Oh, gosh, Lisa, thank you for your kind words!!! I feel the same way about you.

I really hope you read that book. It is absolutely beautiful. I wish I still had a copy, but with all my moves back and forth across the pond, it was so expensive every time, I had to let go of more and more stuff and I have very few books now.

I do hope you'll reach out to Simon and give this try. I've seen the results for myself (along with so many other powerful stories of healing or improvement where doctors said it was impossible).

Homeopathy was founded by an incredibly brilliant German doctor in the late 1700s. His father used to lock him in a room and make him solve puzzles and problems before he could come out.

By the time he was 12, he spoke several languages fluently. When he became a doctor, he was so horrified by the barbaric practices of the day, he gave up medicine and began translating medical documents from one language to another.

He was translating a paper on the use of Peruvian Bark in the treatment of malaria. Because of his incredibly bright and curious mind, he got to thinking about Hippocrates and the Law of Similars that he taught - Let like cure like - in other words, what a substance will cause, it will cure.

He wondered if he started taking some Peruvian Bark, would he develop the symptoms of malaria, which it was supposed to cure.

He experimented - and sure enough, the very substance that cures malaria was also producing the symptoms in a healthy person.

He began testing other substances and other people joined in and everyone took careful notes of all that happened to them with each "proving" (proving what the substances will cause, and therefore will cure).

He began using tiny doses with patients and having success.

The medical community was not happy and someone in that group offered to become something of a spy and see what this doctor was doing and try to disprove it. But he ended up being so incredibly impressed, he actually helped the doctor continue developing his theories and discovered a significant part of the foundation of homeopathic philosophy.

Homeopathy eventually found its way to the US, where there were homeopathic hospitals and even homeopathic psychiatric hospitals there in the 1800s. They had very much higher cure rates than the traditional ones.

Homeopathy started picking up steam and became so popular that the medical association banned any doctor or their family members from seeing homeopaths under threat of the doctor losing his license.

There was also life insurance in the US back then (I had no idea till I was studying homeopathy!) and it was cheaper for homeopathy patients because they were healthier and lived longer than people who went to doctors.

But because of that whole medical association thing and basically doing all it could to shut down homeopathy, it didn't stand much of a chance.

Apologies for the novella, but I felt like it was important to give you some hope about this. It is powerful and gentle in the hands of a skilled practitioner. 💜