Homeopathy and acupuncture services

The VPHCS was honored this May with the visit of two additional members of the Solidarite Homeopathie (SH) in France.

Angie Gottke, a German homeopath practitioner and Maxime Bousquet, a French acupuncturist came to Cebu with German homeopathic doctor Dr. Norbert Enders in a mission of the SH to render their services for the community-based health programs (CBHP) of VPHCS in Cebu.

Homeopaths Angie Gottke and Dr. Norbert Enders 

in a homeopathic clinic in St. Mary Grace, Talamban

French acupuncturist Maxime Bousquet 

renders acupuncture to a patient in St. Mary Grace

The three alternative medicine practitioners rendered services to the communities in Sitio St. Mary Grace in Talamban and Pasil in Cebu City, Tangke in Talisay City, and Canjulao in Lapu-lapu City. Bousquet and Dr. Enders also followed up patients who were treated in a medical mission joined by the VPHCS last January 30 - 31 in Barangay Planas, Guihulngan, Negros Oriental.

Angie with children in Tangke, Talisay City

Angie checks up a patient in Canjulao, Lapu-lapu City

The three practitioners also brought with them lactose grains and bottles donated by the SH to be processed into homeopathic remedies by the VPHCS. 

The VPHCS is very thankful for their services, the SH donation and the knowledge on homeopathy and acupuncture that they imparted to the staff.

  Angie gives homeopathic remedy Arnica for pain 

to a child before the circumcision in Inayawan

VPHCS staff, Maxime, Angie and Dr. Enders with donation 

of homeopathic remedies from Solidarite Homeopathie

Homeopathy services

The Visayas Primary Health Care Services (VPHCS) continues to render homeopathy services for indigent patients under the tutelage of German homeopathic doctor Norbert Enders.

Dr. Enders in a clinic in Sitio St. Mary Grace.

In his last mission January to March, Dr. Enders, a member of the French organization Solidarite Homeopathie (SH) saw and treated more patients coming from urban poor communities. Dr. Enders also rendered his services for poor farmers during a medical mission in Barangay Planas, Guihulngan, Negros Oriental in January 30 – 31.

Dr. Enders in a medical mission in Barangay 
Planas, Guihulngan on January 30 – 31.

With Dr. Enders was SH pharmacist Anne Marie Roux who taught VPHCS staff how to make homeopathic remedies using mother tincture of the source plants, animals and minerals diluted in preparations of different concentrations of ethyl alcohol.

Dr. Enders who is practicing in France has been training the staff of the VPHCS staff on the practice of homeopathy and treating indigent Cebuanos with homeopathy since 2008. He has given the staff systematic, comprehensive and quality trainings on the basic theories and practice of homeopathy, different remedies and indications, common illnesses and remedies, making a patient profile and arriving at a remedy, and other topics on homeopathy. Actual patients were also seen and treated during the trainings aside from lectures.

Homeopathic pharmacist Anne Marie Roux 
conducts training on making homeopathic 
remedies to VPHCS staff.

Clinics of the staff with Dr. Enders were held during his recent mission in Sitio Lawis in Barangay Pasil and Sitio St. Mary Grace in Barangay Talamban, both of which are poor communities in Cebu City More than 200 patients were seen, treated and managed properly with homeopathy. Records and pictures of each patient were properly taken and kept in the office computers for documentation and file purposes. The trained staff actively treated the patients with Dr. Enders. Most of the patients who were also seen the past years claimed improvement of their symptoms with their treatment.

Anne Marie Roux instructs a VPHCS staff 
how to make a homeopathic remedy dilution

Homeopathy is a non-toxic system of medicine used to treat illness and relieve discomfort of a wide variety of health conditions. It is practiced by health care providers including medical physicians, chiropractors, homeopathic physicians, midwives and many others throughout the world.

Founded by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790s, homeopathy is the art and the science of healing the sick by using substances capable of causing the same symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to healthy people, treating like with like (Similia similibus curentur), aiming to stimulate self-healing processes.

It is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Homeopathy uses over 2,000 different remedies which are chosen to suit a patient's characteristics, as well as to treat his symptoms. Information on such remedies has been collected for nearly 200 years. Clinical cases and recent scientific trials using these remedies have been documented.

Dr. Enders sees a patient in Pasil.

