With acute conditions, you will find that your family recover much more quickly with homeopathy than if they have conventional treatment. For instance, if one of you has acute earache from a middle ear infection and you are able to prescribe the correct homeopathic remedy, there should be some immediate improvement and a decrease in pain within about ten to fifteen minutes (sometimes a lot less) followed by a complete cure within a few hours, or occasionally a day or two at the most.

When homeopathic remedies are used, the treatment works with the natural healing processes of the body and the disease is not suppressed. On the other hand, with antibiotics used to treat the infection, improvement will usually take much longer. With conventional treatment the condition often recurs until eventually, once there have been frequent enough suppression with antibiotics, more serious chronic disease results (although this may only manifest itself years later). With homeopathic treatment the patient will feel much better after than before the illness, whereas after conventional treatment there is often damage from side effects of the drugs used; these side effects may not always be very serious but they can be extremely annoying and tiresome, and can take a long time to shake off (such as thrush following the use of antibiotics).

If your family uses homeopathic remedies for all their acute ailments throughout their life you should find that, since nothing has been suppressed by allopathic drugs over the years, they will be much less likely to succumb to the chronic diseases of middle age and old age. All the problems of menopause can be minimized or cured and even the very old respond wonderfully well to homeopathic remedies. Amongst many other benefits, flu jabs become unnecessary, debilitating coughs improve rapidly, strokes following head injuries from falls can be prevented and broken bones from falls and accidents heal faster. Since homeopathic treatment involves treating the whole person and the remedies are chosen according to an individual’s characteristics, moods and personality, as much as for the physical conditions and modalities, you will find that as the patient gets better by using homeopathic treatment there will invariably be a corresponding improvement in temperament. A clingy, weepy, over-shy person will become less so; a snappy, angry, impatient person will become more amenable and pleasant to have around, and so on. This is the case whether the treatment is for an acute or a chronic condition and an improvement in temperament is always an excellent sign; improvement in the physical condition will follow very soon if it has not already started.

** Using Homeopathy **

1. In acute illnesses, accidents and emergencies you will find the speed with which there is improvement quite surprising. Since the improvement is so fast this also means that suffering is minimized.
2. Your family will have had no allopathic drugs, so there will have been no danger of side effects because homeopathic remedies are extremely safe. Side effects from conventional drugs, even when not particularly serious, can none the less be extremely irritating and difficult to get rid of.
3. The acute illnesses will not have been suppressed because homeopathic treatment goes along with the natural healing processes of the body. This is particularly important with regard to the acute childhood diseases. By avoiding suppression of disease and thence, at the very least, delaying the onset of serious chronic disease later on in life, homeopathy has a vital preventative role to play. Middle and old age will be healthier and happier.
4. As your family are treated with homeopathy and therefore no suppressions occur, you are in fact contributing towards a much healthier life for them in the future, not only in the short term but in the very long term as well. This does not only mean that they will have a lot less illness as they grow older, but also that mentally and emotionally they will be much happier and consequently be able to make the most of themselves as individuals. They will become contributors to, rather than takers from, the world in general. By the time your children become teenagers they will be much less likely to be bored, uncooperative or difficult; they will be more confident than they otherwise might have been and therefore much less likely to succumb to peer group pressure to experiment with drugs, or indulge in any other destructive behavior. With homeopathic treatment life is happier, more complete, and there is much less suffering.

* About Homeopathy *

Similarly, from a prevention point of view, the use of homeopathy for acute ailments avoids much prolonged suffering. For instance, if someone begins to run a high temperature which could be the onset of a two to three week dose of flu and you prescribe the appropriate homeopathic remedy, you will be able to nip the illness in the bud; there should be almost immediate improvement with all the symptoms usually disappearing within a few hours, or at the most within a day or so.

Children usually tend to have a great deal of energy and for this reason they frequently respond to the homeopathic remedies extremely fast which is very satisfying from the prescriber’s point of view, particularly if you are an anxious parent wondering if you have given the correct remedy. It is wonderful to be able to help stop their suffering so quickly and efficiently.

** Homeopathy Treatment **

At every stage of life, as your children grow up and develop, all through their careers and into retirement and old age, you will find that homeopathy can lend a helping hand. This can start with the use of Arnica to prevent any shock during birth and any bruising from forceps deliveries. During the first few months of life and onwards there are many acute ailments babies may get which you can learn to treat. These may include such things as colic or teething problems; ear inflammations, infections and fevers. As the remedies work so quickly your child will be much happier and more content than he would otherwise have been, and you will be less likely to have to endure endless sleepless nights.

