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| Hpathy Ezine, February, 2006 | ||||
| Frequently Asked Questions -- Elaine Lewis, DHom |
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| 12. What are homeopathic remedies made of? How do you make them?
They can be made out of anything at all! There are remedies all
around you! They're all throughout your kitchen! Take parsley, for
example, very good for irritable bladder and kidney problems. To
make parsley 6C, mash up the parsley and let it sit in a little
bit of water, now get a small bottle of spring water, empty half
of it out, pour in a bit of the parsley water so that your bottle
consists of 99% water, 1% parsley liquid, and succuss your bottle
40 times. You now have Parsley 1C. Dump out 99% of the bottle, refill
with water to your starting point and succuss 40 times and you'll
have parsley 2C. Keep going in this manner and stop at 6 and you'll
have parsley 6C. Take it three times a day, with 10 succussions
before each dose for frequent and sudden urging to urinate. Any
substance that causes you harm can be made into a remedy and become
a cure for what it has caused! 13. I tried homeopathy and it doesn't work. I've noticed that no one ever says, "I tried Standard Medicine and it doesn't work. I took aspirin for a headache once and it didn't work!" Oh, well, that disproves the whole thing, then, doesn't! "Modern Medicine doesn't work, aspirin fails to cure headache!" No one ever says that. They say, "I guess I'll try Tylenol or Motrin." Nothing works all the time, and mistakes are made in every field of endeavor and homeopathy is no exception. Remedies can be misprescribed, given in the wrong potency, for the wrong symptoms and the patient, even, may have withheld information that could have solved the case if only he had thought to include it; or maybe the patient tried to treat himself based on the one-word use that barely fits on the tiny remedy bottle labels such as, "rash" for Sulphur, but Sulphur only treats a special kind of rash, a rash that's aggravated by hot bathing, worse from the heat of the bed, worse at night, itches intensely and scratching ends in burning and bleeding. If you have a rash that's sooooo much better from hot bathing, that would be a Rhus tox. rash. A rash that's cracked and oozing a honey-like fluid is a Graphites rash. A rash from a sun allergy is a Nat-mur. rash. Do you see how easily you can pick the wrong remedy? Further complicating this issue are the practitioners calling themselves
"homeopaths" based solely on their own opinion of themselves!
Homeopathy is, in many countries, an unregulated field where no
license is issued, because certain governments don't want to acknowledge
its existence, and this can leave consumers victimized in many ways.
Try to find a homeopath who's graduated from a school of homeopathy. 14. Now that I'm on a homeopathic remedy, can I continue with my junk food life-style? No! You know, it's probably your junk food lifestyle that got you here in the first place. The worst culprits? Phony foods. Foods that don't exist in nature. Food like Twinkies! Food made from white flour and white sugar--both non-foods. Your body doesn't recognize them, doesn't know what to do with them or how to digest them! They have no nutrients, plus they're nutrient-robbers as they leach calcium and the B vitamins out of your body! Why do they exist? Shelf-life. Real food goes bad. Phony food is more profitable. Switch to salads, raw fruit, the food in the produce aisle, whole grains such as whole wheat bread and start juicing your own juice in the morning from actual fruit.
15. Now that I'm on a homeopathic remedy, can I keep taking my drugs? Yikes! I can't tell anyone to stop taking drugs prescribed by a doctor. These drugs are so dangerous that stopping them is just as problematic as staying on them! Read the pharmacy inserts: "Stopping this drug suddenly could cause a heart attack..." and so on. Consequently, your doctor is going to have to take responsibility for this. However, if you're not on any drugs, and you get sick, the preference would be to try homeopathy first. Standard prescription drugs are addicting, people have to stay on them indefinitely, their side effects result in more drugs being prescribed, and it's the beginning of a downward spiral in most cases. Also, there is this scenario: you are on a homeopathic remedy, which means there is a good chance your condition can be reversed, and you are taking drugs at the same time. What would happen, let's say, if you were taking a blood pressure drug while your blood pressure was starting to normalize? Your blood pressure could drop so low that you'd faint! Obviously there is an inherent danger associated with doing homeopathy and "allopathy" together. Ideally, you would have a non-judgemental doctor who will monitor your progress with testing and will cut back on the drug as he sees there is less and less need for it. I've heard patients say to their homeopaths, "Your treatment
is making me worse!" when it turns out that the prescriptions
are still being taken at the pre-homeopathy level! So, yes, this
is a tricky area that requires careful monitoring. 16. Since I'm seeing you, do I have to keep seeing a doctor? Yes! The great thing that doctors do is make a diagnosis and follow
up with testing. Having a diagnosis is indespensible and we're so
confident in our remedies that we welcome the testing! Also, sometimes
surgery is absolutely necessary. We are not trying to take the place
of doctors. Adding us to the care they provide, along with nutritional
advice, physical therapy and counseling, etc. actually makes for
a whole and complete practice of medicine. 17. Do I keep taking my constitutional remedy during an acute? The short answer is no, especially if you see a clear picture for
