Dynamic Medicine: The World According to Homeopathy

Dynamic Medicine is a book aimed at explaining what homeopathy is and is not, what it can do and cannot, comparing it with conventional medicine as practiced today associated with an acerbic but spot-on criticism of ‘modern’ medicine.

After explaining how he became involved with homeopathy and who are his patients, Larry Malerba presents an interesting collection of common cases that are very often seen at the clinic. To make it even more interesting, he is asking the reader to find the indicated remedy, which he reveals in the ‘Notes’ at the end of the book, challenging the reader's knowledge and exposing the novice to the way homeopaths select their remedies. Some common remedies are then described in more details.

Explaining homeopathy is one of the most difficult tasks one can encounter. Larry bypasses the difficulty by presenting some of the many different current hypotheses while mentioning that there are others but unfortunately insisting that it is not that relevant to the practice.

In the chapter ‘Homeopathic Psychology’, he explains how homeopathy can reach deep levels that are often considered the domain of specialists by conventional medicine, and then mistreated through suppression.

The last chapters insist heavily on the ability of homeopathy to delve into the roots of diseases, no matter what their clinical expressions are, and how this can achieve long-lasting progress on the road to healing, as Larry prefers not to use the concept of cure, claiming that cure is never achieved in reality. All this spiced by sarcastic, albeit polite, criticism of conventional medicine and exposure of its limits and damages, while not denying its usefulness in well-indicated situations.

Altogether this book is aimed at the general public wanting some exposure to understand homeopathy and at the beginner students who sometimes are asking themselves what they are doing there and why they got involved in this journey … been there, done that. It is an easy but serious read with funny quirks, comments and examples, very much recommended.