{"id":724,"date":"2010-09-15T05:33:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegantthemes.com\/preview\/DeepFocus\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:17:56","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.canhealyourself.com\/homeopathy\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Roger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]<\/a>Roger Barr, CMC, <\/b> Professional Homeopath\n<\/b>I have been studying homeopathy since 1990 when I returned from India the first time. I had left for India with the intention of finding out what I wanted to do with my life. While I was there I ruled out several options that I had considered. But hadn’t found anything that fired me up. Computer consulting (BS in computer science from Univ. of Ill.) paid the bills then but I was looking for something else at the time.\n\nI had no idea what homeopathy was when my friend and mentor, psychologist Jim Spira, Phd., invited me to join an introductory 40-hour course. I was pretty skeptical about how vanishingly small doses could do anything but I tried to keep an open mind about it.\n\nI was still severely jet-lagged during the first class when Jim mentioned that homeopathy could be used to treat that condition. I started to read in the class about the various homeopathic remedies that have been known to work for jetlag. For one remedy, Gelsemium<\/i>, the literature said it had a symptom of “foggy, hazy vision”<\/i> and I realized that was exactly what I was experiencing. I took a single dose and I had an immediate response as though someone had cleaned my windshield!\n\nStill sceptical,  I tried it thereafter for many different conditions including the after-effects (extreme insomnia, bleeding gums, digestive complaints, etc.) of the dysentary that I contracted while in India and had treated with an Ayurvedic drug. Each time I didn’t think the homeopathic remedy could possibly work, and yet it did much more often than not. Since then I have had a rather eclectic education in homeopathy, studying with many different teachers at many different schools, workshops & seminars including:\n