another remedy and especially if you see a change in the mental/emotional
state. For example, let's say your homeopath has you on Phosphorus
LM/1 once a day as your constitutional remedy. Suddenly you come
down with the flu: you're thirstless, lethargic, drowsy, dizzy,
sleepy with muscle aches, chills and a headache. You've got a clear
Gelsemium flu. Why should you be taking phosphorus? It just doesn't
make any sense. This is the value of having a home remedy kit and
an acute prescribing book so you can handle these things. When the
flu is over, if your chronic condition is still there, resume the
constitutional remedy as before. 18. What Are the LM Potencies? Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy, wrote the 6th edition of The Organon to promote his newest discovery--the LM potencies: powerful, like the high potencies, but gentle and short-acting, like the low potencies--the best of both worlds, in other words, a perfect system, according to Hahnemann. Have they caught on? No; though more and more homeopaths are using them; still their use requires very specific instructions and most homeopaths are using them improperly. The LM's must be given in water. It is basically as I said above, about the remedies in water: the bottle is succussed before each dose in order to raise the potency ever so slightly to keep the case moving forward. Aggravations can be better managed with the LM's--not eliminated, but better managed. Their action dissipates sooner, so a mistake in prescribing is less of a crisis. Because their action dissipates sooner, they have to be repeated more often, perhaps daily. This allows you to better manage your case. You can stop your remedy, deal with an acute and then go back to it. You don't have to worry about dental appointments and other "antidoting" influences because if your remedy is antidoted, you're going to take it again anyway, so it's only the last dose that was antidoted. If you took a 200C two weeks prior, a potency which is usually only supposed to be taken once, you're constantly on the look-out for antidoting factors and trying to avoid them; it's just not practical. If you're on an LM potency, you definitely have to stay in touch
with your homeopath because when your LM/1 bottle finishes, you'll
be needing to go up to LM/2, then LM/3...it's very methodical and
the case has to be followed closely but these potencies are supposed
to move your case along faster with less waiting and uncertainty
than is sometimes the case with the C potencies. 19. What are the instructions for taking an LM? 1. You'll need a bottle that holds four ounces of water, that would be half a cup. You can buy an eight ounce (the smallest) bottle of spring water, pour half out, and you'll have a four ounce bottle of water. 2. Into this bottle, drop one pellet of your LM potency. Hint: tap the remedy bottle into a plastic spoon, jiggle the spoon until all the pellets fall off but one; then slide the single pellet into the water bottle. These pellets are tiny, I must warn you. 3. Shake the water bottle. A teaspoon of the water now goes into a disposable cup containing four ounces of water. Stir and take a teaspoon from the cup. Throw the rest of the cup away. Put the water bottle in the refrigerator to keep it out of the light. 4. The next day, succuss (pound the bottle into your opposite palm) 10 times. Pour a teaspoon from the bottle into a disposable cup containing four ounces of water, stir with a plastic spoon, take a teaspoonful as a dose, put the bottle back into the refrigerator, and repeat this step tomorrow. 5. When you're finished with the LM/1 water bottle, begin LM/2
the same way. Buy a new water bottle, new cup and new spoon for
the new potency. 20. How Do I Know When To Stop Taking a Remedy? 1. You may experience a "proving". When there's nothing more for a remedy to work on, you may start to "prove" it. A person taking Nat-mur. may find himself craving salty food, a person taking Mercurius may start sweating or salivating. This is a sign for you to stop the remedy. Always report an aggravation to your homeopath. He or she will look in the Materia Medica to see if you're proving it. If you are, usually just stopping it is sufficient to fix the problem. The way to stop proving an LM potency is to take one dose of the next potency. I learned this from Diane Fuller, DHom and I've tried it and it works! 2. Return of "old symptoms": An old rash comes back that you suppressed with cortisone cream, an old discharge comes back that you suppressed with antibiotics, and so on. If these phenomena coincide with an increase in energy or a positive inner feeling, stop the remedy as it has worked. However, at the first sign that you may be relapsing, start the remedy again right away! 3. The Signs of Health. When you see the signs of health, stop the remedy. The signs of health are:
4. Always be prepared to start the remedy again at the first sign of a relapse. If the remedy stops working, take more often. When that fails, raise the potency. 5. Stop the remedy if you're getting worse. There are times when an aggravation is a sign that the right remedy has been given but in too high a potency and that an improvement is sure to follow. Even so, don't keep taking the remedy under the circumstances, stop and wait. 6. If you've taken on a new remedy picture, stop the remedy: If you've developed a craving for food you're not usually interested in, if your disposition has changed, if your body temperature has changed, if your thirst has changed, if your energy has changed...all this is an indication that you're in a new remedy state. See question 17 also--"Do I Keep Taking My Constitutional Remedy During an Acute?" |
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