As your children learn to crawl and walk, and then, growing older, become more adventurous, there will inevitably be many accidents around the home and this is where you will find homeopathy works so quickly that it will really surprise you. You will also find that you can help your family a great deal with homeopathic remedies for acute ailments such as sore throats, colds and coughs, croup, food poisoning, headaches, flu, carsickness and nervousness before tests, exams or going to the dentist.

One minor but quite practical consideration regarding young children is that they find that homeopathic remedies taste nice and are perfectly happy to take them, even when small babies. Also the remedies are perfectly safe, so if by mistake your child manages to get hold of a remedy and eat the bottle-full, there should be no detrimental effects from the remedy. Another consideration is that, instead of hanging around in a crowded waiting room at your doctor’s surgery, you can prescribe a homeopathic remedy at home which should improve the condition in less time than you would have spent waiting to see your doctor. Children and adults, even if they have not been treated homeopathic in the past, find the remedies enormously beneficial not just for physical problems but emotional ones as well. Those who have a need to talk and seek psychiatric help or counseling do extremely well when they combine this with homeopathy; both therapies work together very well in such conditions as grief, post traumatic stress syndrome, addictions, and mental illness as well as for many other emotional or behavioral problems.

** About Homeopathy **

These always have a clearly defined beginning and end, such as a fever, a cold or a cough, food poisoning or sunstroke, and are the type of conditions covered in this book. It is important to understand that acute diseases are acute exacerbation of the underlying chronic disease in an individual. The vital force or energy, which we all possess, is constantly trying to prevent the inward march of chronic disease and to repair and maintain order within the body, protecting the innermost core and pushing disease out to the periphery. When it succeeds in doing this an acute episode will emerge. This is a good, not a bad thing, providing it is not suppressed and driven back inwards again. The future prognosis will be good if at this crucial stage homeopathic remedies are used; the homeopathic treatment stimulates the natural healing powers of the body by driving disease outwards. The individual as a whole emerges stronger having successfully driven out the disease, rather than weaker as when the disease has been suppressed by allopathic medicine.

Chronic Conditions

Chronic conditions treated by ordinary medicine, or left untreated in those who have little vitality, are recognizable by the direction they travel in; they go from a less important organ to a more important organ, from the exterior inwards and from below upwards. For instance if someone has a rheumatic condition you will often find that it starts at their knees and then travels to their hips, or it starts in their finger joints and then goes to larger joints. While chronic disease travels inwards the natural vitality of an individual is constantly trying to push chronic disease outwards and this is usually manifested by an acute episode of some kind. It is therefore particularly important not to suppress an acute illness, as that would mean going in the opposite direction to the natural healing energies of the body. It is always crucial not to suppress any discharges or eruptions as they are indications that the body is trying its best to throw out an acute illness, and to stop the insidious march inwards of chronic disease. A homeopathic remedy at this stage acts as a stimulus to the vitality to complete a true cure, going along with the natural healing processes by pushing disease outwards. Conventional medicine at this stage nearly always goes contrary to the natural healing process and drives disease back inwards. The damage of suppression is always particularly obvious in the treatment of eczema; steroid ointments heal up the skin and then within a year or so the patient develops asthma – the disease has gone from the periphery, the skin, into the lungs. Similarly the suppression of a streaming nose during a cold is nearly always followed by headaches and bunged up sinuses. These are two typical and easily observable examples of suppression. It seems to occur almost invariably as a result of allopathic treatment, which mainly involves giving medication that produces opposing symptoms to those presented by the patient, thereby going contrary to the natural healing processes of the body. If you question people carefully who have only been treated by conventional medicine, you will usually find that the illnesses they have had during their lives have become progressively more serious, affecting more inner and more important functions of the body. The results of such suppression can occur either immediately or many years later. Chronic disease, as well as health, are both on-going living processes. A diagnosis implies that the particular disease just happened to occur at that particular time out of the blue, but there is always a past aetiology (cause of the disease) and some sort of future prognosis.The past aetiology may be miasmatic weaknesses (which if left untreated by homeopathic remedies are passed on to the next generation), the toxic load of all kinds, negative thought or behavior and many other contributing factors. The future prognosis depends on whether homeopathy is used to help stimulate the body’s natural healing vitality to throw off disease, or whether allopathic medication is used which will continue the suppression of the vitality, resulting in the disease’s inevitable march inwards; this leads to even more serious complaints and more chronic disease. It is so important to realize that the way you treat yourself today reflects the health (or disease) that will affect you in the future and that the level of health you have today reflects how you (and your forebears) were treated in the past. The damaging results of suppression may well take some time to emerge but they will always do so in time.

** About Homeopathy **

Homeopathy is holistic because it treats the whole person, and its remedies assist people to regain health by stimulating their natural healing forces. Homeopaths treat physical, emotional, mental and even the spiritual aspects of each patient, since homeopathy regard these areas as being intimately connected, and all part of the whole of the patient’s suffering.