Sensible Homeopathy

The majority of homeopaths and consumers enjoy sensible homeopathy. Sensible homeopathy is the combining of carefully chosen, effective homeopathic treatments with conventional therapies.

Sensible homeopaths support the consumer/client when they choose vaccinations and other conventional medical interventions. In fact, homeopathy can help with the side effects of such medications and vaccines.

In spite of homeopathy having some very good outcomes during epidemic diseases, sensible homeopaths do not use homeopathic remedies preventatively especially when it is months or even years prior to a possible disease outbreak. Sensible homeopaths do not recommend stopping pharmaceutical medications except under the guidance of a medical doctor.

But sensible homeopaths and consumers are also aware of the fact that medical doctors and their recommended treatments are not infallible, and can lead in some cases to unwanted problems, even mortality. This awareness is also sensible and essential for fording the bridge of disease towards cure.

Having a sensible homeopath in your corner is a great choice for your health care. Ask your homeopath their views on working with conventional medical doctors and medicine before making your sensible choice.

 

 

 

Homeopathy Defined- Protect Your Right to Health Freedom

Homeopathy is an alternative method of medical treatment that uses minute doses of substances to cure illness. It also uses a consistent principle of cure. 

This blog is an attempt to make sure you have the right to many different kinds of therapy including alternative ones. Many are trying to make sure that you only use one type of medicine restricting your choices and options.  It is in response to attacks made on your freedom to choose health.

Remember, even if you don’t use homeopathy its still important for you. It gives everyone extra options and prevents only one type of medicine being practiced. Homeopaths are well intentioned individuals who have devoted their lives to curing illnesses in a deep and long lasting way. Support them and their struggle to maintain this viable alternative. 

Here is something from the UK Society of Homeopath’s Web Site:

What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone, young and old. Homeopathy focuses on you as an individual, concentrating on treating your specific physical and emotional symptoms, to give long lasting benefits.       The therapy is based on the theory of treating “like with like”. Homeopathic remedies are diluted natural substances that if given to a healthy person,

would produce the symptoms the medicine is prescribed for. In the assessment of you, the patient, homeopaths will take into account the range of physical, emotional and lifestyle factors in order to prescribe the right medicine(s).

Homeopathy is a complementary therapy
Homeopathy has been widely used throughout the world for more than 200 years. In 2000, the House of Lords’ Select Committee on Science & Technology cited homeopathy as one of the five Group One therapies, having “an individual diagnostic approach” along with osteopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine and acupuncture. (1)

Homeopathy can be safely used alongside most conventional medicines.

How long has Homeopathy been used?
Homeopathy has been used in the UK for over two hundred years, but has an honourable tradition dating back to ancient Greece. It was Samuel Hahnemann, a brilliant doctor working in 1796 who developed the scientific and philosophical foundations of this gentler way of healing. These scientific principles form the basis of successful homeopathic practice today.

Are homeopathic remedies safe?
Homeopathic remedies are a unique, potentised energy medicine, drawn from the plant, mineral and animal worlds. They are diluted to such a degree that not one molecule of the original substance can be detected (after the 12c potency).

They work by gently boosting the natural energy of the body, and are very safe, even for pregnant and sensitive patients. There is no danger of addiction or toxicity.(2)

How are the remedies discovered?
The clinical indications of our medicines are discovered in all of three ways:

• The toxicity symptoms (or poisoning picture, eg. vomiting and diarrhoea caused by arsenic)

• The ‘signature’ of the medicine, an ancient medical idea based on the ‘affinities’ of certain substances (eg. Deadly Nightshade, Atropa belladonna has large shiny black berries that resemble the dilated pupils of the eyes in high fever)

• The ‘proving’, in which the highly diluted substances are tested blind on a group of healthy volunteers who then record the symptoms they experience. Where there is agreement amongst provers, the symptoms are documented in a Repertory.

All this information is used to match the remedies with your symptoms.

