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​DISASTER EPIDEMICS & HOMEOPATHIC PROPHYLAXIS REMEDIES

3/17/2025

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Contributed by Alan Hugenot, Ph.D, DD.
Homeopathy has always been about prevention and cure with natural remedies which can also be used to halt
epidemics with none of the harsh side effects often associated with chemical drugs and vaccinations.

After Haiti’s disastrous 2010 earthquake, HWB volunteers worked together with the Haitian Medical Association, the Haitian Ministry of Health, integrating natural remedies into 14 established Haitian medical facilities. Since then there have been two cholera epidemics in Haiti (2010 & 2022), both caused by unsanitary conditions throughout the country remaining after the earthquake, and the epidemics overwhelmed the existing medical infrastructure. In 2010 there were 820,000 cases of cholera.

Yet, HWB Homeopathic practitioners successfully used polycrest natural remedies as prophylaxis to prevent spread of the contagion, and documented that it was Phosphorus and Veratrum Album (made from European white hellebore), which allowed anyone getting either of these Genus Epidemicus remedies to not contract the epidemic disease.

Similarly, back in 1918 during the Spanish influenza epidemic. two traditional homeopathic remedies Byronia Alba (made from white hops) and Gelsemium Sempervirens (made from the root of yellow Carolina Jasmine), both of which are polycrest remedies (useful for numerous ailments) saved thousands of lives in London, while at other hospitals using conventional medicine thousands died. This undeniable history is kept in the dark by Big Pharma.

It is a well documented historical fact that during the 1918 influenza epidemic patients receiving conventional
medicine at non-homeopathic hospitals in London died in droves. While patients treated at London’s
Homeopathic Hospital had a 1% death rate, and a 99% cure rate using just these two polycrest remedies.
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This was demonstrated again by HWB when a Chikugunya epidemic struck Haiti in April 2014, affecting 68,000
people. HWB found that three polycrest traditional remedies could act as prophylaxis to prevent the spread of this contagion. Again Byronia Alba, Eupatorium Perfoliatum (made from the common boneset plant), and Rhus
Toxicodendron (made from Poison Oak), resulted in anyone who got one of these remedies not contracting the
disease, and helped to stop the epidemic.

Predictable results like this, using inexpensive and effective natural remedies, instead of untested chemical
vaccines, is now becoming common practice in Haiti.
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Calling Passionate Leaders

2/6/2025

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Join Our Mission: HWB aims to introduce or advance the understanding and use of homeopathy in areas where it does not yet exist or is minimally available, as well as to promote and provide homeopathic care and healing in emergency situations.

Homeopaths Without Borders (HWB) is seeking dedicated, passionate individuals to join our working board and help drive our mission forward. As a board member, you will play a critical role in advancing homeopathy’s reach in under-resourced communities and supporting our emergency response initiatives.

We are looking for professionals with diverse skills and expertise who are committed to contributing their time, knowledge, and leadership. This is a hands-on opportunity to help guide HWB’s strategy, strengthen partnerships, and ensure the continued success of our programs.

​Why Join HWB’s Board?
  • Make a Global Impact: Support efforts to bring life-saving homeopathic care to communities in crisis.
  • Collaborate with Experts: Work alongside a dedicated team of professionals who share a passion for holistic healthcare and humanitarian aid.
  • Shape the Future of Homeopathy: Help us expand homeopathy’s role in global health, particularly in areas facing urgent healthcare challenges.

What We’re Looking For:
  • Experience in 
    • Legal expertise (attorney, general counsel, legal consultant)
    • Finance or accounting
    • Public policy or advocacy
    • Homeopathy manufacturing/retail
    • Licensed healthcare professionals (Naturopathic Physician, Nurse, Medical Doctor, etc.)
    • Business or nonprofit leadership experience (outside of homeopathy)
    • Integrative healthcare or healthy-living consumer organizations
    • History and involvement within the homeopathic community
    • Passion for homeopathy (home users, clients, students, other healthcare practitioners).
  • A commitment to HWB’s mission and the ability to dedicate time for board meetings, strategy development, and active participation.
  • A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for contributing to a working board.

Responsibilities of HWB Board Members:
  • Participate in board governance and one or more HWB committees
  • Actively engage in organizational fundraising and membership development
  • Contribute time and expertise to help guide HWB’s mission

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and contribute to our growing organization, we’d love to hear from you. Please reach out to [email protected] for more details on how you can get involved.  

Together, we can create a healthier, more resilient future for communities around the world.

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Thank you for a great Raffle!

4/21/2023

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HWB's Raffle Celebrating our 26 years is officially closed! Thank you to all who purchased tickets and to all of our supporters and volunteers.  If you missed the facebook live announcement of the winners please check it out below. We hope the winners enjoy the great selection of prizes.  

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An interview with Dr. Joey Prosper

3/21/2023

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Trinity Health HUB has generously contributed two prizes to our current raffle and have been long time supporters of our work. If you don't already know about them you should definitely check them out. A portion of Trinity HUB subscribers subscription fees goes to donating arnica and cell salts (12 cell salt combination) to Haiti each year. In this recorded webinar linked below Karen Allen of Trinity Health HUB talks with HWB director Holly Manoogian and Haitian homeopath Dr. Joey Prosper who leads the clinical efforts onsite in Haiti. Please watch to learn about what is currently happening in Haiti.
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February 15th, 2023

2/15/2023

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Our Work - Program Summaries - September 2021-2022

