Homeopathic Provings

Six webinar sessions for homeopaths, naturopaths and other committed health care providers.

To make excellent prescriptions each practitioner must be able to rely on homeopathy's most basic tool: materia medica. Yet many today have no idea where this fundamental information derives from. This course provides a working knowledge of exactly how remedy profiles are created, what can and cannot be relied upon in our literature, and most importantly, how this knowledge can translate to success in homeopathic practice.

This course offers you:

• Comfort and ease distilling reliable (and speculative) information from homeopathic texts.
• Increased understanding of materia medica and repertory (by understanding how both are created.)
• Improved prescribing success.
• An infectious excitement for homeopathic provings!

In these lively, interactive sessions with Alastair Gray, course participants explore the world of homeopathic provings old and new, investigate the origins of materia medica and repertory symptoms, and explore the significance of modern 'best practice' in provings as it relates to successful clinical outcomes. Materia medica profiles and cases of Moreton Bay Fig, Box Jellyfish, White Tailed Spider, Kowhai, Kauri, Tuberculinum, among many others are sprinkled throughout the course, anchoring the concepts presented.

Topics include:

• Best (and worst) practices from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
• Reading 'source' materials.
• Editing, collation, extraction – and the end result in our literature.
• Dream, meditation and other methods.
• The ethics of provings.
• Comparing original with re-provings: Bufo, Cactus, Blatta, Culex, Bacilinum, Tuberculinum, etc.
• Much, much more.

To be fully in the present, we must understand where we have come from. This is not a history course, but rather applied theory for more accurate prescriptions. And as pressure on homeopathy continues worldwide, sound research and research methodology are areas from which a firm "push back" is possible. The homeopathic profession must therefore establish agreement on best proving practices, honouring the traditions of the past, while grounding itself in modern accepted research protocol.

Alistair Grey, AMSc (UK) BAHons (NZ) ADH (NZ) DSH (UK) PCH (UK) PCHom (Malaysia)

Alastair Gray heads the homeopathy department nationally at Australia's Endeavour College of Natural Health. A dual sector role that involves running an advanced diploma in the vocational education sector and a degree in the higher education sector, he is responsible for quality of the curriculum and the academic integrity of the programs. He is also Endeavour's National Online Learning Project Manger.

Alastair has lectured in both under- and post-graduate homeopathy for 15 years. A regular seminar and conference presenter in New Zealand, Malaysia, the USA, Ireland, Canada, the UK, India, Thailand and Australia, he also delivers webinars worldwide.

For 20 years Alastair has run a general natural medicine practice in Sydney, Australia. Clinical practice remains a significant feature of his work with a focus in the treatment of anxiety, depression, addiction and men's health.

His latest book, Method (2011), was released at the 2011 LIGA conference to complement Case Taking: The Landscape of Homeopathic Medicine (2010), Volume I in the series. In addition, Alastair has published four books and numerous articles on the provings of Moreton Bay Fig, Tea Tree, Waratah, Tar Tree, Liquorice, Cactus, Kowhai, Kauri, Tuberculinum, Bacilinum, Mosquito, Cockroach, Toad, Seahorse, Pearl, Irukandji, Medusa, Box Jellyfish and White Tailed Spider.

Books by Alastair Gray