Prepare for summer holidays with natural. gentle and effective homeopathic remedies in your medical kits. These are my families, tried and true homeopathic’ s used with great results on our travels around the globe and when we are camping.
First, let me share that my passion for Homeopathy started 20 plus years ago when a family health crisis, that was not improving under conventional medicine was quickly and effectively addressed through homeopathy. In fact, the results were so dramatic, I left my successful career in finance in order to become a homeopath, studying and training with many of the top teachers of classical homeopathic medicine.
Also, feel comfortable to know that when you use homeopathy you will be joining the over 200 million people around the globe in more than 50 countries, who are using it. The World Health Organization recognizes homeopathy has the second most practiced alternative form of medicine worldwide.
Enjoy a healthy summer;
Travel Remedies:
Arnica montana: first remedy for bruises, blows and falls, shock from injury, head injuries and concussions.
Arsenicum album: diarrhea and/or vomiting from any food or water poisoning, fatigue.
Apis: bites that become red, swollen, sting, especially if bite feels hot and are worse from heat.
Nux Vomica: unwell from overeating and alcoholic drinks, constipation.
Rhus toxicodendron: injury from strains, stiffness on first motion and limbers up as you begin to move.
Camping, add these two additional remedies to your kit:
Cantharis: first remedy for burns.
Hypericum: smashed nails, injuries to ribs, any injuries that affect area rich in nerves.
Alessandra Morassutti, is a Registered Homeopath with the College of Homeopaths of Ontario. She holds regular presentation’s on Homeopathy and useful every day remedies. Her practice is in Toronto and she offers long distance consultations. She can be reached at 416-488-3714 or through her website: www.alessandra-homeopathy.com.
Homeopathy is lightyears ahead of traditional medicine in this on respect.
Here’s the brutal truth about a lot of the medication that we take: they came about because they were used on animals first.
What does this involve? It can be anything from injecting animals with potentially harmful substances; force feeding them; exposing them to radiation; surgically removing their organs or
tissues to scaring them to elevate blood pressure levels.
A large proportion of animal experiments in the EU are reported to cause ‘moderate’ or ‘severe suffering’ to the animals – according to the researchers who carry them out, reports Cruelty Free
International. In the UK in 2016, 35% of animal experiments involved moderate or severe suffering.
Anyone who is serious about not causing harm to animals will take a second look at how homeopathic remedies are created.
One thing is for sure, they don’t require and has never required unnecessary and cruel experimentation on animals.
How do we know that homeopathic remedies are safe if they were not first tested on animals?
The answer lies in the very foundation that homeopathy is founded on. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was translating a botanical materia medica by a Scottish physician, William Cullen, from English into German. He read how Cullen describe using Peruvian cinchona bark to treat malaria. Cinchona bark causes fever when ingested.
This information intrigued Hahnemann and eventually resulted in him formulating the core homeopathic principle: Like cures like. Also known as the Law of Similars, it holds that a substance
that causes certain symptoms in a healthy person may cure similar symptoms in a sick person, when delivered in minute doses.
The important points here are “healthy person” and “minute doses”.
Right at the outset, Hahnemann tested minute doses of different substances on himself and those close to him. The observation of the symptoms caused by these minute doses are called “provings”.
These symptoms with the ingredients that cause them are recorded in the homeopathic materia medica which acts as a reference guide to homeopathic medicines, their individual active ingredients
and the symptoms that they may address.
As you can see, there is no need to campaign for animal rights where homeopathy is concerned. The very basis of “finding” a remedy lies in testing it on humans in a safe, controlled manner. No one, neither animals nor humans need to suffer to ensure the safety of homeopathic remedies.
In fact, for many homeopathic patients, the fact that the remedies are not tested on animals in labs is one of the basic reasons why they support homeopathy as a medical alternative in the first place.
I didn’t become a homeopath because I had this irresistible inner calling to become a doctor. No, I became a homeopath because I had to find a way to help my daughter. Seeing her, a perfectly healthy eight-month-old baby, flailing around hopelessly after receiving a course of vaccinations, set me on a course of discovery that ended in me qualifying as a homeopath.
It happened when my eldest daughter, Jacqueline, was around eight months old. It was time for her third set of vaccinations. Everything went perfectly fine, she behaved like a real trooper, but after a short time, our world was turned upside down.
Within days Jacqueline suddenly developed spasms and tremors on the right side of her body. It was frightening to behold. And very upsetting.