1/30/2023

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Guidance in Haiti 
This past year, with inter-agency collaborations within Haiti, the Association Des Homéopathes Haïtiens (AHH) championed a mobile healthcare system that served thousands who were traumatized by the August 2021 earthquake. Prior to establishing each new clinic site, the mobile clinic co-directors interviewed regional Ministry of Health authorities and local community leaders to learn more about the community’s healthcare resources and needs.  In community after community, an already weakened healthcare system was experiencing the dwindling availability of medicines and practitioners, especially this last year.  
Clinic teams, supported by HWB, assisted more than 4,200 people from August 2021 to June 2022, visiting 18 communities in the zone affected by the earthquake. Each community clinic site had one follow-up visit and phone access to the mobile clinic co-directors.  June 2022, the Department of Epidemiology within the Ministry of Health sponsored an AHH mobile clinic at a town that was affected by a skin infection outbreak. They served over 230 people in that community. 
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Word is spreading about the quality of care and patient satisfaction with homeopathic treatment. We will continue to support AHH’s mission to “facilitate access to health care for the poorest by providing homeopathic care." Together we have outlined a three-year plan that will allow for the gradual expansion of clinics across the country while also training regionally located medical providers how to effectively use homeopathic medicines. This strategy also includes building a network of clinic teams to be trained for Emergency Response clinics. 
Partnering With Nibezun​
The pilot-year program for the Penobscot Nation community offered a telehealth homeopathic clinic. Partnering with Nibezun, we hired a clinic coordinator, created and convened a community advisory council, networked with community health services, and provided 12 monthly free/low cost telehealth homeopathic clinics that are HIPAA compliant and serve patients regardless of age, health condition, or financial status.

The clinic is staffed by HWB volunteer professional homeopaths from Maine. They provided 180 hours of service during the pilot year. Due to the nature of the pandemic, it was challenging to reach as many people as we had hoped to. Despite multiple communication efforts, Nibezun staff recognized that the lock-down situation interrupted their primary communal means and style of information sharing.

​We look forward to building on our partnership over the next three years. The partnership received a two-year grant from the Maine Access to Health Foundation to expand services to the Wabanaki tribal network.  Additional support from the Fisher Charitable Foundation will sponsor HWB’s Fundamentals of Homeopathy for medically licensed professionals within the Wabanaki tribal and community networks.
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Working together Across the Sea

5/1/2022

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Last month, HWB Clinical Director, Lauren Fox FNP-BC, CCH provided a full day continuing education program via Zoom to Haitian homeopaths. The  homeopaths who attended the seminar represent over 10 years of teaching and treating together.  HWB thanks the Haitian homeopaths who are continuing their work, organizing mobile clinics and providing health care in the most underserved areas of their country, and HWB's generous donors who are helping to fund the mobile clinic project.

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1/25/22 - Earthquake and clinic in Haiti

1/25/2022

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​Since yesterday morning (January 24), Haiti has been rocked by back-to-back earthquakes. The first 5.3-magnitude quake occurred two miles south-southeast of Anse-à-Veau, sending Haitians into the streets of Les Cayes. Les Cayes is still in recovery from the 7+ magnitude quake which devastated that area on August 14, and Haitian homeopaths have been traveling by whatever means possible to this area and provide care at mobile clinics.

A second tremor on January 24, registering 5.1 magnitude was centered about 2.5miles west-southwest of Petite Rivière de Nippes, 106 km. from Port-au-Prince.

Haitian homeopaths report that in addition to 2 deaths, 50+ injuries and 782 homes destroyed, the people are traumatized. "They are afraid to go into their homes," reports Dr. Joey Prosper.
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The HWB-trained team of Haitian Homeopaths will do a follow-up clinic in Port Salut area this weekend and are making preparations to go to this new earthquake zone possibly as soon as Monday.  Clinical directors, Dr. Joey Prosper and Israel Joseph, RNP, know all too well what another traumatic event means for these communities.  They want to get a team there as soon as possible.

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HWB’s Community-partnered clinics launched  with the nonprofit organization, Nibezun

10/1/2021

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​HWB continues to focus on community and supporting good health despite challenges this past year due to the pandemic. This summer, the first of HWB’s Community-partnered clinics launched  with the nonprofit organization, Nibezun.  Nibezun serves the Wabanaki confederacy of the tribal nations of Maine. 

The clinic is staffed by volunteer homeopaths from Maine, with clinical direction from HWB’s Lauren Fox, FNP-BC, CCH.

​For many indigenous people, health is very much related to family, to community, and to nature as well as physical wellbeing.   HWB is excited to initiate the first HWB Community-partnered clinic in the continental United States.  


Homeopathy Today recently spoke with Holly Manoogian, CCH, Executive Director of HWB, to learn about our latest effort at Nibezun.  Thank you to NCH and HT for the article and for the opportunity to share it. 




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Haiti Clinics--August 2021 Update

8/1/2021

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Since the earthquake of August 14 and ongoing tropical storms, HWB-trained Haitian homeopaths have answered the call. They travel by whatever means available to the towns in the  Les Cayes region to set up mobile clinics, helping those in need. Small but nimble teams of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and Homéopathes Communataires treat upwards ​of 60-70 people a day at clinics which rotate from village to town. Follow up clinics are also integrated into the schedule to address ongoing medical care including psychological needs.

Because of YOUR support, the Haitian homeopaths continue to be some of the first providers onsite after natural disasters and civil unrest.
These generous practitioners provide essential medical care for fractures, wounds, trauma and shock, as well as the after effects of life with poor quality drinking water and limited food.   
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​Haitian medical practitioners trained by HWB in homeopathy travel to outlying areas where care is most needed.  On a busy clinic day in Savinette (photos below), clinicians each saw 20-30 patients.  With fuel for cars costing $11 per liter ($44 per gallon) just filling their tanks with gas to travel to Cap Haitien (where the next clinics will be held) will be a huge challenge. 
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