WHy Use Homeopathy
| I invite you to see how homeopathy can be of help to you and your family. Meet me for a complimentary 20 + minute call. Call 619-461-2584 or email me at pam@homeopathytoheal.com I work with people of all ages, babies through older adults, pregnant women, and nursing mothers. I see people both in person and virtually, in and out of the La Mesa, San Diego, California area |
Remedies are not gender specific
Why Use Homeopathy is dedicated to key areas some patients want solved using remedies that work with the body’s natural ability to heal.
Pain is expressive of something happening in your body or life. Even if you don’t fit the examples below reach out and lets discuss what you are experiencing and see if homeopathy is right for you.
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Why Use Homeopathy
Many times my patients’ concerns are longstanding. Often they have used other forms of healing, but have not gotten better. Then they choose to come homeopathy.
People come for many different reasons, ranging from physical to emotional complaints to behavioral issues. Homeopathy addresses the whole person—the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual. All these aspects are connected and play a part in our health and well-being. Homeopathy also addresses the individual. Each of us experience what bothers us in our unique way. People of all ages, men and women, babies through adults, pregnant women, and nursing mothers come to homeopathy for many different health concerns, such as:
Chronic Health Issues
These are ongoing health issues, that someone may have experienced for awhile. There may be episodes of flare ups, when they are feeling worse. With a chronic health issue, often the person has learned to live it.
Some of chronic health issues are: allergies, asthma, eczema, skin eruptions, digestive problems, headaches, insomnia, ADD/ADHD, women’s health issues, menopause, menstrual problems, men’s issues, auto immune issues (this is a big category), arthritis, depression, anxiety, fears, and prolonged grief.
Acute Health Illnesses
Are usually one-time occurrences, not ongoing. The person is sick, and then they recover.
Perhaps someone may think that an episode is an acute, which actually it may be a flare up of a chronic health issue, such as with having allergies during a particular season. When this is the case, the acute situation may be addressed at that time, and later on the chronic underlying cause would be addressed.
Some acute illnesses: flu, viruses, infections, stomachaches, coughs, earaches, sore throats, headaches, sneezing, runny nose, childhood diseases.
First Aid Issues
This can be an injury where the person is hurt physically, emotionally, and/or mentally. They heal and they are better.
In some situations, it could be a more deeper injury, possibly considered a trauma. Some people may experience a “Never Been Well Since” from an injury or a trauma. This means that they never quite got over it, and other health issues may have developed from it.
These are some first aid situations: falls, head injuries, sprain, strains, burns, bites, stings, dental work, surgery, a loss of some kind, abuse, an accident, an attack, wounds, cuts, bruises, natural disasters, a loss, war exposure, and torture.
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Your Emotions Impact on Your Health
EMOTIONS ARE PART OF THE TOTALITY OF THE PATIENT
I am always reminded how the emotional side of someone is so much part of their not feeling well. Most of the time, a person comes for homeopathic care because of a physical symptom that is bothering them. As I listen and witness what they are saying, showing and sharing with me, the person will often talk about a situation, an event, and/or a relationship that is happening in their life at this present time or in the past. Their feelings about this situation are expressed, along with how it has affected them. For me as a homeopath, this emotional component is a part of understanding the patient’s case, the totality of their case, and helps lead to the homeopathic remedy that is helpful for them.
Emotions, feelings, are natural and part of life. It is when we get stuck in them, when they linger, when in some way they take over our lives that we may need help. It is always good to have someone to talk to, who is a witness and supportive of you. Homeopathy and different forms of therapy are helpful at these times. Homeopathy and therapy can work well together. If you are having thoughts of harming yourself or someone else, please reach out to someone that you trust and/or call a suicide hotline.
We experience many different emotions, such as depression, grief, fear, anxiety, guilt, shame, sadness, excessive joy, mania, anger, jealousy, envy, worry, sense of duty, responsibility, obsession, compulsion, insecurity, loneliness, disappointment, frustration, forsaken, and feeling abandoned. Our hormones also affect our emotional life.
Children show us in the behaviors, rather than telling us in words, that they may be feeling something that is uncomfortable for them, whether it is anger, frustration, fear, grief, depression, sadness, worry or other emotions. Actually, adults do too.
Everything Is Connected
Everything is connected in our bodies, in our being. Sometimes, when emotions cannot be expressed, they show up in the body as a symptom, such as stomachaches, headaches, nausea, difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping, menstrual changes, skin eruptions, nightmares, sore throats, breathing difficulties, earaches, colds, flus, autoimmune disorders and more. This is what some patients have said:
- When I am upset, I can’t eat, or I have diarrhea.
