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A brief explanation of homoeopathy
Homoeopathy has been used for 200 years in most countries around the world. It is used extensively by doctors, as well as practitioners of natural medicine. It is unfortunate that in Australia the local medical community has resisted its widespread use, although this...
Starvation as a clinical condition
Starvation is normally associated with undernutrition in third world countries or economically deprived conditions. However, there are many situations in the more affluent world which are essentially starvation conditions. The most obvious starvation situations are...
Homeopathics and Nosebleeds
A 10 year old boy is brought to me by his mother with chronic nose bleeds. I ask some pertinent questions…Does he pick his nose? Is he being bullied at school? I also want to check his Bioflavanoid intake to see if there is Vitamin C deficiency. On examination, I...
Beautiful Skin & Complexion with Homeopathy
A healthy life produces a healthy skin and an unhealthy life produces an unhealthy skin, and no tricks of manufacturers and shop keepers will help to improve matters. There are of course medicines which are helpful in improving the condition of the skin and...
Homeopathy’s First Aid Remedies
Homeopathic First Aid Remedies are for Acute Cases. Intense acute conditions need to be monitored frequently, with a review every 15 minutes to half hour. There should be a big turn around within 5 doses; if there is no change at all, it’s the wrong remedy. For mild...
Cocculus Indicus’ and Jet Lag
A tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds, which contain a crystallisable principle Picrotoxine, a powerful poison. The homeopathic form is curative for the affections from loss of sleep, and seasickness. Cocculus has been used from ancient times as a poison for...
Caulophyllum
Caulophyllum Thalictroides is a Homeopathic remedy used for the stages of labour in childbirth. When the mother is too exhausted to push, or the contractions are too weak, Caulophyllum is most helpful. Another common name for Caulophyllum is Blue Cohosh. A tincture is...
Homeopathic Carcinosinum
The homeopathic remedy Carcinosinum, also called Carcinosin, is made from breast cancer tissue. It is a homeopathic nosode and shows a picture of cancer miasm – said to be an equal proportion of the 3 miasms mixed……the stubbornness of Sycosis, weakness of Psora, and...
Homeopathy Treats the Whole Person!
This is often misinterpreted to mean everything about the person including ‘Personality’ type, aversions and cravings, weather, time, modalities of the ‘person’ even when well. What we are really looking for are the deviations of these, the striking opposite or the...
Homeopathy Posology
The key to homeopathic potency selection boils down to finding the susceptibility of our patient. What factors determine the susceptibility? Susceptibility depends on the following factors: Nature of the Constitution – Age; children or older, Physical Constitution and...
Homeopathic Opium
Traditionally, all homeopathic discussions of Opium begin with warnings against its allopathic use because it masks the true homeopathic symptoms of the case. Hahnemann points out that Opium in its provings was the only remedy which did not produce a single painful...
Colours in Homoeopathy
How do we use the colour preference in Homeopathy? We treat it like any other general symptom or modality and integrate it in the regular Homeopathic process: A general modality covers and influences the whole case and so does the colour preference. So we use it like...
Apis 30c
A Client came in with her 4 year old son who presented with a tick on his thyroid gland that was red, swollen and sligthly warm to touch. Naturally the mother was concerned about the swollen gland obstructing his breathing pathway and so enlisted the help of her...
Homeopathic Ledum for Tetanus
A tincture of the fresh herb Ledum Palustre is used to make Ledum. Remembering homeopathy works on the law of similars – i.e. like cures like, Ledum’s general actions are gouty pains in the joints of feet and hands, shifting from place to place and also involving...
Homeopathic Lycopodium
Lycopodium is one of the most fundamental remedies and is classed with Sulphur and Calcarea as part of the triad (Lyc – Sulph – Calc). The word used to describe the essence of Lycopodium is “Cowardice”. The patient often has marked feelings of inferiority which he...
The Promise of Homoeopathy
Homeopathy is a holistic system of medicine which uses micro-doses of substances that come from all kingdoms of nature; biological, botanical and minerals, to stimulate our bodies own response to overcome illness. It works on the principle that “Like cures Like” or...
Homeopathy for autism
Autism is often referred to as a genetic disease, but a genetic disease cannot increase within one generation as rapidly as autism has. Based on my understanding of the development of autism, it is of great importance to avoid medication during pregnancy and in the...
