This is to take advantage of adjustments that could shorten the time for healing without forcing the healing too fast and causing an aggravation. The rate at which the patient heals following the initial remedy trial will give an indication of the total time needed to heal. When your healing is complete, your treatment reaches its conclusion and the remedy can be discontinued. At this time, it is a good idea to reassess the initial symptom picture from your questionnaire.
Reductions in the intensity of other symptoms beyond your skin complaint could indicate that this remedy can be useful to you in removing those symptoms as well. Also, should your skin complaints or those other symptoms return at any time in the future, it would then be appropriate to consult with your practitioner on taking the remedy again. The third potential response to a homeopathic remedy is aggravation.
In this case, the symptoms of your skin complaint will become worsened after taking the homeopathic remedy for some period of time. This may occur after the initial dose of the remedy and this indicates your sensitivity to the remedy is very high and the dose will need to be reduced. A homeopathic aggravation normally lasts only for a period of hours and then disappears. In this case, call the office for further instructions on how to reduce the dose.
An aggravation means you have the right remedy but need a lower dose. If you do not aggravate after the initial doses, but instead your symptoms improve and then at a later time the symptoms begin to worsen, this also means that the dose needs to be reduced.
Once the homeopath gathers all of your information, he or she will review your data looking for patterns. These patterns will guide the homeopath to a homeopathic remedy that has a similar symptom pattern.
The homeopath will likely go through a process of "repertorization," cross referencing all of your symptoms in books or computer data bases called Materia Medica, which list the various remedies and their characteristic symptoms. These symptoms are identified in "provings. Most homeopaths today use computers to help them match up the information they gather from you with the more than 5, known remedy pictures that exist, in an effort to make the best match.
Sometimes the homeopath will make an immediate recommendation and provide you with the remedy at the first visit. Other times, the homeopath needs to study the information and contact you later with a recommendation. There may be a number of possible remedies for any given situation. Depending upon your situation and strength, the remedy involved, and the homeopath's confidence in the remedy, the homeopath may recommend a one-time dose or a series of doses of a remedy.
He or she will then follow your response over days or weeks. If the homeopath recommends a daily LM liquid potency of the remedy, he or she will typically want to see you back in weeks to assess your response. LM's are diluted and stirred agitated more with each dose, so there is a progressive increase in the potency of the remedy with each dose. It is an iterative process: the homeopath will make his or her best recommendation of remedy and dose, but then may need to monitor your response and possibly change the remedy or the potency to optimize the treatment.
Your response must be assessed by the homeopath , because movement or change in symptom patterns are difficult to interpret, and what may initially appear to be a worsening of symptoms may indeed be a healing response, and an apparent improvement on one level e. Starting high school offers challenges for most students, but Molly's freshman year began with such troublesome health issues that her ability to attend school was in serious jeopardy.
While waiting for the bus, she would be overcome by a sense of dread and panic as she anticipated the possibility of severe abdominal pains which she experienced about three days a week , followed by an urgent need to get to a bathroom. Once these pains started, Molly would need to make at least four or five trips to the bathroom, spaced anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes apart, as she experienced vomiting followed by severe diarrhea.
With each bout, the pains would worsen. Molly had experienced digestive problems in one form or another since infancy, but they were intensifying, and conventional medical treatments weren't helping. She had run the gamut of specialists, testing, diets, and antibiotics.
If this occurs it generally lasts 24 — 48 hrs but can last longer. This is certainly not a desired or intended result, but in the event it occurs it often precedes long lasting resolution of symptoms.
If, however, there is prolonged discomfort seek advise from your homeopath. You can think of it like spring cleaning. We go through our lives taking immunosuppressive drugs, antibiotics and steroids for almost anything that ails us. Homeopathy views this as stifling the natural channels of expression that the body is attempting to rid itself of disease and is asking for support. A return of old symptoms can be aches from old injuries, surgeries, or even traumatic memories.
These emerge with less tenacity than a traditional aggravation and integrate us into wholeness with much more ease.
Overall, these responses are signs that the remedy is acting in a positive manner. Healing can take place a number of ways, from the emotional level to the physical, from the most vital organs to the least vital, but the easiest way to understand it is that our body simply wants to rest and heal.
What will often happen is that whatever symptom is taking up the most energy, causing the greatest limitation will be the first to improve.
Only take the remedy when your mouth is clean, free of tastes, odors or smoke. Additionally, do not touch the remedy with your fingers or hands. It is, however, advised that until progress with one therapy is established it is best not to add to begin other therapies as it creates confusion about what is actually working and can become difficult to evaluate the response to each therapy or homeopathic remedy. Does the person feel worse if they move or sit still? From an extensive picture of the person, a homeopath can then select a remedy which best matches the picture.
Of course, this is a very simplified explanation — the theory and philosophy of homeopathy is far more complex. But such extensive knowledge is not essential for people to use a selection of popular over-the-counter homeopathic medicines at home and for simple ailments. If you do experience complex, persistent or worrying symptoms then please seek the advice of a doctor who specialises in homeopathy.
The Greek physician Hippocrates first wrote of the medical practice of treating like with like in the 5th century, making him probably the first doctor to explore this approach to healthcare. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the principle similia similibus curantur, like cures like , was quoted by many physicians, including Paracelsus, often regarded as the father of holistic medicine.
Hahnemann was a doctor who, after qualifying in , became disenchanted with medicine as it was practised at that time. He was a powerful advocate for much that we now recognise as good common sense in healthy living — proper diet, regular exercise and improved social conditions. He was also very concerned about large doses of noxious substances being prescribed as medicines. In Hahnemann became interested in the work of eminent Edinburgh doctor, William Cullen , who had explained how Cinchona Bark extract could cure what was then known as ague — today recognised as malaria.
The bark had been used for centuries in South America for the treatment of malaria and was successfully introduced into Europe by missionaries. He took a dose of Cinchona Bark himself and carefully observed and noted the effect that it had on him, saying: "With this first trial broke upon me the dawn that has since brightened into the most brilliant day of medical art; that it is only in virtue of their power to make the healthy human being ill that medicines can cure morbid states.
Many of the substances used were in fact highly poisonous, so Hahnemann spent years trying to find the smallest possible dose which could still be effective. He found that the newly potentised substance not only cured without undesirable side effects, but was even more effective in treating the symptoms. This was the breakthrough that created homeopathic medicine as we now use it.
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