Jerry M. KantorThe Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness
Homeopathy for Existential Stress
Jerry M. Kantor, L.Ac., CCH, MMHS, is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Anaesthesiology, Kantor is the author of Interpreting Chronic Illness, The Toxic Relationship Cure, and Autism Reversal Toolbox. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Foreword by Begabati Lennihan, RN, CCH
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE
A Homeopathic Framework
Contextualizing the Law of Similars
Psychic Excavation
Our Inborn Toolkit of Five Emotions
PART TWO
Five Existential Questions
And Their Corresponding Miasms, Sense Dimensions, Phases, Emotions, and
Organs
1 Am I alone in life or do I act in synchrony with nature and with others?
Tubercular Miasm • Touch • Fire Phase • Joy • Heart–Small Intestine
2 Is my presence in the world sustainable?
Psoric Miasm • Taste • Earth Phase • Worry • Spleen–Stomach
3 Am I oriented in space and time?
Sycotic Miasm • Smell • Metal Phase • Sadness • Lungs
4 Can the boundary between life and death be abided?
Syphilitic Miasm • Hearing • Water Phase • Fear • Kidneys–Urinary Bladder
5 Will the insurrection of my birth prove fruitful?
Cancer Miasm • Sight • Wood Phase • Anger • Liver–Gall Bladder In the
Strait of Messina Navigating between the Scylla of Cancer and the Charybdis
of Chronic Illness
APPENDIX A
Modeling Explanations
APPENDIX B
Resources for Other Existential Perspectives on Homeopathy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
