SPECTRUM investigates addiction, a major issue of our time, presenting the practical experience of our international group of authors on the homeopathic treatment of substance addiction as well as non-substance addiction, such as compulsive shopping and gambling. With outstanding contributions from Frans Kusse on trauma and addiction, Jonathan Hardy on the use of milk remedies for bulimia and heroin addiction, and Ulrich Welte on compulsive gambling.

The treatment of addiction is as complex as the addiction itself. The Irish homeopath Declan Hammond, who has treated heroin addicts from the poor districts as well as workaholic cocaine-addicted yuppies, summarises his understanding of this topic with a quote from the Canadian addiction therapist Gabor Maté: “Many of us resemble the drug addict in our ineffectual efforts to fill in the spiritual black hole, the void at the center, where we have lost touch with our souls, our spirit – with those sources of meaning and value that are not contingent or fleeting. Our consumerist, acquisition-, action-, and image-mad culture only serves to deepen the hole, leaving us emptier than before.”

Every addition develops its own dynamic that finally – regardless of the type of addiction – leads to stereotypical behavioural patterns. The psychologist Johanna Tränkner demonstrates this by comparing the symptoms of drug abuse and non-substance forms of addiction such as compulsive shopping, workaholism, compulsive gambling and sex addiction. ...

In Jan Scholten's periodic table, which reflects the various developmental stages of human life, the Iron series represents the start of adult life with its associated tasks and duties. Topics, such as discipline, routine, rules, control, perfection, and the feeling of guilt associated with failure are characteristics of this phase, in which the superego and society both take their toll. The resulting conflicts highlight each element of the Iron series in its own way.

SPECTRUM presents the developmental stages of the fourth series of the periodic table with a number of case histories and a variety of illnesses. Together with familiar remedies, such as Kalium, Ferrum, Zincum, or Arsenicum, accompanied by their salts, we will look at less familiar remedies, such as Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Gallium, and Germanium. The themes of the Iron series and their manifestation in the various stages help us to achieve a better understanding of both familiar and new remedies. The aim of this chapter of our modern materia medica is therefore to comprehensively demonstrate the practical application of the elements of the periodic table, exemplified by the Iron series.
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Rheumatism is a widespread and multifaceted disease. Rheumatic disorders include around 240 various illnesses with differing symptom pictures and treatment modalities. The number of homeopathic remedies that can be used to treat rheumatism is even larger. We have chosen a selection of remedies to highlight certain trends, at the same time presenting various homeopathic approaches in the treatment of patients with rheumatism.

In the reading sample, author Jürgen Hansel shows how the picture of the classic rheumatism remedy Ruta graveolens encompasses not just the physical symptoms of chronic polyarthritis but also the typical personality traits of rheumatism patients. In the Rue remedy family, Ruta is assigned to the cancer miasm, which is also found in additional articles on rheumatism. For example, Artur Wölfel recognises the cancer miasm in a woman with lupus erythematodes, whose case is characterised by conformity and perfectionism. Suppressed feelings, also an aspect of this reaction pattern, play a major role in Urvi Chauhan‘s case of sero-negative polyarthritis. The remedy in this case is Opium, which is also assigned to the cancer miasm in the poppy family.

Taciturnity, emotional repression and perfectionism are also prominent in Massimo Mangialavori‘s case, pointing here to the Primrose family. If the emotional isolation takes the form of deep depression with inner rigidity and painful stiffness, Lapis lazuli – a semi-precious stone remedy – can at least heal the p...

Infections
The containment of infectious disease with antibiotics and vaccinations is now jeopardized by the emergence of new diseases such as AIDS, BSE, and SARS, as well as especially the worldwide emergence of multi-resistant bugs. Old plagues such as tuberculosis or gonorrhea are therefore once again on the rise. We are gradually running out of ways to combat these pathogens. Alternative strategies are required. This primarily entails fortifying the body‘s own immune system, which is precisely the objective of homeopathy.

Samuel Hahnemann spoke of the life force that is stimulated by homeopathic remedies. The infected organism is thereby so strengthened that it can better overcome illness and pathogens on its own. This homeopathic approach proved its mettle during the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century. It is nowadays especially appropriate for virus infections, which cannot otherwise be treated, as well as for bacterial infections, to pre-empt the development of antibiotic resistance. Using a rich variety of case histories, our internationally renowned team of authors discuss Individual remedy selection and the typical healing reaction in acute as well as chronic infectious disease.

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