October Happenings!

Zuri Medicine and barefoot homeopathy

I cant believe its almost the end of Oct and I haven’t put out a newsletter yet!! The days just seem to fly by!  

At home in the West, its cold and kids are preparing for Halloween and  here in Uganda, we have rainy season.

feet full of mud!

I was asked to do 2 homeopathy training in the villages.  The roads are nearly impassable by vehicle.  Normally I take a motorbike – called a boda – but because of the condition of the rd most days its impossible, you get stuck in the mud or the boda throws you down.  I’ve fallen off  in the mud before and it was no fun.One village, we are close to the main rd, where I’m staying with a host family it’s about a miles walk from the main rd to the house. When the rains come, which they do every day, it’s a muddy mess. The road is red clay  and it sticks to your shoes and feet, by the time I get home I’m dragging about a pound of mud on my shoes.   As such, most of the people we were expecting for the training have not been able to come consistently or at all because of weather conditions. We are suppose to go even further into the villages for the 2^nd training but I think we are going to have to reschedule this for dry season as its located about  10 miles in from any roads and  navigable only by boda. Although working in the villages is Zuri Medicines mission, we also have to be able to get there.

We see patients in the clinic as we train to give real world experience to the "barefoot homeopath" here is baby we saw in clinic that presented with an umbilical hernia, and one week after giving him Calceria Carbonica 1M one dose with 200c daily for  week.  The hernia seems to have shrunk a bit but my recommendation was to take the child to the hospital to have this operated on immediately.  The family is poor and cant do so without help.  If you would like to help this child to get an operation check out our link below and send a donation.

The students were so pleased with the classes that some even came after hours to discuss homeopathy. There is never a rest time when teaching and running clinics if the students/patients  know where you're staying :)

Here are some of our graduates from the 2 week training. Issac and Moonlight. 

On the other hand we made some contacts with Evelyn, a spunky little woman who runs Outreach to Africa and has 2 clinics of her own along with a school. She was able to arrange for Zuri Medicine and an optometrist to work in the villages along the Congo border.  New glasses and homeopathy what a win for the people in the area!!!

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There are our patients waiting to see us in the background.

Dr Clyde doing eye exams for people in the villages who need glasses.

Now off to treat the Ugandan army, what a great opportunity for Zuri Medicine!   We have promised to come back in January to do followups and see the officers we missed.  Agnes will be there to take care of them till I can get back to help her. 

After a long day working with the Ugandan Army, and working in a hospital we show up at a village with 120 people waiting for homeopathy.  It's 6 pm and soon I wont be able to see my keyboard, but that doesn't stop the demands for medicine. 

After a long day we are happy to go home, take a hot shower and crawl into bed. 

Uganda was certainly eventful and I cant wait to go back in January. 

Now we’re getting ready to go to Congo in the upcoming week! I’m excited to get back to the Congo clinic and to follow-up on the patients we saw, especially the classrooms of kids. 

Here is our paypal: zurimedicine@gmail.com

and for a tax deductible donation, make checks payable to: Bertha Mae Williams Foundation

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Till next time!!

Michelle

Successes and Failures

Most of us, no matter what we do for a living, want to talk only about our successes.  Failures make us seem like we have no idea what the hell we’re doing and frankly, you just feel like a fool. For me the more I’ve fallen flat on my face the more I’ve learned about homeopathy and ultimately myself in the process.

In my 1^st months of volunteering with HHA, I went out to a clinic that we only visit once a month.  While there I saw a patient who had been deaf but had gotten a homeopathic medicine that had restored her hearing except she was still complaining that it felt like she had a scab in her ear and if she could just get it out her hearing would be 100%. She also had ringworm on her joints,( knees, elbows, shoulder wrist..etc.)  I took a look at the list of homeopathic medicines she’d had so far, plugged in all her symptoms in my computer program and decided to give her Psorinum as it looked like the right medicine that covered all her symptoms.  I was so confident in my prescription I KNEW nothing could go wrong.

We get back to clinic the following month and she comes marching in, giving me the stare down, eyes  on death ray beam.  She has gone DEAF! I FREAKED!

She’s in the clinic and she’s screaming at me because she cant hear. I’m trying to calm her down and calm myself down in the process.   My translator asks her a question, she turns to her grandson who had come to clinic with her, and he yells it in her ear and she yells back.  The whole clinic is in chaos.  She keeps yelling she wants her hearing back and that her hearing was good before I came there. In the meantime I’m in a total panic and scrambling to find something to give her that will restore her hearing, all the while contemplating whether or not to call the directors of the program.  The whole time I’m under the death ray stare down.  And I can’t think.

Finally, I’m able to get the whole story of whats happening with her ears and I find out its been draining goop for the past month. I decide to let the prescription stand as it means her body is discharging whatever is in her ear and hope the following month her hearing  comes back.  She never came back to my clinic, and in a way I was glad because I was having anxiety attacks just thinking about her.  I don’t know whatever happened with her hearing but I questioned myself for days after that. What did I do wrong, should I have given her a different medicine, and should I have stuck to my prescription?   

This experience taught me that when we fail at the things we feel we are good at, it doesn’t mean you’re a total dumbass, it just means there is still a lot to learn. >