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LMHI WORLD CONGRESS 2025
From 14-17 May 2025, LMHI will celebrate 100 years of Joy of Homeopathy during a 4-day congress in the beautiful city of Utrecht, located in the heart of the Netherlands.
The World Congress is usually attracting some 800 homeopathic physicians from all over the world.
The main topics include:
• Agro-homeopathy
• Veterinary homeopathy
• Pharmacology
• Science in homeopathy
• Homeopathy & oncology
• Plants in homeopathy
• Veterinary homeopathy
• Family medicine & pediatrics
• Dentistry
• Homeopathy & psychiatry
• Homeopathy & palliative care
Cases & remedies
The preliminary programme at a glance will be published on the website by the end of May 2024.
For more information about the Congress, visit https://www.lmhi2025.org
HOST CITY: UTRECHT
Only 30 minutes by direct train from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Utrecht is situated in the heart of the Netherlands at the junction of the country’s key motorways and railway lines.
With its canals, bridges and historic houses, and riven with narrow, cobbled, bicycle-filled roads, it is easy to see why this thriving and historic university city is known as “Little Amsterdam”, but without the hordes of tourists and cozier. The Oudegracht (‘Old Canal’) has centuries’ old vaulted wharf cellars – unique in the world – which nowadays host a broad variety of lively restaurants and cafés with waterfront terraces.
CONGRESS VENUE
The Congress will be held in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht location Beatrix building, situated right next to Utrecht Central Station. The historic city centre is at no more than 10 minutes’ walking distance away.
More details can be found on the Venue page of the Congress website.
Report on 77th LMHI World Homeopathic Congress Seville, Spain 2-5 October 2024
Notes from the Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis congress. Don Hamilton, DVM, President, IAVH
I thought I would give a brief summary of some of the many interesting lectures from the Sevilla LMHI congress in early October 2024. Most of these are from the veterinary section, but I will start with a nice presentation by Farokh Master of India, on chronic kidney disease (CKD) treatment in humans, as we can use much of the same information in cats, especially, although it seems I see more CKD in dogs than previously. I can only touch the highlights, but if he publishes (or has published) this information I would recommend getting a copy.
In humans in India, the leading causes of CKD are hypertension and diabetes (could cats suffer hypertension first and CKD second?). Plus many drugs, such as NSAIDS (very important cause), antibiotics and antivirals (ciprofloxacin is often used for kidney “infection” but it damages the kidneys), dyes for MRI, and antihypertensive drugs (these are the ones he listed which are also common in non-human animals, but also alcohol, cocaine, and heroin). Especially the ACE inhibitors are problematic, as we know. Benazepril, enalapril, all of the -pril drugs, some of which paradoxically are prescribed to treat
CKD in cats and I have always been troubled by this. As well he sees that amlodipine and other allopathic drugs for CKD can cause difficulty in treating, and that, with good remedy choices, he can then reduce or eliminate these drugs and improve the outcome, sometimes dramatically.
He also started taking the modalities of the pathology into consideration, as Burnett did. So he uses organopathy remedies along with the constitutional, according to the modalities. According to Burnett, if you select a remedy which does not cover the pathology it mostly will not work. FM stated that this helped him understand renal failure treatment.
Sometimes he also uses isopathic treatment if the CKD can be traced to a drug (using the tautode of the drug in question). And of course he uses such remedies as Serum anguillae, but also Sparteinum 3X (according to Blackwood) and Solidago (I find solidago as a tincture very helpful in many cats). Guardians can find the tincture also as Goldenrod.) But he uses many other remedies, such as Cuprum arsenicosum in a case with severe cramping and pain. According to Stuart Close, pathological symptoms, when they exist alone, are as significant and characteristic as other symptoms, as they reveal the patient. For the small/local pathological remedies, tincture, D3 (3X), D6 (6X), C6 and C30 are best in his experience.
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