The Truth about the Flu

Posted in The Truth about the Flu on 11/11/2009 08:32 pm by admin

During the infamous flu epidemic of 1918, the ‘Spanish’ flu, large numbers of people sought homeopathic care.  The Dewey Report, published in 1920, states that:  24,000 cases of influenza were treated with conventional medicine with a 28.2% mortality rate, while 26,000 cases were treated with homeopathy with only a 1.05% mortality rate.  According to historian Julian Winston, quoted in Utne Reader Magazine (Mar-Apr. ‘06), homeopaths saved 99% of their patients during the 1918 flu epidemic.

The 1918 influenza epidemic was also a H1N1 strain, like the current swine flu.  It was caused by pigs who were infected with the virus and circulated back to humans.  The current swine flu has genetic elements of four different flu viruses:  the North American swine flu, the North American avian flu, human influenza A virus subtype H1N1 and the swine flu virus found in Asia and Europe (flusolution.net).  A flu virus reproduces by taking over a host cell.  It reproduces through the RNA of the cell where errors can occur.  This is how the virus may pick up genetic material from the host and mutate into a new strain.  The current Swine flu is a rare combination of all three types of flu that combined in a pig and then jumped to humans.  Much of the fear around this and other flu strains is that they could further mutate and become more dangerous.

There is a lot of fear around the flu, especially this latest Swine Flu.  The Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, the media and governments have contributed to a huge fear epidemic.  There is plenty of fear, but the only preventive measures touted are to ‘wash your hands’ and  receive a vaccination.  But there is much controversy over the safety of the flu vaccine.  In 1976 there was a swine flu scare and President Ford insisted people were vaccinated.  Many people were sickened by the vaccine and some lost mobility and were paralyzed for life.  Twenty five people died, while only one person died from the actual flu. (The Lancet, a highly reputable British medical journal, October 1, 2005).  $100 million dollars were paid out in compensation.

Two-thirds of vaccines made for the 2008-09 flu season contain full dose thimerosal (Oct. 3, 2008 article by Dr. Donald Miller, www.donaldmiller.com).  All vaccines contain formaldehyde, aluminum and other additives, one being ethylene glycol which is antifreeze.  Thimerosal is a organ mercury compound which is 49% mercury by weight.  Each of these vaccines contains 25 micrograms of mercury which is 250 times more than the EPA’s safety limit.  There is evidence that vaccinations can cause Alzheimer’s disease.  Dr. Sherri Tenpenny cites research done by an immuno-geneticist named Hugh Fudenburgh who’s been studying the flu vaccines and reports that if someone has five consecutive flu shots his or her chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease is ten times higher. Vaccines have also been linked to autism.  Because of this, vaccine makers have now removed thimerosal from all childhood vaccinations, except flu shots.  For more info see Dr. Miller’s article “Mercury on the Mind”.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), of the Center for Disease Control, makes recommendations for vaccinations.  The CDC must grant each member of the ACIP a conflict-of-interest waiver because almost all of the ACIP members have financial ties to the vaccine industry. (Miller)

Flu vaccinations are known to cause joint inflammation and arthritis, anaphylactic shock, and Guillian-Barre syndrome which is an autoimmune disease that comes on a few weeks or more after a flu shot.  This is very serious disease which leaves people paralyzed.  There are 1 to 2 cases of GBS per 1 million vaccinated persons.  Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot.  (Dr. Donald Miller)  The most common side effect that I have seen in my practice is a low grade form of the flu that returns every two weeks all winter and then again the following winter.  This can be effectively treated with homeopathy.

CBC News of Canada reported on September 23, 2009 that “preliminary research suggests the seasonal flu shot may put people at greater risk for getting swine flu.”  Health officials told CBC News that in four Canadian studies involving about 2,000 people, researchers found people who had received the seasonal flu vaccine in the past were more likely to get sick with the H1N1 virus.  “Researchers know that, theoretically, when people are exposed to bacteria or a virus, it can stimulate the immune system to create antibodies that facilitate the entry of another strain of the virus or disease. Dengue fever is one example.”