Homeopathy services

The VPHCS continues to render homeopathy services in depressed urban poor communities in Cebu under the tutelage of German homeopathic doctor Norbert Enders.

Dr. Enders, a member of the French organization Solidarite Homeopathie in France where he is currently based has been training the staff of the VPHCS staff on the practice of homeopathy and treating indigent Cebuanos with homeopathy since 2008. During this year’s visit from January to April 2012, Dr. Enders continued to conduct systematic, comprehensive and quality trainings to the VPHCS staff on the basic theories and practice of homeopathy, different remedies and indications, common illnesses and remedies, making a patient profile and arriving at a remedy, and other topics on homeopathy. Actual patients were also seen and treated during the trainings aside from lectures.

Dr. Enders in a training with VPHCS staff.

Clinics of the staff with Dr. Enders were held in Sitio Lawis in Barangay Pasil and Sitio St. Mary Grace in Barangay Talamban, both of which are poor communities in Cebu City. More than 200 patients were seen, treated and managed properly with homeopathy. Records and pictures of each patient were properly taken and kept in the office computers for documentation and file purposes. The trained staff actively treated the patients with Dr. Enders. Most of the patients were a follow-up of last year’s.


Dr. Enders examines a girl in Sitio St. Mary Grace, Talamban, Cebu City.


Dr. Enders examines a patient in Sitio Lawis, Barangay Pasil, Cebu City.

Homeopathy is a non-toxic system of medicine used to treat illness and relieve discomfort of a wide variety of health conditions. It is practiced by health care providers including medical physicians, chiropractors, homeopathic physicians, midwives and many others throughout the world.

Founded by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790s, homeopathy is the art and the science of healing the sick by using substances capable of causing the same symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to healthy people, treating like with like (Similia similibus curentur), aiming to stimulate self-healing processes.

It is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Homeopathy uses over 2,000 different remedies which are chosen to suit a patient's characteristics, as well as to treat his symptoms. Information on such remedies has been collected for nearly 200 years. Clinical cases and recent scientific trials using these remedies have been documented.

Operation tuli in Baclayon

The Baclayon multi-purpose center, site of the operation tuli

The Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. supported the Muncipality of Baclayon in its annual Operation Tuli (circumcision) last May 4, 2011. For several years now, the VPHCS provided the surgical instruments and sent its staff and volunteer nurses and doctors for the activity. More than 200 boys from different barangays in the municipality benefited from the free operation tuli organized under the leadership of Baclayon Mayor Alvin Jayag Uy.

Boys waiting for their turn

Dr. Eno Tirol (right) with a volunteer nursing student

Dr. Kenneth Ng with a nurse

Nurse Zane Omega with a volunteer nursing student

The VPHCS also provided Arnica, a homeopathic remedy for all the boys to alleviate pain and inflammation. The VPHCS staff members have been practicing homeopathy as taught to them by German homeopath Dr. Norbert Enders of the Solidarity Homeopathie in France.

A nurse gives Arnica, a homeopathic remedy for pain to a boy before the circumcision

VPHCS physician Dr. Erlinda Posadas

VPHCS physician Dr. Mark Molina with nursing students

VPHCS staff Emelie Fernandez and VPHCS Board member Carrie Tharan

Members of the Students Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) also assisted in the yearly activity.

VPHCS staff Linda de Castro (right) with a volunteer nursing student

VPHCS staff Lucila Carreon

VPHCS staff nurse Cheryl Molina and VPHCS Board member Carrie Tharan

VPHCS volunteer nurses Edgar Gahisan and Jafe Sepulveda with volunteer nurses

Homeopathic services in urban poor communities in Cebu

German homeopath Dr. Norbert Enders together with VPHCS staff conducted a homeopathic clinic in Sitio St. Mary Grace in Talamban last Feb. 21 and April 1, and in Sitio Lawis, Barangay Pasil last March 9, 23 and 31 as part of his mission in the Philippines.

VPHCS staff with Dr. Enders, February 15, 2011.

Dr. Enders and Dr. Posadas hold homeopathy clinic in St. Mary Grace, Talamban, Cebu City. Feb. 21, 2011.

Patients wait for check-up by Dr. Enders.

