HOMEOPATHIC INSIGHT INTO PLANT AND TREE REMEDIES
A patient’s case can seem like a forest of symptoms. There can be so much information, and we need to process it. We need to find ‘the way through the woods’! This book aims to do just that.
Ton Jansen has worked tirelessly for over 30 years to achieve quick, gentle and lasting cures for his patients, and has the results that are evidence of the success of his method. He finds he needs to draw on a wide variety of remedies to get consistent results, and in this book he presents many of them in a clear and succinct way.
He shows us how to use the homeopathic detox therapy (HDT) with our patients in the many cases where it’s necessary to remove what Hahnemann called ‘the obstacles to cure’, and also to find the truly indicated remedy to improve their condition at a deep level.
This book, and his previous book Fighting Fire with Fire, can help us to understand and then apply these teachings in our clinical practice!
Why buy this book?
- Discover more about plant kingdoms and less familiar remedies by learning their keynotes, illustrated with successful cases
- Learn the differences between similar remedies (differential diagnosis) to achieve a more accurate remedy choice, with remedy pictures that go beyond what is currently in the repertory
- See how to select detox treatment courses to prevent unnecessary aggravations and achieve quicker results by removing ‘obstacles to cure’
- Find how to apply the miasmatic remedy as well as the constitutional remedy with the detox therapy to get deep and lasting cures.
- Author: Jansen Ton
- 448 pages
- Printed in The Netherlands
- Hardback
- ISBN: 9789076189888
Reprinted with the permission of The Society of Homeopaths, (from 'The New Homeopath' magazine, Winter 2020 edition): Reviewed by Philippa Fibert RSHom.
Ton's book is an A4 sized, large typed, glossy materia medica collection which includes many rarely described plant remedies. Each remedy entry follows the same format: picture, description of plant, plant theme, differentiating remedies, and a case. There is also a 'works on' section providing a useful way to differentiate between members of the same plant family. You can move from family theme to specific plant remedy by identifying the organ(s) of concern. For example, all the Laminaceae have the theme of 'need for recognition', but Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) acts on the bladder; Lamium album (white deadnettle) on the kidneys, uterus and urinary tract; Nepeta (catmint) on lungs, liver and bowels.
Hundreds of plant remedies are grouped in their families. This structure can help with differentiation between lesser known members of the same species leading to more precise prescriptions. For example, 21 members of the Ranunculaceae family are described (family theme 'attention and support'). This might better enable differentiation between Pulsatilla pratensis - an 'even milder pulsatilla'; or Pulsatilla nuttaliana, which has the characteristic symptom 'nostalgia for an old room'. Characteristic differentiating symptoms are observed by the author and backed up by brief accompanying cases.
I got the feeling that there is even more wisdom to the prescriptions than is transmitted in the book. The cases are not always clearly apparent examples of the remedy they are meant to illustrate. But this is not a book from which to obtain full remedy pictures, but to gain from the author's experience. Ton was a colleague of Tinus Smits and better known for his interpretation of Tinus' work which he calls Homeopathic Detox Therapy. Detox prescriptions, miasmatic prescriptions, even pharmaceutical prescriptions accompany or precede his plant prescriptions. This can leave one wondering what caused what, but are interesting descriptions of the complex prescriptions often required to help today's patients. Often, we are guided through detoxing and miasmatic prescribing to the curative characteristic plant remedy.
This book is a translation from Dutch, and occasional language lapses may grate if you are that way inclined, but also add charm.
Dr Philippa Fibert qualified from Purton House in 2007, before going on to obtain a BSc in Homeopathy at Thames Valley University, and a research MSc at Goldsmiths, University of London (Research Methodology in Psychology), carrying out research into homeopathy and children with ADHD. She then undertook a PhD within the School of Health and Related research at Sheffield University. As well as her private practice, Dr Fibert provides research consultancy for homeopathic bodies such as the Society of Homeopaths, Homeopathy for Health in Africa, and the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy, India.
