I have practiced and taught homeopathy since 1984, initially in the U.K. and then the United States for 20 years. I was director of a homeopathy school in San Francisco for 12 years until 2008 and taught homeopathy throughout North America. I was active in many homeopathic organizations, including the Council for Homeopathic Certification, the largest certifying body in North America, the California Health Freedom Coalition, which established a health freedom bill in California and the California Homeopathic Medical Society. I edited the journal of that organization, called the California Homeopath for eight years until 2016 and now co-editor of the journal once more since 2024. It can be found at californiahomeopath.com. The journal is an important part of homeopathic history, originally published in 1892 in San Francisco.
I have written eight homeopathy books: two are homeopathic travel guides, The Natural Medicine Guide for Travel and Home and its companion book, an Essential Health Guide for Travel and Home which condenses the necessary information into a pocket size book. This came from my years of travel and living in many countries, including four African countries and significant time inIndia. Following these books, I published a Comparative Materia Medica in 2015, which is now a textbook in many homeopathy schools in different countries. Since then, I have published a Clinical Therapeutics book based on clinical experience in Africa and the U.S./Europe and a new Thematic Materia Medica, which is revising some of the original homeopathic texts with newer information on remedies. I co-authored a book on endangered medicinal plants in Southern Africa, exploring the homeopathic use of endangered plants and their conservation and preservation. This is being done in Eswatini with the Swaziland Homeopathy Project.
While living and teaching in the USA, I organized a number of homeopathic provings with colleagues and students of mine. Provings are an essential part of homeopathic knowledge and participating and coordinating provings is an important part of the experience of being a homeopath. The provings I did include Pacific Yew tree, called Taxus brevifolia, from which a well- known anti-cancer drug, tamoxifen, was created. I also coordinated a proving of the Bristle Cone Pine, the oldest tree in the world, which is found in the higher parts of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Other provings include a new proving of Petroleum and also of Rinus Communis, where Castor Oil comes from. One of the first provings I did was of Nicotiana Rustica, another form of tobacco which is the traditional form of tobacco of indigenous people in North and South America smoked and used for ceremonial purposes. From this study I wrote a book called Tobacco, An Exploration of its Nature Through the Prism of Homeopathy. I wanted to reveal the experience of homeopathic provings and link to the traditional use of tobacco by native peoples. Also, I wanted to explore the way in which tobacco became so popular with the early colonists to the Americas and its subsequent adoption in European and other cultures. I lookedhat attracted us so much to imbibe tobacco? When living in Malawi, I conducted a proving of Cassava, the ubiquitous food source adopted by many African societies. Like potatoes and yams, it originates from South and Central America but is now a staple food supply in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
I lived for over eight years in various African countries, including nearly one year in Ghana, two years in Malawi and five years in Kenya. I also have spent nearly a year living in Eswatini in Southern Africa. I was Educational Director of the Kenya School for Integrated Medicine, based near Mombasa, Kenya and ran a European Union funded Public Health project, working with the Kenyan Ministry of Health. Part of this work involved doing research into how homeopathy was working in an African context and where most of work was in outreach clinics in rural parts of the county where we lived. We also did research into health attitudes in many communities as well as supporting the national community health strategies in the Kenyan health care system. Apart from Africa, I have spent several years travelling and living in India which has inspired me in many ways in my life.
I am now currently living between Spain and the UK and am writing a second volume of my Thematic Materia Medica, writing and editing for the California Homeopath and working on various projects in Africa. I am the Education Consultant for the charity Homeopathy in Africa and continue to work on educational projects in Ghana and Kenya. I also continue my practice as a homeopath, including using Zoom and other forms of communication and also consult with other homeopaths on their cases and clinical challenges.