Dr. John Bastyr: Philosophy and Practice
Including Bastyr's Practical Homeopathic Materia Medica
by Melanie J. Grimes, RSHom (NA), CCH
$24.95
Alethea Book Company
ISBN: 0-9659550-4-4
"Basically I may be somewhat eclectic, but I am a homeopath. I really believe in it, fellows." --Dr. John Bastyr
Dr Bastyr practiced medicine in Seattle, Washington treating thousands of patients for over seven generations. His clinical expertise was renown. Known as "The father of Naturopathic Medicine" Bastyr was also a homeopath, using homeopathy with nearly 90% of his patients. Trained by a student of Lippe, as well as a student of Kneipp, Bastyr was a link to the early practitioners of homeopathy as well as naturopathy. The information gleaned from patients, students, lectures, and directly from Bastyr himself, contains many findings from his decades of practice, which have not been recorded until now.
This book provides a valuable addition to our clinical materia medica, as well as insights into the philosophy of Bastyr's teachers, whom he called, "the Old Timers."
" Bastyr's conversion to homeopathy was an important move for the modern naturopathic profession. Homeopathy had been part of naturopathic medicine for decades, but its role had been much more peripheral. The majority of practitioners had not received such intensive, classical instruction as Bastyr. In the 1950's when Bastyr became involved in establishing and teaching a naturopathic curriculum, his balanced emphasis of homeopathy as a therapeutic modality coequal with nutrition, hydrotherapy and botanical medicine assured its place in the ongoing development of naturopathic science." - Kirshfeld and Boyle, Nature Doctors, Buckeye Naturopathic Press, 1994
Quite riveting. Couldn't put it down!
Julian Winston- Editor of "Homeopathy Today"
�a good addition to the literature, a piece of history that could so easily have been lost, and a great example of how homeopathy is woven through naturopathic practice.
Karen Allen, CCH, RC, RSHom(NA), Bastyr University Homeopathy Department Adjunct Faculty
