Dr. Ellen Feingold, M.D. has been a physician for 40 years, most of that time practicing pediatrics and adolescent medicine. While living and working in Jerusalem, Israel, she took the Masters in Public Health degree at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School where she learned how to evaluate medical evidence from research studies.

She began her long journey towards alternative medicine after a gradual realization in her private practice office, discovering for herself that conventional medicine was not capable of deep healing. In 1994, she began her studies in homeopathy at the Israel Medical College of Homeopathy, a school whose curriculum is based on the Institut Homeopathique Scientifique of France, graduating in 1996.

Today, she is the Director of the Homeopathy Center of Delaware where she practices homeopathy, herbal medicine, and nutritional therapies exclusively, treating persons throughout the age spectrum. Although she treats the entire range of human diseases, her clinical interests are cancer, emotional ailments, behavioral disorders, eating disorders, and obesity. She has always been interested in empowering men and women to practice self-care for many common ailments, safely and effectively.

Her most recent book, The Complete Self-Care Guide to Homeopathy, Herbal Remedies and Nutritional Supplements, is due to be published in March, 2006.

Dr. Feingold lives in Wilmington, Delaware with her husband. She has four children and nine grandchildren.

She will answer your email queries addressed through the Contact Dr. Feingold page.

A Short Account of Dr. Feingold's Personal Journey to Alternative Medicine

I had been a practicing pediatrician and adolescent gynecologist for decades before it became clear to me that my practice was, essentially, a revolving door. Many of my patients did not actually get cured. They got better, yes. But, then they got worse again.

The pharmaceutical drugs that I was prescribing in ever-increasing strength and toxicity did not seem to make a whole lot of difference in the long run. Kids still came down with ear infections, relapsing all winter long, whether or not they drank the antibiotics that I prescribed.

Mothers in my practice were whispering about something else. And I started to learn about that something else. I am indebted to the group of mothers in my practice in Jerusalem in the 1980s and early1990s who taught me so much. When I began my formal education in homeopathy, I knew I had found the answer to cure. Not only does homeopathy have the ability to cure chronic relapsing conditions that Western medicine cannot, but it does so in the gentlest manner, without any discernible side effects.

Homeopathy amazed me. It will amaze you too.

When I started practicing homeopathy, I realized that it alone was not the whole story, either. I saw that I needed to put it together with herbal remedies and nutritional supplements to effect a deep healing in most cases.

And then a few years later, I realized that most of what I was doing in my practice of homeopathy, herbal remedies, and nutritional supplements, was possible to do without me, the physician. I realized that the most profound answer to the conundrum of Western medicine was the educated woman and mother, the keeper of the family's health.

[Excerpted from Dr. Feingold's book, The Complete Self-Care Guide to Homeopathy, Herbal Remedies and Nutritional Supplements.]

Professional Societies:

American Institute of Homeopathy
National Center for Homeopathy
International Foundation for Homeopathy
American Academy of Pediatrics

Books Published:

Feingold, Ellen, The Complete Self-Care Guide to Homeopathy, Herbal Remedies and Nutritional Supplements, Whitston Publishing Company, 2008.

Feingold, Ellen and Freier, Miriam, Dictionary of Medical and Health Terminology, English-Hebrew and Hebrew-English, Carta Publishing, 1991.

Feingold, Ellen and Maschler, Hanna, Handbook of Hebrew Verbs, Zack Publishing, 1991.

Book Chapters:

Feingold, Ellen, "Herbal Remedies for Respiratory Diseases," in Levine S, McLaughlin A (Eds.), Pharmacology in Respiratory Care, Mc-Graw-Hill, Medical Publishing Division, New York, 2001.

Book Reviews in Peer-Review Medical Journals:

Feingold E, Sugars That Heal: A Book Review, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 2002; 8:116.

Feingold E, American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide: A Book Review, published by Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Jan/Feb 2004, p.78.

Articles in Peer-Review Medical Journals:

Feingold E, Treating People with Eating Disorders with Homeopathy, American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, 2005, 98:174-8.

Feingold E, Alternative Treatments for Children and Adolescents with Obesity, Newsletter of the Delaware Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, December, 2002.

Feingold E, Sheir-Neiss G, Melnychuk J, Bachrach S, Paul D, Eating disorder symptomatology is not associated with pregnancy and perinatal complications in a cohort of adolescents born preterm, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2002, 31:202-209.

Feingold E, Sheir-Neiss G, Melnychuk J, Bachrach S, Paul D, Health-Related Quality of Life and Severity of Brain Ultrasound Findings in a Cohort of Adolescents Born Preterm, accepted for publication, to be published by Journal of Adolescent Health, 2002;31: 234-239.

Feingold E, Wasser J, Walk-through surveys for child labor, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1994;26:803-807.

Feingold E, Kids Are Working, Amer Journal Diseases of Children, 1993;147:929-933.

Harper RG, Solish G, Feingold E, Gersten-Woolfe, Sokal M, Maternal ingested methadone, body fluid methadone, and the neonatal withdrawal syndrome, American Journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1977;129:417-424.

Harper RG, Solish G, Feingold E, Sokal M, Heat stable alkaline phosphatase in methadone maintained pregnancies, International Journal of Addictive Diseases, 1975;2:89-99.

Pochedly C, Mehta A, Feingold E, Priapism with hyperacute stem-cell leukemia, New York State J of Med, 1974;74:540-1.

Innovative Programs:

Creation and teaching of 4-hour lecture program, Medicinal Herbal Remedies, at Longwood Gardens, October 2, 2004.

Creation and teaching of 3-credit course, Women, Biology, and Medicine, Women's Studies Program, University of Delaware, Fall semesters, 2003-2004.

Creation and teaching of 3-credit course for graduate students in nutrition on Eating Disorders and Obesity: Clinical, Nutritional, and Psychological Aspects, Department of Nutrition, University of Delaware, 2001-2002.

Creation and introduction of the Eating Disorders Program, using the Multidisciplinary Team Approach, at The duPont Hospital for Children, 1997-2001.