This has prompted health authorities in Quebec to consider cancelling or postponing seasonal flu shots for some groups, such as healthy, younger adults.  “We don’t know with this year’s flu shot how it interacts with the pandemic flu shot, so it’s a worry,” said Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infectious diseases prevention and control at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.

The flu vaccine is not safe, but is it effective?  The Lancet on Oct. 1, 2005 stated:  “A systematic review of all previous studies testing vaccines for the flu have shown that they are not effective in preventing the flu or influenza like illness in the elderly population.  It is indeed a sad fact that the media and the medical community is instilling fear into people and yet not disclosing that the prevention strategy does not seem to work.”

Information presented at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego, May 19, 2009, as quoted in Science Daily Magazine (May 20, 2009) states that:  “inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza related hospitalizations in children who get the flu vaccine.”

The other option that conventional medicine offers for the flu besides washing your hands and getting a flu shot, is treatment with anti-virals like Tamiflu and Relenza (Relenza must be administered with an inhaler device).  There is one H1N1 strain that has developed full resistance to Tamiflu.  An antiviral will not prevent the flu, but will only possibly help reduce symptoms.

Dana Ullman MD, quoted in Utne Reader Magazine (Mar-Apr ‘06), says that like antibiotics, patients build up a resistance to anti-viral medications.  She explains that they can also spur diseases to mutate into more powerful strains.   She explains that because of this, use of antiviral medications “pose a public health threat.”

Much of the information in this article was gained from ‘flusolution.net’, homeopathy’s premier site for the latest flu information.

 

Preventing and Treating the Flu with Homeopathy

Posted in Preventing and Treating the Flu with Homeopathy on 11/11/2009 04:43 pm by admin

Homeopathy has been used successfully in treating flu for over 100 years in all stages of the disease.  Homeopathic remedies are safe for everyone.

Symptoms of the flu are sore throat, sudden fever, body aches, coughing, and respiratory congestion.  Sometimes there may be vomiting and diarrhea.  Colds are different in that they usually come on more gradually and have little or no fever and less body aches.  But some colds can look a lot like the flu.

The flu is only a real danger in persons of compromised immunity.  The flu does not usually kill people, but severe secondary complications can.  The problem today is that most of us have compromised immune systems.  This is because of many reasons.  We are exposed to many toxins.  Most of us have been vaccinated and our parents have been vaccinated.  Ill effects of vaccinations mix with hereditary predispositions and create immune system problems.  This is why there is a growing number of auto-immune disorders.  Another reason for compromised immunity is that we do not allow ourselves or our children to get sick.  Overuse of antibiotics compromises the immune system and robs children of the opportunity to fight off illness of their own volition.  WE ARE IN A WEAKENED STATE. THAT IS THE DANGER FROM THE FLU.

But what advise do government officials and conventional medicine have to offer us?  Wash your hands.  Well you can wash your hands until the cows come home but germs are everywhere.  Where is the role of the immune system.  Why is nobody talking about why some people get sick and others don’t?  Even in the worst epidemics, there are those who do not get sick.  They are not susceptible because their immune system is strong.  The best way to protect yourself from illness is to increase vitality and boost the immune system.  The absolute best way to do this is to seek homeopathic constitutional care.  Homeopathy can work deeply to remove hereditary susceptibility to disease.  It can raise your vitality.  Not only will you be more prepared to fight off an acute illness, you will feel better in your whole person.

Homeopathy is very successful at treating the flu, should you come down with it.  When you are armed with homeopathy, the fear dissipates.  The right remedy at any stage of the disease, weather in the first 24 hours or if complications develop, can safely bring a person back to health.  Conventional medicine can only offer antibiotics and respirators.   Many people are having serious complications from the swine flu and are filling the ICU’s at our local hospitals.  It is a serious matter, but fear is powerful and can be seen as a disease in itself.  With homeopathic options, the flu is not so fearful.

