In April at the Teleosis School of Homeopathy, Jerry Kantor will introduce conception, fertility and its various key issues from the vantage point of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Though ancient and spiritually oriented,  the Traditional Chinese perspective on reproduction remains realistic and relevant for modern day people. Mr. Kantor will discuss some of the common causes for infertility as well as lifestyle adjustments and specific techniques designed to enhance male and female fertility, some of which promote the birth of a healthy child as well.

Time allowing, Mr. Kantor who is also a classical homeopath and the co-author of a soon to be published text on the homeopathic treatment of infertility will discuss how homeopathy can bolster vibrancy in our reproductive lives.  For more information please contact Teleosis, located at 777 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138;

(617) 547-8500;

Teleosis School of Homeopathy, http://www.homeoschool.org

Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Jerry Kantor
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Is the Blues treatable via homeopathy? Let’s repertorize the problem and find out!

A Case of the Blues
Taken by Jerry M. Kantor, Lic. Ac., CCH, RSHom (NA)

MIND
Blamed but he don’t care.
Certain, ain’t gonna be no one’s dog.
Has got ramblin’ on his mind.
Tired of livin’ but scared of diein’.

Delusion: She can make a dress out of a feedbag, and make a man out of you.
Delusion: Is a poor boy, ‘long way from home.
Delusion: Is getting’ ready for the Cypress Grove.
Delusion: Cannot seem to find his walkin’ shoes.
Delusion: Is a candy man (Merc. Sol).
Delusion: That the Devil made him do it.

RELATIONSHIP
Another mule is kickin’ in his stall.
His wife got a fistful of gimme and a mouth full of much obliged.

FOOD AND DRINK
Everything tastes like the Blues, especially, Blues was in his breakfast and in his bread.
Craves a pig foot and a bottle of beer.

HEAD
Filled with a notion that he should throw himself in the river and drown.

LARYNX
Hollers, (Concomitants: jumps and shouts).

FACE
Cannot show it in town.

MODALITIES
Better from: a spoonful of whiskey; light from the Midnight Special shining down on him.
Worse from: working for the man.

EXTREMITIES
Knee bones shakin’.

VERTIGO
Worse from: being low down and dirty.

CHEST
Downhearted.

CHILL
Every now and then a cold chill comes over him.

MALE
Most of the time has got his mojo workin’. Hoochie Coochie. Full grown man.

FEMALE
Meanest woman in town.

SKIN
Tendency to be buckshot when he stands still, but cut when he runs.

VISION
Some of these Alabama women, they all appear to look like section men.

HEARING
A black snake moan. That his wife done left him, and his girlfriend, too. A lonesome train whistle blows.

Remedy Possibilities: Lachesis, Lycopodeum, Sulphur, Lac Caninum, Mercurius,  Kali Brom, Psorinum. But we must accept a real possibility that there just ain’t no cure.

Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Jerry Kantor
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Homeopathy and Other Modalities
In my experience homeopathy is one of, if not the single most profound of all healing modalities. Of course, this is true only when the remedy prescription is highly accurate! But yes, when such is the case one would be hard-pressed to find a health care intervention more finely tuned to the precise issue underlying a client’s illness.

That said, the question can be raised: what happens when homeopathy is utilized simultaneously with another powerful modality, for example, acupuncture? In my experience using both modes of care together is not optimal. Here is why:

The timeframe for an accurate constitutional remedy is usually in the vicinity of six weeks. The timeframe for a single powerful acupuncture treatment is several days (which is why acupuncture works best when performed at least twice weekly).

Let’s employ the metaphor of our having been assigned two work projects. The first work project will account for perhaps, sixty percent of my yearly income and will require my full-time involvement five days a week. While thus engaged I am offered a second work project that if given my full effort could be completed within three days. Assuming that I were to accept this second project on top of the first one, which project would be likely to suffer? At least according to my reasoning—and this is my own chosen metaphor—the second project would suffer. This is because, despite my greed I should be unwilling to risk under-performing in relation to the project on which my livelihood principally depends. Thus, the smaller project receives less than my optimal effort.

Similarly, acupuncture being the “smaller” project is diminished in its effectiveness. Being an acupuncturist as well as a homeopath, when the choice is left up to me, I opt for acupuncture especially when confronted with a client in obvious physical pain due to musculo-skeletal trauma. Otherwise, but especially when dealing with chronic illness my choice is constitutional homeopathy. I refrain from using both modalities together except for when seeking to blunt the edge of a homeopathic aggravation.

