ions, colloids and macromolecules as well as solid interfaces and porous materials. In the domain of homoeopathy he gave advices for Boiron (France) and collaborated with other groups, namely using thermolumi-nescence or Rayleigh scattering techniques. He taught at the Universities of Paris, Versailles, Grenoble, Lisbon and Coimbra and contributed also to low temperature solid state physics, fractals and physics of colloids. He is the author of more than 200 papers and several chapters of books. He was the General Secretary of the French Physical Society and Deputy Director of the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin. Contact: jose.teixeira@cea.fr

Abstract This presentation will describe my approach over the past 11 years to prescribing homeopathy within the Integrative Cancer Care Service at the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital.

Improving symptoms and quality of life has been my primary aim rather than suggesting that homeopathy might affect survival. However over the years, a number of patients have lived longer than expected. The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) was established in October 1998 to coordinate and enhance complementary and alternative medicine activity in cancer care in the USA.

OCCAM funds research and provides evidence based information about complementary therapies. OCCAM has encouraged complementary cancer prescribers to submit cases where outcome has been particularly good as a best case series.

Here I present a number of patients see over the past ten years where improvements in symptoms, well being, scan results and apparent survival have been noted. A range of remedies will be discussed.

Vita Dr Elizabeth Thompson, DMOxon, MBBS, MRCP, FFHom

Elizabeth Thompson is a Consultant Homeopathic Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine. She is an NHS consultant and Lead Clinician for an outpatient service from the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital with a team of seven doctors.

She runs the Integrative Cancer Care Service and was awarded her DM thesis from Oxford University in 2009, the first homeopathic thesis to sit in the Bodleian library describing the use of homeopathy for the cancer patient. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy and was made Vice President of the Faculty of Homeopathy in February 2011. She is the Academic Director for a seven-year academic teaching programme.

Her research interests have included cancer, child health and outcome measures that reflect health gain. Special clinical interests: Integrative Cancer Care.

E-mail: Elizabeth.Thompson@UHBristol.nhs.uk Internet: http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/your-hospitals/bristol-homeopathic-hospital/