Quite often I get new patient enquiries who don't really know what Homeopathy is and think that it has something to do with the popular naturopathic methods of detoxing chemicals and heavy metals out of the body to obtain health. These methods of treatment encompass such things as sweating, juicing, enemas, fasting, purgatives, soakings, and saturating the body with oxygen.  None of these things has to do with Homeopathy.  The reason is that the first methods, though called Holistic, are materialistic in their view to cause and effect.  Homeopathy is vitalistic.  You may click to may home page to get the comparing definitions.  It is also an unfortunate fact that some unscrupulous or ill-informed practitioners of various modalities claim to offer Homeopathy for detox.  Buyer beware!

Homeopathy is a vitalistic healing modality, meaning that we view the source of true disease as being a disturbance in the vibration and flow of the life force itself.  We view that it is the natural law of manifestation that life precedes matter and that matter is inert, without order, form of function with the immaterial life energy vibrations to call matter into form and function.  As this is with the body, so it is with the physical world we live in.  Though different aspects or layers of the flow of life, emotional, mental, and consciousness are all part of this life energy. When the flow of life is in harmony with the the Whole harmony of natural and moral laws of oness, matter builds ordered body structures of health.  When out of harmony, matter is disordered causing symptoms, pathology and loss of function.

From this perspective, physical toxicity such as chemicals and heavy metals in the world and in the body are the effects and not the cause of disease.  As the mass of human thought has indulged into ever more toxic thinking along the lines of hate, jealousy, greed, lust, power, and intoxication, humans have manifested these thoughts into the physical environment.  We have toxic industries, using toxic chemicals and metals, toxic food, toxic entertainment, toxic wars, and toxic medical treatments.  All of this originating in the mind and afflicted emotions, thus disrupting the life in harmony with the Whole, which reflects back upon us the nature of our own toxicity.

If you agree with this vitalistic premise, you quickly see that the idea of controlling the outward environment and subjecting the body to, often "deleterious" detoxing regiments is putting the cart before the horse.  Though we may indeed force toxins out of out body resulting in temporary relief of symptoms, the real problem in the life is not solved, so the mind finds it's way back to a toxic environment and the body fills back up with physical toxicity.  If you want to have permanent improvement, your own toxic emotions and thoughts must addressed.  When the toxic mind and emotions are "detoxed", the life in the person flows with unbounded sway which results in wholesome acts, lifestyle as well as making the body's own defenses strong enough to deal with the physical environment.

There are various methods and practices available to detox or purify the mind and emotions of toxic thoughts, feeling and desires.  However, once a certain degree of physical distortion has occurred, mental practices and lifestyle changes alone won't suffice.  This is because there is too much density and momentum in the toxic flow to turn it around by will and practice alone.  This is when you need a healing method, a medicinal method, which is based on this understanding of life and nature.  Homeopathy is just such a method because our medicines are energy which can cause the kind of mental, emotional and physical toxic symptoms a sick person is having.  Because it is natural law that the life force will generate a healing reaching when exposed to a substance mirroring similar symptoms on all levels, harmony will be restored.  Because we dilute and success the medicines until they are mere energy frequencies, there is no actual physical toxicity which can endanger the body. Because Homeopathic medicines effect that area where consciousness, thought and emotions interact, healing will occur at the root of the problem causing a cascade through all the lower layers of matter resulting in the elimination of susceptibility, toxins and symptoms. 

When applying the correct Homeopathic medicine which will generate a healing detoxing reaction in the vital force, the remedy must be selected based on similarity of the symptoms.  Thus, there is no such thing a remedy for detoxing a certain substance or organ.  This is materialistic thinking, not vitalistic thinking. Therefore, to get the remedy which matches your unique symptoms, you must see a qualified Homeopathic practitioner who can investigate your mental, emotional and physical symptoms in order to find the correct remedy.
 
The toxicity problem runs very deep into the human life so I don't want you to view Homeopathy as a quick fix.  However, Homeopathy is a profound healing method based on natural laws in vitalism which can kick start you on your personal healing journey in purifying your mind and body, because it will release you from the limitations in function which keep your from engaging in and making progress in your own self motivated healing and spiritual practices.

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Holistic health is a concept in healing practice upholding that all aspects of people’s needs, psychological, physical and social, and mentally should be taken into account and seen as a whole. As defined above, the holistic view on treatment is widely accepted in medicine. A different definition, claiming that disease is a result of physical, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental imbalance, is used in alternative medicine. Holistic health focuses on all facets of human functioning, which involves our taking responsibility for maintaining all aspect of our well-being.

Holistic treatment is the method used to treat the sick from a Holistic health perspective.  There are different views as to what this is.  In this article I’m going to differentiate the Homeopathic perspective of healing the core issue vs. doing a whole lot of different treatments.

I have come across many Holistic alternative practitioners of various modalities who still  take a reductionistic view that things going on in different parts of the body and different spheres of the mind and emotions have to be treated separately but all together by differing treatments for each issue.  From their perspective this is Holistic treatment because they are treating the mental, emotional, and physical issues together.  From this perspective a person may take massage for  tension, detox regiments for heavy metals, dietary changes for weight loss or allergies, supplements for mineral and vitamin deficiencies, meditation to calm the emotions, and counseling for suppressed trauma.  Often these treatments are standard for each patient regardless of what their real individual issues are.   It’s a kind of shot gun approach to which one or some of these things may bring some relief to the person’s suffering.  This approach is often very expensive as each treatment has a price along with the price of vitamins, supplements, or herbal formulas.  Though I’m all for people’s freedom to offer or buy what ever they want in health care, it is a fact that the supplement industry has teamed with some Holistic practitioners in order to sell large quantities of supplements for profit, not much different than the relationship between the pharmaceutical companies and doctors.

