Imparting the Knowledge of Homeopathy Understandably

The Center for Classical Homeopathy (CKH) has given itself the task of imparting a knowledge of homeopathy clearly and understandably. This health-bringing method should now – after 200 years – finally find application on a large scale through becoming comprehensible and thereby practical.

We call our method, which combines homeopathy, psychology and an understanding of the language of symptoms, of the meaning of the remedies, and of body language ... Creative Homeopathy.

Antonie Peppler has been using this method in her homeopathic practice with great success for many years already. She passes her competence on to the students of the Center.

Let us exemplify the nature of Creative Homeopathy with a case study.

Hay Fever, Asthma and Iodine Deficiency

Patient: Beate M., 15 years old

Four years ago an unimposing, very shy young lady, Beate M., came to my practice without accompaniment. Beate related how in the spring of the previous year she had developed a goiter and the examination uncovered a severe iodine deficiency.

The goiter appeared suddenly and grew very quickly. Since this time, Beate has regularly taken iodine supplements. Three months after the goiter appeared she also developed an intense hay fever that was linked to attacks of asthma. The hay fever began in June and ended the middle of September. Nothing helped.

At the beginning of the next hay fever season Beate was in my practice and telling me her symptoms. First I attempted to discover why the goiter and the hay fever with its asthma had come so suddenly.

Unfortunately, from Beate’s information no cause could be found. From the sparsely filled in questionnaire, I learned that she had had the children’s diseases measles, scarlet fever, croup, mumps, German measles, and chickenpox. She listed the vaccinations measles, diphtheria, croup, German measles, tetanus and polio. She had often had cases of Herpes labialis.

A number of years ago the wisdom teeth came in and had to be surgically removed. She had often had bronchitis between the ages of five and seven. It was clear that she tends to the hot side and sweats easier than freezes. As preferences for foodstuffs, she listed: desire for salad, desire for tea. She loves pasta and baked goods a lot. She did not list any aversions to foodstuffs.

Because there were no real reasons for her situation to be found in the symptoms, I attempted to entice a few typical hay fever symptoms out of Beate. The only thing that was striking was that the hay fever was connected with a swollen upper eyelid on the right eye. The upper right eyelid was always decidedly more swollen than the left and also itched. The left lid also itched a bit, but considerably less.

After a lengthy verbal anamnesis that did not lead anywhere in particular, I decided to create a repertorization and interpret the individual symptoms.

• Calcium carbonicum stood in first place purely from the numerical calculation. This remedy means that a person does not feel safe enough to deal with life by himself.

• In second place stood the most incisive remedy: Causticum, a remedy that points to severe shock that someone has had and which forms the reason why he withdraws and no longer trusts himself to express his emotions openly.

• Next came Hepar sulphuris: the need to want to change others in order to increase one’s own security. People who have very different characters often have difficulty getting along with each other. The only possibility that this person sees to feel strong in a group is to so change the others that everyone has the same feelings.

• Lachesis muta, the suppression of one’s own personality due to a traumatic situation.

• Natrum muriaticum, holding one’s breath. There is a situation that has absolutely not been dealt with and which blocks the future.

• Then came Nux vomica, which means that a person absolutely does not want to divulge his feelings and hides them under a hectic pace and distraction.

• Next was Phosphorus, which means that a person has been in a stressful situation for a relatively long time.

• Pulsatilla, not feeling up to a situation, prefers to stick her head in the sand than confront the situation.

• Silica, the feelings are cut off due to an emotional shock. The patient has decided to see his life only from a rational perspective so that he no longer has to encounter his feelings.

• Then came Spongia, with this remedy too the feelings are pushed aside. The patient attempts to become inconspicuous in order to find protection in a group.

• Causticum, so that she could reconnect to her feelings.

• Natrum muriaticum, so that she could overcome her sorrow.

• Natrum carbonicum, so that she could step out of the need to conform. Spongia and China are also related to this issue.

• Iodum, on the one side in order to balance out the supplements and on the other so that she learns self-love and self-respect.

• Carbo vegetabilis, so that she can use her own emotions and feelings and power for her own purposes and not lose them in battle with others.

• Alumina, the most important remedy for helping her to establish her own stance in life and not just stay an emotional extension of the grandmother.