Anas barbae is a remedy made from the liver of a duck.  Ducks carry every flu virus we have ever had in their liver.   Boiron, a French homeopathic company, markets this remedy as ‘Oscillolcoccinum’(ah-sil-al seye-num).  The main indication for the remedy is a sore throat and feeling of oncoming sickness.  It is most effective in the first 24-48 hours.  I have seen, over and over, the effectiveness of this remedy if it is taken at the first sign of flu symptoms.  Most often people complain that they feel they are getting sick and have a sore throat.  After one dose of this remedy and a good night’s sleep, they are fine the next day.  Everyone should have this remedy on hand during flu season.  It is a high potency remedy, so one dose is usually all that is needed.

Some homeopaths recommend taking the remedy ‘Influenzium’, a homeopathic remedy made from the most common seasonal flu viruses, once a month during the flu season to prevent the flu.  This is kind of like a homeopathic flu vaccination.  There have been no ill effects reported about using this method.

But this does nothing to increase overall vitality.  As a Classical Homeopath, I do not recommend this method because it does not follow the original laws set forth by Samuel Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, specifically ‘like cures like’, the law of similars.  Because the body has not yet been exposed or has any symptoms, the homeopathic remedy is not ‘similar’ to the state of the patient.  There is no harm to the method.  But taking into account that the reason we have gotten ourselves into this hysteria over the flu is because our whole culture is so immune compromised, I ethically have to recommend other options.

When you have been exposed to the flu or you start coming down with symptoms, then the remedy is acting on the law of similars.  Whenever you take an indicated homeopathic remedy, meaning it fit’s the picture of your symptoms, you are raising your vitality.  A homeopathic remedy taken without symptoms does not have this benefit.  Because my overall goal as a homeopath is to raise my patients’ level of health, I have to recommend only taking remedies when symptoms call for them.

On the other hand, ‘Influenzium’ once a month during flu season might be a great option for the elderly, pregnant women, and others with severely lowered immunity.  Also if someone is very scared of getting the flu, then there is a symptom:  ‘fear of the flu’.  In this case, ‘Influenzium’ as a prophylactic might be a great choice.

To use homeopathy for flu or cold symptoms, find the best remedy by matching symptoms.

Administering a remedy:  take one to two doses, 15 minutes to three hours apart, depending on severity of symptoms, and wait for improvement or change.  If there is no movement or change, move on to a different remedy.  If a new symptom picture appears, find a new remedy based on similar symptoms.

There are many  homeopathic remedies for the flu.  If there are complications from the flu, please seek medical or professional homeopathic care.

Common Flu Remedies:

1st Stage Remedies:
Oscillolcoccinum (Anas barbae) - main remedy to try to prevent the flu after exposure, or on first symptoms.  Most effective in first 24-48 hours.  Main symptoms indication is ‘sore throat’.  It will also be effective in colds that look like the flu and start with a sore throat.

Aconite - sudden onset of fever or illness with great anxiety and fear.  Feels like they will die, better fresh air, worse warm room, evening or night, useful in any situation of intense fear or fright

Belladonna - sudden onset of high fever, common remedy for children with high fever, red face, and dilated pupils, dry mucus membranes and burning heat, skin hot to touch, better warm room, worse noise, light, movement

Ferrum Phosphoricum - symptoms come on slow, general feeling like the body is coming down with something, but there are no actual symptoms yet, or for oncoming fever without other symptoms.

2nd Stage Remedies:
Gelsemium - main flu remedy, genius epidemicus for 1918 flu, slower onset fever, chills, body aches, feels as if run over by a truck, great fatigue, heaviness, aching muscles, not thirsty

Arsenicum album - Indian homeopaths calling this remedy genus epidemicus for swine flu, extremely restless, oversensitive, anxious and weak, fear of death, chilly, does not want to be alone, burning pains, thirsty, but only for sips at a time.

