Agenda
Virtual Attendee Welcome Message from NCH President
Prerecorded Presentation
Pre-Recorded: We are starting off the weekend with a warm welcome to our JAHC 2022 virtual attendees. Go to jahc2022.vfairs.com on your desktop or download the Mobile "vFairs" App, login and click on the Auditorium. Click on the screen to view Friday's schedule. Click the "Join" button that will appear under the green countdown timer a few mintues before the Welcome begins.
In-person attendees may attend the in-person Welcome in Ballroom D at 9:15am.
Up and Running: Three Remedies for the Home Medicine Chest
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Prompt attention with the right homeopathic medicine can make an enormous difference in common acute ailments and minor injuries. This session will explain what homeopathy is and provide basic guidelines for using this safe and effective modality in home care, as well as identifying three key remedies to have on hand. If you’re wondering whether homeopathy might be right for you and your family, this is a great place to start.
This session is not included in continuing education.
In-Person Attendee Welcome from NCH President
In-Person only
Join us in Ballroom D at 9:15am for Dr. Lauri Grossman's Welcome.
All Attendees may view the pre-recorded Virtual Attendee Welcome Message on the Friday Schedule in the virtual Auditorium, scroll down to the bottom to find it. The Virtual Welcome aired at 7:45am; past sessions move to the bottom of the agenda.
Challenging Cases: Thinking Outside of the Box
In-person Presentation
In-Person: During this presentation Kim will review a number of challenging cases that required using approaches outside of the ‘normal repertorization’ and ‘look-up-the-remedies in the materia medica’ process. Even though each of these examples does not follow a more orthodox approach, Kim will demonstrate from the literature that these approaches fall within the scope of homeopathic practice.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA
An Introduction to Homeopathic HouseCall presented by Kim Elia
Prerecorded Presentation
Pre-Recorded: Homeopathic HouseCall is an innovative web application designed to help both medical practitioners and families find effective homeopathic remedies in acute-care and first aid situations. Because they are online when you are, Homeopathic HouseCall is available day or night on any internet device. The team of homeopathic experts brings more than 120 years of clinical experience directly to your door when you need it most. The National Center for Homeopathy (NCH) is so pleased to offer all current NCH Members with 3 FREE months of this powerful software application for homeopathic acute and self-care conditions, courtesy of Homeoaide and WholeHealthNow.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Learning to Use a Homeopathic Medicine Kit
Live Stream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Every parent and every adult will benefit from learning to use a homeopathic medicine kit, whether to treat themselves or their family. By learning to use homeopathic medicine to treat common non-life-threatening acute ailments, you are honoring the dictum from Hippocrates, “first, do no harm.” The e-course on “Learning to Use a Homeopathic Medicine Kit” uses short video presentations along with a 600+ page e-book that helps people learn to use homeopathic medicine effectively.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Powerful Healers: Examining some of the conundrums surrounding the Schuessler Cell Salts
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Vitual: In this presentation Miranda will explore the Schuessler Cell Salts from a classical homeopath’s perspective giving pointers for home prescribers and practitioners alike. Her presentation will be packed with information and food for thought. It will be peppered with cases from her own practice and patients’/students’ home prescribing to illustrate the breadth and depth of this lovely range of remedies when they are carefully selected based on a larger picture than one or two physical symptoms.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Building Capacity in Homeopathy Research and Transforming Clinical Work into Meaningful Publications
In-person Presentation
In-Person: In this presentation and workshop Alastair Gray will guide participants through the broad landscape of research in homeopathy. Alastair will explore why the emphasis on mechanism of action in homeopathy research, and clinical research, while interesting, has drawn the oxygen from the immediate needs to the profession – which is to contribute to urgent public health and health services research outcomes. Homeopathy desperately needs to build research capacity. Practitioners can assist. With this emphasis on generating meaningful research skills as part of an overarching strategy the next steps in the path includes this necessary upskilling of practitioners. In this presentation Alastair describes how the practically orientated research component of the program at the Academy of Homeopathy Education and the emphasis on research embedded within the clinical training portion of HOHM foundation, is able to engage students (future practitioners) in this critically important work to build capacity. In this practical and hands on session participants will learn that with a small time commitment, and with some attention to sound method that daily clinical practice is able to generate the publishable peer reviewed, published practice based outcomes homeopathy as a profession desperately needs. Demonstrations of outcomes from HOHM Foundation’s Homeopathy Health Network – which has seen over 2500 acute cases in the last two years will be peppered throughout this presentation.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
Navigating Treatment of the Speechless Patient
In-person Presentation
In-Person: Receiving the case of the speechless patient brings us back to the basics of observation, physical examination, and interviews of close family members. My experience in treating non-human patients required me to develop skills applicable to the treatment of comatose patients as well as pre-verbal children. Join me to learn the dangers as well as joys of working through cases without verbal input from the patient.
