Homeopathy is a profound healing art which brings about deep and lasting healing reactions in many people.  However, like in any endeavor, there are challanges which must be overcome in order to see progress.  These are the 10 most common obstacles to improvement when receiving Homeopathic treatment. It is my hope that after reading this you will be more engaged in the Homeopathic process in order to facilitate the maximum benefit to yourself.

1.  Allopathic drugs: It is possible to improve under Homeopathic treatment even though you are taking allopathic medication but it depends on which ones and how much.  Some of the worst drugs are steroids, narcotics, and immune system suppressants.  When you are under Homeopathic treatment, it is up to you to consult with your doctor before you change or stop any medications.  Always let your Homeopath know what medication you are on.

2.  A toxic or abusive environment:  Depending on how serious your condition is, you need to minimize shock and trauma so that your vital force can work with the energy of the remedy.  When you are being shocked and traumatized on a daily basis at home or work, it keeps you weak and depleted which can be an obstacle to your healing.  This is also true if you are exposed to toxic substances which keep your system traumatized.

3.  Bad personal habits:  If you are inflicting abuse on yourself through any addiction, your energy will be depleted which will be an obstacle to your healing.  Homeopathic remedies can help with the core issue, but self control will have to be used as well.  This doesn’t mean you have to be a saint, just practice moderation and common sense.

4.  Being closed: In order for the best Homeopathic remedy to be selected, you will have to do your best to help your Homeopathic practitioner understand you.  If you withhold information it will be an obstacle, however, your Homeopath understands that some of your issues are very sensitive and will treat you with the utmost respect, confidentiality, and objectivity.

5.  Being too agreeable: In order to know if you are getting better, your Homeopathic practitioner needs you to report any changes or lack of changes clearly.  Your Homeopath will still care for you and want to help you even if you tell him the remedy didn’t help.

6.  Being impatient: We all want quick results, but in cases of chronic illness, it took a long time for you to get to where you are at and it will take time for you to get better.  Too many people want the quick relief of suppressive treatment and give up.  They don’t want to take the time needed to find the best remedy or take the time for the remedy to act for a long term improvement.  There are no quick fixes.

7.  Self medicating: This is one of the most pernicious obstacles to cure.  The Homeopath needs a clear picture of your symptoms so if you are self medicating with all manner of herbals, potions, supplements, or even over the counter Homeopathic remedies, you are distorting the picture which makes it very difficult to find the best remedy or see if you are really getting better.   It is very important that you follow the advice of your Homeopathic practitioner about these things if you want to see long term improvement.

8.  Cross treatment: Some other forms of alternative treatment are complimentary to Homeopathy while others interfere with seeing the remedy picture, or can even antidote the action of remedies.  You should consult with your Homeopathic practitioner about any other treatments you are undergoing.

9..  Practitioner failure: Homeopathy is half art and half science.  Different Homeopaths will see patients differently.  If you have given your Homeopathic practitioner 6 months and there is no improvement, you should ask for a referral for another Homeopath.  It is most important that you understand that the failure is not due to Homeopathy, it is due to the above reasons or the individual practitioner.

10.  Incurability: The final obstacle to cure of course is the incurable patient.  When illness has progressed to severe pathology and derangement of function which threatens life, allopathic and surgical care may be what is required to save life.  Homeopathy can still help on the mental and emotional level, but it cannot restore a destroyed or lost organ.

I hope this article has helped you to understand the Homeopathic process better so you can get the maximum benefit from your homeopathic treatment.  You should understand that the above obstacles don’t mean that Homeopathy can’t help you or that there aren’t ways to work around some of them.  It just means that they will be obstacles which slow down your progress.

If you have any concerns that anything you are doing can be interfering with your Homeopathic treatment, contact your Homeopath.  If you would like to ask me any questions, feel free to email me at [email protected].

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, provide any health benefit, are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider.

There are currently a limited number of natural, alternative , holistic treatments for children suffering from symptoms of ADD, ADHD. Here is a list of these options as well as the Homeopathy view to treatment of children with symptoms of ADHD, ADD.

