Deborah Olenev

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Offshoots of Homeopathy

Offshoots of Homeopathy Dear Friends, 2023 was a year of a lot of study and discovery for me. In addition to endeavoring to deepen my knowledge of homeopathic materia medica, I sought to expand my perception, so that I could look outside the box of my conventional training to see what is really true and …

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What Is Homeopathy About?

The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital

What Is Homeopathy About? Homeopathy is a holistic system of medicine founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann who revealed this beautiful healing art to the world in 1810 in his book called the Organon of Medicine. It has some basic therapeutic principles. Remedies are tested on healthy people in highly dilute potentized form, so that we …

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Meditation Tools

Mudras

Meditation Tools The most important meditation tools are: Mantra – this is constant reciting of a spiritual phrase. This raises your spiritual vibration and gives something to redirect your mind away from depressive, negative thoughts or fearful thoughts. Mudra – these are hand gestures that you do in a sequence. I have been using them …

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What are Miasms in Homeopathy?

Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva

What are Miasms in Homeopathy?   I was inspired to write this article after speaking to one of my clients, a young man in his thirties. He was spouting his belief system about the state of the world. “Inflation is out of control. The Feds are going to keep on raising interest rates. There are …

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Homeopathy Does Not Leave the Person Out of the Equation

My Grandbaby - Pure Joy

Homeopathy Does Not Leave the Person Out of the Equation Dear Friends, I had an interesting experience this weekend. I went to a class with a master Qi Gong teacher, because I was curious to learn from her. I had studied T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Qi Gong for eleven years with the late Sophia Delza …

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Love Your Symptoms

Boat Sailing at Dusk

Love Your Symptoms Love your symptoms for they are the road map to your health. The homeopath looks for the story the symptoms are trying to tell us about the nature of the illness being experienced. Homeopaths look at symptoms in context of the whole person to understand what the symptoms are pointing to. Homeopaths …

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Belladonna – Wild Child Full of Grace

Belladonna Flower and Berry

Belladonna – Wild Child Full of Grace Many people know the beautiful Jim Morrison song, Wild Child, Full of Grace. This is a lovely description of a child in a Belladonna state. People familiar with homeopathy will know of the picture of Belladonna in the acute state. This would be the child with a very …

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The Pillow Dose, The Pocket Dose, The Room Dose

Homeopathic Remedies Lined up

Dear Friends, I have written articles about how to take homeopathic remedies before. In this article, I would like to focus on some ways to take remedies that I came to on my own over the years of my practice. I refer you to the article How to Take Homeopathic Remedies for information about the …

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The Bowel Nosodes: A Missing Key

Bowel Nosodes in Homeopathic Practice by John Saxton

The Bowel Nosodes: A Missing Key Dear Friends, If some billionaire were to offer me a million dollars as a gift or knowledge of the bowel nosodes as an alternate gift, I would say keep your million dollars, but give me knowledge of the bowel nosodes. This may be one of the philosopher’s stones, what …

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Homeopathic Materia Medica Review

Synoptic Materia Medica by Frans Verneulen

Homeopathic Materia Medica Review Dear Friends, I have been practicing homeopathy for a long time. The difference between me as a prescriber now, and me as a prescriber 10, 20 or 30 years ago is that I am more relaxed. Let’s say that I have mellowed with age. Maybe you can even say I have …

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Gelsemium Sempervirens Materia Medica

Yellow Jasmine

Gelsemium Sempervirens Materia Medica The featured article this month is about the materia media of Gelsemium sempervirens. The reason I chose this remedy is that it is the remedy that has helped me with COVID long-haul symptoms. While I was working on this article and studying the mental symptoms, I was struck by what a …

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Vaccine Mandates and the Historical Background

Five Year Old Children

This month I was inspired to write an article that kept on growing in scope till it has become almost unmanageable. There is a lot of passion in this article, because I am very concerned about the vaccine mandates. The mandatory vaccination of children ages 5 to 11 has now been approved in the state …

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Peace Pilgrim: An American Avatar

Peace Pilgrim

Peace Pilgrim: An American Avatar Dear Friends, I have had the luxury to indulge myself in the joy of a fabulous book called , “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words.” The book is a compilation of the writings of Peace Pilgrim – a modern day Christian Anglo sannyasin (a Hindu religous …

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Lime, Honey and Ginger a Recipe for Health

Lime

Lime, Honey and Ginger a Recipe for Health   Dear Friends, Here is a simple recipe that can bring you pleasure and boost your immune system at the same time. May this give you good health this winter and long life. Directions: Cut and grate about an inch of fresh ginger. Squeeze the juice of …

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LM Potencies and Homeopathic Posology

LM Potencies and Homeopathic Posology In 2014 I worked extensively with LM Potencies, also known as Quin potencies or 50 millesimal potencies, and it has forced me to reexamine the way I have been prescribing centesimal scale remedies. With homeopathy, as with most things, there are no definitive answers as to how things should be …

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Homeopathy for Children

Children Playing

Homeopathy for Children Homeopathy is a therapeutic art and science founded in Germany by a Dr. Samuel Hahnemann over two hundred years ago. It utilizes medicines made from natural substances in very tiny doses. The medicines stimulate the immune system initiating a healing response that unfolds over time to restore health and harmony. Homeopathy is …

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Homeopathy A Friend to Women

A Group of Women

Homeopathy A Friend to Women The Inception of Homeopathy   Homeopathy is a therapeutic art and science founded in Germany over two hundred years ago by the visionary physician and chemist Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. He grew disillusioned with the quality of medical care available in Europe, and was disturbed by the dangerous and frequently harmful …

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A Spotlight on Homeopathy

A Spotlight on Homeopathy Written on February 8, 2010 by Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA) The original idea of homeopathy, which is curing with similars, dates back to Hippocrates in the fourth century B.C. He believed there were two possible ways to cure people, by contraries or by similars. “Allopathy” has followed the way of …

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Homeopathy and the Treatment of Genital Warts

Man and Woman Holding Hands

Homeopathy and the Treatment of Genital Warts by Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (N A) Written on February 10, 2010 Recently a young woman whom I had treated for several years with homeopathy for recurrent sore throats and a weak constitution was very distraught because she had been exposed by her previous boyfriend to genital warts.  …

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