Baptisia - looks drowsy and drunk, flu with high fever and feeling of being bruised all over, flu comes on suddenly, worse excitement, noise, touch, movement

Eupatorium perfoliatum - flu with extreme body pains, the bones feel broken, deep pain in the bones, bursting headache with sore eyes, thirsty for ice cold water, chills running up and down the back

Bryonia - slow onset, infrequent thirst for large quantities, throbbing headache, body pains, worse from any motion, pains better pressure, business worries

Rhus toxicodendron - extreme restlessness, cannot find a comfortable position, wants to move all the time, aching and stiffness in joints, intense fever

Ipecacuanha - coughs lead to vomiting, dry spasmodic cough with choking or gagging feeling, also indicated for nausea not relieved by vomiting

Complications from the flu:
(pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus infections, ear infections)
Seek medical or professional homeopathic advice

 

The Cancer Miasm

Posted in The Cancer Miasm on 09/20/2009 04:39 pm by admin

A ‘miasm’, or taint, in homeopathy is a hereditary predisposition to disease.  Many people, especially if there is a family history of cancer, identify with the cancer miasm.

Often they are active care-givers.  They usually put other people’s needs in front of their own.  They are sympathetic to people and animals.  This gives them a strong sense of duty.  And with that also comes undeserved feelings of guilt.  There can also be great anxiety about others.

Often this can manifest in perfectionism.  Growing up in a demanding environment can lead to feelings that what they do is never good enough.  They try to be perfect in everything.  This can lead to an accompanying sensitivity to criticism.  Constant striving to ’do it right’ leaves them vulnerable to the opinions of others.  Children with this miasm simply fall apart if they are reprimanded.  They become restless and can have destructive outbursts.

Sometimes the idea that the person with the cancer miasm is judged and oppressed lives only in the mind.  Often the big duty and expectations they feel are put on themselves only by themselves.  It is imagined that others expect them to be perfect and be responsible and take care of everything.

The cancer miasm seeks to be in control, to not let anything go wrong; to keep everyone from harm.  Preventing catastrophe.   But all of the planning in the world cannot stop the ’big plan’, whatever that may be.

At the core, the feeling is– ‘I need to be bigger than what I am.  It is up to me.  I have a big responsibility to make everything ok.’  But if this were really true, it would almost be like trying to take over the work of God, Spirit, Energy, Creation (whatever you want to call it).  Cancer seems to represent a lapse in faith.  As well as a belief that we must take faith’s place.

It is really kind of egotistical of us humans to think it is really all up to us.  But what we need to hear is, ‘relax, it is not all up to you, it is not your fault, you can let your guard down, the world will not fall apart if you relax and go off duty’

Which further begs the question–what is our true duty?  It is noble to live a life for others and may feel like our calling.  But in actuality, nothing can be done to benefit other humans or the planet without first listening to our own truth.

Living our own truth.   Relaxing into ourselves.  It is then that we are most effective–when we are following our own guide.  Your duty, then, is ultimately to you.  If you take care of that first, everything else will come along effortlessly.

 

Understanding Cancer

Posted in Understanding Cancer on 09/20/2009 04:23 pm by admin

Cancer is made up of  ‘cells that do not stay within normal controls’.  These cells are delinquent in that they do not follow the regular rules.  We all have at least a small amount of these errant cells.  The question is, why would they have an opportunity to proliferate?

Normal human body cells collaborate with neighboring cells to make sure that body tissues become the right size and shape for the body’s needs.  Decades before a cancer tumor is formed or detected, one rogue cell starts to reproduce abnormally.  This is a result of an accumulation of mutations in a certain class of genes within the cell.

Cancer cells do not respond to controls for size and growth. They also have an ability which normal cells do not possess, to migrate from their site of origin to form masses of similar cells in other parts of the body.  This is called metastasis.  For a cell to be successful at migrating, they must detach from their host tissue or organ and enter a blood or lymphatic vessel.  Then they must travel to distant sites and develop a new colony.

