South Africa

Farm

10 Sept

Early in the year an email arrived in my in-tray inviting me to be a Guest Speaker at the LMHI conference in Cape Town, South Africa in September. I was, of course, delighted to be asked. They wanted a presentation about the pilot project for antibiotic reduction on farms using homeopathic support.

The LMHI (Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis) was set up in 1925 by fourteen homeopathic physicians from nine countries. Over the years it has worked to keep an international network between homeopathic physicians from around the world. Currently it has membership form over seventy countries.

The pilot project of 2017 had created some useful results demonstrating how well farmers could reduce their reliance on antibiotics with the skilful integration of homeopathic principles in the way they ran their farms. A classic case of getting better at the Green and the Amber, resulting in spending less time in the Red. There is more about the project in an earlier blog.

The conference itself was amazing. The South African hosts made us feel most welcome. There were a wide variety of homeopathic topics being presented form around the world.

The host presenters gave a number of lectures, including a couple of inspiring talks about the work being done in the townships. In much the same way that animals don’t thrive is the husbandry is poor, human beings have big challenges where the social situation makes life tough. A compromised Green Level will result in Amber and Red Level challenges. South Africa is inspiring in the way that it is rising to the challenge of massive changes in society. There are some great projects on the go integrating homeopathy successfully into the health support systems.

There were many presentations form India. India has been using homeopathy widely for very many years. They are doing a great job of integrating modern data collection and record keeping, with a high standard of homeopathy. The net result is that they are creating some great projects with inspiring results.

In between the lectures there was a chance to chat to the delegates. While the conference was largely aimed at human homeopaths, it was nice to see that the South African homeopathic vets had turned up. It was great to chat and find out about all the various animals that they get to help with homeopathy.

My talk was on the very last day fitting in nicely into the structure of the program. It was great to see such keen interest in what we have been achieving work with farmers in the UK. The presentation was similar to talk I gave at the Oxford Real Farm Conference earlier in the year, with a few updates.

The response was most gratifying with many people chatting to me afterwards. The principles of the HAWL training course are simple and it would be great to see others around the world supporting their farmers by sharing their homeopathic knowledge.

There were so many good aspects about the whole experience. Overall my greatest joy was having the opportunity to be part of sharing inspiring experiences within a global audience. It really is good to talk.