by Dana Ullman, MPH North Atlantic Books, 2008, softcover, 387 pages, $19.95. ISBN: 978-1-55643-671-0
book Reviewed by Judith Trojnar

“The longer you can look back, the further you can look forward.”
—Winston Churchill (page 17)

I was reading this book in a hospital emergency room waiting for my 91-year-old father to be treated. Someone noticed the book in my hands and commented, “That stuff works!” then explained how they used the herb Echinacea when they had a cold. This little encounter is evidence of the book’s opening sentence: “Despite its significant popularity throughout the world, homeopathy is commonly misunderstood, condemned, or simply unknown.”

Book cover Homeopathic RevolutionSince my introduction to homeopathy first as a patient in 1996, and now as a continuing life-long student of homeopathy, The Homeopathic Revolution is unlike any other book I have read or used in my studies. It consists of extensively researched quotes, testimonies, and facts about famous people who were supporters, practitioners, and users of homeopathy. As the author explains in Chapter 1, the intent is not to verify homeopathy’s effectiveness scientifically but to offer “a large body of experience” to gain “a better sense of the important role that homeopathy has played in the past and will play in the future of health care.” In his tenth published book, Dana Ullman provides testimony after testimony to the power and efficacy of this medical art.

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Book by Ildiko Ran, CCH, with Anna Menyhért, PhD Inner Experience Press, 2007, softcover, 232 pages, $18.95. ISBN: 978-0-9799303-0-0

Reviewed by Carol Boyce, CCH, RSHom(NA)

“Aude sapere/Dare to know” —Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy, 1755–1843

Throughout the history of homeopathy’s evolution, there has been a continual and healthy debate within the homeopathic community. Is a methodology sufficiently classical? Is one posology (i.e., method of dosing) more effective than another? Are miasms just a theory or an essential component of prescribing?

Sensations, The Healing Power of Homeopathy  Practitioners of different persuasions describe different experiences, and each claim their own to be the most valid. In the process of this exchange, there has been the opportunity for mutual education and growth.

But even the furor created in the mid-1980s by the disappearance of my erstwhile eclectic teachers to a small Greek island to study with homeopath George Vithoulkas pales in comparison to the split in the homeopathic community created by the latest refinement of the work of Dr. Rajan Sankaran of India.

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