Handwriting and Homeopathy By  Ulrich WELTE How a person moves (as compared to what he/she is doing) is thought by some homeopaths to contain the most valuable information. Handwriting is a frozen in timeimage of how a person moves. This book is based on thousands of cases over 20 years of clinical experience. It contains 750 handwriting samples, apparently all in German, though the explanatory text and remedy indications are in English. Covers 315 remedies. Printed in Germany, 344 pages, hardback Dimensions (in inches):  12.00 x 9.50 x 1.25 Minimum Price Books sales rank: 721 This item was in stock when this catalog was last updated on 6/17/2010. #3299, $48.00 Add to cart Or for help ordering call 800-663-8272 (from United States and Canada) or 604-597-4757 or email orders@minimum.com

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Personality structure expresses itself in handwriting. Handwriting is a frozen image of motion patterns. So handwriting is a significant clinical background symptom of great depth. It is well worth learning to read this 'script inside the script'. In twenty years of clinical experience and in thousands of cases, handwriting has shown its homeopathic efficiency as a confirmatory symptom, or it pointed directly to the correct diagnosis of a remedy. This book is a reference work to compare handwritings in homeopathic practice. It contains 750 handwriting samples of 315 remedies. Numerous case descriptions illustrate the usefulness of this new symptom and serve as a practical guide to its successful application. Handwriting and Homeopathy - Excerpts Handwriting and personality Handwriting is an expression of the creative power of the individual. The power to create forms and the individual identity flow into the handwriting. Nay, the handwriting is even so characteristic to an individual that the very signature is legally considered enough to prove the identity of the person in a contract. The structures of handwriting are nothing but old patterns of motion. These movements are engraved so deeply that they have literally entered our flesh and blood, and they have become automatic processes, which cannot be easily altered. The variable momentary state of the writer only modulates these basic patterns of motion. Similarly, structures of character and personality are nothing but old habits. They correspond to former frequently repeated ideas and movements of the mind. As they don't need any more consideration, they have sunk down into the subconscious and unconscious planes of the mind, from where they work as character. Handwriting as a clinical background symptom Like any other single symptom, the handwriting cannot and should not replace the full picture of a remedy, but it frequently completes this picture as an excellent background symptom. As such, it can give a kind of weaving pattern to the more differentiated foreground of pathological symptoms. This background can be of great importance. In analyzing the characteristic symptoms of a case, we may end up with 3-4 remedies, which cover the actual state sufficiently well. But if one of them covers the background also, it will be the most satisfying one in action. The others will also act on the surface and remove some symptoms pertaining to their domain, but they will not touch the general state much. Hahnemann did the same thing. He liked to give Pulsatilla only if the present symptoms of a patient pointing to Puls were in line with the background of this remedy. He describes the chronic Puls state as "persons of a shy, tearful disposition, with an inclination to inner mortification and silent anger". At least they are "mild and yielding when they are sick", but also "in their healthy days they are mostly sweet-tempered and mild, sometimes even frivolous and of a kindly joking humor". Again they are of a "slow, phlegmatic temperament", and so they are "opposite to people of quick decisions and swift agility, even when these seem to be kind-hearted". These background symptoms are clinical symptoms. Hahnemann didn't get them from provings, but he induced them from the profiles of patients cured by Puls or Nux-v. The handwriting symptom was found in the same way. History of this book The German homeopath Dr. Hugbald Volker Müller (1921 - 2000) conceived the idea of using handwriting and color preference as clinical background symptoms. He added these new clinical symptoms to our homeopathic knowledge, conceiving them first between the years 1985 – 1988, and publishing them partly in 1990. Thus patients doing well on Nux vomica are not only keen and hot-tempered scholars sitting in their study and drinking a lot of coffee (Hahnemann), but they may share a similar handwriting and color preference too (Müller). Color preference and handwriting As background symptoms, color and handwriting make an ideal pair. They represent the state of the vital force from two different perspectives: mood and form. Basic temper or mood (color) and creative form (handwriting) are two elementary principles of creation. They both root in the one indivisible fountain of life, the vital force. Color is even more elementary than handwriting. Color has no form of its own. The color to which a person feels connected reflects the vibration of the vital force or the level from which it operates. It further indicates the vegetative condition of a person, as Lüscher could show. On the other hand, handwriting is structured, it is form. Handwriting as a whole picture and single criteria of classification How to understand the similarity of certain handwritings? One can look at a handwriting sample as one would look at a face. It is a whole picture with its own entity. It cannot be easily taken apart without losing some of its significance. We all have experienced the face of an unknown person suddenly reminding us of someone we know. It may be just the mouth or some other part of the face, but if we want to recognize the similarity clearly, we have to see the part in the frame of the whole face and not separately. Likewise, in evaluating handwriting we do consider single aspects like size, direction and level of creativity, but we see them in the frame of the whole picture rather than as isolated factors. If you search for the remedy of a patient and want to use this symptom, we would advise you to compare the handwriting of your patient with the handwritings of the remedies you take into consideration after analyzing the case. In doing so, first look at both scripts, as you would look at two pictures you want to compare. Only then, by and by, go into details of single letters, dashes, loops etc. Clinical reliability of handwriting as a homeopathic symptom Of 100 handwritings of our good and very good cases, 77% matched with reference scripts of known cases of the same remedy, and 23% did not match. In 73 of 100 cases, handwriting was used successfully as a differentiating symptom, and in 4 of 100 cases handwriting was used successfully as a guiding symptom. The color preferences of our adult patients matched in 55%. This figure is exactly the same as in our previous study of children cases. In 2003, we surveyed 450 successfully treated children. 290 were old enough to choose a color. Of these color relevant cases, 55% matched with the known color-remedy relations (see "Colors in Homeopathy", p.32). The high success rate of 77% surprised us. From many years of practical experience with the handwriting symptom, we would have expected a lower specificity. So we checked the same 100 representative cases for possible chance matches. For each case we picked another random script from the total pool. We looked at these random pairs with the same criteria of similarity and treated them with the same goodwill that we would have given to the reference script of a fitting remedy. And indeed 30% matched by chance. In 8% there was even a very good similarity.

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