The Classical Homeopathic perspective is that each individual is unique and that time must be spent to understand each individual Holistically.  We must carefully distinguish what is true chronic disease from what is environmental, or personal habit.  We must understand how the true chronic imbalance drives the behavior, desires, preferences, and prejudices into manifesting as symptoms, pathology, and outward befallments.  Once we have this understanding, we must use the law of similimum and dynamic remedy, to treat the core issue which will result in an atonement in the will and understanding, which will in turn restore order on the behavioral, emotional, and physical level.  This is treating and healing the whole person, not merely doing a whole lot of stuff to the person.

This is not to say that you wouldn’t need a better diet, a good massage , or an activity regiment, it is merely pointing out that one should not put the cart before the horse and invest a lot of energy and money  in the wrong, unnecessary, or unrelated treatments which will bring no lasting improvement to you as a whole person.  Homeopathy is in fact, a total healing modality in and of itself which encompasses guided meditation and counseling which reveals to the awareness of the core mistunement which is at the root of a persons suffering.  It is the application of correct remedies to bring about chronic and acute disease resolution. It is spiritual counseling to heal errors of identity causing personal conflicts, as well as life style coaching to mitigate obstacles to a persons healing path.  In Homeopathy all of this and more is one systematic method being applied all at once and not separately for different issues.


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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.

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.

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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.

One of the most gratifying experiences in my practice is when I get to treat a person suffering from Shingles.  The reason for this is that Homeopathically, these people are relatively easy to help, results of very good, and traditional medicine has little to offer. In this blog I'm going to explain the Homeopathic approach to treating people suffering Shingles and give a case example in the hopes that if you are suffering Shingles, you don't settle for the long term pain or dangerous mostly ineffective treatments offered by traditional medicine.

Shingles, also known as Herpes Zoster, is said to be caused by a dormant virus lodged in the nervous system, originating with Chicken Pox.  For many people, often later in life, often after stress and depletion, this virus activates bringing on painful eruptions and neurological pains which can last many months to even years.  Anyone who has ever had it can tell you how painful and debilitating it can be.  Traditional treatments include, pain medications, steroids, and antiviral drugs which can sometimes shorten the duration and intensity of symptoms.  The condition is never considered cured by these treatments and symptoms can flair up much later.

In Homeopathy we view Shingles or any viral type disease in a different way.  Chicken Pox is one of those acute epidemic diseases well known by all of us.  In all epidemic disease, the Homeopath takes the vitalistic view that, even in epidemics, there is an underlying collective energetic susceptibility sweeping through large groups of people, which makes them susceptible to manifesting the symptoms know as Chicken Pox.  We consider the virus to be part of the expression of the disease and not the cause.  We affirm this is true by pointing out that when these epidemics ever sweep through a population, everyone does not become ill, even when repeatedly being exposed in close proximity to the infected.  Conversely, many become infected quite far away from any people who are already infected where no evidence of viral jumping can be found.  The other more profound evidence we offer is are extremely high success rate in history in treating these epidemics with our energetic medicines, starting with the plagues which followed the Napoleonic war to the Spanish flue of 1918.

Just as in any Homeopathic patient, when a person comes with diagnoses of Shingles, we look for unique characteristic symptoms to find the Homeopathic medicine and not the common symptoms of Shingles.  Common symptoms are eruptions, burning, itching, shooting pains.  Everyone with Shingles will have these.  Uncommon symptoms are those symptoms which don't appear in every case of Shingles.  We look at the location of the symptoms, the color of the eruptions, discharges coming out of the eruptions, situations where symptoms are worse or better, actions the patient takes to cope with their suffering, even the over all mental state of the patient when pains are bad.  In the case of people suffering Shingles, finding the right Homeopathic remedy is not hard and results are quite rapid.

Case Example:

A 53 year old man is suffering from post neurologic pain one month after Shingles out break.  The location of the eruptions and pains we on the left hip and leg.  The eruptions were very itchy with watery vesicles which leaked. Pains are worse when getting up in the morning with a strong sensation of stiffness in the hip and leg.  It's very stiff and painful when he first starts to move but if he keeps moving slowly, the pain reduces.  When he is sitting for work, he keeps moving around trying to find a comfortable position, but as soon as he thinks he has, pain and restlessness return.  He feels better when he exercises but than after he gets tired, pains come on again.  Over all he does not like to sit still or he feels stuck and playing sports makes him feel loose.  Any Homeopath knows this picture is the remedy rhus-tox, also known as poison ivy.  Right after taking the remedy the patient called to report immediate 50 percent improvement in pain and stiffness.  After two weeks, pains are 80 percent better only coming on slightly after long workouts.  He continues to improve with a prognoses that after a month, all issues will be resolved.

This is a very typical case I see in my practice.  It took me abut 30 minutes to determine the characteristic symptoms at a cost to the patient of 100.00 dollars plus 10.00 for the remedy he could pick up at Whole Foods.  Yes, I know, some of you just can't accept that any effective treatment for such a serious situation could possibly be so effective.  However, it is so, and in other countries where Homeopathy is openly endorsed and offered, countless people get to enjoy these kinds of cures.  Let me also point out that you should not take the above case example to believe that rhus-tox is the medicine for Shingles.  This was the medicine for this specific case only and you do not have the extensive training required to figure out what Homeopathic medicine would be applicable in your case of Shingles.  Always seek out a qualified Homeopathic practitioner if you want good results.  If you are suffering from Shingles, I would be most happy to show the benefit of this wonderous healing method.  Just click the "contact me" tab below 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.