This session is not included in continuing education.
The Intersection of Anthroposophy and Homeopathy
In-person Presentation
In-Person: After an introduction to anthroposophy, a field of inquiry initially developed by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and later by others, Mr. Yasgur’s focus will turn to commonalities and differences of the two fields. The different therapeutical approaches and measures which anthroposophically-extended medicine offers, will be discussed.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Reframing Fatigue
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: People get so tired of feeling tired all the time. They get frustrated, irritable and even depressed. They spend many years and thousands of dollars trying to get back their energy. Then they give up all hope of change and as a last resort try homoeopathy. Talk about pressure for you as the homoeopath!!! In this 1-hour presentation, Ruth Hull shares with you a variety of techniques you can use to help your exhausted, burnt-out clients reframe their condition and use their fatigue as a tool in their own healing journey.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Homeopathic Treatment of Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
In-person Presentation
In-Person: Long Covid is quickly becoming an increasingly serious public health problem. This session will delve into the scientifically rigorous and clinically relevant protocol of the study and contain a review of the most common homeopathic medicines prescribed by the 21 providers volunteering in the study. Our ultimate goal is to determine whether an individually prescribed homeopathic medicine has an effect greater than a placebo and is a viable treatment option to improve fatigue and quality of life for patients suffering from the symptoms of Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome. We hope to achieve this goal by conducting a clinical trial that is scientifically rigorous and clinically relevant.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Aid, Assist & Comfort: Bach Flower Essences as Adjunct to Classical Homeopathy for Difficult Cases, Hard to Support Clients & Those Who Self Medicate
In-person Workshop (No streaming or recording)
In-person Workshop (No streaming or recording) Classical Homeopath, Certified Addictions Professional and Bach Flower Registered Practitioner for 30 years, Lise Battaglia has used Bach flower essences to enhance her clinical results and provide relief to clients struggling with mental agony and who seek natural solutions. Lise will share case studies, flower samples, and an opportunity to make your own flower formula to take home. Her 3-part approach to remedy selection for personal formula preparation has not been taught to professional homeopaths previously. Tips will be presented on taking a classical case and simultaneously noting the Bach flowers which address client concerns, improve client retention, and reduce aggravations with homeopathic remedy prescriptions.
This session is not included in continuing education.
5:00 - 7:00pm Opening Reception
In-person only
In-person only: Come mix and mingle with fellow homeopaths and old friends in the Exhibit Hall Marketplace during our Opening Reception. Enjoy locally sourced food and refreshments. This is your chance to rub elbows with speakers and connect with some of your favorite companies.
Americans for Homeopathy Choice (AFHC) is hosting an in-person Friday evening Scavenger Hunt. Plus! They have managed to get a time machine and have confirmed attendance from some historical Heroes of Homeopathy. Who do you think will be there? Come in-person to find out and meet them!
7:30am/8:00am EDT - Exhibit Hall Marketplace Opens
For all attendees: Virtual Exhibit Hall opens at 7:30am! Chat with booth reps, watch exhibitors' videos and collect documents in your virtual Swag Bag. Join by desktop or download the mobile vFairs app.
8:00am: The in-person Exhibit Hall Marketplace opens. Network, shop and connect with friends! It will remain open for the weekend to stop by inbetween stellar sessions provided by world renowned homeopaths. Each year the Marketplace features the most prominent companies serving the homeopathic community today; holistic lifestyle product and service providers and artisans selling their handmade goods.
Wander through the Exhibit Hall during conference breaks and relaxed hours. Mingle and network with fellow attendees. Stock up on your favorite products, connect with old friends, and soak up the positive energy of being with kindred spirits.
Professional Standards Panel: Healing, Healers, and Homeopathy
In-person Panelist
In-person Panelist
In-person Panelist
In-Person: Discover the qualities needed to successfully link healing with being a healer and the professional principles and standards of homeopathy. Hear from an expert panel who will share the essentials of healing within a professional practice; appreciating culture with openness, respect, and accountability; achieving diversity and inclusion; embracing critical boundaries and ethics; understanding legalities and scope; and becoming aware of how the larger landscape of the greater public’s health influences healing and practice.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Pavlovian Model of Health and Disease in Homeopathy: The Leap to the Similimum
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Paramita (excellence -Sanskrit), Sante (health-French), Bahav (The Flow state-Urdu) allow us to reach our full potential, our higher purpose of being. It needs the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’ to be one.
