The Companion to Homeopathy: The Practitioner's Guide [Hardcover]

Colin Griffith (Author), Miranda Castro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 2006

Homeopathy—helping the body to heal itself—is an extraordinarily powerful and increasingly popular health care system. While orthodox medicine focuses on the physical body, homeopathy treats the whole person, taking into account personal history, environmental factors, and any hereditary vulnerabilities to particular illnesses or conditions. Written by highly-respected practitioner and lecturer Colin Griffith, this comprehensive guide to homeopathy is a superbly informative resource, with answers to common questions, examples and case histories, and an examination of controversial issues, such as immunization, mind-altering drugs, and karma. Griffith also addresses many of the myths that have come to overshadow the true practice of, and benefits from, homeopathy.
 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 840 pages
• Publisher: Watkins (July 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1842931172
• ISBN-13: 978-1842931172
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth 10 stars out of five, October 26, 2007

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Chez "eshem" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Companion to Homeopathy: The Practitioner's Guide (Hardcover)

This is by far the best book on homeopathy that I've ever read (and I've read quite a few). I was rivoted with interest from page one - not only is Colin Griffith a very knowledgeable and intuitive homeopath and practitioner, but he is also an engaging and magic wordsmith, enabling the reader to be wholly absorbed in the book from beginning to end as though it is the unravelling of a mystery thriller.

We follow mankind through the miasms plaguing (and assisting) us from the beginning of time - each one being thoroughly outed by this talented author. I was fascinated by the layer upon layer of symptoms often presenting with the same core problem, and how each case is unravelled to finally bring the body into harmony. We delve into the psychological aspects of disease and begin to understand how important it is to allow disease to express itself rather than drive it underground only to emerge as a deeper and more chronic problem at a later date.

This book will affect the reader on a physical, psychological and spiritual level. It reveals the true wonder of our bodies and souls - it is alchemy at it's finest. Highly recommended - even if you are not a homeopathic practitioner.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Having, January 11, 2007

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museon (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Companion to Homeopathy: The Practitioner's Guide (Hardcover)

I enjoyed reading this book, and it is in many ways a textbook, so that says a lot for the author. It is a book I will go back and read again. There is a lot of information on nosodes, which aren't used too much in the US. The caution is, of course, only use a nosode if you can't find a matching remedy, and the symptoms do fit the nosode. Good information on maintaining causes and miasms. Because it is easy to read, you don't need an advanced level of homeopathic knowledge to get a clear understanding from this book.

Get this one.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must, April 14, 2009

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W. Griffin (Ware, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Companion to Homeopathy: The Practitioner's Guide (Hardcover)

This is the first review I've ever written, and the only reason I'm wtiting it is to help others from making my mistake. First off, even if you have a couple of shelves full of homeopathy books, this is the one that will help you make more sense of the others. One of the big things that holds homeopathy back is that learning it is like reconstructing a shattered kaleidoscope; this book addresses that. But the main reason I'm writing this is to tell people that you can buy this book new for $45.00 from Minimum Books. I paid over $80.00 last week buying it off Amazon Marketplace, and I'm a little miffed that Amazon doesn't put in a link to alternative scources when Amazon no longer stocks the book in question. If you don't know better (and I didn't), you'd think that this book is no longer in print, and merits the inflated prices. I'm a very loyal Amazon customer, but babies, this is a weak link (no pun intended) in the jungle.

Bill Griffin