Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy
by Amy L. Lansky
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Book Reviews of Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy
Book Review: a fabulous book on many levels
Summary: 5 Stars
Amy Lansky's book is so engaging and it's an inspiring, informative read! So many people are becoming involved with homeopathic practitioners in spite of the "haughty disrespect" still expressed by many in medicine and pharmacology. (Ms. Lansky quotes the biographer Rima Handley, who describes Christian Hahnemann, the creator of the homeopathic system, and the the "haughty disrespect" paid to him by medical authorities in 1810!)
I was surprised at the strong feelings, impressions and convictions the book leaves me with! (This book isn't going anywhere...hasn't left...except to friends who promise to give it back in a week!!)
While reading Impossible Cure, I enjoyed imagining Christian Hahnemann, born in Germany, starting his medical studies at age 20. And, how he translated Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, was fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek, and made a huge medical discovery that became the basis of homeopathy!
It was riveting to picture the typhoid fever epidemic in 1813 after the Battle of Leipzig. Lansky and Handley describe Hahneman's loss of only 2 in 188 treated patients! - that's with 8,000 dead and 8,000 wounded in battle, rain what wouldn't quit, filthy water and death everywhere! And how feat made the medical establishment of the day MORE hostile towards the founder of homeopathy (trouble maker that he was, saving all those lives!)
I compare what I'm learning about homeopathy and its track record to the Journal of the American Medical Association's 1998 and 2000 reports about its own system - medicine and practice being the 3rd and 4th leading cause of death, and so on.
This book is inspiring. I do feel it can lead to change. The more people know about options, the less they will accept what is inferior.
With all the talk about bird flu and other pandemics, we have new bills in Congress now to benefit the pharmaceutical companies, when the resource homeopathy is right before us. As Ms. Landsky intelligently addresses the subject, I find myself thinking of the parallel subjects: expensive and toxic petroleum products contrasted with the energy of the sun, hydrogen, the ionosphere, the energy of homeopathy...all practically free. Very few patents possible there, but an abundance of good things for humanity!
Before reading this book I thought it made perfect sense to seek out the cause of disease. I learned how homeopathy works without causes of disease being known. Ms. Lansky explains very well how homeopathy cures without regard to cause!
After talking with many parents and reading Impossible Cure, I'm convinced that we need more homeopathy and more homeopathic practitioners! It takes intelligent, dedicated and brave souls to launch that life effort. Thank goodness for Amy Lansky and other pioneers like Amy.
Along with the historical, philosophical, and sociological aspect of Impossible Cure, I immensely enjoyed the heart-warming and actual cases Ms. Lansky describes.
It's a gem of a book!
Book Review: The Best on Explaining Homeopathy
Summary: 5 Stars
I stumbled upon Amy Lansky's website while researching treatments for my own son's autistic symptoms. We had seen dramatic improvements in my son after beginning homeopathic treatments with a gifted, classical homeopath and I was researching to learn more. Though I had been researching since we began our journey to cure our son for a little over a year, I had not yet been able to find any concrete information regarding the practice of homeopathy - how it worked, why it worked, etc. - in straightforward, interesting, and applicable terms. Lansky's book, Impossible Cure, fills this void. Although we had little experience with "alternative" medicine and none with homeopathy, we were willing to try anything to halt the headbanging, stimming, and unsettling behavior my then 18 month old son repeated day after day. We saw almost immediate improvement with the first dose of remedy. In the past year and a half my son has gone from a toddler who did not speak, play, or interact much to a happy, sweet, loving, typical 32 month old who by all means is normal - talks, laughs, plays, and tests out at or above his age on all developmental tests. People meeting him for the first time can not believe he was ever on the spectrum. While we have done many interventions on behalf of our son, it is clear to us through our documentation that homeopathy has had one of the most dramatic impacts.
Lansky's book played a pivotal role in my son's continuing success. Although homeopathy had dramatic results for my son very quickly, I wanted even faster results. I read the book at a time when I was losing patience and ready to give up on the homeopathy and move on to more dramatic treatments. The Impossible Cure helped me understand the history of homeopathy, how a remedy is created, why it works, and reinforced its legitimacy as a proven treatment option. Of the many medical texts, personal accounts, and research I have read in the past year, this book stands out as integral to my son's recovery.
