Jan Scholten

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Jan Scholten (born December 23 1951, Helmond, Netherlands) is a practitioner of homeopathy, author of several books and researcher in this field. He is best known for his theories and observations concerning the use of minerals and chemical elements and their salts in homeopathy. He was the first to described and introduce the lanthanides and their salts, in potentized forms, in homeopathic preparations for pathology.

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[edit] Education and professional development

Before starting his medical education he first studied chemistry for 2 years and philosophy for 3 years. Scholten received a MD degree in 1983. Then he studied homeopathy and acupuncture. Among others Roger Morrison, George Vithoulkas, Alphons Geukens, Kÿnzli and Bill Gray belonged to his teachers. After finishing the study of homeopathy in 1985 he started a classical homeopathic practice. He is the co-founder of the "Homeopathic Doctors Center Utrecht", founded in 1988, in Utrecht. He is also familiar with many other alternative medicines, like orthomolecular medicine, herbalism, and Bach remedies[1]. He calls himself "homo universalis" - a scientist well known in all fields of science. According to him medicine, psychology, mythology, chemistry, physics, biology and religion come together in homeopathy. Scholten is interested in a human being, the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects in the state of health and disease[2].

[edit] Works

A homeopathic spiral of chemical elements by Scholten
A homeopathic spiral of chemical elements by Scholten
Homeopathic stages by Scholten
Homeopathic stages by Scholten
A homeopathic periodic table
A homeopathic periodic table

Scholten's first book, Homoeopathy and Minerals, was published in 1993, and has been translated into 10 languages. In this book, Schlten describes the use of minerals in homeopathy, especially unknown remedies, and introduced a new method of analysis he called group analysis. This, Scholten claimed, makes it possible to predict the "homeopathic pictures" of unknown remedies, and to handle the huge amount of information in homeopathy; as the "essential characteristics of a group of remedies" with the same element are being extracted.

Scholten's second book, Homeopathy and the Elements, appeared in 1996 and became a standard in homeopathy. The book contains a homeopathic analysis of all the elements of the periodic table of Mendeleev. The classification of homeopathic remedies by using the periodic table was named the element theory. Scholten divided the elements into 7 series, corresponding with the rows of the periodic system, and 18 stages, corresponding with the columns of the periodic system.

All the series have a "theme of life". The 7 series contain:

According to Scholten, an open spiral of chemical elements shows the development of self-awareness.

Scholten's latest work, "Secret Lanthanides - Road to Independence", was published in November 2005. This book contains the homeopathic portraits of persons in a Lanthanide state and describes the use of the Lanthanides and their salts in health and disease. Scholten performed homeopathic provings with lanthanides, and introduced them in potentized (energetic) forms into homeopathy. The foreword is written by Rajan Sankaran.

[edit] Present activity

Scholten is the president of Stichting Alonissos, a foundation for the promotion of homeopathy. He is affiliated with the Stichting Homeopathische Opleidingen (SHO) in Wageningen, an independent training-institute for postgraduate homeopathic education for physicians, veterinarians, obstetricians and pharmacists, located in the Netherlands.

Scholten also initiated the international homeopathic internet journal Interhomeopathy for professionals, published monthly, to promote the exchange of ideas, theory and cases.

Scholten has also delivered lectures about his theories and discoveries all over the world.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Stichting Alonnissos
  2. ^ Life of Jan Scholten
  3. ^ New England Journal of Homeopathy Volume 3 Number 3 Summer 1994
  4. ^ SIMILLIMUM Summer 1994 Volume VII No. 2 / 103
  5. ^ British Homoeopathic Journal Volume 86, January 1997
  6. ^ THE HOMOEOPATH Number 65, Spring 1997

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