The Poisoned Well: Discovering the Homeopathic Genus Epidemicus

The subject matter of this book is daunting, ‘we are racing at an exponential rate toward the abyss of our own destruction.’ ‘We are literally losing our minds ….’ The author has a vision of impending apocalypse which she attempts to view with a homeopathic imagination, using mainly the miasms and the vital force as heuristic devices. It is a continuation of her first book, From Cave to Computer.[1] While the book reads well with a flowing style, the ideas are complex so I have read the book twice before attempting a review.

The ‘Well’ is a metaphor for our planet and its inhabitants. We are poisoned and doomed to suffer with eating disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, gluten sensitivity, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), multiple allergies, MRSA[1], addictions, autism, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a totality of dangerous epidemic chronic diseases and contaminated food and water. We have traversed the gamut of miasms and are in an era of the cancer miasm. Individual sporadic homeopathic treatments will not do much to help us survive. We need more than what lawyers might call a class action – we need a genus epidemicus.

The overall argument makes much sense although I do not fully agree with some small details. Jevtic denotes sugar addiction as benign. I would direct her to Pure White and Deadly by John Yudkin.[2] OCD is described as being in the cancer miasm but in my experience compulsive handwashing for example is syphilitic.

There is no index and the footnotes are not gathered into a bibliography. Bookfinder.com does not record the general availability of the book but it is on sale at Narayana in Germany and Serpentina in the United Kingdom. I could not locate the publisher's Web site.

Overall her descriptions of our predicament make a great deal of sense and for these alone the book is worth reading. I am less confident about the genus epidemicus; is a new miasm creeping up on us? What will be the remedy? The genius of the book is optimism that it will be up to us to think further and create the answers which will lead to transformation to a post-miasmatic age.

• References

• 1 Jevtic M. From Cave to Computer: A New Perspective on the Homeopathic Miasms. Winter Press; London 2012
• 2 Yudkin J. Pure White and Deadly How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It. Harper Collins; New York 1972 (reprinted Viking; 1986 and Penguin; 2012)