A Full Week Of Holidays And Rebirths

This is a full week that we are in. Passover. Good Friday. My birthday. Easter. A full moon. Presently, in the middle of Ramadan. Planets moving into new houses, astrologically. Spring time. Rebirth. A lot of flowers and blooms. And eggs.

Maybe because it is this time of year, Spring, that it is good to talk about the “soil” of us. Health comes from a nutrient rich, nourishing soil. Illness comes from a soil that has no nutrients, and may have counter nutrients, components that are detrimental to the health of a person.

In homeopathy, the unhealthy soil is expressed in a person’s sensitivity, susceptibility and tendency towards certain health issues. For example, one person may experience migraines. Another has skin eruptions. Digestive issues. Arthritis. Neurological issues. Genetic changes. Emotional issues. Diabetes. Cancer. These sensitivities, susceptibilities, and tendencies are often passed down from one generation to another. Through the patient’s family medical history and their own, the homeopath gets a glimpse into this soil. A person may have a tendency and not necessarily develop the health issue, such as with diabetes and cancer.

Healing The Soil – Healing The Root Cause

We may be ill, and then feel better. We may have used different healing treatments at this time, homeopathy included. A flareup, another outbreak or a bout may occur. This often indicates that there was no healing at the root of the illness. The “soil” needs to be addressed and healed. I don’t want to belittle the help that someone receives when they are experiencing a flare up or when they have an acute illness. This help is beneficial in its own way.

Over these last 250 years, many homeopaths, including Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who originally developed homeopathy in the late 1700’s, have looked at these susceptibilities, tendencies, and sensitivities as blocks to healing. By using different homeopathic remedies at specific times that address the person, their symptoms, their whole state of health, their susceptibilities, tendencies and sensitivities, a deeper healing can happen. Acute flare ups become less. The soil has become healthier. The root cause has been addressed. The homeopathic remedies used are similar to the individual, fitting their needs.

Homeopathy To Heal

I invite you to contact me if you or a loved one has an ongoing health issue. You may be better at times, yet the health issue returns. There has not been a healing at the root.

I offer a complimentary 15+ Get Acquainted Call, for you to see a little bit about homeopathy and for me to start to “take your case”, to learn about you. You can contact me through this blog or through my website www.homeopathytoheal.com.  I work with all ages, babies through older adults, in person and virtually. I am located in the San Diego, California area.

Wishing you all a wonderful Spring and Holiday Season.

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Seeing How The Person Sees It

Brene Brown – “In order to empathize with someone’s experience you must be willing to believe them as they see it and not how you imagine their experience to be. “

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This quote resonated with me. My intention when I meet with a patient is to see, hear, observe, witness, understand (not intellectually), and listen to how “they see it, (their experience)”.  “To believe them” is to see them. Maybe this is empathy. I don’t know. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, wrote in THE ORGANON, that when being with the patient the practitioner is “the unprejudiced observer”. 

As a homeopathic practitioner, I am seeing the patient’s world, their reality. I want to know how it is for them. This guides me to the selection of the homeopathic remedy that is needed.    

I often say: tell me more; what was that, (if they made a gesture); what does that feel like in your body; how does that feel or felt; why; what is the experience or sensation of that. I am wanting to know more. 

My job is to witness where the person is living. To see them. 

Expressing

People express themselves using words, gestures, movements of their body, sounds they make, dislikes and likes, interests, dreams, fear and more. 

I work with people who are verbal and non verbal, such as babies, children or adults. (Animals too.) These patients are telling me about themselves, not through words necessarily, but through their actions and their behaviors. It observe. It is part of their totality.

Such as: 

• How a child moves around my consultation room. Going under my desk. Being behind a chair. Moving all over the room. Going into the closet and closing the door. Standing behind their mother when first entering the room.  
• Movement of head or part of the body.
• Needing support to hold up their head. 
• Covering their eyes, ears or both, with hands or with clothes or muffs. 
• Making a sound.

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I receive calls from people asking for help for many different health issues. They feel frustrated, stuck and tired of not feeling well. They are wanting to know how homeopathy can help them. 

I invite you to contact me either through this blog or through my website www.homeopathytoheal.com.  I offer a complimentary 15 + minute Get Acquainted Call to see if this is fit for you. I work with people virtually and in person in and out of the San Diego area. 

 

Difference Between Herbal And Homeopathic Medicines

Over the last few months, there have been inquiries on the difference between herbal and homeopathic medicines. The medicines themselves, and the principles of herbal medicine and homeopathy are very different.