1. Diet – Though bad diet can aggravate any chronic disease, it cannot get to the real root of the issue unless malnutrition is the root.  If a person is eating a normal diet but still has symptoms of ADD and ADHD, then they have not found a real or lasting solution to their health problem but merely a means to relieve some symptoms.

2. Exercise – Exercise produces hormones and burns up energy which calms the symptoms for a while, but again these symptoms return as they recover their energy and the hormones dissipate.

3. Environmental control – you can remove the ADD or ADHD person to a peaceful environment with low sensory input to get relief of symptoms, but this is not reality and a healthy person must be able to adjust to different environments and sensory stimulation in order to live a healthy productive life.   People weren’t created to live in a bubble.

4. Vitamins – If there is a truly nutritional problem where something is lacking in the diet, then vitamins can help, but if there is chronic issue of improper digestion and assimilation, adding supplements doesn’t work because the metabolism cannot assimilate them.

5. Biofeedback – This looks like a promising form of treatment because it teaches the person with ADD and ADHD to be aware of their thought and emotional processes in relationship to the triggering stimuli. This results in them learning to have control over their choices in how to react to things which is the goal of any cure.  However, it is very expensive and results will depend on how deeply seated the chronic issue is with each individual. From the Homeopathic perspective, we have to be careful to know the difference between a true cure and suppression of behavior as well. Homeopathic treatment along with biofeedback could be ideal.

6. Herbal – All plants have some medicinal qualities which can effect the organism. Because of this, when certain herbs are applied to ADD and ADHD they can bring relief to symptoms. However, in this case the herbs are being applied allopathically and in crude doses which lose their effect once they wear off. This means that the ADD or ADHD person must keep taking them and spending money on them. Along with this the law of suppression applies in that larger amounts will be required to get the same effect as the vital force rebounds back against the effects of the herbal substances. This is not a cure from the Homeopathic perspective.

7. Homeopathic Treatment – When providing Homeopathic consultation to children with ADD and ADHD, we often find there is a deep subconscious post traumatic loop driving the child to be in constant state of fight or flight.  All their sensory input if filtering through this state. This is often seen in the types of nightmares children suffering from the disorder seem to have, which seem to center around being attacked, chased, eaten, killed, strangled, punishment, monsters, and ghosts. Often we can trace the exciting event to a very early childhood trauma such as abuse, or allopathic interference which suddenly traumatized the organism.   We also find that something happened like this prenatally such as the umbilical chord around the neck, or the mother having perceived a trauma situation during her pregnancy.

Homeopathic treatment of the person or child with ADHD or ADD is done with Homeopathic remedies which cause symptoms which are similar in nature, mentally, emotionally, and physically, to the symptoms of the ADD or ADHD child. The result is that the natural vital force of the child turns it’s attention to the similar symptoms of the remedy and rises up to overcome the entire disease pattern to heal the whole person on every level, restoring health and freedom so the child can grow to be a happy, creative, productive adult. Because the remedies are Homeopathic and are administered in subatomic micro doses, there are no side effects, toxic damage, and no dependence developed. Usually only a few doses of the correct remedy is all that is needed to resolve the case.

If you or your children suffer from symptoms of ADHD, just click the contact me tab below and begin your healing journey.

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider

Many people who know about Homeopathy often think it is only treatment for physical illnesses and don't know about how beneficial it is in treating people suffering from psychiatric issues such as anxiety, depression, bi-polar, post traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, and all manner of delusions.  In this blog I'm going to describe the Homeopathic perspective on  what mental illness is, how Homeopathic medicine is used to help, and give case example to illustrate.

Homeopathy is a Holistic method which sees the person as four aspects working in coordination as one hole being.  There is the spiritual person, the mental person, the emotional person, and the physical person.  The spiritual person is beyond being effected by worldly concerns which contacts us as a deep sense of faith in the overall eternity and balance within ourself and all things.  The mental person is the character tendencies and mental concepts and constructs of who we think we are and what the world is.  The emotional person is the feeling, desires, attachments and aversions.  The physical person is the body and all the material units which make of that body.  The vital force is that part of the spiritual person which invigorates the being and mixes with the mental person to call the material units of nature into the function and form of the human being.  Disease is when the mental person, swayed by the feeling and desires, warps and misdirects the flow of life and thus generates disorder in the form and function.  Though the life remains unaffected, the warped flow of life effects the the mental, emotional and physical human.

