Elaine Lewis

I Love Homeopathy!  (It’s Only Natural!)

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When I tell people I’m a homeopath, they immediately confuse me with herbalists and vitamin enthusiasts.  That’s just not what homeopathy is at all!

Homeopathy was invented some 200 years ago by a German physician named Samuel Hahnamann.

It was always known that “likes cure likes” (which is what the word homeopathy means); it was always known that sometimes a person “needed a taste of his own medicine” or “a hair of the dog that bit him”, but it took Hahnemann to put this concept into an actual science with actual medicines (that we refer to as homeopathic remedies; or, just simply ”remedies”).

So, why should you bother with this strange healing modality?  For one thing, these remedies actually work–fast; and without the harmful side effects of drugs, and isn’t that what you want when you take a medicine?

People usually find out about homeopathy quite by accident.  They simply go to the health food store looking for something for their sore throat and there they see a little homeopathic dropper bottle labeled “Sore Throat”.

They buy it expecting nothing, just hoping against hope, and are often astonished by the surprising result!  As a matter of fact, a friend of mine came over the other day, having never taken a homeopathic remedy in his life, and said he had an issue with entirely too much sweating!  I asked him a few questions and, checking my books, the remedy that came up for him was Nux vomica.

I gave him a dropper dose of Nux vomica 30C.  I saw him a few days later.  He said, “I want some more Nux vomica!”  I said, “If you’re well, you can’t have any!”  “But that stuff really works!” he said.  “You shouldn’t take medicine when you’re not sick,” I told him; but he kept insisting!  This is how people respond to homeopathy–with enthusiasm; because, after all, this is what they expect from a medicine, results; namely, they expect to get better! 

Homeopathy works for a simple reason:  Likes are cured by likes!  They are not cured by contraries/opposites, even though that would seem to make sense, and heaven knows it’s what all of standard medicine is based on,  but you really have to think this through, beyond superficiality!  The human body is a self-adjusting organism, it compensates and adjusts to every stimulus impressed upon it; so, if you burn your tongue with hot mustard–and who among us hasn’t– the ice water you pour in your mouth for relief “works” only so long as it’s there; but, when it’s gone, the burning gets worse, forcing you into action with more ice water; and then what happens?  More palliation in the beginning, followed by another aggravation when the water is swallowed.  Why does this keep happening?  Why doesn’t the “opposite” impression of ice water cure the case permanently?  Because the body adjusts to the impression of coldness by heating up, which is exactly what you do not want because that area is already burnt!  The human body is not a stone, it does not accept stimuli passively, it adjusts to all impressions!

This example is a metaphor for what happens with ALL pharmaceutical DRUGS, the body pushes back against them because they all come in as opposing forces!  They palliate in the beginning and aggravate as they wear off.  “Doctor, my sleeping pill doesn’t work anymore and my insomnia is now worse than ever!”  “I’ll just write you a prescription for a higher potency of that sleeping pill!”  “Why, thank you, doctor, this is going to help me soooo much!”  Famous last words!  Remember Michael Jackson?  So dependent on sleeping pills that eventually he needed anesthesia to get to sleep at night; imagine that!  And, predictably, he’s dead now! 

This is the story of all commercial drugs because they are founded on a presumed law of contraries/opposites which does not really exist.  We are not made of stone, we adjust to all impressions. This is why “modern medicine” can scarcely cure any disease, the complaints just keep coming back, again and again, worse each time, just like the hot mustard burn treated with endless amounts of ice water, briefly palliating, never curing!

Now, here is an additional mistake standard medicine makes, in addition to coming in with a drug based on contraries:  Drug therapy is symptom-oriented only. So, what’s wrong with that, we all hate symptoms, right?  What are symptoms? Symptoms are only signs that an underlying problem exists and the body is working frantically, sometimes feverishly, to re-establish homeostasis, which is to say, the body is trying to set itself right by discharging or heating up or inflaming, as the case may be; and, often the symptom itself is the actual cure to whatever is ailing the person; an example being when diarrhea is not only a sign that bad food has been eaten, but also the cure at the same time!  But here comes orthodox medicine with its “treatment”, it’s “opposite” drug, that paralyzes the intestines, and then you’re supposed to be grateful and say, “Look!  the diarrhea is gone!”  Well, yes, but, now that bad food with possibly salmonella bacteria is just sitting there, just sitting there!  Judge Judy would damn you with her signature line, “Not very smart!”

Homeopathy does not view symptoms as some sort of mistake the body is foolishly making!  When a homeopath looks at a case, like a bone fracture, let’s say; he or she thinks, “Hmm…..the body has initiated a type of a pain that is forcing the person to hold perfectly still; now, what remedy would cause that type of a pain in overdose?  Oh, I know… Bryonia!”

The Bryonia patient holds perfectly still in pain, trying hard not to even breathe!  A dose of Bryonia is given and the pain goes away, why?  Because Bryonia is similar to that symptom, not against it, not opposite to it!  Here’s an experiment, try this, try sympathizing with your opponent the next time there’s an argument, with words like, “I understand what you’re trying to say….” and watch the disagreement melt away!  Your opponent will lose steam and not be motivated to continue.  This is a natural law, the law of similars, and it works across the board:  in medicine, at work and at home.

Now, to go back to the original example, if you burn your tongue on hot mustard, and knowing that the body compensates and adjusts to all external impressions, what’s going to happen if instead of applying cold, you give a remedy that in overdose causes the body to heat up?  The body will adjust to this impression of “heat” by cooling down, and this was what you wanted, right?  This is the principle that homeopathic remedies work under.  It makes more sense, doesn’t it?

Now, do you want to know what I, personally, would do?  I would make a remedy out of the hot mustard!  That would be very specific for a hot mustard burn, the perfect remedy! 

“What something can cause, it can cure in small doses.” 

This is a basic principle of healing!  So, you should know how to do that, how to make a remedy in an emergency!  Read my article (top, right) called “How To Make Your Own Remedy”.  There’s nothing hard about it, and knowing how to make a remedy out of something that’s harmed you may be a real life-saver some day.

Homeopathy really works!

For more information, see my articles in the sidebar (and many thanks to Alan Schmukler for allowing me to use his cartoon, “Last Homeopath for 500 Miles”).