Homoeopathy: Principles And Practice
By Ernest Roberts Second Edition 2005.
A second edition of Ernest Roberts’ popular textbook has been revised and offers a consensus of what homoeopathy means in principles and practice based on 22 years of practice and teaching.
Chapters include:
- The nature of health, disease and cure.
- The patient – How to examine.
- Obstacles to cure: how to recognize and how to remove them.
- Case Analysis: simple and complex cases.
- Potency choice.
- Analysis of the reaction to the first and subsequent prescriptions.
- Miasms: their meaning how to use this knowledge in practice, including the correct use of nosodes.
- The treatment of advanced pathology, including potency choice.
- How to recognize incurable cases and how to treat them.
- Ethics and management of practice.
There are useful diagrams, tables and a detailed index. Each chapter has references, additional reading and exercises for those who study at home. (£10. including p&p)
Some excerpts from reviews:
The Homeopath, winter, 1994 (No 52)
Ernest Roberts states his view of the homeopathic process, identifying 12 basic principles and relating these to relevant Organon paragraphs. He writes clearly and provocatively, and I have no doubt that students will find this book a useful addition to their libraries.
What I particularly liked about the book was the way in which Ernest introduces challenging topics early on in the text. We are asked to consider the question – to cure or not to cure? We are given the opportunity to consider the idea of ‘enlightened suppression’. His sections on the ‘Law of Cure’, the ‘Hierarchy of Sacrifice’, ‘What is to be cured?’ ‘Totality and Beyond’, and the four-level requirements of Good health are very useful, and I shall certainly be using the ideas in my teaching right away.
I would certainly encourage everyone to have a look at this new text for themselves.
Angela Zajak R.S.Hom. “The Homoeopath” No.84.
“Here we have a textbook on philosophy which covers all aspects homoeopathy, and yet it is user friendly! The student will find it a useful study guide; it refers to all aspects of practice. Terms are categorized and defined, often using simple diagrams. A major aim of the book is to present a common consensus of homoeopathy. The author draws on past classical prescribers; Hahnemann, Kent and Vithoulkas are regularly quoted. Ernest demonstrates how these past principles are still relevant today, even in advanced pathology and complex, adulterated cases. Although he talks briefly about other commonly used more modern methods he nevertheless advocates that, whilst there are different patients, there is only one homoeopathy.
It is very pleasing to have a new philosophy text, which is so comprehensive in the areas it covers, as well as addressing the modern practice of homoeopathy. The book is the first of its kind for many years, I would recommend it is included on College reading lists”.
Dr. Jeremy Swayne BA. BM. B.Ch. MRCGP. MF Hom. “Homeopathy”, Vol 91, No 2, April 200
“The book contains a sensible section on the management of patients on conventional medication.
There is also a good deal of sound homeopathy – I like the key messages scattered throughout the text. These are clear, sensible and concise statements of basic principles. For example, ‘All potencies are required for the cure of disease, and any potency may be required on any given case.
The section on casetaking – provides excellent guidance in a few brief pages. Other examples of good straightforward homeopathic teaching are the discussion of what is to be cured, and the guidelines on remedy reactions that indicate the need not to prescribe but to wait. An example of a more difficult theme dealt with well is the section on recognising incurable disease”