Simplifying In Homeopathic Treatment
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
by Marilyn Freedman
The more medicine you are prescribed the better it must be. The more treatments you get the better you feel. Right? Well, it seems, from the people who attend here, that this is not the case.
With so many symptoms that are classified into “disease”, all the pharmaceuticals to treat these “diseases”, so many supplements and herbals on the market, as well as the multitude of alternative hands-on treatments, how do you make heads, or tales, out of what to take, what to do?
People come to this office with a bag of doctor prescribed medicines, supplements, mostly self prescribed, and a list of herbal teas that they are drinking, as part of their health regime. For one condition, let’s say, the inability to focus, two or three drugs may be prescribed. It is rare that anyone who has come here suffering from depression is on any less than two medications. In addition, they may have picked up some supplements or herbs to treat the same condition. Yet they come to this homeopath as the last resort because they still do not feel well, and all the stuff they are taking is not doing the trick.
”it’s far more important to know what person the disease has, than what disease the person has.” Hippocrates
Every substance that you take on a regular basis acts as medicine, including herbal teas. Supplements, herbs, and conventional medicines all work as ‘anti’, to suppress, the symptoms of dis-ease. So, rather than add more to this mix, we strip away, in order to see what the symptom picture really looks like. Part of the healing process is weaning off supplements, or herbs, as well as conventional medicine, sometimes before homeopathic treatment, sometimes during. (You should know that any adjustments to conventional medicine is done with the prescribing doctor.) The protocol is as individualized as you are. How important is this idea of less is more? Simplicity is clarity, the comprehensible, understandable, state of the illness, as well as the comprehensible , understandable, principles of healing, which homeopathy is based on.
In the first session, when told that the aim of this practice is to bring about a return to health, God willing, without a lifelong dependance on drugs, or supplements, people are relieved and/or skeptical. After all, this is the opposite of popular belief, just as homeopathic treatment is the opposite of popular medical treatment. In homeopathy the focus is on the details. You are treated with as little as possible to initiate a healing response. You are being treated as a ’whole’ person with symptoms of ‘dis-ease’. In other words: The sum is greater than the parts, and the parts together make up the whole. You are being treated to the very root cause of the symptomology, and not just the symptom picture. And, as an added perk, you get to participate in your own healing.
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