The Digestive system has to nurture the body in order to maintain good health. So what is cooking in your kitchen? Are you suffering from dysbiosis? A connection can certainly be made between every dis-ease and an 'imbalance' in the gut flora. This book offers a new and unique homeopathic approach to detoxifying the gut flora by using pathogenic causing bacteria in potency - the Bowel Nosodes! Like the Flower of Life this book links Homoeopathy - the 'Gentle Art of Healing' - with:
- Bowel Nosodes Iridology - the gentle way of checking the Iris for signs of problems
- The chakra system - our energy vortexes, balancing / energising the body
- The Subtle Bodies - the Aura - integrating colours and vibrations
- The Sarcodes - the hormonal / glandular system - using them as support
- The Tissue Salts - according to Star Signs and their spiritual significance
Quick reference tables are included, identifying which chakra needs addressing and clearing. This system matches the Bowel Nosodes with constitutional remedies of old, as well as incorporating new ones, connecting all of them to the Chakras!
- Author: Doris Beauchamp
- ISBN: 9780955551802
- 390 pages
- Edition: Second Revised
- Paperback
- Published in 2013
- Printed in United Kingdom
Reprinted with the permission of The Homeopathic Links Journal, Volume 21, Autumn 2008. Reviewed by Petra Wood, UK.
The title of this book understates its scope, as it deals not only with bowel nosodes but also covers iridology, the chakras, sarcodes, tissue salts and the etheric/energy bodies.
Doris Beauchamp is of German origin and was brought up in the traditions of Rudolf Steiner, which explains her understanding and emphasis of the energy bodies. She also claims that her German origins made her familiar with the tissue salts as her family commonly used them. After completion of her homeopathic training Doris joined the Guild of Homeopaths, which gave her the understanding about the chakras. She is also a practising iridologist. It is the latter that took her onto her quest to explore the bowel nosodes as she claims that iris diagnosis more often than not reveals disturbances in the bowels.
The author gives an introduction to the history of the bowel nosodes as well as the exploration of iridology. It follows a chapter on the energy bodies (following the traditions of Rudolf Steiner). One of the longest chapters in the book is on the chakras, giving basic information, the relevant planet, element, colour, metal, bowel nosode and related remedies for each. There is a chapter about the sarcodes with general information about the original substances and their function as well as suggestions for the use of sarcodes. The chapter on tissue salts is based on their link to the star signs and how each star sign suffers certain weaknesses and is lacking in certain tissue salts.
The book concludes with the author's suggestions on choice of potency (which she acknowledges earlier on is strongly influenced by Rajan Sankaran), a Bowel Nosode Programme and some tables for easy reference.
The author admits that the suggested Bowel Nosode Programme might not appeal to those using a classical approach. It is basically a checklist of remedies to be given over a 3 - 5 months period. The aim is to "clear out" the gut with bowel nosodes in 200C potencies followed by polychrests in 10 M potencies and supported with tissue salts.
There are two main drawbacks to the book: Firstly, the author is unclear throughout as to whom she is addressing with this book. We therefore get an explanation of "polychrest" as well as a suggestion (without further explanation) to use Pituitary Gland during labour or the Bowel Nosode Programme as mentioned already. Secondly, the layout of the book made it at times painful to read: the author uses punctuation, italics and bold lettering so frequently that it is difficult to see what she is trying to emphasise. At times I felt like I was being shouted at and had to put the book down.
There are a number of little gems in this book and anybody interested in a more esoteric approach may well gain from it. The information on the bowel nosodes, however, is new only in its emphasis on the chakras and energy bodies. Aggrawal's Treatise on the Bowel Nosodes is listed in the bibliography. It appears that the basic information about the bowel nosodes has been taken from Aggrawal whom I prefer due to its ease of access to the relevant information.
