Last week I attended a seminar by Dr Luc de Schepper from America on the Homeopathic Treatment of Autism. The seminar ran over three days and it was Dr Luc’s third visit to Australia to teach his “Advanced Studies” course to qualified Classical Homeopaths.

In Dr Luc’s opinion there is no one cause of Autism but a range of factors that can predispose a child. One factor is genetics. Homeopathy has been teaching since its beginnings (early 1800’s) about genetics and the role it has to play in diseases - however we use the word Miasm instead. A child will inherit miasm’s from both sides of the family. Certain events can trigger a particular miasm and one of these we believe may be vaccination. A child will only be affected by vaccination however if the ‘terrain’ was susceptible. Other triggers can be shock, grief and puberty and so on. Therefore Homeopaths know that for each disease that occurs in the world - there will be more than one trigger.  A Homeopaths job is to treat miasm’s to reduce the tendency to chronic disease.

Over the three days we learned about the many facets of Autistic Spectrum Disorders and their treatment. Treatment takes time and the cooperation of the parents. Too many drugs, harsh diets and large regimes of supplements can be a hindrance to treatment and in cases reverse good results already obtained.

Treatment with Homeopathy is individualised. There is no magic remedy that treats all cases of Autism - each child must be treated according to their own unique physical, mental and emotional characteristics. 

Once again I came away from Dr Luc’s seminar exhilarated at more fresh knowledge gained and the joy of knowing that Homeopathy is effective in treating children who suffer from Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Dr Luc has treated over 600 Autistic children in the past two years and his results bare witness to this fact!