The Curriculum – Part One
The 2-year certificated Course Holistic Therapeutic Education & Natural Philosophy
Module 1
Introduction to homoeopathy:
The history of Samuel Hahnemann and the development of Homoeopathic medicine.
J.T. Kent says “There are no diseases in homoeopathy, only sick people.” We look at why homoeopathy heals people and not specific diseases through:
The Organon of Medicine
The Materia Medica
The Repertory
The law of similars and the law of opposites.
Provings, Minimum dose, Single dose, Potency.
What is a patient and how does a homoeopath set about the search for the cure, as it were. Case taking and repertorisation. Developing the powers of observation. Learning of essential remedies and how to study remedies.
Module 2
Lectures on Practical Application of Homoeopathy
On using remedy kits and brief study Materia Medica of remedies provided – essential first aid. This gives everyone the opportunity to help another is sickness and distress. We further discuss the art of questioning the patient without leading – the taking of a complete symptom – finding symptoms in the repertory – small, acute cases to practice on, selecting the remedy – suggest dosage. Repetition of dosage in acute, plussing, signs of recovery, etc.
What is an acute symptom as opposed to a chronic? When to treat acutely, when not to treat.
Illustrating in-depth Materia Medica study of remedies revealing the layers and levels of homoeopathic remedies.
Module 3
The study of the Twelve Senses:
J.T. Kent says, “The sensations constitute the language of disease.” What are these sensations but the perception of the senses? There are twelve identifiable senses, though the commonly understood five senses have organs associated with them.
These are:
1. Specifically outer senses (Spiritual, Social senses)
Ego Sense; Thought Sense (conceptual); Word Sense (speech/language); Sense of Hearing
2. Sense related to both inner and outer (soul senses)
Warmth Sense; Sense of Sight; Sense of Taste; Sense of Smell
3. Specifically inner senses (physical senses)
Sense of Balance; Sense of Movement; Sense of Life; Sense of Touch
When we look closely at all these senses we can come to understand that senses in disarray are symptoms of sickness (both in a physical way and psychologically). We refer to the homoeopathic repertory for the identification of sense disorders, thus further establishing homoeopathy as a medical philosophy which embraces the whole human (the whole universe). This module is essential for the practitioner to develop powers of self-observation and thereby help others in therapeutic practice not only with homoeopathy. Repertory.
Module 4
The Principles of Healing and Treatment:
Hering’s law of cure; aggravation and healing reactions, suppression and allopathy; the second prescription. Similar and dissimilar diseases; artificial and natural disease; natural healing power. Vaccination and homoeoprophylaxis. Further Materia Medica studies. Also the “Mappa Mundi” concepts of elements/humours (Module 8), circle of elements, sensation and function etc. Relationships of remedies: related, complementary, inimical and intercurrent remedies. Materia Medica
Module 5
The Science of Healing Plants
Why do plants and plant substances heal? Discussion of the sources of remedies used – plant, mineral, metal, animal, disease products (nosodes), isopathy, etc. Learning how herbal and homoeopathic remedies are made; Hahnemann’s unique dynamisation methods. Bach Flower remedies and gem elixirs. The principles of homoeopathic ‘proving’ and how to do it. Materia Medica
Module 6
Character, Personality and Inheritance
This is the study of the Four Temperaments (and diatheses) and leading to Hahnemann’s theory of chronic diseases and miasms in module 7. Disease as a disorder of temperament – this is certainly how medical practice saw the matter before the advent of cell pathology and germ theories.
The temperaments are: choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic. The associated four humours are respectively: choler – yellow bile, blood, phlegm and black bile. Introducing the study of identifying the Four Temperaments and associated humoral discharge and its relation to the homoeopathic repertory.
Identifying one-sided displays of temperament – how to resolve and also with diet and homoeopathy as ‘constitutional’ remedy. This introduces what is essentially constitutional medicine. Materia Medica
Module 7
Miasm and Chronic Disease
Introduction to chronic diseases by Samuel Hahnemann. The three concepts of chronic disorder: psora, sycosis, syphilitic; fundamental cause (miasm), exciting cause, maintaining cause; obstacles to cure; the long-term treatment protocols. Humanity as if one person. Chronic disease = like a chronic lie. Acute = facing an uncomfortable truth, painful but quickly over. The importance of Acute = the way out of the chronic.
Allopathic medicine is all about denying us the acute, so the chronic builds up and over time progresses. Case examples. Materia Medica
Module 8
The Human Organs and Four Elements:
The Four Temperaments [Module 5] lead to the study of the four major organs (heart, kidneys, liver and lungs) which gives an introduction to the four elements of antiquity (fire, air, water, earth). This leads to anatomy & physiology and true organ function; examining the psychological aspects of the organs – the effect of thinking on organs and organs on our thinking. Materia Medica.