The ‘invisible strings’ of the state that hold one back, are Pavlovian conditioned Patterns, which then act as a biological switch, facilitating gene expression of disease (Epigenetics).
The “Leap to the Similimum-neuroscience model” makes these strings ‘visible’ and changes the faulty patterns both in ‘behavior ’and ‘body functioning’.
This is Dr. Divya’s latest, Leap into the Unconscious. It happened to her. She will make it happen for you at JAHC 2022.
This session is not included in continuing education.
10:00-10:15 am Exhibit Hall Break
Visit the virtual Exhibit Hall. In-person attendees gather in the Exhibit Hall in Ballroom EFG.
Homeopathic Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
In-person Presentation
In-Person: Dr. Oskin will provide an introduction to the homœopathic treatment and management of Autism Spectrum Disorders. A series of case examples will be presented utilizing primary text sources including the TBR2 (The Bœnninghausen Repertory, Second Edition) and Hahnemann’s materia medicæ. Attendees will be exposed to case examples including characteristic symptoms in each case as well as selecting the most indicated homœopathic medicine in each case from the materia medicæ. In addition, the case examples will serve as teaching guides for the management of these complex cases including when to change the posology and/or when to change the homœopathic prescription. At the end of the presentation, participants will be better equipped to treat ASD cases in clinical practice.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
Direction of Cure and the Relation to the Levels of Health: A case of migraines with high blood pressure and the causative factors of chronic disease
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Cristina Horvath will show a case of migraines and high blood pressure. The case was taken live by Prof. Vithoulkas during the summer seminars at the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy. This is an example of the direction of cure in lower levels of health. The case will how show how mental emotional symptoms, migraines and high blood pressure improve, while frequent acutes with fever appear, and how this process relates to Prof. Vithoulkas's levels of health theory. The case includes long-term case management, in depth differential analysis of remedies, repertorization and potency selection. Prof. Vithoulkas will join us after Cristina's presentation to speak about the causative factors of chronic disease and take questions from attendees.
This session is not included in continuing education.
11:45 am - 1:15 pm Lunch Break
In-person attendees join us for lunch provided in the Exhibit Hall in Ballroom EFG. (90 minute break)
Virtual Attendees may join the video chat for Lunch in the Lounge and still have time to visit the 30 virtual Exhibitors!
Improving the Quality of Homeopathic Provings: A View from the Trenches
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Based on extensive experience conducting homeopathic provings, the presenter will explore strategies to improve the quality of homeopathic proving research. This will include topics such as the use of placebo, entanglement theory, research subject optimization, study design, repertorization and publication.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
I Gave the Perfect Remedy for An Acute Illness, Why Didn’t it Work?
In-person Presentation
In-Person: Practitioners turn to homeopathy for acute care of patients. Differentials are studied, remedy presentations are understood, but the outcomes often fall short. In this lecture, attendees will learn the three most common mistakes made and how to correct them in order to prescribe homeopathic remedies with accuracy, efficacy & confidence for patients suffering from acute pathology.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Exhibit Hall Break
In-person attendees may visit the Exhibit Hall in Ballroom EFG. Virtual attendees may visit the Exhibit Hall or stop by the virtual Lounge to group video chat.
Integrating Homeopathy, Peptide Therapy & Nutritional Medicine to Effectively Treat Serious Disease
In-person Presentation
In-Person: A complex cured case study will be presented to illustrate how to integrate homeopathy, peptide therapy and nutritional medicine in serious pathology.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
Live Right for Your Remedy Type
In-person Presentation
In-Person: Join Gabrielle to learn how to optimize your health with diet and lifestyle tips for your constitutional remedy type. Her Live Right for Your Remedy Type approach helps guide individuals undergoing homeopathic treatment to tailor their diet and lifestyle that would most support their constitutional remedy state. It also helps partners and parents understand their spouse and children based on their constitutional state. It’s a practical approach to utilizing all the information we have collected over the last 150 years to understanding each person based on their constitutional remedy state.
This session is not included in continuing education.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Exhibit Hall Break
Visit the Exhibit Hall, chat with other attendees in the virtual Networking Room, or share a coffee/tea in the Lounge with other virtual attendees on video chat.
In-person only: NCH Raffle drawing at 5:30pm - Must be present to win!
