Feedback on International Seminars

Tom Vogel M.D. - Vienna, Austria

You are the first teacher in homeopathy I have met who asked so clearly for feedback and I think this is a very valuable point in teaching!

I found it very good to address the failures in homeopathic practice - where you have found them in your own work (Anamnesis, etc....), the analysis of the failures and the work on them to better the homeopathic outcomes and work.

Through your way of holding the seminar it seems now very clear to me, that your audience in Salzburg (including myself) - have very much to learn in observation and especially on pathognomonic symptoms!!! - To get a good quality in our practice. By the way thanks for the good hint to find out about pathognomonic symptoms by googling or by visiting patients-websites!!!!!

I found it very well done in the beginning that you step by step worked your way of case taking and - analysis through with the audience. Through that it became much clearer where the mistakes are of the hom.-students. I think this is a way of teaching homeopathy in which the students can be picked up from where they are and have a close look on where their problems in the work are and how to make their work and learning process better. 

I found it very valuable that you pronounced the importance of observation strongly as you did (see also the foreword to Hahnemann’s Materia medica Pura foreword to the 4th book!!!!) 

Another valuable point for me was also that you let the audience participate in the case-analysis to see how they see the case and to find out where their problems are.

Another important point was for me your emphasizing on knowledge of the exact meaning of repertory-rubrics (which seems to me to be a big problem of practice in Austria).

About the cases:

I found it good that you brought severe acute-cases. Why?

1) It showed impressively what homeopathy can do, when well done. Which seems to me very important in a country where homeopaths often seem to be the private doctors for mild-chronic-conditions only who better not dare to teat something more severe.

2) It showed a lot about the importance of observation. (Which seems to me also very neglected in homeopathic practice and education over here!) The live-case:

I found it a very good teaching-case, because: 1) Long spontaneous report from patient and parents

2) Detailed of the symptoms

3) Questions from head to toes

4) Making a pathological diagnosis (missed out by the audience!!!)

5) You created a relaxed atmosphere during the case-taking

6) Enough time for case-analysis for the seminar-attendants

7) Well structured and understandable case-analysis

8) Follow-able differentiating of remedies

I am very thankful about your research-work on Hahnemann and posology! I hope that you write a text, book or something like that about it, so that not 3

every generation of homeopaths has to do this hard work again!!!! Your seminar left me with a feeling that

1) Homeopathy can do such marvelous things (which I know but it is so good to see nice proof from time to time). 2) You showed me where are problems in my work (observation, pathognomonic, repertory) and you gave tools to work on these problems. 3) You showed a clear form how to work on a clear basic methodology 4) You created for me a relaxed and humoristic atmosphere for the whole seminar.

Gandalf Rottmann M.D. - Salzburg, Austria

First of all thank you for all information’s about your work in homeopathy – the systematic choosing of the peculiar symptoms/themes of the patient was a very helpful.

I think this practice to look for what is “really peculiar” is not efficient enough taught from other teachers.

I was very impressed by all cases you showed – how efficiently homoeopathy can cure a VSD, I didn´t realise that till Your Seminar.

And specially thank you for the recommend to the literature of Whitmont.

I bought me nearly all books from him and started with the dream-seminars from Bad Reichenhall.

A very helpful book to come in contact with dreams in a non-invasive way of observation.

I started too read C.G. Jung about two years ago and Whitmont is a perfect bridge between Jung and homeopathy.

For me there are too less bridges between Jung and Homeopathy.

I was really astonished that there exists one in Bombay! 

And I also was impressed about your rich knowledge about the history of homeopathy

I am sorry that - not only in Austria - many homeopaths have a rather big distance to psychotherapy and analytical observation.

Maybe this is also a reason for why it is so difficult for many to work with dreams and inner life-themes that are in a latent state and wants to be developed?

I hope there is a possibility to hear see and You again

The time in Salzburg was much too short

Dr.Otto Fiel M.D. - Austria

Dear Doctor Master!

I really enjoyed your Seminar in Salzburg! Going back to the roots was/is an very important experience, thank you! I’m looking forward 2007.

Dr.Paul Albers - Holland

So now I want to thank you again explicitly for the excellent seminar you gave at our college. You lived up to our expectations and gave us even more than that! And, you only once (and not every half hour!) gave your opinion about nowadays trends. But you did so very efficiently! Thanks for that as well. I am, and the whole homeopathy section of our college, is delighted that you too like to extend our cooperation into next year.

Dr.Werner Kerschbaumer - Cape Town, South Africa

Hi Farokh, 

Yes, I was VERY happy with you and people were very happy and they feel they learned. Several people commented they were really sorry they didn’t attend because of the good comments they heard from others. Yes, people want you again.

Dr. Mitchell Fleisher - U.S.A.

It is wonderful to hear from you. I remember with fondness the time I spent with you in your clinic in Mumbai, the motor scooter rides through the city, the house call with the aristocratic young Arsenic with acute malaria. It would be a pleasure to work with you again in a dynamic CAM clinical setting.

You are highly regarded, not only by me but by homeopaths worldwide, as one of the most astute homeopathic physicians and teachers in the world today. It would be an honor to work by your side in this new endeavor.

