Product Description

This book will be a great addition to your homeopathic library. Once you've been using homeopathics for a while, and begin to work on a deeper level with them, you'll wonder which (for instance) liver remedy is really the one you need, when there are several which might be right. This book is the book that gives the particular spiritual/psychological picture of the remedies that will let you decide. With an unbelievable insight in some 300 homeopathic medicines Didier Grandgeorge gives us in a nutshell the essence (the spirit) of these remedies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #344329 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-30
• Released on: 1997-12-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"This is a book that each person concerned about staying healthy should absolutely read."
- Dominique Lapierre

"The Spirit of Homeopathic Medicines is full of witticisms and French esprit. Grandgeorge's puns and associations will appeal to those favoring concise homeopathic materia medica."
- Frans Vermeulen, M.D.

"Grandgeorge is a master artist, taking us deep into the spirit of each remedy with just a few words. He explores the mystery and complexity of homeopathic medicines, drawing from more than 20,000 consultations."
- Jean Lacombe

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About the Author
Having dedicated most of his working life to the treatment of children, Dr. Didier Grandgeorge is Director of Clinical Training at the Faculty of Medicine in Marseille, France. Dr. Grandgeorge is one of the founders of the Hahnemannian School in Provence, France, and is editor of L'Honeopathie Exactement, the school's ongoing series of research publications, now in four volumes. He lives in Marseille with his wife and three children.

Customer Reviews

Review of the Spirit of Homeopathic Medicine
I expected a different sort of book than this one turned out to be. It does have some useful information in it but most of the remedies are sketched very briefly and the interpretation is too Freudian for me. Also, most of the examples are about children, although the title does not tell you that.

Fairy Tale Homeopathy
I am greatly disappointed by the way the writer of this book grossly oversimplifies homeopathy, and specifically, the quick, magic-like cures he reports in his "observations." He continuously gives examples of cases where symptoms "disappeared completely" after one dose of this or one dose of that.

The truth is, I am certainly one of the biggest proponents of homeopathy one could ever meet. I know how truly powerful and capable homeopathy is at treating and healing people (especially when using LM potencies). But this author, Didier Grandgeorge, is very irresponsible and misleading to write about homeopathic remedies the way he does.

Homeopathic cures are a bit of a process. The remedies are not magic potions that make one's symptoms just "disappear." They work on an energetic level to restore balance, hence, undesirable symptoms get changed, transformed, and also eliminated in the process, but this rarely happens (for non acute cases) via one dose. The author also fails to mention any of the beautiful psychological changes or occurrences of personal growth and expanded awareness that are not only a result of a cure, but ARE ESSENTIAL to a real and lasting cure.

On a more positive note, his oversimplified, quick "takes" on the remedies themselves (verses his paragraphs of case "observations") can be somewhat useful IF combined with the remedy pictures of other writers (lots of other writers!).

Not extensive but very helpfull
This is a charming little book in which the constitutional remedies are described, mostly in a one page review. These reviews are short, but try to catch the ESSENCE of every remedy. The reviews do NOT include an extensive list of deseases for which this remedy would be helpfull. To me this book was very usefull because it shows you "what every remedy is about".