How are the remedies made?
There are five regulated homeopathic pharmacies in the UK (see Find a Pharmacy). The raw extracts (from plants or animals) or triturations (from minerals and salts) are made into a ‘tincture’ with alcohol which forms the basis of the dilution procedure. Dilutions are made up to either 1 part tincture to 10 parts water (1x) or 1 part tincture to 100 parts water (1c). Repeated dilution results in the familiar 6x, 6c or 30c potencies that can be bought over the counter: the 30c represents an infinitessimal part of the original substance.

If they are so dilute, how can they work?
After each dilution the mixture is vigorously agitated in a machine that delivers a calibrated amount of shaking. This is called succussion. It is thought that this process imprints the healing energy of the medicinal substance throughout the body of water (the diluent) as if a message is passed on. The message contains the healing energy. Even in ultra-molecular dilutions, information specific to the original dissolved substance remains and can be detected. (3)

What can homeopathy treat?
Homeopathy has a wide application, from acute fevers, sore throats and toothache, to chronic illnesses such as arthritis, eczema, asthma, anxiety, mild depression and chronic fatigue syndrome. There has been some very good research evidence to support this (see Research section).

What happens when you see a homeopath?
Your homeopath understands that establishing good health involves treating both mind and body, so time is taken to listen to your emotional and physical symptoms. To stimulate your body’s own healing process, a remedy closest to your individual symptom picture is prescribed. Healing beings from within your body, strengthening your health and immune system, without any danger of damaging side effects. (2)

Where can I find a qualified homeopath?
The Society of Homeopaths produces a frequently updated register of professionally trained homeopaths, who work to the Society’s Code of Ethics & Practice. You can find one in your area by consulting the register available on this website (See Find a homeopath in your area). Enter your postcode to find homeopaths closest to you.

Or you can call 0845 450 6611 The Society of Homeopaths will send you a list of professional, registered homeopaths nearest to your home, and answer any of your questions.

Or you can put your request in writing to The Society of Homeopaths, 11 Brookfield, Duncan Close, Moulton Park, Northampton NN3 6WL.

References:
(1) House of Lords Select Committee on Science & Technology. ‘Complementary & Alternative Medicine.’ Session 1999-2000, 6th Report. The Stationery Office, 2000
(2) Dantas F, Rampes H. Do homeopathic medicines provoke adverse effects? A systematic review. Br Hom J 2000;89,p.35-8
(3) Belon P, Cumps J, Ennis M, et al. Histamine dilutions modulate basophil activation, Inflammation Research 2004: 53; 181-188

 

Ben Goldacre and His AIDS Theory

I for one, am glad that Ben Goldacre has come out with a new theory about the AIDS epidemic: “Homeopaths Cause AIDS!”.

I’m glad because his shrill rhetoric has gotten to the stage of hysteria such that pragmatic and good people will now see it for what it is: baaaad science cult hysteria.

Of course everyone knows what really caused the AIDS epidemic- the pharmaceutical industry!!!!

Check this horrific video of an interview with the former head of Research for Merck:

Click here to go to the goodscience.wordpress.com blog and see the discussion and a link to the video.

Of course, maybe, just maybe, a widdle biddy virus might be causing it. (I put this in the language that I think, but of course I can’t scientifically prove, that Ben Goldacre and his bad science cult members might understand).

The Positive Benefits of Homeopathy

This post is to extoll the wonderful benefits of homeopathy that my family, friends and myself have experienced.

Homeopathy works with the body’s own healing mechanism rather than simply suppressing symptoms.

Here is a description of Homeopathy from the Society of Homeopaths Website:

Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone, young and old. Homeopathy focuses on you as an individual, concentrating on treating your specific physical and emotional symptoms, to give long lasting benefits.

• Homeopathic treatment works with your body’s own healing powers to bring health and well being.
• Patients are treated as individuals, not as a collection of disease labels.
• Homeopathy treats all your symptoms – mental, emotional and physical.
• Homeopathic remedies are gentle, subtle and powerful.

