OUT OF PRINT: Homeopathy through the Chinese Looking Glass: Homeosiniatry Revisited
Language
English
Type
Hardback
Publisher
Emryss
Out of stock
€0.00
Share on social media
Mental, emotional and spiritual issues are not the easiest problems to reveal. We depend on what the patients tell us or what we can sense or suspect through body language and use of specific words during the consultation.
The body does not lie. If one can read it, it will tell what state it is in and what remedy, or at least what type of remedy it needs. There are windows of perception into the deepest mental situations even when the physical appearance seems to deny it: the bronzed athlete or the beautiful, lascivious woman can be depressed, anxious or schizophrenic. They will just hide it better than the common human.
The diagnostic methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can be used by homeopaths, especially in situations relating to very intimate problems that might be very difficult if not impossible for the patient to relate to the practitioner. Those methods allow pinpointing a group of remedies or a precise remedy without the need for the patient to perform a disturbing psychological strip-tease.
This method has been, in my experience, the key to opening cases, unlocking suppressed and repressed memories, feelings and symptoms, allowing a faster and deeper analysis and eventually a correct prescription.
| ISBN | 9789076189338 |
|---|---|
| Author | Joe Rozencwajg |
| Type | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| Pages | 199 |
| Publisher | Emryss |
| Review | This book review is reprinted with the permission from the Autumn 2011 Edition of The Homeopath. Reviewed by Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott Dr. Rozencwajg, for many years a surgeon, then an enthusiastic practitioner of acupuncture, herbalism and homeopathy etc, has written this book to help homeopaths to find the remedy faster for taciturn patients. Homeopathy, a wonderfully elegant and economical energy system therapy, lacks an energetic pathology of disease that even begins to approach that of Chinese medicine. Although the latter's philosophy of disease is highly sophisticated, Chinese medicine still uses words rooted in people's experience, in observation, listening, palpation, questioning. It differs from modern medicine in its underlying model of health, which is 'energetic'. Does the system the author proposes work? Yes it does, as your reviewer can attest, having used Chinese medicine for 30 years, not just as he suggests and for students of homeopathy but also to help homeopathic patients understand their conditions better. However, not so fast! The problem is that you have two major systems. Each has an extensive philosophy and then in homeopathy you need to learn the remedies and how to choose and use them, and in Chinese medicine the different systems (including meridians, zang-fu, five elements, eight conditions, yin, yang, qi and blood etc, the herbs and their actions) and how to apply all this, via acupuncture, herbalism etc. Most people take years to get on top of even one of these, let alone both. Having taught Chinese medicine to homeopathic students for 25 years, I can tell you they love it: it successfully explains a huge amount. But as to applying it? I would guess that few of them use it much. Why? Because what is made easy to understand in lectures is often much harder to apply in practice. Also, because the art and science of homeopathy is not only inspiring but also very practicable, many homeopaths will feel they don't need yet another way of understanding what is going on. The book swiftly covers the basic ideas in Chinese medicine already mentioned, plus the seven emotions as causes of disease and the organ-emotion relationships and their pathologies. The author provides extensive remedy lists for each Chinese medicine rubric. He also covers what are called the five 'shen' or spiritual aspects of the organs, (shen, po, houn, yi, zhi) an important topic. He then provides a concise materia medica of remedies with their explanation in Chinese medicine, including tongue and pulse. The second hundred pages are basically a repertory giving for each Chinese classification the remedies, analysed from MacRepertory and Reference Works TM: let us hope the publishers of those programmes include his rubrics in future. As the author says, there are not many books on this subject, though he may like to read books by Dr Yubraj Sharma which give a far more precise oriental diagnosis of the remedies. He freely admits his book is a work in progress. There are some small mistakes in it, and in a few cases I would disagree with him but: should you buy it? Well, yes, if you want help in applying a knowledge of Chinese medicine to homeopathy, but perhaps you should learn to apply Chinese medicine first.
This book review is reprinted from Volume 24, Autumn 2011 edition of Homoeopathic Links with permission from Homeopathic Links. Reviewed by Francis Treuherz, United Kingdom
When I was faced with a choice some 35 years ago between Western homeopathy and Eastern acupuncture I could not get my European brain around traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). I had arrived as a patient at my alternative medical practice one day for a homeopathy follow-up for my chronic condition, with an acute earache, having ridden there on my bike in a cold wind. The pain in my ear vanished under the benign but scary influence of some needles. Then my homeopathic treatment continued in the usual manner; I stuck with the homeopathy. Joe has maybe coined a term, "homeosiniatry" but I am not sure that the two can be fused. We know that there are many names for the "human energy", which we call the dynamis or vital force, and the Chinese call "chi". We can maybe reach into this energy with our potencies; they use needles and moxa. If the law of the direction of cure is a universal law then it should be observable in Chinese treatment. Books have been written which attempt to link surface anatomy to both locations for inserting needles and therapeutics of homeopathic medicines. Dr. Joe has looked deep inside both schools and, for example, tried to look at aspects of Ying and Yang, and the elements, and heat and cold, dry and wet, as possible rubrics. To see these rubrics systematically he has used MacRepertory in an extremely creative way. A large part of this slim volume is given over to a homeosiniatric or TCM repertory. He has some short lists of possible remedies for Yin, for Yang, heat or fire, earth, metal, water, wind. I know that some colleagues like Jeremy Sherr, who has studied both schools, can inform their homeopathy with insights from the east. I have studied this book a few times now and I cannot make the leap. I do not criticise Dr. Joe for this, and I urge you to make the effort and study the book. It is far simpler in its approach than the French tomes I have tackled, by Roger de la Fuye (Traite d'Acupuncture 1955) or Jean-Claude Duboise (Homoeopathie et mideeine Chmoise 1998). Dr. Joe concludes that the next step may be to harness the subtle diagnostics of tongue, pulses and more of TCM, and compare them with our own methods. I concur and urge him to include a test for Hering's Law. I look forward to the next volume. |
Review
This book review is reprinted with the permission from the Autumn 2011 Edition of The Homeopath.
