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Friday evening we enjoyed our BBQ at a separate building with a lovely walled garden. The weather stayed fine, and bagpipers played a selection of tunes in the garden while we ate, drank, and socialized both in the garden and indoors.
Shelley Epstein started us off on Saturday morning with an excellent description of the “Vijayakar Principles” as a means of assessing the severity of conditions and the progress of cases. Shelley emphasized that it is ideal to study this method in more detail. In brief, it is based on several main concepts. First, passive nutrient gradients flow from above – down, and inside – out. Secondly, electrical potential is higher in more important tissues and lower on the periphery. These two principles are related to the direction of cure of symptoms. Next, and more detailed, there are seven layers of suppression, correlating to the complexity of tissue and developmental level: from ectoderm as the lowest level suppression, through endoderm, mesoderm, endocrine organs, CNS, with the genetic code as the highest level of suppression. All of the chronic miasms can occur in any level, with syphilitic signs receiving prioritisation in case analysis. In case analysis, assessment of the level of suppression of all case symptoms allows one to see the case, and to tell when the case is truly moving towards cure.
Shelley next discussed “Are Homeopathic Medicines Dangerous?” Around the world various statements or rulings have been made, supposedly to protect people
from homeopathic medicine. Shelley reviewed the possibility of negative effects such as proving signs, dis- similar reactions, and counter-action of the body’s secondary response, all of which can produce unwelcome signs. These can be antidoted if necessary, and proper patient education will minimise their occurrence. There is an increased risk of aggravation in sensitive individuals, or those with hidden pathology or weakened vitality. In addition, medicines that are combined with conventional drugs or herbs may be – inappropriately – described as homeopathic medicines, contrary to the Homoepathic Pharmacopeia.
Sara Fox Chapman and Lee Kayne followed, giving updates on the current situation in the US and the UK/EU.
Sara has been working with an advocacy group, Americans for Homeopathy Choice. The FDA proposed new draft guidance that require all homeopathic medicines to be individually pre-approved before marketing, essentially making all of them illegal. The current guidance (400.400) requires homeopathic medicines to be properly produced according to the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia, and to be accurately labeled. AFHC has petitioned the FDA to make the 400.400 guidance a regulation, and that the FDA form an advisory committee for homeopathy composed of homeopathic professionals. AFHC provided an extensive dossier of papers to the FDA, available here: https://homeopathychoice.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/06/AFHC-Research- Compendium-Submitted-to-FDA.pdf
Legislative action is progressing, and a lawyer and public relations team have been engaged to promote the message of homeopathy’s inherent safety and efficacy. The AFHC have been careful to keep the focus on homeopathy, avoiding attempts by the media to engage on issues such as vaccination, as this can only dilute the message.
Lee Kayne of Freeman’s Pharmacy discussed his experiences with the FDA regulators, as Freeman’s exports to the US; the FDA was helpful and interested. The situation with the EU following Brexit is unclear, but Lee feels that the UK regulators will have far more problems in the health field than homeopathy, so he does not expect sudden draconian regulations. Lee has found that the VMD is interested in integrating homeopathy in veterinary medicine. Pharmacovigilance is the avoidance of adverse effects or drug problems, and properly prepared and used homeopathic medicines have an excellent record in this regard. In the UK the Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-a-homeopathic- medicine-or-remedy
establishes regulations governing the registration of homeopathic medicines.
Shelley Epstein Bernard Hornig Sara Fox-Chapman and Minako Kuroda Sue Armstrong and Stuart Marston Lee Kayne – Freeman’s
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