I am a classical homeopath, I know about homeopathy and homeopathic remedies or medicines. I don’t know much about herbal medicine, and don’t use this form of medicine. What I am writing here, is the little bit I do know about herbal medicine. For you to know more about herbal medicine, I would suggest you talk to an acupuncturist, a Chinese herbalist, a herbalist and possibly a naturopathic doctor.

Herbal Medicines

Herbal medicines are made from plants. The different parts of the plant are used – the roots, the stem, the flowers, or the leaves. The medicines are used individually by themselves, or in a combination with other plants. I often hear an acupuncturist talking about “formulas” for particular health concerns. The medicines are taken in the form of a capsule or made into a tea or drink. The herbal medicine itself is the actual physical substance of the plant.

Homeopathic Medicines

Homeopathic medicines or remedies are made from plants too, and also made from minerals and elements, animals, and any substance we have on earth, even sunlight. There are over 4000 homeopathic remedies. All the elements in the periodic table have been made into homeopathic remedies. Animals, such as snakes, mammals, sea animals, birds, mollusks, insects and spiders have been made into homeopathic remedies. And many, many different plants have been made into homeopathic remedies.

A small part of whatever is being made into a homeopathic remedy is needed to make the remedy. Animals are not killed to make homeopathic remedies.

To make homeopathic remedies, the substance goes through a potentization process of dilution and succussion. Succussion is banging the vial that contains the liquid homeopathic remedy against a book. (At homeopathic pharmacies, there is a machine that does this. Some homeopathic pharmacies may still be made by hand.) Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who developed homeopathy, used a bible to bang against. This potentization process creates the potency or strength of the homeopathic remedy.

The potencies are labelled as X (ten parts), C (100 parts), or M (1000 parts).  The 12C is the the first potency of which there is nothing left of the physical substance that the homeopathic remedy is made from. 12C is called Avogadro’s Number. At the 12C potency and higher, it is the energetic pattern of the substance. Homeopathy is an energetic form of medicine.

Which potency a person uses depends on the person, on their vital force and on their state.  They may use different potencies of the homeopathic remedy at different times.

The homeopathic remedies are in a pill or pellet form, usually a sugar lactose pill. Remedies are also in a liquid form. And sometimes a remedy is sniffed, when opening the top of the vial.

One homeopathic remedy is used at a time. This homeopathic remedy matches the state of the person. Another homeopathic remedy may be used later on.

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If I can be of help to you or a loved one, please contact me here on this blog or through my website www.homeopathytoheal.com.  I would be happy to talk with you.

 

 

 

 

The Use Of Homeopathy Is World Wide

Homeopathy is used all over the world. And it has been used since the early 1800’s when the German physician Dr. Samuel Hahneman developed it.

Hearing The Use Of Homeopathy In The Media

Recently, a friend sent me the link to an article about Prince Charles using homeopathy for the health care of animals instead of using antibiotics. (Click here to read the article.) I messaged her back, to tell her that the British Royal Family has been using homeopathy for years, and in fact they have a homeopathic physician that they see regularly.

Homeopathy has come up in literature and in the media. Often, it is just the word – homeopathy or homeopathic – and not really saying much about homeopathy as its own form of medicine. And other times, homeopathy is specifically mentioned in having helped and healed someone.

The National Center for Homeopathy wrote a post about the 1994 movie of LITTLE WOMEN. The post mentioned a scene in which Jo was looking through a Materia Medica, a reference book that has the descriptions of many homeopathic remedies. She was looking to find the homeopathic remedy that best fit the fever that one of her sisters’ was experiencing. The homeopathic remedy Belladonna was chosen. I have included the post here for you to read fully. By the way, the National Center for Homeopathy is a very good resource.

And recently I was watching an episode of the BBC program CALL THE MIDWIVES on Public Television. During a scene, one of the characters mentioned the homeopathic remedy Arnica montana. She was suggesting the use of Arnica montana for a person who may have experienced a fall, a bruising, or a trauma. (More about the homeopathic remedy Arnica montana.) I was excited to hear homeopathy mentioned.

Homeopathy Used World Wide

Homeopathy is used all over the world – the USA, Europe, South America, England, India, Russia, Japan, Eastern Europe, and other countries. It has been used for over 200 years. It heals deeply for first aid, acute conditions and for chronic conditions.

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I invite you to contact me here or through my website www.homeopathytoheal.com if you would like to know how homeopathy can be of help to you. If you are not local to the San Diego area, I work with patients by using Skype. I would be happy to talk to you.