Impossible Cure is not a "treating autism" book but rather a comprehensive yet quick-read guide to understanding the "science" of homeopathy. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for validation and explanation of this miraculous treatment option.
Book Review: Homeopathy is a valuable resource
Summary: 5 Stars
As a long time student of Homeopathy, I heartily endorse this book and all the excellent reviews of it. Rather than repeat what has already been said so eloquently, I will simply add that Homeopathy is an incredible asset to our well-being. Practitioners spend many years studying their art and are always updating their training and learning more about what Homeopathy can do, and how to best utilize this amazing healing agent.
Anyone who is willing to spend a bit of time studying Homeopathy, including its history and the principles on which it is based, will be well rewarded. For chronic or complicated conditions a qualified professional is essential. The optimum would be to consult with a professional, and at the same time study the first aid applications that you can use on your own. It would, of course, be preferable to have the option of checking with the professional when using the remedies independently for such things as bumps and bruises, etc.
Homeopathy is so powerful that it is important to know the basic guidelines, even when using the remedies easily available, such as Arnica. Homeopathy is one area is which the reward for time spent studying is repaid many times over when the correct remedy is used and you experience the miracle of Homeopathy for yourself. Also, by being informed, we know when it is important to consult a professional rather than self-medicate. The remedies are safe and virtually side-effect free, however as with anything that is this effective, knowledge is important.
A great place to start is this book - and if you are already a student of Homeopathy, this is an excellent book to further your understanding.
Book Review: Homeopathy explained!
Summary: 5 Stars
It might come as a surprise to you that HRH Queen Elizabeth II of the UK has used Homeopathy. That by the time the medical profession as we know it (allopathy) codified itself 100 years ago, Homeopathy had already been a thriving & successful healing system in America & Europe.Since the 1970s Homeopathy has had a resurgence within the healing profession, primarily because people's understanding that heroic, invasive medicine is not always successful nor healing, that the cure is often as bad as the illness...& certainly very expensive.
IMPOSSIBLE CURE is much more than a memoir of a son's recovery from autism. When nothing in the normal medical world helped regain her son's wellbeing, & everyone was telling her that autism was untreatable, Amy Lansky, a graduate from the University of Rochester with degrees in mathematics & computer science, refused to believe it.
When she found a Homeopathic doctor & saw the miraculous results of her son's response, over a period of a few months, Amy Lansky decided to explore this little known healing system. IMPOSSIBLE CURE is the result of all this skilled student has learnt over the years about the history, the science & the experience of this 200+ year old healing system.
Rebeccasreads highly recommends IMPOSSIBLE CURE for anyone. You don't have to have a Ph.D. It will open a whole new path to health that is different, gentler & less expensive for what ails you -- alcoholism, allergies, Alzheimer's, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, ADD, autism, back pain, bladder infection, blood pressure, bronchitis, Carpal tunnel syndrome, depression, diabetes, drug addiction, ear infection, flu, & much, much more.
Book Review: Haven't even finished reading it yet and have to give it 5 stars!
Summary: 5 Stars
As I already commented on Jennifer Scoville's review (2005), the reviews here are fantastic! They inspired me to get the book - in fact TWO - and I can't contain myself to wait until I've finished the book before writing a review!
I first heard about homeopathy about 28 years ago. I bought the two most recommended books - both by Dana Ullman - and stumbled my way a little here and there when my kids were little.
Flash forward a number of years later and I had the good fortune of seeking out Dr. Timothy Doolittle, author of "Beyond Flat Earth Medicine" and got very excited all over again about homeopathy.
This time around I wanted to get a special gift for a niece who just gave birth to twins after trying for over 10 years to get pregnant. So, I bought them a homeopathic kit and wanted to select just the right book/s to go along with it and am so glad that I picked this book as one of them.
I absolutely LOVE this book and will leave all the literary finesse with words to all the other reviewers who already did a spectacular job describing it and for which I say "Touche!" as they hit it on the head.
The only thing I would say is that it is NOT a book ABOUT a mom with an autistic child, looking for help as it is about the wondrous science of homeopathy and how a mother discovered homeopathy's ability to heal and CURE as a result of this great concern for her autistic child. (There's a difference.)
But the book is so much more and I am going to recommend it to all my friends and family members as a must read.