Whether a disease is mental or physical we do not see it's origins as different, we only see the different sphere being effected.  Someone suffering suicidal depression may need the same remedy a person having heart disease may need.  What is called mental illness is where the disorder is most marked in the mental person in the form of delusions in perception of reality.  To the Homeopath, all people have a deep inner delusion as just being part of the human condition.  The difference between someone who is mentally ill and someone who is deemed normal is merely a difference in the capacity of ego strength to function in the outward collective delusion and keep the inner individual delusion from taking over the person's behavior.

The origins of the deep inner individual delusion can be speculated about in different ways. The more modern psychiatric view is that a person took a certain defensive survival stance during and early childhood trauma and got stuck, unable to come out of it when the threat is no longer present in the external world.  A powerless person might have developed a split personality to gain some sense of power, or they might have withdrawn into a catatonic shell.  Once this subconscious pattern takes hold in these formative years, some never develop the ego strength to suppress the pattern and behave in accordance with social standards and we will say they have X,Y,Z mental condition.  Others do have ego strength, do very well to suppress and seem to get on well in the world.  It may pop out during times of stress, but in a while the ego strength gets back in control.  For this type of situation, when this issue has not been healed, instead of mental illness, the disturbance manifest in the physical body as symptoms and pathology.  For example, a person who survived trauma by withdrawing into a catatonic shell but later had the ego strength to cope, will develop symptoms of external hardening and calcification as an expression of hiding behind a shell.

In Homeopathic treatment, cure is achieved by matching the symptoms of the patient with the symptoms of the remedy.  It is by the similarity of the symptoms of the patient to the symptoms of the remedy that a healing surge in the life field is generated to throw of the warped mental, emotional, and physical pattern.  Most Homeopathic medicines have symptoms in the mental, emotional, and physical spheres.  In psychiatric cases we match mental symptoms to the mental symptoms of the patient.  Each remedy has it unique mental symptoms and delusions which are manifest in dreams and fears of prover subjects.  Certain remedies create delusions of being chased by monsters, others delusions of great responsibility and fear of failure, still others cause division of will and identity.  When clear understanding of both patient and remedy occur in treatment, healing is assured.

Case example:  A 17 year old boy with a history of abuse and depression attempts suicide by medications.  He was raised in an environment where he got the message that you must be the best, most responsible, most outstanding and successful or the very air you breath is not justified (these were his father's very words). He had gone to the psychiatrist and was put on antidepressant medication.  After a few months, he got into his mothers narcotic medications and sleeping pills and tried to end his life.  The call comes that his is in the emergency room and what can be done Homeopathically.  With this history, I determined that a very high potency of the remedy best known for suicidal depression around the issue of success and failure to be the best and most responsible, needed to be given every hour by his mother as soon as the patient was conscious again.  No more psychiatric medications were administered and only Homeopathic medicine was applied.  Since that time 8 months ago, the patient completely turned around.  His first response was he couldn't understand what he was thinking.  He is usually smiling and happy, in a good mood, very interested in his life and learning more about spirituality.  He does not get depressed anymore and never has the thought that he is a failure.  He has been able to assert to his father that those views about success and failure were not healthy or beneficial.

Many people who go to Homeopathy for psychiatric issues enjoy this type of benefit without the dangers of having to keep taking psychotropic medications.  We can treat the person if currently on regular psychotropic medications and often the patient is soon able to ween off of them.  If you or any family member is suffering from what would be a psychiatric illness, feel free to contact me to discuss treatment options available to you.  Just click the "contact me" tab to get started.

All statements here are not claims to cure or treat any disease, provide any health benefit, are for educational and thoughtful purposes only, and are not medical advice.  If you need medical advice, please seek a qualified health care provider.