Homeopathy Today Submission Guidelines

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Share your experiences using homeopathy, so that everyone can learn from them! Whether you're an experienced homeopathic professional or a relatively new home user, you surely have some success stories, interesting cases, or unique observations. Please share them!

Your audience: Keep them in mind

Homeopathy Today readers are a varied lot--from newcomers who pick up the magazine at a health store newsstand to homeopathic professionals with 30 years' experience. Please write in a clear, friendly, first-person style so that the general public has a good chance of understanding you--even if you're writing on a more advanced topic.

Clinical Topics/Feature Articles

Clinical topics (e.g., homeopathy for hay fever, sinusitis, heartburn, etc.) and treatment categories (e.g., homeopathy for travel, for holidays, for seniors, for school kids, for sports enthusiasts, etc.) make good feature articles because the public can relate well to them. Try to open your article with something that will draw the reader in--for example, a personal story, a quote, a short case, or a surprising fact about the topic. Please also include:

• a general overview of the subject (e.g., define the issue or disease, describe its typical symptoms, tell how prevalent the problem is and who is most affected, mention typical conventional treatment)
• your clinical experience/observations/pearls of wisdom (e.g., In my experience, this is hard to treat/easy to treat; I treat a lot of this/not much of this; I find that certain remedies, remedy strengths, or dosing protocols work better than others for people with this complaint, etc.)
• a few short cases or vignettes as examples (Be sure to include your reasons for prescribing a remedy--see "Clinical Cases" below for more ideas.)
• homeopathic remedies commonly used for this complaint with indications for use
• homeopathic self-care advice, if appropriate
• a small amount of common-sense care/complementary care advice, if appropriate.

For good examples of this type of article, see any recent issue of Homeopathy Today for the three main feature articles. Ideal length for such an article is roughly 1200 to 2200 words.

Clinical Cases

Please write it as a story, not as an outline. First aid and acute cases work well for Homeopathy Today. More detailed chronic cases may also be presented, but some summarizing may be necessary because space does not allow for long cases. Ideal length is 1500 words or less; slightly longer cases will be considered. You should have permission on file from the client to present the case and/or enough personal details should be changed so that the person is not identifiable.

Remember to "make a case" for what you did:

• Give the symptoms you prescribed upon.
• Mention any previous history such as diagnosis, lab work, conventional drugs taken.
• Show how you selected a remedy/remedies. Give your reasoning; cite repertory or materia medica to back you up. A prescription that is obvious to you may not be obvious to the reader.
• Include follow-up: How much improvement took place? How long did the improvement last? What is the person's current condition? Do you have any evidence that the problem resolved more quickly/thoroughly than might have been expected if homeopathic treatment had not been used?
• Include any observations or generalizations you may have about the case, e.g., why you thought it was interesting/why you thought to present this case/what

Personal Stories

Just tell your story as it happened. Try to include as many of the details mentioned above in "Clinical Cases" as you can, such as why you decided to choose a particular remedy, what its effects were, and how long the effects lasted.

Book Reviews

Ideal length is 750 words or less. In special cases (e.g., a long or very complex book), a review may be a bit longer. Please:

• include a short description of the book
• highlight the book's strengths and good qualities
• describe its major weaknesses
• compare the book with similar books if any; what makes this one unique?
• mention the audience for whom the book may be most useful (e.g., beginners, general public, serious students, practitioners, etc.)
• provide any other general comments (e.g., what you personally liked/disliked; what you wish the author had done differently; what you found most striking or useful; whether the book is a good value for the cost; whether you would recommend the book and to whom; what the quality of the book is like regarding paper, binding, color, size, etc.)
• reveal any strong personal biases or conflicts of interest (e.g., if you are the author's relative, close friend, business partner or competitor, etc., it would be fair to disclose this).

Preferred Format for Submissions

Send via e-mail as an attached Word file. Please keep special formatting in Word to a minimum. Use a single space between sentences. Capitalize the first letter of a remedy name only (e.g., Nux vomica, not Nux Vomica).

Please include a short bio of yourself--a few sentences/70 words or less. For longer articles (but not book reviews), please include a color photo of yourself that we will include as a small headshot with your bio. High quality digital photos are preferred. Hard copies on glossy photo paper may also be accepted.

We are also happy to receive photos that help to illustrate your article or story (e.g., a photo of your family if your article focuses on treating your family members; a photo of your dog if you are telling a story about him; a photo of you on the trail if your story is about using homeopathy while mountain climbing, etc.).

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