Modern medicine has advanced many times over in the past few decades, more so when you look at the last century. Yet for all these advances, people remain unsatisfied with their treatment. It’s incomplete, and more often than not, come with a host of unwanted and often uncomfortable (or dangerous) side effects. Thankfully, there’s an alternative that offers gentler, more natural solutions.
What Is Homeopathy?
Quite simply, homeopathy is a full system of natural medicine that can be used to treat any person – i.e., any age, including infants and the elderly – as well as both pets and livestock. That’s because each treatment is customized specifically to the individual being treated. It was developed more than 200 years ago by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and it’s still being used today by more than 500 million people worldwide. It was even used in American hospitals until the mid-1900s, and is approved by the FDA.
How Homeopathy Works
Professional homeopaths are trained and certified to interpret the information shared by the body through energy in order to identify the cause of your symptoms. Utilizing the principle “like treats like,” homeopathic practitioners will match your symptoms to something in nature that causes them. When the correct remedy is used, relief can occur quickly, although it will take longer for chronic ailments. What’s more, homeopathy is curative and doesn’t simply mask your symptoms, the way many prescription medications do.
Why Choose Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a gentle, natural way to heal the body in a way that encourages movement toward vitality and the body’s capability of healing and protecting itself. It’s also a straightforward and affordable process that makes treatments easy to dispense at home. In fact, while you ought to meet with a homeopathic practitioner to guide you, there’s a number of every-day bumps and bruises you can identify and remedy yourself.
Overview of Homeopathy’s Benefits:
You’ll receive individualized care and undivided attention from a professional homeopathic practitioner.
Homeopathic practitioners can be found worldwide, including regions like Europe, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America.
Homeopathy is tried and true through 200 years of practice.
It was used in hospitals in the U.S. through the mid-1900s, and it’s still trusted today.
It can be used to treat anyone of any age, as well as pets and livestock.
It’s completely natural, and naturally supports the body’s ability to heal itself.
It can be used to address chronic conditions, including sinusitis, ear infections, asthma, and behavioral complaints.
It’s easy to practice some basic homeopathy at home, especially if you take advantage of resources like classes and digital materials.
Kits for home care are incredibly affordable, and no prescription is required.
Homeopathic remedies do not have side effects, unlike most pharmaceutical medications.
Advanced treatments, such as homeoprophylaxis, can protect you and your loved ones from infectious diseases.
Relief is felt quickly, and it never masks symptoms.
Homeopathy is a safe, natural alternative for anyone who’s dissatisfied with the treatment they’ve received from traditional, pharmaceutical-driven medicine. Each treatment is unique, because each body is unique, but homeopathic results are always the same – movement toward a healthier life and true vitality.
For more information on the intelligence of the body, read our blog post on the subject. If you’re interested in learning more about how you can use homeopathy to treat yourself or your family, don’t hesitate to book a consultation.
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There’s a safer way to acquire immunity naturally without the risks of vaccination: homeoprophylaxis.
The mortality rate of people treated with traditional medicine and drugs was over 28 percent: those treated by homeopathic physicians had a mortality rate of just 1.05 percent. Homeopathy works!
The body has natural intelligence and the capacity to heal itself. It needs to express symptoms, have discharges, and be supported by natural means such as homeopathy. A runny nose is purging sinus waste products. A cough purges the airway. A fever resets the immune system, eliminates toxins, and restores the bacterial balance thus maturing the immune system. We can often see developmental leaps after a fever.
How Homeopathy Works
Homeopathy is a 200-year-old science of medicine that addresses both acute and chronic conditions. It’s based upon the principle of “like treats like.” If something in nature is capable of causing symptoms, early homeopaths who “proved” remedies found remedies that addressed those symptoms. To treat homeopathically every symptom of an illness is noted – physical, emotional, and mental – and a remedy is chosen that most closely matches the exact characteristics.
For example: if stung by a bee, you are likely to experience pain, and hot redness with inflammation. Apis mellifica (bee venom) prepared homeopathically can quickly reduce all of these symptoms. It’s safe with no side effects due to the principle of minimum dose.
Minimum dose means the source material is diluted repeatedly until there are no original molecules left. This dilution is then applied to small lactose/sucrose pellets and taken by mouth. The individual’s vital force recognizes the frequency of the source material and sets healing into motion. The immune system then initiates healing naturally, without getting stuck at any stage, or suffering any side effects.
One of the most urgent questions young parents face is how best to cultivate their children’s immunity.
