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Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification by Joe Rozencwajg, Review

Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification / Joe Rozencwajg

Joe Rozencwajg

Organotherapy, Drainage & Detoxification   

A starting point to safe practice for Homeopaths, Herbalists, Naturopaths, Traditional Healers and enlightened Medical Doctors

   
Francis Treuherz
by Francis Treuherz

published in Homoeopathic Links, Volume 22, Spring 2009

Organotherapy, Drainage and Detoxification

Here is a potentially great reference and therapeutics book full of goodness from plants and from animal organs to help our failing human organism. John Henry Clarke compiled his famous Dictionary so that he could have all the facts he needed to hand. This work is similar: all the therapeutic information from the author's practice, with explanations for the novice reader, are now all in one place. There is information not only from homeopathy but from many branches of natural medicine, which I am not qualified to judge. Joe Rozencwajg is highly qualified in all these naturopathic and herbal therapies. He would have us believe that these techniques are fully compatible with 'unicist' homeopathic practice and is combative in his stance about this. He also explains why the medicines made from animal organs are acceptable to a range of religious and ethical viewpoints.

He may be correct. I find that I may indeed give a remedy with an affinity to a certain organ like the prostate or the breasts, but I come by that remedy using our materia medica and repertory sources, whether from my bulging bookcases or from my ReferenceWorks or MacRepertory program. Rademacher, Burnett and Clarke are my main English sources for these. I cannot see why one would need to give more than one at a time. But the useful information is here, and I shall refer to it more easily.

The origins of some of the techniques mentioned in this book are shrouded in mist especially for Anglophone readers. This is a pun as the name of the first recorded author of the idea of drainage or the canalisation of toxins from vulnerable organs is the Swiss Dr Nebel (which means fog in German). We are given details of the theory, the practice, and a huge source of materia medica tips. I thought I must be the only person outside France who had read Basses Dilutions et Drainage en Homeopathie by Coulamy and Jousset, a scholarly, fully-referenced textbook, probably the definitive work in this field. Joe Rozencwajg does us a great service in bringing material from this and other French works to our attention. One of the most endearing parts of the book is the account of the author's wandering life as a doctor in Belgium, Canada, Israel, and finally New Zealand.

If we are to make better use of these clinical tips the book needs the application of the benevolent brain of an editor, a designer, a bibliographer and an indexer. It looks and reads like a draft to be submitted to a publisher, not because English is not the author's first language, but because it is not well organised. The French work I mentioned above, together with many more, is not in the list of references, and if these ideas are to be pursued and developed by readers, homeopaths like you and me, these references should be there. The format is an unwieldy A4 size straight from the desk of a well-known word processor. I believe an indexed edition is newly available in a more "book-like" format. There is no ISBN so the book will be almost invisible as so-called "grey literature". I hope the book makes it to a mainstream publisher and so to our regular bookshops.

 
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Organotherapy, Drainage and Detoxification
by Francis Treuherz , published in Homoeopathic Links, Volume 22, Spring 2009