There are many controls that these cells must overcome to attain metastasis.  Normal cells have cell-to-cell adhesive molecules that keep them in place.  Cancer cells seem to be missing or have damaged adhesion cells.  Normal cells will quickly die off if they are not held in an insoluble mesh work of protein that fills the space between the cells.  Somehow cancers cells are ‘anchorage independent’, which means they can survive without being connected to this matrix.  The first place that blood goes from a certain organ is to the lungs.  The lungs are therefore the most common site of metastasis and lung cancer has become the greatest killer.

As these cells grow, they become more and more aggressive, with an unwavering determination to disrupt normal body function. Early growth of cancer cells goes largely undetected.  The condition is evident only when the area grows big enough to cause symptoms.  This is a key behavior of cancer:  To grow bigger in order to be seen.

It is as if these cells had been offended in some way and are determined to express their frustration by becoming independent and rebellious.  They don’t heed growth controls and refuse to be held down by the necessary nurturing of the extra-cellular matrix.  They are reckless, and push to grow in all directions, traveling unseen to distant regions to invade and occupy.  They are the rebel resistance, who against all odds survive and flourish.

The way cancer cells push in all directions to increase their space represents our own quest for self-expression. The cells behave like the soul wishes it could.  Cancer cells overcome all obstacles to self-expression.   They are wild, and will not conform to any of the levels of control that the body provides to keep them in check.  Cancer can be seen as an inward manifestation of outwardly unexpressed soul desires.  If a person is unable to actualize their truth and their dreams, unable to stand up for themselves, to live a life for themselves, the cancer cells take over the task.

Sometimes the suppression of individuality can come from an oppressive life.  Often there is a history of a lot of demands and responsibility on a person.  Perhaps it is a family situation in which healthy expression is discouraged.  In each situation, there are outward controls on who a person can be and what they can do.  Cancer represents living a life according to others.  Personal desires and longings move inward.  A cancer tumor is un-lived energy.

To some extent, we have all hidden who we are, and have put those dreams and drive on hold because someone said to.  We have allowed someone else to dictate what it is we should be.  Our authentic self lies dormant and hidden.  Cancer represents the tension that comes from living someone else’s truth. Cancer is yourself unexpressed.

Healing cancer means becoming sensitive to our own individual needs, priorities and pleasures.  We need to give our self permission to respect and give expression to our own true nature.  We all have something to say about ourselves in how we live our lives. We must live our own truth, giving permission for our powerful immune systems to put the ‘control’ back on our cells and bring us back to a healthy balance.

 

The War on Cancer: Conventional Treatment

Posted in War on Cancer: Conventional Treatment on 09/20/2009 12:47 pm by admin

Cancer cells represent the condition of cancer.   But does removing them improve health?  Really, the manifestation of cancer cells is a result of a long process.  Cancer cells are a symptom of a deeper disturbance, but not the cause.  Removing them does not fight cancer.

But conventional medicine insists on lumping the symptom and the cause and a war is waged against the body with cancer.  And  it is battle with full artillery.

A patient with a malignant tumor is often rushed into surgery.  Conventional medicine sees the spread of cancer as only a matter of time.  They seek to quickly rid the body of these ‘bad guy’ cells.  But surgery is dangerous for the body, does not get rid of the cause of the condition, and is in fact suppressive.  Samuel Hahnemann in his Organon of Medicine paragraph 202 states:

“If the physician of the old school destroys the local symptom by some external means, thinking thereby to heal the entire disease, nature compensates for this by awakening the internal malady….it increases the internal disease.”

In no area is this ‘war’ against cancer cells more evident than in radiation and chemotherapy.  Radiation treatment is given to localized cells near the tumor.  Treatment is from three to six weeks and causes malaise, fatigue, nausea, anorexia and vomiting.  These effects indicate the poor state of the immune system after this treatment.  It damages both normal and malignant cells.

