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Sequential
Homeopathy, Treatment and Therapy
THE SHORT STORY:
Sequential Homeopathy, Sequential Therapy, Sequential Treatment
These terms refer essentially to the treatment of specific shocks and traumas
(mainly drugs, vaccines, surgeries, but also emotional traumas) in a person's
life using energetic (often called "homeopathic") remedies. The traumas are
identified by creating a "timeline" and then are treated in the reverse order
(backwards from the present, to birth/conception and into the inherited
predispositions).
Sequential treatment (or ST, as it is often referred to) was first developed by
Dr. J.F. Elmiger MD of Switzerland, and was brought to North America and the
homeopathic community and developed further in the early 1990's, by Patty Smith
and Rudi Verspoor of the Hahnemann College and Clinic for Heilkunst.
ST is only part, as is homeopathy, of the full medical system developed by Dr.
Samuel Hahnemann some 200 years ago. The full potential for cure is realized
only when all aspects of health, as laid out by Dr. Hahnemann, are taken into
consideration and applied in every case on an individual basis.
The Hahnemann College for Heilkunst is the only school in the world to teach Dr.
Hahnemann's complete medical system, including the use of ST and homeopathy,
plus much else to prepare professionals to deal effectively, consistently and
successfully with chronic, complex cases.
The book, Autism: The Journey Back - Recovering the Self through Heilkunst,
written by Smith and Verspoor, is one example of the power of Heilkunst to cure
in the treatment of autism.
THE LONG STORY:
Sequential Homeopathy, Sequential Treatment, Sequential Therapy
General
In theory, all medical treatment should be sequential, meaning that the first
remedial measure should be taken first, the next required one next, etc., and in
that sense the term is only stating the obvious.
However, the term, as it is used specifically by some to distinguish one
treatment approach from another, relates to the alternative medicine/natural
health field, and in particular homeopathy. It refers to the specific treatment
of various shocks and traumas (emotional, physical, iatrogenic
(medically-induced) in a person's lifetime, in the reverse order (from most
recent to most distant in time - back to conception). It is this more specific
meaning that is examined here.
History
The idea of sequencing began with the founder of homeopathy, Dr. Samuel
Hahnemann (1755-1843). He created several orders of sequencing based on his
understanding of disease. Most importantly, he made a distinction between
primary diseases with a constant (tonic) nature that then could give rise to
(secondary) diseases with a more variable (pathic) nature, and laid down the
rule to treat for the diseases of a constant nature first, as this would often
destroy the secondary disease at the same time.
Diseases of a constant nature exist in time and space and we can accumulate them
over time. Another important sequence was in the treatment of the archetypal
inherited diseases, termed chronic miasms.
The treatment of the primary diseases was based on a form of similarity between
medicine and disease that is close to identity and could be termed "homotonic"
prescribing. Dr. Hahnemann identified several types of these homotonic diseases
depending on their disease origins - those coming from an "irritation" -
emotional and physical shocks/accidents; those coming from a pathogen
(infectious or pathogenic diseases); those coming from drugs (iatrogenic
diseases).
Little was done with this profound insight into the duality of disease for over
150 years, as the main focus of most of Dr. Hahnemann's followers was on the new
system Hahnemann developed to deal with the pathic diseases, as these could not
be identified according to cause (such as fall, concussion, emotional shock,
drug, etc.), but only through the symptoms. The system called "homeopathy" was
developed by Hahnemann to group and order the symptoms of a disease in a patient
according to the curative law of similars.
It was not until the 1970s that a Swiss medical doctor, Dr. J.F. Elmiger, who
decided to study homeopathy, discovered that the iatrogenic shocks of drugs and
vaccinations was a major cause of illness and that the treatment of these shocks
proceeded in the reverse order of their occurrence. He called the treatment of
these shocks and traumas according to their reverse time sequence La therapie
sequentielle or Sequential Therapy.
He also re-discovered that there was a sequence to the inherited, chronic
miasms, which he called the Law of Succession of Forces. Dr.Elmiger was the
first to systematically create a sequence for tonic disease and for the chronic
miasms based on the use of nosodes (energetic medicines made from disease
discharges) and isodes (energetic medicine made from the actual drug or vaccine
material). His approach provided a successful means of addressing the plethora
of modern iatrogenic diseases unknown in Dr. Hahnemann's time, which made
restoration of health so difficult using other modalities, including homeopathy.
The next step was the introduction of Dr. Elmiger's approach to North America.
While a number of individuals did this independently, it was the work of Rudi
Verspoor (Canada) and Patty Smith (USA), working in collaboration in the early
1990s, who added a significant dimension to Dr. Elmiger's discoveries, namely
that of emotional shock. While this had been included in Elmiger's work, it was
not fully developed, as Dr. Elmiger restricted his practice mainly to children
and certain adult cases. He generally found adult cases difficult to handle.
With the insights into the medicines for emotional shock, Verspoor and Smith
were able to expand the idea of Sequential Therapy to adults in an effective
manner. Their first book, Homeopathy Renewed, published in 1995 (and superceded
by Homeopathy Re-examined), brought Dr. Elmiger's work, combined with their own
extensive research and clinical experience, in developing the sequential
approach, to North America.
Context
While Sequential Therapy, or ST for short, is highly effective, it is important
to realize that it is only part of a much broader system of medicine created by
Dr. Hahnemann, which he called Heilkunst, or the art of restoring health.
This system requires the foundations of health also be addressed, in terms of
bio-chemical balance, diet, exercise, supplements, hormones, energy blockages,
etc, as well as various realms of disease that go beyond that of the timeline
and the chronic miasms. For ST to be most effective, it must be part of this
more complete system of remediation.
The most complete development of Dr. Hahnemann's medical system, which
incorporates ST in its most extensive and effective form, is only to be found
with the Hahnemann College for Heilkunst and its clinical arm, the Hahnemann
Clinic for Heilkunst in Ottawa, Canada.
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