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HOMEOPATHY IN PRACTICE – Autumn 2006
Maun Homeopathy
Project
Hilary Fairclough RSHom spoke about the Maun Homeopathy
Project to the South Bucks Support Group on Monday, 26 June
at Church House, Hughenden Park, Hughenden Valley Road, High
Wycombe.
Maun is a town in northern Botswana. Botswana, a stable
democratic country, is a large, dry, landlocked semi-desert
tableland. We may have heard of the Okavango Delta, near
Maun, a large tourist centre on the edge of the Kalahari
Desert. There is a wealth of diamonds in the country, and
Hilary describes it as a place of rapid development; the
fastest growing, and also the fastest dying country in Africa.
It is about the size of France, with about the population
of Penzance. Botswana suffers from the world’s highest
rate of AIDS/HIV infections: at least a third of the population.
Hilary has been visiting Botswana twice a year since her
first visit (on a private trip) in 2000. She says it is vital
to go back when you say you will; to keep your promises.
A successful three month pilot project in 2004 has led to
outreach homeopathy clinics being set up and running
since 1 October 2005 and the weekly clinic schedule now sounds
very full.
Originally classically trained, Hilary now usually uses
triad prescribing, an approach which has been developed to
deal with complex pathology. She always adds in a nosode
because of the pathology of the majority of patients and
because it helps to facilitate the action of other remedies.
She uses Jonathan Stallick’s book AIDS The Homeopathic
Challenge
(1996, ISBN: 0 952 85310 8), in which he says you need more
than one remedy. Hilary has also been influenced by the work
of Eizayaga, James Compton Burnett and Dorothy Shepherd.
A typical prescription may be: acute remedy on Monday (for
example, Kali carbonicum), constitutional on
Wednesday (Arsenicum album) and nosode on Friday
(Tuberculinum) for four weeks (single doses, so
four tablets of each of the three remedies). This way, the
patient gets the benefit of all three remedies within one
week. She uses potencies from 30c to 10M but not LMs. Remedies
she finds particularly useful are: Arsenicum, Carcinosin,
Hura, Leprominium, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Tuberculinum.
Patients come back a week after they have finished their
tablets - often to report extremely good results! The
prescription may be repeated, or adjusted; or there may be
ROS (return of old symptoms) or new symptoms. Visiting
classical homeopaths have overcome any initial concerns and
really got on well with this method of prescribing.
If she can’t ‘see’ three remedies, she
just gives two. That’s OK too, as is giving the triad
in the morning, afternoon and evening of the same day
in serious situations. It’s a practical and adaptable
method.
Volunteer homeopaths are encouraged to visit, for a minimum
of six weeks. They pay their own airfare (via South Africa),
and the charity pays their living expenses. It is not the
custom for locals to eat lunch, but Hilary is determined
to look after her volunteer homeopaths so, however difficult
it is to close the door when there are still people waiting
to be seen, Hilary insists that visiting westerners
have a lunch break.
Future plans for the charity include training two local
people to become homeopaths and, with this in mind,
one private clinic has been started so that there is a clinic
where they can work once trained.
This is just the briefest of reports, so visit the website
www.homeopathybotswana.com for more information; and, to
receive the MHP Newsletter by email, send your email address
to mhp@homeopathybotswana.com.
The Maun Homeopathy Project is a registered charity (No:
1109958) founded in 2002.
Meg Brinton MARH
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