Homeopathy
- Homeopathy is respected around the world
- Homeopathy simply put
- Homeopathy treats the real cause of your problems
- Homeopathy's goal is to heal, not palliate
- Homeopathy can help all conditions
- In Homeopathy individualization is the key
- Homeopathic remedies are safe for all ages
- The different strengths of homeopathic remedies
- Homeopathy can be used with medications
- Homeopathic remedies can prevent illness
- How I can help you with Homeopathy
Homeopathy is respected around the world
Did you know that Homeopathy cured cholera in the 1800s when conventional medicine was throwing its hands up in defeat? Did you know that Homeopathy was the first successful treatment of insanity at a time when the only conventional treatment was the asylum? In fact, Homeopathy has been the preferred health care system of the English monarchy for centuries, and Mahatma Gandhi traveled the world searching for the gentlest, most inexpensive and effective healing system, and chose Homeopathy for the people of India, where conventional doctors commonly refer their difficult cases to homeopaths.
The word Homeopathy comes from two words: “homios,” meaning similar, and “pathos,” meaning suffering. Homeopathy is based on the principle of “like cures like” -- the substance that creates symptoms in a healthy person will cure similar symptoms in a sick one.
Homeopathy treats the real cause of your problems
Classical Homeopathy comes from a vitalistic tradition of treating illness, which believes that every living thing contains a vital force. Your vital force is the energy that excites your emotions, colors your cheeks and puts sparkle in your eyes. It’s your vitality. The existence of a vital force was confirmed in the 1930s when scientists proved that every living thing contains an energetic field that surrounds and permeates it, and acts as a “scaffolding” for all the tissues of the body. In essence, an “energetic body.” Homeopathy sees your vitality as the key to your wellness. Your vital force or energetic field can become imbalanced through any mental, emotional or physical shock such as an emotional trauma, physical injury, or vaccination. Your vital force can also be depleted through any ongoing stress, slow loss of bodily fluids (e.g. heavy menstrual periods or gastrointestinal problems) or the slow poisoning of your body by industrial pollutants and the chemicals that are in our foods. Physicists have determined that the cells of our body vibrate at certain frequencies that dictate repair and division. Illness and injury disrupt these frequencies, and if the area of disruption is large enough, these cells now vibrating at “sick” frequencies have the potential of converting once healthy neighboring cells into dysfunctional ones. This is how illness manifests and pathology spreads.
When your vital force is imbalanced it manifests as psychological and/or physical symptoms unique to your susceptibility. In the beginning, these symptoms may not be clinically verifiable. You may even be told they are “in your head,” but as time passes, they manifest clinically and eventually turn into chronic conditions.
Homeopathy's goal is to heal, not palliate
Conventional medicine is about supporting chronic physical and emotional illness. By its very nature, chronic illness is progressive and only gets worse over time. With conventional medicine you’re lucky if you maintain the level of illness you have, but typically you will get sicker, need more medications and then need medications for the side effects of the medications you’re on! You become trapped in an expensive and vicious cycle. In fact, conventional medications don’t heal anything. At best they kill the germs that may be getting in the way of your healing process. But, its your body’s innate healing mechanisms that do the healing. And while conventional medicines can only palliate, by masking or suppressing your symptoms, Homeopathy’s goal is not to palliate, but to heal. Unlike conventional medicine, which “treats” the symptom, Homeopathy treats the cause. Without treating the cause, healing is impossible. The cause is the imbalance of your vital force, which then leads to the symptoms creating the “dis-ease.” Treating only your symptoms might make you feel better for a while, but it will never heal you. Healing comes from the old English word “hale,” which means, whole. This is what healing is about: reclaiming your wholeness -- your body, mind, emotions and spirit. Homeopathy’s success comes from its ability to stimulate your vital force and in the process you regain optimal health on all levels.
Homeopathy can help all conditions
There is no mental, emotional, or physical condition that isn’t a good candidate for homeopathic treatment. As a board-certified and classically trained homeopath in my full family practice, I’ve successfully treated acute problems that run the gamut from a sprained ankle to post traumatic stress disorder, to chronic conditions that conventional medicine considers incurable, such as depression, chronic fatigue, asthma and arthritis.
In Homeopathy individualization is the key
Treating illness using Homeopathy’s Law of Similars is so effective that the “success” of Ritalin, a commonly used medication to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD), is not as much due to its chemical action as it is that the medication is crudely homeopathic. Ritalin is derived from amphetamine, which is also known as “speed” because it makes the mind and body race, which results in difficulty concentrating, nervous irritability, lack of appetite and poor sleep -- common symptoms experienced in children with these disorders. But not all children experience ADD and ADDHD that way. Some children become destructive, others constantly joke around and still others just “space-out.” Each child’s condition manifests in its own unique way. Yet, conventional medicine treats all people with a certain condition with the same basic medication. As a result of this broad-brush method of medicating, a common problem with taking Ritalin (often found by antidepressant users as well), is a feeling of emotional flatness -– a feeling like being a “zombie.” This is because Ritalin is not an exact match to the unique expression of the child’s symptoms. The integral element missing here is individualization. It’s the matching of the homeopathic prescription to the unique manifestation of the person’s symptoms that accounts for its successful healing of conditions. With ADD and ADDHD, aside from the emotional suppressant effect of Ritalin, an even more serious problem with Ritalin is its toxic side effects -- among them being Tourette-like symptoms and depression.
