Homeopathy and Herniated Disc

David Shapley CCH

Certified Classical Homeopath based in Richardson Texas but servicing anywhere via virtual consultations.

Do you have a herniated spinal disk? Well I have, more than once, and know how your feel. For me it was an agonizing event because the herniated disk pressed and pinched my sciatic nerve. I couldn’t sit, lie, or sleep.  Chiropractic adjustments weren’t bringing any relief and anti-inflammatories were burning my stomach.  The only thing which brought any short term relief was to keep walking.  I had to walk and walk and walk.  The second I stopped, it was as if the pain was chasing right behind me and would catch me. The worst pain occurred when I had been sitting or lying still and then started to change position.  Instead of sleep, I walked round and round in circles at night.  At this time I was a Homeopathic student and started trying some remedies which might fit the symptom pattern described above. After a few tries, I took 2 of those little pellets of Homeopathic sulphur. In fives seconds, yes, five seconds!, a sudden flash of heat emanated from my lower back followed instantly by a rash going going down my sciatic nerve and rashes on both my feet ad hands which itched voluptuously. Then I noticed 90 percent of the pain was gone.  This all happened in a matter of a couple minutes.  The rash lasted a few hours and by the next day, the pain was gone and function was restored!.  This is results based medicine.

Herniated Disc:

A herniated disc is when the gel like shock pads between the vertebra rupture and the inner contents protrudes out often pressing on nerves causing pain.  There can be several causes to a disk rupture such as straining, lifting, impact injury, or underlying chronic disease such as arthritic deterioration making the location weaker and susceptible to injury.  When it has happened once, the area is more susceptible to further injury and deterioration.

Conventional Treatment:

After a medical doctor diagnoses the problem, depending of the severity, may offer anti-inflammatories, steroids, or surgery.  If the pain is getting better on it’s own, the doctor may suggest you let you body heal itself since surgeries can be very dangerous.  This healing process can take quite a while, keeping you in pain and limitation from your daily functions for months unless you have Homeopathy.

Chiropractic treatment is also pretty conventional treatment and can be very beneficial in many cases without the risks involved in main line medical treatment.  However in many cases, especially ones where there is an underlying chronic disease involved, Chiropractic treatment often fails to speed up the healing process and can actually even make the problems worse due to more repeated impacts on the spine.

Homeopathic Treatment:

The goal and beauty of Homeopathic treatment is that it works by activating your natural healing ability without any of the dangers listed above. My case is a perfect example of how fast and profoundly it can bring about results.  In my case I took just two of those little pellets and did not need to repeat the remedy again.  A healing process which could have taken two months took place in two minutes.  I know it’s hard to wrap the brain around that, but there is a reason Homeopathy has survived and thrived for over 200 years.

Now up to this point you may be thinking that sulphur is the cure to a ruptured disk, great, problem solved.  Well, this is another profound difference between the Homeopathic method and conventional medicine in that the remedy is selected based on individual symptoms and not merely on the pathology.  I had back injuries a couple other times when a different remedy was required because there were different symptoms and etiology.  In order to find the remedy which fits your particular case, you need to consult with a professional Homeopathic practitioner.  Again, keep in mind that the remedy doesn’t have any effect on the pathology at all, but merely triggers your natural healing ability without side effects and dependency.

Post Homeopathic treatment and prevention:

Because once a disk or any spinal injury leaves that area more susceptible to further injury, it is very important to make life style adjustments which fit your individual case.  In the case of my personal incident, I actually ruptured the disk doing yoga incorrectly and post injury had to find the right exercises to strengthen my core muscles to support the the lower back better along with changes in my beliefs about success and failure. Other issues to look at in life style will be job, stress, family and the deeper connotations of how you feel you succeed or fail to be upright in your functionality in these areas.

The deeper meaning:

“The spine represents your ability to be upright. The upright spine expresses our ability to span the realms from earth to heaven, our birthright as custodians of the planet, and our potential as conscious beings. Lack of spinal flexibility can express psychological rigidity, excess responsibility, or excessive protectiveness, seen in tense spastic muscles.
Slumping towards earth expresses defeat and death.  Arching back opens up, expressing hope, curiosity, the embracing of life.”  HOMEOPATHY AND MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALING by Asa Hershoff ND, DC.

I have treated countless patients with musculoskeletal disorders and almost always the patients and I can create the deepest healing work when these deepest issue are taken into account in an overall total person healing goal.  If you are suffering from a herniated disk or any musculoskeletal condition and would like to reach out to me to experience how Homeopathy can help restore you back to upright function, just click the “contact me” tab to begin the process.

David Shapley CCH is a certified classical Homeopath based in Richardson Texas but servicing anywhere via virtual consultations. He specializes in working working with people suffering musculoskeletal conditions such a back pain, arthritis, osteoporosis, myalgia, spondylosis, and injuries.

Photo from the University of Maryland Medical Center.