Module 9
Introduction to Nature Cure:
The Four Elements in the therapies of Naturopathy: heat/light, air, water, and earth. The practical aspects of physical therapies, their use and effectiveness: massage, light and air therapy, exercise regimens, hydrotherapy, etc. This module to be part taught and experienced in an Austrian spa (subject to consensus and cost).
Module 10
The Regimen of Health:
Diets, physical, social and sexual regimens for health:
Introducing nutrition and diet – building blocks (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen) as formation of carbohydrate, protein, and fats; Role of minerals; the anatomy of digestion and elimination. Metabolism disorders – diabetes, gout, arthritis, allergy, obesity, cholesterol, etc. Diet formulation and nutritional approaches to treatment: Macrobiotics, Gerson, Bruess et al, and elimination diets and fasting. Physical exercise regimen formulation is essential in our dysfunctional world; social and personal relations (& sexual) regimens to remove where possible the hindrance to cure and the salvation of the patient’s hope for health and wholeness. Repertory & Materia Medica.
Module 11
Diagnostic Tools
Introduction to Chinese medicine (TCM) and the concepts of vitality, Yin and Yang; the teaching of pulse and tongue diagnosis and visual signs of organ distress. Five-element theory as background to understanding TCM and other philosophic considerations of Far Eastern medicine.
Module 12
The Science of Physiognomy.
This is the science of facial expression, of appearance. Adding to the study of the Temperaments we introduce the work of Jean-Baptiste Porta and Lavater in the study of man. The introduction of man as a cosmic being, of the zodiac and planetary types and personalities. How such knowledge can aid insight into the patient. The visual diagnosis (and of face/tongue) and sensing of the pulse needs to be translated to homoeopathic medical understanding and other efficacious treatments. Repertory & Materia Medica.
Module 13
Materia Medica:
Essential remedy pictures of the seven planetary metals and key mineral remedies; the three Calcarea constitutions of Nebel, etc. Remedies of plant and animal.
Module 14
Medical Astrology.
A serious look at the traditional use of astrology in medicine and what one can revive of it today.
Module 15
The Rhythm of Life
Cycles of life: law of periods, rhythms, in life and in diseases. Seven-year cycles, and well as the law governing disease prodromal periods, fever peaks times and convalescence. Periodicity of remedies. Introducing the treatment protocols of the infants, young, mature and old – the four phases of life. Repertory & Materia Medica.
Module 16
Disease as Life Path:
The role of disease in human growth (as Initiation) and the role of the physician (practitioner) and priest (and when physician needs to act as priest). ‘On death and dying’; understanding the words that infect, and the words that encourage. Disease as metaphor: the true nature of Psora and the Garden of Eden. Miasms in politics, world history, relationships – humanity, the world; can anyone be truly healthy as long as one person in the world is still sick? When healing the patient helps heal the practitioner and all around them as a side effect.
Module 17
Certificated first aid course. Incorporating homoeopathic first aid treatments and other modalities to augment emergency treatments as taught in this certificated course.
The Schedule:
The 2-year certificated Course Holistic Therapeutic Education & Natural Philosophy
9 weekends per year – Saturday and Sunday – (7-hour days), total of 36 days.
Certificate offered on completion of the entire course and satisfactory assessment results.
This course is pre-requisite for the 2-year practitioner training course.
The Lecturers: All teachers in the School of New Physis have extensive teaching experience and are competent in their field of therapeutic practice.
The course teaching seeks to embrace the following:
1. To encourage learning and exploration of ideas and philosophies, not for the memorisation of facts.
2. Moderate and pleasurable methods of examination during the course work to ascertain progress of the student and to thereby offer direction.
3. Discussion of cases as a learning tool.
4. Home study of remedies and preparation of assignments for verbal and/or written presentation.
5. Discussion of media topics relating to health issues which encourage learning and desire to question.
6. To encourage and direct the study of a particular aspect of healing work the student may be attracted to.
7. To provide all possible assistance for the student to learn and enjoy the course and so contribute to the New Physis knowledge of the healing arts for humanity.
Fees and Application procedure
Please request the Fees and Application forms, Timetable and other enquiries via email– enquiries@newphysis.org or telephone 078 0620 4183
School is conducted at:
New Acropolis Cultural Association
19 Compton Terrace
London N1 2UN
5 minutes walk from Highbury/Islington tube station (Victoria Line)
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