Reviews & Comments
from journals and readers

Links, international homeopathic journal, publ. Thieme, Germany. June 2010; review by Kaare Troelsen, homeopath, Denmark.
"This book is a true pearl, a welcome pleasure in the heap of poorly researched books on homeopathy that are published. The language is beautiful, the layout and images are exquisite and the way the subject is explored, analysed and presented is truly inspiring and insightful....

"It could, in the hands of some, easily become messy, overwhelming and disorganized or meaningless, but Jo Evans makes it clear and useful without it ever becoming too factual and dry only or too ungrounded and speculative. The whole book is a product of a renaissance-like mind that without fear unfolds various fields of knowledge and relates them to reveal new and surprising knowledge."

Jane Lindsay Lic.WSH, RSHom MAHA AROH, in Similia, Australian journal of Homoeopathic Medicine, June 2010
"This sea remedy book is much more than a materia medica or reference book; it is a wonderful read in its own right, utilising symbolism and mythology to help the reader to appreciate the individual remedies and key themes. The exploration of the [evolution of the] senses offer the reader a unique opportunity to appreciate who we are and where we have come from; the synchronicity and correspondences we find not only within the sea but also within our own lives, and within our practice of this wonderful, healing art and science – homoeopathy." full review

Read a review of what Helios homeopathic pharmacy says about the book
"This is a book to ravish all five of your senses and, as a user-friendly desk reference, will enable you to perceive your patient's remedy through the vivid language of his/her own expressive senses."

Francis Treuherz FSHom, in The Homeopath, journal of the Society of Homeopaths UK. Spring 2010.
"This is a superlative book in every way; the sensual medium is the message, not only for look and feel but for quality and integration of the information about the medicines. I have never seen a materia medica with so many sources and so much integration of philosophy with useful material. I have a habit of reading an article from a journal or a remedy from material medica in bed most nights. This one is taking me longer as it is so rich and I look forward to more early nights. Buy it for yourself or ask someone dear to you to give it for your next birthday." full review

Franz Swoboda, MD, Austria. Editor of Documenta Homoeopathica, Homoeopathic Physician.
"This book offers an invitation: a subtle and simply irresistible one. From myth to neuroscience, from provings to cases, it offers the reader every possible approach. Diving for our antecedents in evolution, we rediscover senses that we have long forgotten. Emerging from the depths of this work, sea remedies cease to be just remedies. Future homeopathic books will be measured against this one."

Jane Cicchetti, RSHom(NA), CCH, Homeopath, international teacher and author of Dreams, Symbols and Homeopathy, publ. North Atlantic books, USA
"A beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched book on the sea remedies that stands to become a classic. Sea Remedies, Evolution of the Senses expands one's understanding of these valuable remedies by providing a vast amount of empirical data on provings and medical application, as well as stimulating the imagination through an intimate understanding of the substance and its role in mythology."

Andreas N. Bjørndal, MNHL, Homeopath and Principal of the Norwegian Academy of Natural Medicine, Oslo
"This book is the most extensive collection of remedies from the realm of the oceans, and takes homeopathic materia medica to a deeper level of understanding. The author's sensitivity of perception and ability to extract the vital information from natural science, qualitative science, literature and the homeopathic knowledge-base, comes together in a coherent presentation of sensations and functions, valuable polarities, and common themes of groups and sub-groups. The beautiful design and pictures bring you, like a dive, face to face with the colourful sea realm and its remedies."

Alastair C Gray, MSc, RSHom, practitioner of homeopathic Medicine, Educator and Trainer in Homeopathic, Natural and Integrative Medicine, Australia, New Zealand and internationally. Author of many provings. including sea remedy provings
"Quality homeopathic source books are fundamental to our accuracy as prescribers. Coordinating, compiling, researching and participating in some of the provings that have contributed to this work has been an all consuming labour of love for many years. To see them so beautifully incorporated into this great body of work by Jo Evans is so personally and professionally satisfying. She has done a fantastic job of bringing these new medicines to life, and to important practical use within the homeopathic community."

Maurizio Italiano MD, Lecturer in Classical Homeopathy at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, Centre for Research in Medical Bioclimatology, Biotechnologies and Natural Medicines, State University of Milan. Scientific Director of Dulcamara, accredited teaching centre of the Faculty of Homeopaths (UK), in Genoa, Italy.
"This is a beautiful and phenomenologically meaningful book. It focuses on the ways in which the senses create our idea of reality. Our senses guide us in the most basic challenges we face, just as with the early animals such as the sponge or starfish, of exploring our environment and interacting with all life forms. The author invites us to experience the sea remedies by means of the senses. This is a journey into the depth of our innermost experience: the origins of life and of our emotions. The information in this book offers exceptional opportunities for both homeopathic patients and prescribers. It offers an opportunity to step back to the early stages of life, in order to live harmoniously in the present and to create a positive future."

Sian Thomas, homeopath, UK
"Jo Evans' book has arrived and it is quite the most beautiful homeopathy book I've ever owned - there is a lovely picture of an octopus holding a scallop shell in a tentacle like a fan (it may have been about to use it as an offensive weapon, but looks as if it is walking along the sea floor on its way to a dance...) The information is accessible and well set out and it's SO interesting."

Reviews of other work by Jo Evans

Women and Psychiatric Treatment, Routledge, 2006, edited by consultant psychiatrists at the Maudsley Hospital, London. Claire Henderson, Catherine Smith, Shubulade Smith and Angela Stevens, ISBN 0-41521-394-0

Part IV, Ch. 22, 'Complementary Therapies', by Jo Evans pp.304-318.

"There a few highlights [in this book] - the chapter on complementary therapies and how they work is probably the clearest information I have ever seen. It is also the only chapter that acknowledges the value of 'grey' research produced by service users and community organisations."
Mental Health Today, October 2007, reviewed by Fiona Hill.