Impossible Cure
Amy L. Lansky Ph.D.
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2003 R. L. Ranch Press
ISBN: 0972751408

The Promise of Homeopathy.

At the core of Impossible Cure is Amy Lansky's story of how her son was cured of autism. It also provides an in-depth & exciting account of the history, philosophy, science & experience of the Homeopathic healing system.

In America, over a century ago, homeopathy was well known & highly successful. However, with the codification of the medical system & the rise in influence of the pharmaceutical companies, it was relegated to the edge of medicine, precisely because it is inexpensive & somewhat miraculous, dealing with “The Law of Similars” which is way beyond the established medical practice of heroic, invasive rescue. Once again, Homeopathy's time has come, & Impossible Cure will go a long way to bringing it to everyone's attention.

Hahnemann (no one uses his Christian names), the creator of the Homeopathic System, was born in Meissen, Germany back when our understanding about vaccinations was just beginning, back before the United States of America existed, in an era when universities taught medical studies, & medical theories were based primarily on the balance of our bodies' “humours”.

Chapter 2 of Impossible Cure is devoted to Hahnemann's story, his scientific discoveries & the harassment he received for them. By 1810 Hahnemann had published the first edition of Organon -- his comprehensive text on the principles & practice of Homeopathy, still used today by students & practitioners alike. Homeopathy, to put it simply, (forgive my errors, one & all, I am a mere reviewer of books & can only tell my Readers what I have learnt) is a total understanding of patients' predicaments, from what they eat, to where they've been, how they are feeling, where they sleep, & the use of certain, specific diluted organic substances to assist the body in healing itself.

Clearly Homeopathy is much more complicated than that & Amy Lansky has done a good job of explaining it for the layperson, so much so that practitioners from many schools of alternative medicine recommend it highly.

While Amy Lansky has written her book to be accessible & exciting, it is not one you would read from cover to cover at one sitting because it is part reference, part textbook, part memoir & a thorough account of her research into this alternative approach to health care.

Years ago when I worked for a doctor who used Homeopathy, I often met students from Bastyr University situated north of Seattle, where Homeopathy has been taught for 25 years, gleaning many insights into how this healing works. I was always pleasantly surprised at how gently & thoroughly the remedies cured what ailed me from colds, arthritis, allergies, deafness & the like. Now, Homeopathy is being used to heal chronic modern ailments.

Impossible Cure is much, much more than a memoir of a son's recovery. Amy Lansky took an intense course in alternative medical practices, focusing especially on Homeopathy. It might make you do a double take about this little-known & extraordinarily gentle form of healing were you to learn that HRH Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom has used it all her life, & not at all because she is wealthy -- because it works!

If you are at your wit's end & have found no hope or ease from your ailments within the established medical system, I do suggest you immerse yourself in Impossible Cure & see how it may help you.

Amy Lansky graduated from the University of Rochester with degrees in mathematics & computer science, & received her doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. As a result of her son's illness she studied at Misha Norland's School of Homoeopathy in Devon, England; the Homeopathic Master Clinician's course with Louis Klein: studied with Simon Taffler, Sadhna Thakkar, Jan Scholten, & Alize Timmerman. She has served as coeditor of The American Homeopath, the journal of the North American Society of Homeopaths. She is an executive board member of the California Health Freedom Coalition. She is an amateur musician, a vocalist with several local rock bands & is currently studying piano composition.

Amy Lanksy will be interviewed in 2004.
(12/21/03)

Rebecca