Chemotherapy uses toxic chemicals to fight cancer cells.  It was originally derived from mustard gas which is used for chemical warfare.  Let the battle begin.  Chemotherapy is used routinely in about 50% of people with cancer although it has been found that it is only of use in about 5% of cases.  As quoted by Dr. Stephen Gascoigne.  He explains further:

“Chemotherapy cannot possibly kill all cancer cells since it kills normal cells at the same time.  To kill all cancer cells by such a method would require the death of all cells.  Hence it is left to the immune system to remove any remaining cancerous cells.  Unfortunately, the immune system is particularly damaged by chemotherapy and so less likely to be able to help.”

Because it is toxic to normal and malignant cells alike, chemotherapy causes excessive systemic damage such as mouth ulcers, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and hair loss.  The blood is affected, causing anaemia.  There can also be psychological and intellectual impairment and reduced fertility.

Chemotherapy is carcinogenic, or cancer causing.  Someday I hope we will look back on this damaging, caustic therapy in the way that today we look back with bewilderment at the treatments like blood-letting of past doctors.  ‘Remember when they used to poison people to try to heal them?  That was crazy!’

Cancer patients are lured by fear into these disastrous treatments.  It seems a metaphor for our world situation, and how our country has chosen to deal with terrorists.  The fear has been heightened and used as a tool to allow our government to commit heinous acts of violence, not to mention violate our constitution.  The terrorists will blow themselves up for their beliefs.  They do not fit in to the norm and are delinquent, just like cancer cells.  There is no controlling them.  Our solution is continued violent aggression in attempt to control them.  But what we have created a disastrous situation that has become a breeding ground for more terrorism.  This is like the body found with cancer cells that has been put under anesthesia, cut up, radiated and poisoned.  It is now a breeding ground for disease, and most likely more cancer cells.

Conventional medicine does not see any other possibilities in removing these cells except by all out war.  Once malignant cells are present, it is believed that they can only be healed by removing them surgically or killing them with radiation or poison.  A person who has gotten rid of cancer cells through surgery, radiation and chemotherapy is said to be ‘cured’ through the eyes of conventional medicine.  But in Hahnemann’s words, “a single symptom is no more the whole disease than a single foot a whole man” (Organon #7 p. 13).

Often the cancer returns later in the same location.  We have been led to believe that this is just the nature of the disease that is cancer.  In reality, it is the treatments that are suppressive and do not truly cure because they make no attempt to remove the original cause of disease.  They have in no way addressed the person’s susceptibility to the cancer: The reason that they got cancer in the first place.

Going in to bomb and attack the terrorists has back-fired and created an unhealthy situation for all in the area, much like the state of a body after chemotherapy and radiation.  How would the situation be different if, instead of meeting violence with violence, we focused on creating a healthy environment where the positive could thrive?  What if, after the terrorist attacks, instead of war and strife, we went into the area to truly rebuild, to offer basic services like clean water, education, electricity and safe streets?  The people would have lost their tolerance for terrorism.  A healthy society would have an opportunity to grow.

The diagnosis of cancer can be an opportunity for health; a wake up call for the body and mind.  Imagine how disempowered the people of war torn areas must feel.  They have no control over events and can’t even safely run their lives, much less organize and plan a healthy society.  Healthy cells in the cancer patient must also feel this way.  They are under attack, just when they are so sorely needed to be doing their best to preserve health.

It seems to be a common mis-conception that cancer cannnot be fought by our immune system.  But in truth, we all have some cancer cells all the time, but our body keeps them in check.  With the right messages, like an appropriate homeopathic remedy, the body can have a quick turn-around.   The quick-growing cancer is now quickly shrinking.

Holistic treatment for cancer puts the immune system first, allowing it to flourish and grow.  Empowered cells support health in the way that only they know best.  And that is a formidable enemy for cancer: An empowered, healthy, and supported immune system.

