An Excerpt from a commentary entitled: “The Legend of Evidence-Based Medicine” “Healthcare was never meant to end the suffering of our world, or the pain and trials of human existence, but to act alongside law, religion, and politics to guide us toward the general direction of evolution, of growth, of a god. At its simplest, healthcare is a belief system that continues to develop as long as time continues to flow, nudging us to let go of that which does not work and accept that which does, encouraging us [...]

An Introduction to Point and Remedy Testing in the Homeopathic Practice By Carolyn L. Winsor, BMus, BEd Last year we celebrated the 250th Anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. Reading and hearing about his discoveries, his biography and his particular genius was a voyage of discovery for many of us. It offered a chance for us to look back at the many patients who have been helped regain a better state of health, and at the reasons why we are still struggling for acceptance in so [...]

The Internationale Medizinische Gesellschaft für Electroackupunktur nach Voll e.V., Stuttgart, Dr. med. Richard Kraßnigg, Präsident The International Medical Society for Electroacupuncture according to Voll, Stuttgart, Richard Krassnigg, MD, President To: Mrs. Carolyn Winsor-Sturm Occidental Institute Research Foundation Penticton, B.C., Canada 20 December 2006 Dear Mrs. Sturm: The year 2006 draws to an end. This year the IMGEAV became 50 years old. Several times we have solemnly and appropriately celebrated this event at different levels. The efforts which the Board of Directors and all the participants have undergone in preparation [...]

Labeling cholesterol as the cause of cardiovascular disease is one day going to be viewed as a medical catastrophe. It is not only wrongly accused of being directly related to the cause of death of millions of people each year but it is also targeted as something that is to be sought, hunted and destroyed like a growing cancer. But nothing could be further from the truth: at least that’s not what the research dictates. One needs to realize that cholesterol is absolutely vital to health. Being a high [...]

And, to remind ourselves why we all do this . . . This is part of an interview done for the newsletter of a local faith community with a gentleman who has a brain tumor. Newsletter: Before you had the first seizure and discovered that you had a brain tumor, you had a way of understanding your own body, human disease, and the practice of western medicine that, I suspect, might have stayed the same to the end of your life. How do you see all that differently now? [...]

Research into Homeopathy – Its Special Problems, and Its Successes First European Symposium: Natural Medicine in the United Europe – quo vadis? The following is a textual summary of one of the many presentations on this topic made at this unique Symposium held in Frankfurt, Germany, November 2004. In the last 20 years the trend in homeopathic therapy, besides the traditionally applied method of the remedy-picture provings, has increasingly adopted the test models from the area of orthodox medicine. These especially are the methods of the double-blind study, but [...]

(*May 19, 1929 †December 12, 2003) In memoriam, enclosed is our translation of his recent and unfortunately final “Resonance Homeopathy” article. Dear Research Associate: It is with greatest sadness in my heart, that I must advise you about the passing of Dr. med. dent. Helmut W. Schimmel, founder of the Vegatest method, VRT and Photon-Resonance-Test, originator of the Causal Chains and Functional Medicine concepts, formulator of the Meridian, FM and Resoplex Complexes, and much more. Carolyn and I last spoke with him at his home on October 31st (exactly [...]

German Biological Medicine: Can it be the link that connects the reductionist paradigm of medicine with the holistic paradigm? I would like to offer the following ideas for your consideration. I have trained both as a traditional allopathic physician and a classically trained homeopathic physician. I have had the opportunity to see both systems work well and will attempt to integrate both philosophies. Health care delivery systems can be divided into basically two groups: reductionist or holistic. They are divided both by their methods of [...]

"Master of Acupuncture" Program The "Master of Acupuncture" Program is a self-study program for advanced acupuncture practitioners, based on translations of three classical Chinese acupuncture texts (namely the Su Wen, Ling Shu and Nan Ching). These materials assume extensive background in energetical acupuncture and work at master's level. Two thousand years ago, a group of outstanding physicians in China felt the need to record for posterity the experience and knowledge of acupuncture and Chinese medicine that had accumulated up to that time. The format of their record was a [...]

Brochure Notes and History This brochure represents one of Walter’s first “rants” and already you can see the rebel showing through. I expect it was initially written during early 1973 as we struggled to set up the full Lesson structure for the Modern and Traditional Acupuncture course. Classified advertising was placed in hundreds of magazines, newsletters, journals and papers for this course. If memory serves me, it was $39 (US or CDN) for the first three lessons. From opening our doors on July 2, 1972 through to mid-1974, we [...]