Editorial

How would it feel to hear for the first time in our life that suffering and disease can be addressed with medication that doesnʼt, when administered correctly, cause unwanted side effects;

• that, when we are ill, the doctor looks at the totality of our symptoms and also takes the familyʼs disease history into account;

• that the treatment received is to support what the organism is already naturally doing when trying to heal itself;

• that the medication used is based on what is naturally agreeable to you, very affordable and easy to apply;

• that your little baby can take it without harm, and even your favourite pet or animal too;

• that, when you are pregnant, driving your car, doing your job, eating and drinking your favourite foods, or are making love, there is no problem with taking this medication?

Wouldnʼt you think that this is a Godsent miracle?

How then is it possible that this medicine, which of course does exist, is not known and used worldwide? Instead, it is mostly ridiculed, attacked, ignored and not taken seriously.

What is wrong with us?

Could the We in this story also be Us and not just Them?

Homeopathy has so much to offer that we, as homeopaths, often donʼt even realise the extent of it. In the Western, so-called “developed and sophisticated” part of the world it makes sense that Kentian homeopathy has found firm ground. Yes, with good reason, because in the developed intellectual mind-set where the heartʼs expression is often reduced, it becomes the cause of suffering and disease. Here the emphasis on treating psychological suffering and trying to find the single “one-fits-all” remedy becomes understandable.

But what about the severe pathology that homeopathy is able to cure and that requires frequent repetition of one or more remedies; pathology that requires the addressing of the miasms to enable a cure?

What about the epidemic diseases and the enormous amounts of trauma that rule the world and create suffering through their actions and reactions?

What about the iatrogenic diseases that seem to flood us like a medical tsunami?

Homeopathy has theoretical – yes – and practical – possibilities here.

Homœopathic Links is a journal that in its essence would like to give space to all of that;

• would like to reach readers who are open to all of that;

• would like to publish articles that address all of that.

This issue is another attempt to present this underlying philosophy. It offers a variety of articles (and a continuation of the previous issue) that show openness to the different healing possibilities of homeopathy and its different views. If they can be received as additions and not as contradictions, we as editors are content.

Corrie Hiwat