Years went by and again we learnt of the visit of another senior homoeopath Dr. Eddy Thielens from Belgium (once a teacher at George Vithoulkas’ academy in Greece) to Dr. Anil Habbu in early 2018.
We decided to seize the opportunity and to make their collective wisdom available to a larger community of homoeopaths through a conference.
However, at this stage, we decided to do this activity in a structured way by creating a platform where we could disseminate high quality and reliable homoeopathic knowledge to young students, as well as practitioners, both junior as well as senior. We would call this platform HOMOEOCON and at that point, we called ourselves as ‘Team Homoeocon’.
It is then that Dr. Anil Habbu expressed his desire that he would like to start a Memorial Oration in the fond memory of his late father Dr. V K Habbu and to have it at the Homoeocon platform. Dr. V K Habbu was a giant homoeopathic prescriber in his own right. He had switched over from allopathy to homoeopathic practice after seeing a case of gangrene of the foot getting cured by a prescription made by the homoeopath Dr. L D Dhawale in the 1960s. Subsequently, he was the inspiration that made Dr. Anil Habbu study Homoeopathy after a postgraduate degree in Modern Medicine in 1975. To honour the memory of Late Dr. V K Habbu, the ‘V K Habbu Memorial Oration’ was thus instituted at Homoeocon.
Considering his high stature and popularity amongst the homoeopathic fraternity, we requested Dr. M P Arya to be the Chairperson for all the Homoeocons. We have been lucky to have received his gracious acceptance.
Thus, the first HOMOEOCON was held in January 2018 at Sheraton Grand Hotel. Dr. Eddy Thielens kindly agreed to deliver the first Dr. V K Habbu Memorial Oration Lecture at Homoeocon 2018.