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EDITORIAL
Christa Gebhardt & Dr. J
ü
rgen Hansel
Chief editors
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STONES
EDITORIAL
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
Dear readers,
The magical beauty of precious stones has long exerted a fasci-
nating attraction for people. These glittering, sparkling objects
are a symbol of immortality, riches, and power. Even uncut
crystals show the perfect symmetry and colours found in nature.
Volcanic activity has brought these treasures to the surface of
the earth for millions of years. Sapphire, emeralds, and rubies,
like many less precious stones, come from deep in the earth.
Differences exist in the type and purity of their composition,
structure, hardness, and the various inclusions that confer ad-
ditional colourful sheen. The earth’s core contains the building
blocks of the precious stones – hot, fluid magma is the pow-
erful original soup from which the minerals emerge. Through
enormous pressure and immensely high temperatures in the
earth’s core, atoms combine. They form crystals with a sym-
metrical inner structure and great purity. Whereas for example
diamonds consist solely of carbon atoms in a cubic structure,
other precious stones such as tourmaline or topaz consist of va-
rious mineral complexes, forming their own structures. Crystals
can also arise from metamorphosis if there is a change in the
temperature and pressure of existing stone strata.
Many precious and decorative stones have been prepared by
pharmacists and used for medicinal purposes. Peter Tumminello
has brought them into the limelight for homeopathic practice,
encouraging colleagues from all over the world to conduct
further research. In his new book and in an exclusive overview
for SPECTRUM, he explains how the seven crystal structures can
be used clinically. For Tumminello the key to understanding these
little understood remedies lies in a rational exploration of their
mineral qualities. The path to understanding the remedies and
selecting the best one is described in all its multifariousness in
this issue of SPECTRUM: from classical homeopathy, Sankaran’s
sensation method and the periodic table according to Scholten,
through to psychoanalysis, natural healing, and esotericism.
As early as 2006 Anne Schadde was conducting gemstone pro-
vings and has since investigated the
Tourmaline
remedy. She
researches this fascinating stone remedy family via provings,
documented by clinical cases. Her newest cases, like those of
Marion Zachmann and Wyka Feige, show how to make well-
founded prescriptions to bring about healing with such
Tour-
maline
remedies as
Dravite, Indigolite
or
Chrome tourmaline
.
The composition of the various elements of the periodic table
helps with homeopathic differentiation.
Jürgen Weiland works with the repertory and sensation method
in his paediatric clinic and recommends
Amethyst
as a valuable
remedy for developmental delay. Other cases, from Enna Stal-
linga, also stress the importance of this particular precious stone
in homeopathy. Although
Rose quartz
is similar in terms of its
silicon structure, the homeopathic emphasis is quite different,
according to Vatsala Sperling.
Jane Tara Cicchetti relates the insights from classical remedy
provings of
Peridot
with its history and psychological dream
analysis in order to form a picture of the character of this stone.
In general stone remedies can remove blockages, accelerate
developmental processes and bring people out of their isolation.
Prominent and experienced internationally known homeopaths
like Julie Geraghty, Wiet van Helmond, and Misha Norland,
present successful cases with precious and semi-precious stones
such as
Emerald, Black Opal
, ‘fool’s gold’
Pyrite
, or the sulphuric
energy of
Lava
, which brings the minerals from the centre of
the earth up to the light.
Julie Geraghty familiarises us with the dark side of power, using
Obsidian
and
Black Opal
to help her two severely affected fe-
male patients find their way back into the light, where they can
lead healthy lives. With keen powers of observation and lively
storytelling, Wiet van Helmond describes the uncompromising
strictness of patients helped by
Pyrite
to break open encrus-
ted structures and fixed conflicts. The sulphuric energy can be
seen in this stone as well as in Misha Norland’s
Lava
case and
in Marguerite Pelt’s piece on
Alabaster
, a crystalline form of
calcium sulphate.
Anyone who takes a look in the jewellery box will be able to
sense, see, or feel which precious stone they are magically at-
tracted to. And which of these, our oldest ancestors, they want
to own and which not.