Dr. Enders’ mission is sponsored by the French organization Solidarite Homeopathie in France where he is currently based. Dr. Enders has been teaching the VPHCS staff the practice of homeopathy and treating numerous patients with homeopathy since 2008. His last visit was in October 2010. With the knowledge and skills that he provided and the homeopathic remedies of his organization, the VPHCS staff has been rendering homeopathic services for common illnesses to VPHCS beneficiaries from its partner non-government and community-based people’s organizations.

Dr. Enders has been treating patients together with VPHCS staff as a way of their actual practicum on homeopathy. The staff were thus able to further understand how each patient is being examined and treated, noting his constitutional type, physical, intellectual and emotional traits, symptoms, personality and habits and the way the weather, seasons, times of day and his past experiences affect him.

Dr. Enders check up a child with neck mass.

French homeopath Liliane Delacour from Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo and Veronica Ellis from South Africa who are both Dr. Enders’ colleagues also visited the VPHCS this March and joined the homeopathic clinic in Pasil last March 9.

Dr.Enders treats a patient with rheumatic heart disease.

Dr. Enders with VPHCS staff and residents in Pasil.

Homeopathy is a non-toxic system of medicine used to treat illness and relieve discomfort of a wide variety of health conditions. It is practiced by health care providers including medical physicians, chiropractors, homeopathic physicians, midwives and many others throughout the world.

Founded by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790s, homeopathy is the art and the science of healing the sick by using substances capable of causing the same symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to healthy people, treating like with like (Similia similibus curentur), aiming to stimulate self-healing processes.

It is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Homeopathy uses over 2,000 different remedies which are chosen to suit a patient's characteristics, as well as to treat his symptoms.

Information on such remedies has been collected for nearly 200 years. Clinical cases and recent scientific trials using these remedies have been documented.

Homeopathy training by Dr. Norbert Enders

German homeopathic Doctor Norbert Enders is currently in Cebu for continuing tutelage of the VPHCS staff on homeopathy and homeopathic services in depressed urban poor communities in Cebu served by the VPHCS.

Dr. Enders’ mission is sponsored by the French organization Solidarite Homeopathie in France where he is currently based. Dr.Enders has been teaching the VPHCS staff the practice of homeopathy and treating indigent Cebuanos with homeopathy since 2008. His last visit was in October 2010. With the knowledge and skills that he provided and the homeopathic remedies of his organization, the VPHCS staff has been rendering homeopathic services for common illnesses to VPHCS beneficiaries from its partner non-government and community-based people’s organizations.

Last Feb. 14, Dr. Enders started to check up patients in the presence of VPHCS staff as a way of their actual practicum on homeopathy. The staff were thus able to further understand how each patient is being examined and treated, noting his constitutional type, physical, intellectual and emotional traits, symptoms, personality and habits and the way the weather, seasons, times of day and his past experiences affect him.

Homeopathy is a non-toxic system of medicine used to treat illness and relieve discomfort of a wide variety of health conditions. It is practiced by health care providers including medical physicians, chiropractors, homeopathic physicians, midwives and many others throughout the world.

Founded by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790s, homeopathy is the art and the science of healing the sick by using substances capable of causing the same symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to healthy people, treating like with like (Similia similibus curentur), aiming to stimulate self-healing processes.

It is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Homeopathy uses over 2,000 different remedies which are chosen to suit a patient's characteristics, as well as to treat his symptoms.

Information on such remedies has been collected for nearly 200 years. Clinical cases and recent scientific trials using these remedies have been documented.

Homeopathy seminar conducted

As part of the continuing education on alternative medicine for the staff of the Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. a training on homeopathy was conducted by renowned German homeopath Dr. Norbert Enders in May 2010.

It was the third series of trainings conducted by Dr.Enders, a member of the Solidarite Homeopathie based in France where he currently resides. The first was done in December 2008 followed by August 2009.

In such trainings, Dr. Enders taught the staff the basic concepts and principles of homeopathy through lectures and actual cases of patients. Various homeopathic remedies and how they are effective were explained thoroughly by Dr. Enders. Documentation of patients before they received and after they received treatment was done as part of the teaching process.





Dr. Enders together with staff members also held clinics for indigent patients in Barangay Pasil and Sitio Mary Grace in Talamban as part of the training process.

Members of the staff of the VPHCS are currently practicing homeopathy. Remedies brought by Dr. Enders from his organization are available in the VPHCS office.