Description

2 sessions – 4 CPD/CPE points

Discussion of concerns regarding homeopathic education world-wide and the lack of use of ‘primary’ source material. Topics covered include:

• The importance of teaching the correct foundations, principles and application, and utilising primary texts
• A comparison of the Hahnemann/Bönninghausen use of materia medica and repertory to that of Hering/Kent and post-Kent authors
• Discussion of the limitations of using ‘therapeutic’ medicines for named conditions, and personality constitutional prescribing from secondary sources without the knowledge of case taking according to Hahnemann
• How to utilise a reliable repertory
• Clarification of various misunderstandings and theories about some important basic terminology such as: acute and chronic ‘miasms’ and disease consequences according to Hahnemann, including potency, dosage and management of acute and chronic presentations

About the presenter

Ken D’Aran has been in practice for more than 40 years and has lectured for many years at several Colleges in Sydney.

He was a founding member of The Society of Classical Homoeopathy, followed by the Homoeopathic Association of NSW, where he was President until it merged with the AHA and he became its National Vice President. Ken was also a founding member of the Australian Register of Homoeopaths.

In 2002 he was granted a Distinguished Service Award by the AHA.

Since 2005 Ken has attended regular study groups with George Dimitriadis at the Hahnemann Institute Sydney, adapting his practice (almost) entirely to utilising The Bönninghausen Repertory (TBR), recreated by Dimitriadis from Bönninghausen’s original Therapeutic Pocket Book, ‘primary source’ data and translations. Ken uses primary materia medicas (proving data) for the selection of remedies and has adopted Hahnemann’s teachings regarding liquid, repeated doses in chronic diseases.