Michal Yakir

Michal Yakir (PhD, RCHom), a classical homeopath, practicing Homeopathy for over 30 years. Former chair of the managing Committee of the Israeli Association for Classical Homeopathy and the editor of the association’s professional magazine. She teaches homeopathy in Israel for many years, and in the last years – her lecture of the botanical approach to remedies all are presented around the globes.

After receiving her BA in Botany, MSc degree in Biology and Ecology, she conducted a PhD research in Homeopathy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, studding the efficacy of Homeopathy in a clinical research of women’s problems (PMS) for the Doctoral thesis, with great results for homeopathy!

Based on her experience as a former botanist, an avid gardener, model ecologist, a researcher and currently as a homeopath, Dr. Yakir developed over 20 years her approach to Plant remedies and their relationship to their botanical, systematic order. (Her first edition of the book "wondrous order" came out in 2005, but only the 7th edition was translated into English and soon in German).

The result is a botanical approach based on Cronquist (the pre-genetic, phenotype based system before the introduction of the APG system of taxonomy). Her approach defines the homeopathically relevant themes of botanical groups, which also makes it possible to prescribe relatively unknown remedies. Using a table with six columns, she distinguishes six major groups to which she assigns particular themes. From left to right, the columns depict the evolution, or the development of the individual ego, a journey from immersion in oneness to conscious awareness of this oneness. Going from the feminine, birth giving aspect, through several separation stages from the mother, father and family, developing toward the masculine aspect, toward the other and the group.

As we read the Table as a story, a continuous progressing journey, we can see that the development of the plants reflects not only the individual development of the ego, but also the development of humankind and it history, a wondrous order indeed.