- When I get so stressed and overwhelmed, I get this horrible migraine headache.
- When I feel betrayed or let down, I get these stomach cramps.
- When I have intercourse with my husband, I develop an urinary tract infection afterwards, or have pains in my uterus.
- I feel so anxious and stressed when I am around this person (blank). I feel as though all my energy has been sucked out of me.
- After I experienced that traumatic event, I developed body pains and I was tired all the time. I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Allergies
Most people who have allergies have been experiencing allergic symptoms for many years. The allergy often tends to affect sufferers at a certain time of the year. They may have a sensitivity to a food or respond to the pollen in the air. They sneeze and cough a lot and experience watery eyes and other annoying symptoms. Homeopathy can be very helpful for these concerns. Read my blog post about homeopathy remedies and allergies.
Anxiety
We hear and say very often, I am anxious, I feel anxious.
When I talk about anxiety, I have my arms spread out and open. It is a huge and often general term to describe many different symptoms. Anxiety is an emotion, and we feel anxious about things or something that could happen or happened before. This is natural. It is when this feeling becomes stuck, and affects our life that we may want some help.
When someone says they feel anxious to me as a health issue, I want to know how they feel and experience this anxiety, such as: where in their body to they feel it; what is the sensation of it; when does it happen; when did it start; other symptoms they may experience; what are they anxious about; what makes it better or worse and more.
In the homeopathic repertory, which is an index of symptoms and health states listing homeopathic remedies, just under the rubric “Anxiety”, there are 915 homeopathic remedies listed. Then it breaks down into more specifics, such as time of day, with a physical symptom, about their health, a family member’s health, financial concerns, something bad will happen, being late, and more. You can see from this, that the feeling of anxiety is huge. As a homeopath, I want to know how this anxiousness is for this person.
Several years ago, a ten year old girl came to see me. Her mother said she felt very anxious, especially when she was going to see her father. She was also worried about her mother. She felt this in her stomach and her digestion was affected, feeling very nauseous. The remedy that was used lessened this anxious feeling.
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Headaches
So many people suffer with headaches and migraines. They can be extremely debilitating and very painful, making it very difficult for headache sufferers to work, take care of their families, and just get though life. Often they must take time off from work and spend hours lying down in a quiet, dark room. Headaches can last for a few days and can occur weekly.
To treat headaches using homeopathy involves understanding how the person experiences the headache and then choosing the appropriate remedy that fits their unique situation. To read more about headaches, please visit my blog.
Digestive Issues
We hear a lot about the gut and for good reason because so many people are plagued with issues like food allergies, leaky gut syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and irritable bowel syndrome.
If you have gut and digestive issues, this is probably your area of greatest sensitivity. This is where you manifest symptoms when you are feeling stressed, upset, nervous, anxious, depressed, and emotional. Vomiting, diarrhea, skin eruptions, anxiousness, burping, passing gas, acid reflux, bad breath, stomach pains, cramping, loss of appetite, nausea, eating disorders and even breathing difficulties from food allergies can occur when your body is out of balance. These symptoms can be very annoying, disruptive, fatiguing, tiring, restrictive, embarrassing, painful, controlling, and maybe even life threatening. They can take over your life.
Homeopathy can be very helpful for these kinds of gut issues.
One of my patients had bouts of diarrhea almost daily. She always needed to know where the bathrooms were located when she went out of the house because she would need the bathroom fast and NOW. After taking the homeopathic remedy that was similar to her—one of the main principles of homeopathy is the Law of Similars or Like Cures Like—her bouts of diarrhea became less and less frequent. She also felt much better overall and in her ability to handle things that happened in her life in a much more constructive way. As with so many other patients of mine, the remedy helped in healing her whole being. Read more about homeopathy for digestive issues on my blog.
Skin Eruptions
People of all ages often suffer with different kinds of skin eruptions such as eczema, psoriasis, impetigo, acne, rosacea, cysts, boils, warts, skin tags, pustules, hives, or other rashes. When this happens, it affects the person both physically and emotionally, and is a reflection of something deeper in the body that is manifesting on the skin. Applying creams or lotions topically on the skin is not necessarily healing, and it doesn’t get to the root of the problem. A homeopathic healing addresses the deeper source of the skin eruption.
One of my patients who has experienced an eczema-like eruption in her ear canals for many years, has found relief with the homeopathic remedy that fits her unique situation. For more information on how homeopathy can help with skin issues, please read my blog.