What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is an energy medicine. A medicine repeatedly taken by a healthy person causes symptoms; but in a sick person with those symptoms, that remedy makes the symptoms disappear. In order to find the correct remedy, a homeopath gets at the essence, finding the most similar remedy.
Why aren't you in perfect health? Your life is a balance, and to maintain that balance, your flow of energy must remain intact. You have a life force energy that is very strong when you're born healthy. You may have lots of energy when young, and if everything went well, you would not get sick. But you may become susceptible to an illness for various reasons (heredity, faulty nutrition, poor diet, exposure to toxins, etc). Your life may tip between disease and health often. As we get older, our balance may become increasingly compromised. In homeopathy, we find the imbalance through signs or signals your body expresses and use it to find your specific remedy.
The homeopath looks at the signals from the whole being, not individual parts. You are considered synergistically, and every part of the body is considered when coming to the correct remedy. We treat the person, not the disease; we don't often look for tests and allopathic considerations. In my practice, I often rely on my training in Natural Health to adjust lifestyle and diet to make immediate improvements, or to avoid dangerous or unhealthy activities of which the client may not be aware.
If you have hay fever, simply stopping cow's milk and its products may alleviate the problem. If not, a remedy may greatly improve and eliminate the hay fever. This is a very common ailment easily dispatched with homeopathy.
Your allergic reaction is not the same as your best friend; she may have sneezing and itchy red nose, and you may have itchy eyes and headache. This calls for a different remedy, unlike conventional medicine. Each person is an individual and the reaction to a remedy will also be individual. The state of disarray is reflected in signs or signals of an organism; we call them symptoms. In homeopathy, we don't suppress symptoms, we use them to find your remedy. Symptoms help us perceive imbalance of life force. Your own life force energy is also what cures you, with the help of your carefully selected remedy.
Disease and cure work from innermost to outermost; if you suppress your symptoms, you may drive them inward. Skin is less vital than lungs; having eczema is healthier than asthma. The weaker the life force energy, the deeper it goes; thus the skin disease shows a stronger life force than the lung cancer (from inner to outer). Symptoms soothe life force energy, they give it a vent, a way to temporarily relax the imbalance. We aid the life force, completing the process already begun. Your carefully selected remedy will now reestablish harmony throughout the organism, free to express itself once again. In order to do this, we use scientific provings, done on healthy individuals to find the symptoms they cause.
Remedies are energetic medicines that are now thought to employ quantum physics. The essence of the remedy is transferred in potentizing it. I generally give a remedy for a chronic condition less often than an acute disease, and only one remedy at a time.
There is no contra-indication for pharmaceutical drugs, but it may make it more difficult for a homeopath to find the totality of the disease, and to determine the effectiveness of the remedy. Totality is very important. You may have 30 remedies that reflect chilly people, love spicy food and ice cold drinks, but only 5 that love the fog, and only 1 is a person that thrives in the morning. This is the elimination method we use to find your remedy.
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