Homeopathic remedies are safe for all ages
Unlike conventional medications, which can often create horrific adverse reactions, homeopathic remedies are completely safe for all ages and all conditions because they are prepared specifically to prevent the possibility of any side effects. What homeopaths in the 1800s knew intuitively, scientists have affirmed to be true -- that every molecule of substance has its own molecular energetic pattern or imprint, and that this pattern can be transferred to water. Homeopathic medicines, also known as remedies, are made from plant, mineral or animal substances. To remove the potential for toxic side effects, the substance is put through a series of dilutions in water until there is at most an infinitesimal amount of the substance left. To counter the weakening effects of diluting a substance, the substance is shaken with great force, which serves to imprint the substance’s energetic pattern onto each water molecule. Most often the substance is diluted to the point where there’s no longer any of the original substance left in the water. Each shaking of the diluted substance increases the strength or “potency” of the remedy.
Homeopathy treats the energetic cause of illness (vital force) and has found that using the energetic form of a substance will stimulate the healing of a condition much faster than using the material form of that substance.
The different strengths of homeopathic remedies
Homeopathic remedies are referred to as “potencies.” They are diluted using a 1:10 scale or a 1:100 scale known as the “X” or decimal, and the “C” or centesimal scales respectively. Remedies with a 30C designation means they were made with a centesimal ratio and serially diluted thirty times. A 30X remedy would mean that the serial dilution was the same, but the ratio of 1:10 means there is more material substance in the remedy. Typically, classically trained homeopaths prescribe remedies in the “C” scale.
Homeopathy can be used with medications
We have quantum physics to thank for the understanding of the electromagnetic sphere of action of Homeopathy. Recently a Japanese researcher, Dr. Masaru Emoto, has confirmed what Homeopathy has empirically known -- that water has the ability to hold a resonance, which allows something that is barely there to be so wonderfully effective.
Since homeopathic remedies work on the vital force, unlike conventional medications, which only work on the physical chemistry of the body, homeopathic remedies can be used in combination with conventional medications until the time comes when the person is healthy enough to stop using the conventional medicines.
Homeopathic remedies can prevent illness
Homeopathy however, isn’t only used to treat disease. It’s, also used to prevent it. In fact, the premise of vaccination -- using a small amount of an illness to prevent a larger amount of that illness from taking hold -- is also crudely homeopathic.
Again, unlike conventional vaccinations, which can have serious toxic side effects that can lead to ADD, ADDHD and autism, homeopathic vaccinations can never be toxic. Aware of Homeopathy’s safety and effectiveness, the United States Department of Defense is currently studying the use of homeopathically prepared forms of germs to protect soldiers in the event of a biological warfare attack. In Europe, homeopathic “vaccination” has been used very successfully to prevent contracting the flu.
Homeopathic vaccination’s goal is to prevent contracting a targeted illness. Even more basic, homeopathic disease prevention is called “constitutional treatment.” Your constitution is what makes you catch a cold when another person exposed to the same germs stays healthy. Each of us has our own weak link. Strengthening our constitution with homeopathic remedies and having our energetic field balanced by using energetic healing modalities lessen the likelihood of our getting ill in the future.
Although illness and loss create changes in our vital force that result in unique states of mind and body, there are some common states caused by injury to the body, such as accidents or surgery, that are similar in all people, and therefore the derangement of the vital force can be anticipated and treated in much the same manner as a vaccination. In this way, homeopathic remedies can be used very effectively to prepare for surgery and speed up postoperative healing. When you couple the use of homeopathic remedies with energetic field balancing, Emotional Freedom Techniques and healing imagery, you go into surgery with the best energetic preparation for speedy postoperative healing.
How I can help you with Homeopathy
As a homeopath, my job is to deeply understand your vital force by discovering what makes you and your symptoms unique, and finding the homeopathic remedy that is right for you. Through my many years as a homeopath, I have helped hundreds of people from infants to the elderly with problems including post-traumatic stress disorder, ADDHD, unresolved grief, asthma, autism, hormonal problems, addictive behaviors, eczema, as well as many others. I invariably see that when a client receives the correct homeopathic remedy, they quickly become more centered, and their condition begins to resolve itself. Even after more than 20 years as a homeopath and recipient of homeopathic treatment, I am still awed by what Homeopathy can do.
Despite using the most well chosen remedies, occasionally issues need some additional help to be resolved. Sometimes we need to get to the root of attitudes that can destroy our well-being. Homeopathy acknowledges this as well.
If you suffer from any acute or chronic condition and you’re tired of your symptoms affecting the quality of your life; if you’re sick of being pumped with pills or told the problem is “in your head;” if you’re in basic good health and you feel there’s a better way to stay healthy -- you’re right. Please call me for a complimentary half-hour phone or office consultation to talk about how my integrated approach using Psychosynthesis, Interactive Guided Imagery, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Homeopathy, Energetic Healing and coaching can help you, and let’s get started making you your healthiest self!