How to Chose & Use a Homeopathic Remedy
Each of the following remedies can be found at most co-op or natural food stores, and will be effective for influenza or flu-like illnesses. For dosing, simply start with a dose each hour for three doses, then give 3 doses per day until symptoms are 70-80% improved. A dose consists of 2-3 pellets of 30c potency.
Don’t touch the pellets with your fingers. Just tap them into the cap of the vial and pop them in the mouth to melt. If no relief after three doses, then re-evaluate symptoms and remedy choice. If you have a peaceful sleep after dosing, this is a good sign that the vital force has recognized the remedy and it’s a good match. You may see a dramatic improvement, or a gradual one. The goal is to support the system so it doesn’t get “stuck” in any phase of the illness, but moves through the stages smoothly. Frequently, the stages are actually shortened with the aid of homeopathic remedies.
Keynotes
Keynotes listed below are the main symptoms in a case. An illness can have many symptoms, so the question to ask is “what one symptom, if removed, would make it possible to feel better? What is most limiting in the case?” That symptom is the leading keynote upon which you should prescribe. Don’t worry if all symptoms listed under the remedy aren’t evident. You need a few strong keynotes to go on, and then consider “modalities.”
Modalities
Modalities are either times of the day when symptoms are better or worse, or what condition or activity reduces the discomfort. Many people will say nothing makes them feel better. In this case, you just observe what they have a desire for. Hot drinks? Cold drinks? Activity? Company? To be left alone? These are all various modalities.
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Influenzinum increases vitality, activating innate immunity towards flu-like illnesses. An excellent study from Brazil (2011. International Journal of High Dilution Res. “Homeopathic medicines for prevention of influenza and acute respiratory tract infections in children:” blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial) concluded that use of homeopathic medicines minimized the number of flu and acute respiratory infection symptomatic episodes in children, was cost-effective, and carried no ill effects, encouraging the homeopathic prophylactic potential to be investigated in further studies.
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Remedies for Influenza or Flu-Like Symptoms
Remedies for flu-like symptoms include Aconitum and Belladonna.
More detailed information on remedies for Influenza and flu symptoms, can be found in the class Homeopathy and Influenza.
Aconitum
This is the first remedy to think of when coming down with a flu-like illness. It can be taken within the first 24 hours of symptoms suddenly appearing. This is especially true if the symptoms came on after being exposed to harsh weather or a cold wind. You can often nip the virus in the bud with Aconitum in this way if taken immediately. The symptoms you may see are a fever with chills, flushed cheeks and a rapid pulse.
Arsenicum album
“Don’t leave me alone!”
Great restlessness and anxiety; you can see pacing, jitteriness, or hand-wringing
Fear of being left alone
Ominous feeling that they could die
Very chilly
Vomiting and/or diarrhea
Worse between 11 pm-1 am; the illness frequently starts at this time
Very thirsty but only wants small sips of water
Belladonna
“Feel the heat radiating from me.”
Rapid onset of symptoms
High fever
Red, flushed face; Pupils dilated
Thirstlessness
Delirium or hallucinations with fever
Headache
Can be right-sided symptoms
Body is hot yet hands/feet are cold
Worse with motion
Worse at 3 pm
Craves lemons
Bryonia
“Leave me alone!”
Severe aching
Wants to go home
Irritable and averse to answering
Headache
Thirst
Marked perspiration
Desires warm drinks
Worse from motion or jarring
Worse at 9 pm
Eupatorium
“I ache horribly.”
Unbearable aching
Chilled to the bone
Thirst for cold drinks
Pain in bones
Desperate: moaning
Fever over 102
Severe headache
Vomiting of bile
Watery coryza
Worse 7-9 am
Desires cold food or ice cream
Ferrum Phos
“Inflammation is starting.”
No clear local symptoms
General malaise
Sore throat
Headache
Fever
Gelsemium
“I’m so weak and heavy.”
Debility, weakness
Dull; foggy
Eyelids droopy; eyes may be half open
Head heavy
Tremulous weakness
Thirstlessness even though there is fever
Onset of fever slowly over 1-3 days
Yellow coating on tongue
Chills running up & down spine
Headache
Chills alternating with flushes of heat
Nux vomica
“Every nerve is frayed!”
Overly sensitive to all stimuli
Intense chills
Irritable
Sleepless
Sensitive to light, noise, touch
Nausea and vomiting
Severe headache
Sore throat with raw sensation
Body aches better with warmth
Desires warm food and drinks
Rhus tox
“I’m so stiff unless I move around a bit.”
Anguish
Sore throat
Cold sores on lips; tongue red on the tip
Moderate to high fever
Chilly and restless
Bed feels too hard; whole body aches
Pain relieved with slow movement
Craves warm drinks
Stiffness; desire to stretch
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