Dr. Toroko Yui - Principal, Royal Academy of Homoeopathy, Japan

I invited Dr Farokh Master for my students to Japan in the summer 2005. He generously showed his wisdom, how to find a simillimum remedy, using deep insight, rich stored of knowledge of Materia Medica and Repertorisation towards complicated and difficult cases.

I had also a great opportunity of meeting him again at an international conference in Dubai in 2007.

I am honored to call him, a great homoeopath, as one of my friends.

Dr.Erika and Dr Hermann Azenbacher - Salzburg

We learned a lot - as usual when you came to Salzburg and previously also from your Augsburg seminar. We cannot wait for your another seminar this year again Salzburg.

Dr. Roberto Petrucci - Italy

I attended some seminars of Dr. Master and then I had the luck to teach with him.

Since the first time I met him, I was surprised about his knowledge about small rubrics of repertory, small remedies and also about his conduction of the case, but I was strongly impressed when he showed me his acute cases where I think he gives his best demonstrating the power of homeopathy.

The way of teaching of Dr. Master is really attractive and I strongly recommend to every homeopath to attend a seminar with him.

Dr.Paul Albers - Holland

I want to thank you explicitly for the excellent seminar you gave at our college. You lived up to our expectations and gave us even more than that! And, you only once (and not every half hour!) gave your opinion about nowadays trends. But you did so very efficiently! Thanks for that as well. I am, and the whole homeopathy section of our college, is delighted that you too like to extend our cooperation into next year.

The level you taught on was appropriate, the broadness of your approach very nice and the exactness and sharpness of your opinions just as I hoped for. On top of that you have a very pleasant manner in which you approach the audience. The video cases gave an excellent backbone to the weekend. So without the intention to flatter, we are very positive in our opinion. It is good to continue on the same subject because we like to hear more about it an need to be taught further in this field. 

Dr.Meghabhuti Roth - U.S.A.

I am eternally grateful to you for your wonderful seminar in Boston and my practice is really going wonderfully and I am getting some nice results all by your kind and self giving instruction!!!!All my love to you my brother.

Tenna Vinding - Denmark

I can tell you that we have had very many positive feed backs to your seminar.

Several people have asked when you can come again. It can sometimes be difficult

to teach a group with so much difference in basic knowledge. But everyone straight from

the first term students to the graduated attendants expressed that they had great benefit

from your teaching. So we hope you will find time to come back to Denmark some time.

Christel Lombaerts - Centrum voor Klassieke Homeopathie, Belgium

Dr Farokh Master taught at the CKH at several instances. His discourse is clear and practical, with firm clinical confirmations. His knowledge of homeopathy, as well on Materia Medica as on basic philosophy, is extremely vast and thorough. In his prescriptions he goes into the depth of the case without losing sight of the rare, strange and peculiar. Moreover, from his treatments his warm-hearted nature and deep insight in human character is apparent. All these features make Dr Farokh Master a passionate but methodological teacher. 

Dr. Ahmed Currim M.D. - U.S.A.

Dr. Farokh J. Master MD is one of the senior homeopathic physicians in our profession and it is a great privilege to study from him, either through his writings or his lectures and courses.

Regarding his writings, Dr. F J M is the author of over 40 books in homeopathy, encompassing a vast number of subjects. Amongst some of them are:1.) Sycotic Shame, 2.) Sandy Silica, 3.) Suppressed Staphysagria,4.) Agitated Argentums,5.) Naja, Naja, Naja,6.) Bitis Arietans, 7.)Bungarus Fasciatus,8.) Snakes in Homeopathic Grass, 9.)Mysterious Thuja,11.) Clinical Tips, 12.)Clinical Observations of Children’s Remedies, 13.)Homeopathic Treatment of Cardio-Respiratory Failure, 14.) The State of Mind that Affects the Fetus,15.) The Web Spinors,16.) Hair loss, 17.)Homeopathic Bedside Tips,18.) Lacs in Homeopathy,19.) Perceiving Symptoms of the Mind, 20.)Homeopathic Dictionary of Dreams,21.) Snakes(new) and a host of other books.

Having personally studied most of these books, with repertories at my side, I can say that not only are the books very well written and sound homeopathically; but they are clinically very useful and greatly help the practitioner to understand and in turn, help his patients.

Dr. F J M, has added several remedies and rubrics to the major chapters of our major repertories of homeopathic materia medica. As a simple example, the chapter on foods in the generals has many unusual additions, especially Indian foods and European foods making it very useful in treating Indian and European patients and in choosing their Similimum.

I’ve had the privilege of attending several of Dr. F J M’s courses with delight and thrill. He was masterful at taking the several case histories in India and USA of several patients seen in the course of examining these patients, of analyzing and repertorizing the cases and, not only coming up with the correct remedy but also getting meaningful follow ups and seeing the clinical improvement over time in even complicated cases. 

I enthusiastically travel to get to his seminars and courses and learn from his teaching to be a better prescriber for helping my patients.

I am happy to endorse Dr F J M as one of our very knowledgeable physicians who has contributed greatly to our profession and who has personally contributed to my knowledge of Homeopathy. He is an excellent teacher and clearly explains the materia medica and brings homeopathy alive.