6:00 - 10:00pm Dinner, Recognition Ceremony, & Dancing
In-person only: Come celebrate with other in-person attendees sharing dinner followed by NCH recognition announcements. End the day with a dance party!
The Homeopathic Treatment of Autoimmune Disorders
In-person Presentation
In-Person: This presentation will include the role of homoeopathy in treating autoimmune disorders with miasmatic understanding, and how emotions and stress play a significant role in autoimmune disorders. Also discussed will be rare remedies that can used in the treatment of various autoimmune disorders.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
Pharmaceuticals and Homeopathy: A case centered examination of the issues, approaches and strategies in treating patients on pharmaceuticals, homeopathically
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Dr. Millar will present a series of short cases treated concurrently with homeopathics and pharmaceuticals. The purpose of this presentation is to reflect upon the issues, approaches and strategies that arise in treating such cases. In some instances the homeopathic acts curatively and the pharmaceutic is ultimately removed and in others only palliation can be achieved. It will be demonstrated how pharmaceuticals generally slow down and inhibit the action of the homeopathic and how the homeopathic dosing needs to be adjusted to be more aggressive. Conversely a well selected remedy will reduce the underlying dynamic disturbance and the pharmaceutical will act more efficiently, side effects will manifest and the pharmaceutical dose will need to reduced. Further, we will see how in some cases the pharmaceutical is not well tolerated and the homeopathic dose of the same works well. In other cases presented, we can observe how the pharmaceutical acts as an obstacle to cure, but we can still successfully palliate and improve the patient’s quality of life. Many cases that come to see the homeopath, particularly in developed countries, are on pharmaceutical medications, some on many. It is Dr. Millar’s hope that this presentation will provide some strategies for the attendees to help them resolve these most difficult cases.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
In our Element: The Alchemical History of Homeopathy
In-person Presentation
In-Person: How is it that Homeopathy, the second most widely used medicine in the world today—with more than 200 years of clinical experience—has yet to agree on a set of guidelines as to what we do and how we do it? Perhaps it is because we have yet to fully understand the ways in which Hahnemann came to develop this amazing system of medicine, and its therapeutic interventions. This presentation explores the stated historiography of Homeopathy and, by way of previously unexplored primary source materials, proposes a revised narrative–full of twists and turns, pseudonyms, and missing footnotes—on the way towards elucidation of a more complete and understanding of Hahnemann’s genius.
Denise Straiges will be holding a q&a in the next day or two post conference. Please email dstraiges@ahe.online to get information on day and time, and to be sent the replay if you cannot attend! She will be recording.
This session fulfills continuing education requirments for ACHENA only.
Homeopathic Support in Covid-19 and Long Covid: Cases in a General Practice
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Dr. Resie Moonen is working in the Netherlands and in Belgium as a General Practitioner. In her clinic she has been treating many patients with Covid and Long Covid. In this presentation she will explain which remedies were successful in helping to recover from the acute disease, also in more severe cases, and which remedies helped to recover from the later effects of Covid-19. The carefully chosen remedy in each case will be identified through repertorisation and materia medica searches with a special focus on rare and peculiar symptoms to guide us to the correct prescription. Also, some groups of remedies that are very useful in treating these cases will be discussed.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
11:45 am - 1:15 pm Lunch Break
Lunch break - virtual attendees meet up on video chat for Lunch in Lounge. In-person attendees enjoy lunch in Reston. Visit the Exhibit Hall on our final day at the conference!
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Concepts and Cases
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine disorder that was first described in 1935. While its name points to the ovaries, the condition actually represents disruption in the entire endocrine system. It is considered a controversial diagnosis, with much debate for clinical criteria within conventional medicine, particularly for teens. In this session, Karen Allen CCH draws from her clinical experience to unpack this pathology for homeopaths through example cases. Emphasis will be on pattern recognition and individualization; she will include guidance on chronic care, acute flares and appropriate adjuncts.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
Alleviating Dis-ease Through Emotional Destressing Using Homeopathy
In-person Presentation
In-Person: The body acts as an emotional sink absorbing emotional perturbance brought about by ever changing life situations in an individual. These constricting emotions trigger various pathways in the body causing long term stress, local spasms and hypoxia which can and does often lead to chronic and auto-immune illness. Properly selected homeopathic remedies can unravel the trapped emotions in the mind-body continuum, relieving the psychosomatic pain and suffering. Dr. Bhattachara uses this strategy in his cases, where apt, and, has successfully reversed chronic pain and illness that he will elucidate in his presentation using examples form his practice. The power of homeopathy as a nanomedicine in shifting the balance and in regaining health can significantly impact patient quality of life.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
Healthy People, Healthy Pets
In-Person Presentation
In-Person: Relationships between people and their animal companions are deep and meaningful. Understanding these relationships helps not only to lead the animals to better health but also their humans. Family systems are improved with this knowledge. This presentation will discuss cases of animals and their humans helped with homeopathy leading to happier families.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Homeopathic Treatment of PANS/PANDAS
Livestream Virtual Presentation
Virtual: Dr. Bahr will review the diagnosis and treatment of Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome/Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep. This presentation will help participants understand characteristic symptoms for prescription, management of the condition, common obstacles to cure, and materia medica of several relevant remedies. Clinical cases will be woven throughout to emphasize the narrative.