We took her to the hospital and she was admitted overnight while tests were being done. An MRI scan showed that she had inflammation in the brain – likely caused by the vaccination. This was not outright confirmed by the doctor on duty, merely hinted at.
The doctor wanted to put Jacqueline on anti-epileptic drugs, but I decided to consult my pediatrician who was concerned that those drugs would be too strong for a baby. Besides, he felt that what she was experiencing, was not actual seizures.
It was at that point, beside myself with worry, that I started asking around about alternatives – something natural.
At that time my sister had been working with a homeopath and she suggested that I call him. I felt I had nothing to lose in following her suggestion, so I went to see him.
He prescribed some homeopathic remedies for Jacqueline and within 3 weeks she was 95% better.
Needless to say, we have never looked back. As a family, we started using homeopathic remedies for all our health issues.
I started studying homeopathy when Jacqueline was around four or five years old, which was after I had my own experience with an inflamed gland that was scheduled to be removed. I had it treated with homeopathic remedies and the gland remains with me to this day.
These experiences convinced me of the validity of homeopathy as a medical system and its advantages over traditional medicine in many cases.
Homeopathy is most often described as an alternative form of medicine, being an alternative to conventional medicine as practiced in the developed world.
But the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy (IACH) describes homeopathy as a therapeutic system. Homeopathy was created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. The system is based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.
The word ‘homeopathy’ is a combination the Greek words ‘omoios’, meaning ‘similar’, and ‘pathos’, meaning disease.
But how did Samuel Hahnemann arrive at his insight that the secret for the cure for a particular disease lies in the use of pharmaceutical substances that, when administered to a healthy person, will produce symptoms typical to the disease in question?
To answer this question, we must look at Hahnemann’s education. He was not only qualified as a medical doctor, he was also a polyglot – he was proficient in several languages including English, French, Italian, Greek and Latin. At various times in his life, he made a living as a translator and teacher of languages and eventually became proficient an Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and Hebrew as well.
It’s in his capacity as a translator of ancient medical texts that he came across some salient information that would determine his life’s work and gift the world the healing system of homeopathy.
While translating William Cullen’s A Treatise on the Materia Medica, Hahnemann encountered the claim that cinchona, the bark of a Peruvian tree, was effective in treating malaria because of its astringency. This discovery piqued his interest and he set about investigating it. He researched cinchona’s effect on the human body by taking it himself.
When the drug induced malaria-like symptoms in himself, he concluded that it would do so in any healthy individual.
And that was how he came to his healing principle of like cures like, in Latin: ‘simila similibus curentur’.
Conventional medicine and homeopathy have been at odds with each other since the beginning.
Practitioners of conventional medicine look for the cause of disease and fights that. Homeopathy, on the other hand, believes that the cure lies in strengthening the organism’s defense mechanism in order to be able to fight the imbalance.
Verifying the remedies
In order to verify the therapeutic validity the of the pharmaceutical substances to be used as remedies, Hahnemann carried out tests or “provings” of the remedies on healthy persons of both sexes by increasing the dosages, though not beyond the toxic levels.
In 1805 he published a collection of 27 drug “provings” in Latin.
Eventually he published a comprehensive list of ‘remedy symptoms’ which together with the toxicological symptoms of various substances, discovered from existing medical writings formed the ‘Materia Medica’ (medical material/substance).
The Materia Medica forms the backbone of the homeopathic pharmacology and acts like an encyclopedia of the therapeutic properties of each drug.
In 1810 Hahnemann published a complete account of his theories for the first time in his book Organon of the Art of Healing. The book contains 294 expressions of truth or aphorisms, which formed the framework for the laws of his medical system. The work was repeatedly revised by Hahnemann and published in six editions, the name changed from the second onwards to Organon of Medicine (Organon der Heilkunst).
His Materia Medica Pura, a compilation of “homoeopathic proving” appeared in six volumes between 1811 and 1827. The book contained the original tests “provings” Dr Hahnemann conducted on himself and his patients.
In 1828 he published Chronic Diseases in which he maintained that all chronic diseases are a result of the suppression of skin diseases or syphilis or gonorrhea. That is to say that if these three categories of diseases are treated wrongly, they remain within the organism in a suppressed state, in a changed form and finally they reappear as various kinds of chronic diseases.
On the basis of the law of similars and pharmacological provings on healthy individuals, Hahnemann developed a completely new medical system.
Sources:
https://www.vithoulkas.com/content/about-homeopathy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(S)#similia_similibus_curentur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann
https://heilkunst.com/biography.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Organon_of_the_Healing_Art