particulars I described to him, he instructed me to give five intermittent doses of  arsenicum album and to call him in 36 hours. After two doses it was obvious there was some relief of symptoms and after the fifth dose, our son was much improved; I administered just two more doses. By that time, he had completely recovered.

As I look back on that time, I realize that illness (and its cure!) were a spiritual awakening for me. I became hopeful for the first time in my career that there was a path for me to follow. Within six months, I was enrolled at the American Academy of Classical Homeopathy in New York. After a year of studies and lectures given by guest lecturers in homeopathy, I came across a set of lecture tapes recorded by Robin Murphy, who had spent 20 years as a practitioner, lecturer, writer, and compiler of lost and invaluable homeopathic writings. He was also the director of the Hahnemannian Academy of North America. As I listened to this set of tapes, I realized that he had the information and methodology that could just possibly make this oceanic paradigm navigable. I changed schools immediately! I spent five years studying and taking as many practice cases as I could find. In 1992 I opened my practice on Manhattan's Upper West Side and slowly built it through referrals from clients, colleagues and eventually medical doctors. I treat all ages, genders, races and symptoms. Homeopathy is not a specialty but a way of thinking and an art of seeing. It is a way to the source or the cause of illness that is based on understanding who the person is and how they have been affected by their environment, their genetics and their interactions with others. Happily my practice is very busy and very diversified.