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Flourishing Against the Odds: Homeopathy for Our Rapidly Changing World presents a homeopathic toolkit not only for professional homeopaths, but also one which will appeal to other therapeutic modalities. It is aimed at treating individuals facing the challenges arising from the impacts of major events in today’s rapidly changing world. These traumatising events include the manifold instances of population displacement from wars, toxic environmental pollution, the Covid-19 pandemic with the associated mental and emotional fallout from authoritarian lockdowns, as well as the growing threat of climate change and algorithmic media which has eroded trust and driven political and identity polarisation.
This new book offers a guide to practitioners working in contemporary times to support thriving in their patients, within a world of disarray and disconnection. A transgenerational practice model is presented in Part 1 and a Materia Medica of homeopathic remedies in Part 2, selected to help readers navigate their way in repairing and restoring the health of their patients to flourish against the odds. The author describe how to use 40 key homeopathic medicines based on the subjects discussed in this book.
Elizabeth Adalian has combined with her long-standing colleague and friend, Nigel Hargreaves, who is, as well as an experienced homeopath, an expert on climate change. We decided to join our efforts in putting forward a sustainable approach to health. This was based on our understanding of the different challenges of our rapidly changing world today compared with those at the time homeopathy was first discovered. Our basic message is that the fundamental principles still apply within this approach.
Together, we have delineated in the text the difference between trauma (the early wound) and traumatisation (which we believe taps into the original wound). Adopting this awareness with their patients, the authors have discovered, awakens the often unhealed parts which are crying out for help. It also contributes to the building of the much needed resilience to resist the perpetual pressures of today’s world.
271 pages
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REVIEWER: Vatsala Sperling
While our practice demands that we stay rooted in the materia medicas and repertories and keep up with the latest research and development in the frontiers of homeopathy, from time to time, we need to read books that inspire and educate us about the relevance of homeopathy in today’s messy world when the mainstream is hellbent on demolishing it by any means. Such a vital need is very well met by Elizabeth Adalian and Nigel Hargreaves’ book, “Flourishing against the odds, Homeopathy for our rapidly changing world.”
Watching her young family be affected remarkably by homeopathy helped Elizabeth resolve that she will take homeopathy to the war-torn countries, to the frontiers, where humanity is tested amidst man-made sufferings and pain.
Based on this experience, she wrote her first book about transgenerational impact of trauma, and now, in the book that you are about to read, Elizabeth establishes the relevance of homeopathy in the highly traumatized modern world.
Undoubtedly, you can expect that you might get to witness the raw success of homeopathy. The co-author, Nigel Hargreaves, brings his engineering background and his flair for energy decarbonization, and environmental regeneration to the table, and his perspective of seeing the role of homeopathy in enhancing disease resilience.
Let us think about the rapidly changing world – the emergence of mass media has succeeded in bringing every war to our TV screen, and to all our handheld devices. We can hear bombs exploding, people screaming as they shatter to bits.
This agonizing soundscape is interrupted by a high-pitched jingle for an ad for luxury vacation cruises. Such a media presentation of human misery not only minimizes the graveness of the war, but it also dehumanizes us, reduces our empathy, makes us feel helpless in the face of things and situations that we cannot change, and cannot condone.
We absorb the global stress and make it personal, day-to-day stress. In this scenario, Adalian, and Hargreaves have banded together, pooled their expertise, and tried to make sense of a complex world, and the complex diseases it elicits.
They have taken a fresh look at the possibilities and potentials of our ageless homeopathic remedies for helping humankind suffering from dis-ease. This book, Flourishing Against the Odds, Homeopathy for our Rapidly Changing World, is the outcome of such a joint exercise.
Part 1 of this book is about redeploying homeopathy for transitioning from trauma to resilience. While a window for trauma is set in place during the formative years, and our sensitivity to trauma is grounded in transgenerational lineage that we inherit, it is enhanced and compounded by occurrences in the external world.
Homeopathy does not make the trauma disappear, but it enables us to get more resilient and stronger from within as we face traumatizing events and experiences. While trauma, transgenerational as well as current, elicits several disease states, the degeneration and decay of our environment adds fuel to the fire.
Air, sea, and soil pollution are nobody’s friends. Now microplastics are discovered even in our brains, and breastmilk. As a result, we face our traumas while working with a compromised immune system that has been hacked by environmental pollution. We must fight our personal battles, but we are only half ready for it.
No wonder, we seem to be in a perpetual state of overwhelming incapacity, apathy, burnout. The authors look to Picric acid, Phosphoric acid for covering this picture, and write about how these acids have the potential to help the nerves.
In a similar, but exceptionally refreshing manner, the authors have presented the diseases of modernity, and looked at indicated remedies with a fresh perspective. Take for example, Alzheimer’s disease, circadian clock crisis, tinnitis, antibiotic resistance, various traumas, epigenetic influences, and gut-brain axis.
They write about what these are, and how to attain resilience using homeopathic remedies while facing these diseases. I was quite impressed to see that the authors addressed a phenomenon we can notice easily, but do not necessarily know what elicits it.
They call this situation, resurgence of narcissism. There, now we know what to call this readily observable phenomenon. I am a child of the 1960s and was raised to acknowledge a good deed, then feel and express gratitude. What I am noticing now is an enhanced sense of entitlement in people. They are convinced they are somehow the best, and the world should roll over on its back and lay at their feet expecting to be commanded.
No matter how earnestly you nurture and serve these individuals, there is never a note of thanks, never an acknowledgment, never a whisper of gratitude… it is as if you should have laid down your life for them, but you did not, and whatever you have done for them is nothing really.
I had always wished there was a rubric and a remedy for this form of human behavior. The authors are calling out to Lilium tigrinum, Palladium, Platina and Veratrum album. In pages 110 and 111 you will find not just one, but a long list of rubrics to explore that describe narcissism.
Further along, you get to read how to handle addiction, and body dysmorphia.
Part 2 of the book is the materia medica and it covers 39 old as well as new remedies. The authors have explored these remedies in the context of modern times and the dis-ease state we encounter. So, you will NOT get read a head-to-toe symptomatology here, but you will encounter the authors’ perspective on the remedies and how they have found use for them to treat the maladies of modern times.
They have skillfully used the age-old rubrics to reflect what they encounter in today’s life. As a result, very interesting remedy portraits and applications emerge in each of the pages dedicated to materia medica. They have contextualized the remedies very skillfully.
In a very brief conclusion, with a great sense of optimism, Adalian and Hargreaves have summarized their heart-felt conviction that now more than ever, using homeopathic remedies judiciously, we can restore the vital force of ailing humankind from a state of morbid derangement to one where it can maintain a harmonious order in the organism. In other words, homeopathy is absolutely, totally, and fully ready for initiating healing and reconnection for the greater good of all living creatures, and the planet itself. A more positive pronouncement about homeopathy – we can dream about for sure.
However, for now, this book “Flourishing Against the Odds, Homeopathy for our Rapidly Changing World” delivers a promisingly positive way to look at the present situation, its fall out in terms of human health, and how to elicit a global resilience using homeopathic remedies in as positive an approach as possible. It delivers optimism, inspires us, and restores hope – something we all need urgently in modern times.
Elizabeth, Nigel, Thank You both for writing this decidedly positive book.
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