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Indian Government extends Homeopathy Funding

hindu onlineWith thanks to the Hindu Online:

New Delhi (PTI): The government has approved a package of Rs 550 crores for upgrading state-run centres offering education in alternative health programmes such as ayurvedic and homeopathy during the 11th Plan period.

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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard and Homeopathy

frances willardFrances Willard 1839 - 1898 attended the Milwaukee Female College founded by homeopathic supporter Catharine Beecher (sister of homeopathic supporter Harriet Beecher Stowe), and Willard was also educated at the North Western Female Medical College under Bertha Van Hoosen who was trained at the Homeopathic Boston Female Medical College and went onto become the first president of the American Medical Women’s Association. Continue Reading »

Carrie Chapman Catt and Homeopathy

carrie chapman cattCarrie Chapman Catt 1859 - 1947 was part of the National Woman Suffrage Association which began when homeopaths Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caroline Brown Winslow, Susan Ann Edson, Clemence Lozier and homeopathic supporters Lucretia Mott, Susan B Anthony, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Frances Willard, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Anna Howard Shaw, Martha Coffin Pelham Wright, Mary Wright Sewell, and Josephine S Griffing and others met at Seneca Falls in 1848. Continue Reading »

Matilda Joslyn Gage and Homeopathy

matilda joslyn gageMatilda Joslyn Gage 1826 - 1898

Gage’s father Hezekiah Joslyn was a convert of Swedenborg and an advocate of homeopathy. He corresponded with George Bush, the great granduncle of the current American President:

Mesmer though controversial became quite famous (new metaphysical healing theories were rife and popular throughout the nineteenth-century, including homeopathy—another movement closely frequently studied in connection with Swedenborgian principles), and many Swedenborgians, and most famously George Bush, became enthusiasts. Continue reading

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Martha Coffin Pelham Wright and Homeopathy

pelham wrightMartha Coffin Pelham Wright 1806 - 1875 was a firm advocate of homeopathy and attended homeopathic conventions and supported homeopathy all her life. Homeopathy was central to the manifesto of demands for improved health care and human rights at this time.

She was the sister of homeopathic supporter Lucretia Coffiin Mott and cousin to Phoebe Hanaford who was married to homeopath Joseph Hanaford. Pelham Wright has been described as ‘A very Dangerous Woman‘. Continue Reading »

Anna Howard Shaw and Homeopathy

anna howard shawAnna Howard Shaw 1847 - 1919 was trained as a doctor at the homeopathic Boston New England Female Medical College. She was first woman ordained by the Methodist Church, and she became the “master orator” for social justice concerns, organizing and lecturing throughout the world for the causes of temperance, women’s suffrage, and peace. During her lifetime of 72 years, she gave more than 10,000 lectures worldwide. Continue Reading »

Mary Wright Sewell and Homeopathy

wright sewellMary Wright Sewell 1797 - 1884 was the mother of Anna Sewell who wrote Black Beauty, and she was a well know author in her own right. She wrote Mother’s Last Words, Homely Ballards for the Working Man’s Fireside, Our Father’s Care and Thoughts on Education and others. Continue Reading »

Homeopathy Saves Spice Girls Concert

daily starGIRL POWER RETURNS AS FAB FIVE DO BATTLE AGAIN By EMMA WALL and LEIGH PURVES 17.11.07 Continue Reading »

Glimmer of hope for homeopathy cures

radio 4By Roger Harrabin of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme 6.2.1999

A homeopathic remedy that uses tiny amounts of arsenic could cure stomach cramps, according to European research. Homeopaths who say an infinitesimal quantity of arsenic shaken in several dilutions of water cures diarrhoea may be right, say Dutch scientists.

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Josephine Sophia White Griffing and Homeopathy

nwsaJosephine S Griffing 1814-1872

For two decades, abolitionists and suffragists had worked alongside one another after the Civil War in America, and as a result Griffing was close comrades with homeopaths and homeopathic supporters, as homeopathy was seen as central to the new wave of reform sweeping the country. They all supported one another. Continue Reading »

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