 

Holistic Treatment of Cancer with Homeopathy

Posted in Holistic Treatment of Cancer with Homeopathy on 09/20/2009 11:59 am by admin

Cancer is one of the biggest killers.  Often cancer shows little symptoms until the condition is an imminent threat.

A person diagnosed with cancer feels fear and disempowerment.  “How could this happen to me?”
But cancer is not an attack from outside, it is a development within.

The first thing that holistic treatment needs to address is beliefs:  “It is not happening to me it is happening within me.”  This concept puts the control back into the hands of the patient.  “I am an empowered individual given this opportunity to walk a path to health.”  It is important for the patient to understand how cancer versus normal cells operate and what we know about some of the causes of cancer.  Information is power and empowerment is key.

Because stress is a leading cause of the development of cancer.  An attempt must be made to remove all stress from the life of a cancer patient.  Stress has been shown as a large factor in the reckless growth of cancer cells.  But what is more stressful than learning that you have cancer?

The next step in holistic treatment is learning relaxation and visualization techniques.  A cancer patient must come to understand the power of thought and emotions in creating the reality of health and disease.  Because of the overwhelming fear that comes with diagnosis, the mind has a lot of negativity to overcome.  With relaxation and meditation techniques, the thoughts and feelings, “I am sick, I am going to die” can change to: “I am empowered, I have a strong immune system, I am healing, I will survive.”  This patient has a much better chance of returning to health.  We create our own reality and one should never underestimate the power of the mind.

First empower the person, then to the immune system.  Cancer cells, or any diseased area in the body can be seen as ‘stagnant‘, blocked energy, like an eddy in a river where the water does not flow.  Homeopathy and other holistic treatments like Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine seek to return the flow of energy to these places.  This is the empowered immune system allowed to do it’s work.

It seems to be a common mis-conception that cancer cannot be fought by our immune system.  But in truth, we all have some cancer cells all the time, but our body keeps them in check.  With the right messages, like an appropriate homeopathic remedy, the body can have a quick turn-around.   The quick-growing cancer is now quickly shrinking.

Homeopathy seeks to remove the hereditary or miasmatic taints that caused the person to become susceptible to cancer in the first place.  In this light, homeopathy is essential to any holistic cancer treatment plan.  Nutrition is also important to give the body the best building blocks to work with.  Counseling can also help the empowered individual face the emotional changes along the path to health.  A live-in treatment facility/spa offering these treatment options in a relaxed environment with warm, organic meals would be a great way to obtain positive results.

A cancer patient who chooses to treat themselves holistically and recovers, will be much healthier than before they began.  By addressing the true needs of the body, mind and spirit with homeopathy, true cure could be on the horizon.  ‘Cure’ in homeopathy is not just the removal of cancer, but the removal of deep underlying causes, predispositions which cause susceptibility to disease.

Samuel Hahnemann defines health as such: “In the state of health the spirit-like vital force (dynamis) animating the material human organism reigns in supreme sovereignty.  It maintains the sensations and activities of all the parts of the living organism in a harmony that obliges wonderment.  The reasoning spirit who inhabits the organism can thus freely use this healthy living instrument to reach the lofty goal of human existence” (Organon #9 p. 14).  In other words, with a state of true health the soul and spirit of a person are free to seek a fulfilling life.  A lofty goal of which we are all on the path.

 