Also this is an interesting quote from the National Center for Homeopathy’s web site:

Charles Frederick Menninger, MD (1862-1953)
Charles Frederick Menninger, MD was the original cofounder (with his son, Karl Menninger, MD) of the famed Menninger Clinic, the internationally respected mental health clinic, initially located in Topeka, Kansas. He was a homeopathic physician and the head of his local homeopathic medical society. He also authored numerous articles published in homeopathic medical journals. In one of these articles, he stated with vigor, “Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.” He goes on to assert, “it is imperative that we exhaust the homeopathic healing art before resorting to any other mode of treatment, if we wish to accomplish the greatest success possible.”

“Honey Beats Cough Syrup”

I know, I know I was a uneducated nitwit according to those advocating only science based medicine. I always gave my kids and myself honey for coughs instead of pharmceutically engineered cough syrups. And there was no scientific proof for this honey thing and it was just an old wive’s tale.

Well, look now there is scientific proof.

Link here to Guardian Article “Honey Beats Cough Syrup”

Well before I was a nitwit and now I’m a “scientist”. Well, how do you like that?

Homeopathy Professional Associations Respond to Lancet, Goldacre Bias

Professional Homeopathic Associations are responding to Lancet and pharmaceutical representative Ben Goldacre’s attack against homeopathy.

Link here to read their responses:

 European Council of Classical Homeopathy   

European Committee for  Homeopathy 

This is the second go round for Lancet and in their previous attack on homeopathy the information was accepted almost as fact. This time the news media is reporting it in a different way.

For example the BBC web site also states under the title ‘Research Bias’:

However, the Lancet also reports that a draft report on homoeopathy by the World Health Organization says the majority of peer-reviewed scientific papers published over the past 40 years have demonstrated that homeopathy is superior to placebo in placebo-controlled trials.       

The Society of Homeopaths Wins this Blog’s Gold Standard Award

The Society of Homeopaths in the United Kingdom has been at the forefront of modern homeopathy. Under increasing attacking by those who believe in bad science, the Society has taken the high road and insisted on quality responses and continues its role in helping to develop some of the world’s top homeopaths. From the Society of Homeopaths Web site:

Our vision is ‘homeopathy for all’ and we aim to achieve this both by supporting our membership and by raising the profile of homeopathy in general.The Society of Homeopaths is the largest organisation representing professional homeopaths in Europe with over 1500 members on its Register.Our members practice in accordance with The Society’s Code of Ethics and Practice and carry full public liability and indemnity insurance.Our Professional Conduct Department offers impartial assistance should difficulties arise between a patient and one of our members.

The Society of Homeopaths also sponsors conferences and seminars to upgrade the professional knowledge of its members. The Society of Homeopaths recently had Louis Klein FS Hom lecture in Oxford and also has had such important speakers as Rajan Sankaran and Jeremy Sherr.

Most importantly this organization is concerned about both the public and its members. It is important as a member of the public to support it since organizations like this prevent a monopolization of medicine by one interest group. Even if you aren’t into homeopathy, supporting this organization will continue to increase the level of health freedom and impart a message- the time for unquestioning belief in modern medicine’s safety and the conventional doctor’s ability to monitor the serious side effects of pharmaceutical drugs is over. The religion of conventional medicine is not in the public’s interest.

In one of the most bizarre things ever seen on the Internet there are actually individuals on the internet and blogs who are not even into homeopathy but spend inordinate amounts of time criticizing and “watching” the society. I would say its more like whining about the Society of Homeopaths and homeopathy in general.

They second guess everything a Society of Homeopath’s official says or does. You would think they would get a life. But they feel compelled to carry on the tradition of English bullying and absurdity. Hinkley, Gimpy et al. first complain that the Society is not strong enough and tough enough and then when the Society of Homeopaths actually take legal action against such vitriol, nastiness and unethical, illegal actions by a blogger these detractors complained it was too strong. Oh well, you can’t satisfy bizarre marginal members of society that talk ethics yet support such unethical actions.