This session fulfills continuing education requirements for AANP and ACHENA.
The Bönninghausen Repertory in Praxis
Prerecorded Presentation
Pre-Recorded: This presentation will present a number of cases to illustrate the application of Bönninghausen’s final and most perfected model of repertory, Therapeutisches Taschenbuch (TT), through our own modern English re-translation of The Bönninghausen Repertory (2nd edition, TBR2). A prerecorded video presentation streamed In-person and online.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Mapping the Mind in Psychiatry Cases
Prerecorded Presentation
Pre-Recorded: Dr. Salunkkhe blends the scientific knowledge of the classical masters with newer systems evolved by contemporary stalwarts, to arrive at a highly refined approach to Case Taking. At the heart of this approach is a synthesis of homeopathy as a science and of Case Taking as an art. Dr. Salunkkhe demonstrates this syncretic approach while always keeping the highly individualized patient as the focus. The objective is one hundred per cent accuracy. Highlights of this presentation: • Individuation – Dr. Mahesh Gandhi has proposed that each case reflects the individuation of the patient. It is this individuation that makes each person different from the other and it is this individuation that expresses itself in the disease patterns they develop. • PEM & Inner Age – The Personal Evolution Model or PEM maps the ‘inner age’ of the patient. This is the developmental age at which the patient is stuck and it usually does not correspond with their chronological age. Dr Gandhi’s concept of inner age was founded on the eight stages of Psychosocial Development of German-American psychologist Erik Erikson. • Key Sensitivity – Each one of us has that one key issue around which we script our life story. This Key Sensitivity – the issue that the patient is most sensitive to – governs the individual throughout their life and is at the root of their disease. It is a concept I developed and refined through years of practice. By discovering the patient’s Key Sensitivity, and along with the PEM model, the practitioner can easily arrive at the root of the patient’s disturbance. After understanding the patient’s life script and inner age, the practitioner must analyze the information using classical scientific models and charts, and classify the patient as animal, mineral or plant. The practitioner must also use Jan Scholten’s Periodic Table, Dr. Michal Yakir’s Two-Dimensional Plant Chart and Dr Mahesh Gandhi’s Animal Chart. These charts will help map the patient in order to arrive at the similimum. The wise homeopath uses an eclectic approach and always balances its scientific aspects against its artistic potential. I received my scientific foundation from Dr Praful Vijayakar, and his Chart of Suppression, understanding of miasm and Genetic Constitution is the bedrock of my practice. On the artistic side, I learnt the Kingdom Theory and its application from Dr. Rajan Sankaran and the PEM Model from Dr. Mahesh Gandhi. These approaches play to the intuitive strength of the practitioner. While critics may argue that the multiplicity of approaches could distract the practitioner from what they are supposed to see, this is not how it works. Patients present many different pictures – some offer complete symptoms (location, sensation, modalities), while others offer only their life stories, giving the practitioner much less to work with. Using an amalgamation of approaches – which while different from each other also complement each other – increases the probability of arriving at the similimum with minimum distractions! It is Case Taking at its sophisticated best.
This session is not included in continuing education.
Prize Winners Announced in Lounge
Join us in the Lounge at 5:30pm EDT for the Prize Winners Announcement! Locate the 10 items in the Scavenger Hunt during the weekend to get your name put into a raffle for 3 prize drawings. The top 6 names on the Leaderboard at 5:00pm EDT will win a prize! Go to the virtual Lounge and celebrate with JAHC moderator Janine.
Your Social Security Record and Fraud: What to Look Out For
This session will discuss the types of fraud in which the Social Security Administration can and cannot assist with. It will also share Social Security resources that help protect your Social Security Record and other helpful resources that you should be aware of.