Symptoms as a Message in Classical Homeopathy

Posted in Finding a Healing Path on 08/04/2009 12:39 pm by admin

We have come to see the symptoms of our body and mind as troublesome issues that we would like to go away. Conventional medicine will offer you a pill or medicine to make the symptoms go away.  I have a headache, I am going to take some aspririn.  Classical Homeopathy sees it differenty.  If we stop ourselves for a moment and ask, why do I have these symptoms, why do I feel this way, we begin to see that they are there for a reason.  Our symptoms are telling us something about ourselves.  They are telling us about what is going on in our body.  They are the messages of the vital force, or energy, of the body.  For a homeopath, these symptoms are like a road map to the core of a person, telling them what is needed to heal.  It is much easier to ignore our symptoms as much as possible, to take a  ‘pill’ and make them go away.  But often this ‘pill’ only serves to mask the symptoms from our consciousness, doing nothing towards the actual healing of the condition.  What’s more, it allows us to forget that there is a problem in the first place, until it pops up again.  This time the aspririn or the extra strength pain medication won’t touch the pain.  Inevitably this is in a more extreme version than initially.  But this is the body is simply asking to be heard, to be listened to, but the reaction after suppressive drugs can be violent.  ‘Can you hear me now?’ it says.  ‘I am trying to tell you something!’  For a homeopath, these symptoms are seen as a blessing, a direct route to the truth of the inner disturbance–a road map to the correct remedy that will stimulate deep healing, leading us to forget about the problem because it has been cured, not because it has just been hidden.  For the individual, it is healing in itself to just sit down and talk with a homeopath about the symptoms.  It is giving the messages of the body a voice, allowing them to be heard.  It is paying attention to the inner most parts of the self.  Often, simply making an appointment with a homeopath, who you know will really listen to you and your body, can start the healing process.  It is empowering to listen to the messages.  It is taking your health into your own hands, not handing it over to the conventional system to take care of.  The individual seeking homeopathic care is saying:  ‘I am listening.  I hear your plea.  The symptoms of you, my body, show me the inherent power of potential self healing that we have.’

 

A Fork in the Road, Finding Your Way to Classical Homeopathy

Posted in A Fork in the Road on 05/26/2009 04:23 pm by admin

pathWhat inspires a person to embark on a healing path with Classical Homeopathy?  It may be a specific event.  Sometimes tragedy must play a role and it is through a life changing event that we awaken to ourselves.  We are drawn to take a fork in the road, one that perhaps was there, but we never saw.

Sometimes it is long standing, chronic, physical pain that grows gradually until life must be re-evaluated.  The dead-end feel of available modern treatments may lead a person to decide that ‘there must be another way’.

Maybe it is not tragedy or pain that sets a healing course, but an experience of inspiration.  To see and interract with a person who has been set free of the chains of chronic disease can be a powerful thing.  This person is doing exactly what it is they are meant to be doing in this life.  They have a spark of creativity and an enjoyment of life that is contagious!  It is truly inspiring and leads a person to think,  ‘I also, would like to be free to pursue my dreams.’  And the question that inevitably follows….’what is standing in my way?’

We humans have a tendency to see the obstacles in our lives as imposed by outside forces, when it is usually our own self that is  in the way.  A healing path is about flirting with the idea, that if we  perhaps have a role in our own suffering, don’t we also have the power to heal ourselves?  It is not guilt or blame, but more about taking back our own power to heal.  ‘I will take the process into my own hands. Asking the doctor, or anyone else to heal me has only left me feeling powerless to heal myself.’

Whatever has brought a person to begin to embark down that fork in the road, there are many powerful tools available to facilitate healing. You have stumbled upon one right now.  It is Classical Homeopathy:  A way to take back your power of self-healing.

Conventional medicine seeks only to treat the outward symptoms of disease. This view of medicine sees the body as existing in separate, non-related parts. But in health as well as in sickness, our whole body is connected. Treating each symptom as a separate issue is working against nature and only results in creating more problems.

Modern treatments do not remove symptoms, but only ‘hide’ them while actually suppressing, or pushing them deeper into the body. These symptoms often return to a different or more dangerous location. This suppression only serves to lower the overall level of health. More serious conditions can appear as an effect of the treatment. Also, conventional prescriptions often produce dangerous side effects. The conventional answer to this is to prescribe more medications, adding to the negative overall effect on the patient’s health.

Homeopathy, on the other hand, seeks to meet the whole being to stimulate the vital force and immune system to heal from the inside out. Thus, the whole person, mind, body and spirit is brought to a greater level of health through the use of homeopathy.

For more information about homeopathy and my practice, please visit my website:  www.freedomhomeopathy.com