Despite a professional bias in favor of homeopathy other modalities hold tremendous healing and diagnostic value. Just now I should like to single out the usefulness of nutritional counseling as well as the remarkable skill of well trained Reflexologists (who perform foot massage based on ancient Egyptian or Traditional Chinese Medical diagnostics) and—provided you can find such a person—-a Medical Intuitive who is gifted with “second sight” diagnostic capability. As it happens Helen Chin Liu, a remarkable Reflexologist has recently joined my practice at Vital Force Health Care. I recommend her work highly. Read more about Helen at http://www.healingplacemedfield.com/.

From time to time I also have the privilege of working in conjunction with an extraordinary Medical Intuitive, Wendy Marks. Check out her video magazine interview at http://boldfacers.com/index.cfm?page=videos&video_id=142&channel=profiles.

Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Jerry Kantor
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Cocculus Indicus

When undertaking a long air flight, especially one crossing multiple time zones never forget to take along some Cocculus 30. This remedy possesses several memorable, keynote prescribing symptoms: 1) Ailments from nightwatching (meaning, loss of sleep but especially due to the stress of caring for or worrying about a sick relative or acquaintance); 2) ailments from motion, such as carsickness; a sense of time passing too quickly. Insofar as flying often denotes worry, stress, distortion of time and sleep patterns, not to mention an excess of motion it is easy to see why Cocculus suggests itself as a prime remedy for jet lag. Having recently undergone 17 hour flights from Boston to South Africa and back I can personally attest to this remedy’s usefulness. My jet lag was absolutely minimal. My recommendation is that one take a dose before flight, and also every few hours during the flight.

Other symptoms suggesting the appropriateness of prescribing this remedy include: profound sadness, a feeling of being capricious and stupid, excessive sensitivity, introspection, and distractibility. In more physical terms there is often a sense that one’s head is swimming, a readiness to nausea, weakness, prostration, tendencies to spasms. One of the most unusual indicating signs (not always present) is a sense of one’s being hollow.

Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Jerry Kantor
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Let’s discuss the well-known Curse of the Bambino.  This refers to the Boston Red Sox’ inability to win a World Series after basically giving away to the New York Yankees, and for a piddling amount of cash, Babe Ruth, who as it would turn out would become widely recognized as the greatest player in the history of baseball. In 2004 with the Red Sox’ miraculous come from behind playoff win against the Yankees, and their subsequent rout of the National League’s St. Louis Cardinals the infamous Curse was finally, and after 86 years was put to rest. How did this come about? Homeopathy provides the answer.

The power of the curse was not mystical. Rather, it represented an entrenched fear and its related behavioral rigidity. States of stuckness of exactly this sort are routinely identified by classical homeopaths as underlying disease states in their patients. But “remedy states” need not be cured by homeopathic remedies alone. Homeopathic “behavior” can also do the trick.

The fear underlying the Curse of the Bambino was that team management might again some day commit an error as serious as giving away Babe Ruth, the great Bambino. The associated rigidity is: beware of making any baseball trades that are even remotely suggestive of this possibility. When installed as a core front office belief a fear such as this delimits managerial flexibility, creativity, and thereby places the team at a disadvantage with respect to other teams in the trading marketplace.

There exists a shibboleth in baseball that the value of even a handful of good players cannot equate that of a single great player. The reason for this is that truly great players are irreplaceable while many even very good players can be readily exchanged for others having equal value. Avoidance of any such trade would be fully in keeping with the fear and associated rigidity of the Bambino Curse. Now, homeopathy teaches that “Like Cures Like.”  Thus, the homeopathically recommended way out of the dilemma is to indeed engage with the original error, but to perpetrate a micro-dosage of the mistake. Yes, facing the demon once and for all is better than doing nothing.

Nomar Garciaparra the Red Sox shortstop had been anointed the greatest Red Sox player since Ted Williams by no less a luminary than Ted Williams himself. Yet in 2004 General Manager Theo Epstein was inspired to trade the inimical and  irreplaceable Garciaparra for three talented but lesser lights: outfielder Dave Roberts, and infielders Orlando Cabrerra and Doug Mentkiewicz. The day on which the trade was announced talk show radio hosts went berserk. The trade was denounced in the newspapers as another Babe Ruth giveaway.

One can of course say that the team’s improved chemistry due to the three new players, each of whom went on to play significant roles in the Red Sox’ 2004 triumph that lifted the Bambino’s curse. I would argue that it was Epstein’s fear-dispelling moxie that did the trick, thereby liberating the team to perform at its optimal level.

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Jerry Kantor
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