Reviewed by Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott
Dr. Rozencwajg, for many years a surgeon, then an enthusiastic practitioner of acupuncture, herbalism and homeopathy etc, has written this book to help homeopaths to find the remedy faster for taciturn patients. Homeopathy, a wonderfully elegant and economical energy system therapy, lacks an energetic pathology of disease that even begins to approach that of Chinese medicine. Although the latter's philosophy of disease is highly sophisticated, Chinese medicine still uses words rooted in people's experience, in observation, listening, palpation, questioning. It differs from modern medicine in its underlying model of health, which is 'energetic'.
Does the system the author proposes work? Yes it does, as your reviewer can attest, having used Chinese medicine for 30 years, not just as he suggests and for students of homeopathy but also to help homeopathic patients understand their conditions better.
However, not so fast! The problem is that you have two major systems. Each has an extensive philosophy and then in homeopathy you need to learn the remedies and how to choose and use them, and in Chinese medicine the different systems (including meridians, zang-fu, five elements, eight conditions, yin, yang, qi and blood etc, the herbs and their actions) and how to apply all this, via acupuncture, herbalism etc.
Most people take years to get on top of even one of these, let alone both. Having taught Chinese medicine to homeopathic students for 25 years, I can tell you they love it: it successfully explains a huge amount. But as to applying it? I would guess that few of them use it much. Why? Because what is made easy to understand in lectures is often much harder to apply in practice. Also, because the art and science of homeopathy is not only inspiring but also very practicable, many homeopaths will feel they don't need yet another way of understanding what is going on.
The book swiftly covers the basic ideas in Chinese medicine already mentioned, plus the seven emotions as causes of disease and the organ-emotion relationships and their pathologies. The author provides extensive remedy lists for each Chinese medicine rubric. He also covers what are called the five 'shen' or spiritual aspects of the organs, (shen, po, houn, yi, zhi) an important topic.
He then provides a concise materia medica of remedies with their explanation in Chinese medicine, including tongue and pulse.
The second hundred pages are basically a repertory giving for each Chinese classification the remedies, analysed from MacRepertory and Reference Works TM: let us hope the publishers of those programmes include his rubrics in future. As the author says, there are not many books on this subject, though he may like to read books by Dr Yubraj Sharma which give a far more precise oriental diagnosis of the remedies. He freely admits his book is a work in progress. There are some small mistakes in it, and in a few cases I would disagree with him but: should you buy it? Well, yes, if you want help in applying a knowledge of Chinese medicine to homeopathy, but perhaps you should learn to apply Chinese medicine first.
This book review is reprinted from Volume 24, Autumn 2011 edition of Homoeopathic Links with permission from Homeopathic Links.
Reviewed by Francis Treuherz, United Kingdom
I have long ago realised what an adventurous mind sits inside Joe Rozencwajg, a real polyglot and polymath, a combination of the practical with the scholarly. He has lived in Belgium. Israel, South Africa, and New Zealand; he has studied more schools of medical thought than I have ever heard of; he has written about gemmotherapy, organopathy drainage and detoxification, about the Fibonacci series applied to potency and now the relationship between Chinese medicine and homeopathy. I wonder if this time he has overreached himself and his readers, or is it just me?
When I was faced with a choice some 35 years ago between Western homeopathy and Eastern acupuncture I could not get my European brain around traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). I had arrived as a patient at my alternative medical practice one day for a homeopathy follow-up for my chronic condition, with an acute earache, having ridden there on my bike in a cold wind. The pain in my ear vanished under the benign but scary influence of some needles. Then my homeopathic treatment continued in the usual manner; I stuck with the homeopathy. Joe has maybe coined a term, "homeosiniatry" but I am not sure that the two can be fused.
We know that there are many names for the "human energy", which we call the dynamis or vital force, and the Chinese call "chi". We can maybe reach into this energy with our potencies; they use needles and moxa. If the law of the direction of cure is a universal law then it should be observable in Chinese treatment. Books have been written which attempt to link surface anatomy to both locations for inserting needles and therapeutics of homeopathic medicines. Dr. Joe has looked deep inside both schools and, for example, tried to look at aspects of Ying and Yang, and the elements, and heat and cold, dry and wet, as possible rubrics.
To see these rubrics systematically he has used MacRepertory in an extremely creative way. A large part of this slim volume is given over to a homeosiniatric or TCM repertory. He has some short lists of possible remedies for Yin, for Yang, heat or fire, earth, metal, water, wind. I know that some colleagues like Jeremy Sherr, who has studied both schools, can inform their homeopathy with insights from the east. I have studied this book a few times now and I cannot make the leap. I do not criticise Dr. Joe for this, and I urge you to make the effort and study the book. It is far simpler in its approach than the French tomes I have tackled, by Roger de la Fuye (Traite d'Acupuncture 1955) or Jean-Claude Duboise (Homoeopathie et mideeine Chmoise 1998).
Dr. Joe concludes that the next step may be to harness the subtle diagnostics of tongue, pulses and more of TCM, and compare them with our own methods. I concur and urge him to include a test for Hering's Law. I look forward to the next volume.
