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May 18, 2023May 18, 2023

Homeopathy for PANS and PANDAS

What is PANS & PANDAS?

PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) & PANDAS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus) are infection-induced autoimmune conditions that disrupt a patient’s normal neurologic functioning, resulting in a sudden onset of a variety of symptoms such as:

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD);
sensory abnormalities & motor tics;
high level of moodiness, irritability and anxiety;
(developmental) regression;
intense periods of psychiatric and behavioral issues (oppositional behavior, aggression).

Now there is some controversy around PANS/PANDAS especially because:

it can only be clinically diagnosed (lab tests cannot definitively confirm a diagnosis);
PANDAS/PANS resembles other conditions (such as Tourette’s Syndrome, Sydenham Chorea, and Rheumatic Fever).

The role of Homeopathy in PANS & PANDAS

In Homeopathy we work with ***symptoms *** rather than diagnosis so the fact that it is an “infection-induced” condition called PANS/PANDAS will not help us much in the remedy selection. For us (homeopaths) the important and decisive matter is NOT what is this condition called/labelled but how is it manifesting and what is it doing to your child (both to the body and mind)!
What kind of symptoms it is generating and how is the life of your child affected at various different levels (behavior, emotional state, mental health, physical symptoms…) are the crucially important factors during a homeopathic evaluation. This is something that we can work with and look at. It is also worth looking at some unique psycho-spiritual aspects of the case because inflammation is a symbol of materialized internal conflict and fight and Homeopathy can help to bring this inner conflict to light of consciousness.

We have many fascinating homeopathic remedies that can help with the symptoms of asthma. Some of the most important rubrics in our homeopathic repertory that cover the symptoms of asthma are:

HEAD – CONVULSIONS – SPASMS – TWITCHINGS – JERKS (52 homeopathic remedies);

HEAD – INFLAMMATION – BRAIN (155);

MIND – TICS – NERVOUS (33);

MIND – MOOD – CHANGEABLE – VARIABLE (403);

MIND – VIOLENCE – VEHEMENCE (375);

MIND – COMPULSIVE DISORDERS (126);

… and many more rubrics…

As an example from case taking I have created a list of most commonly used rubrics/symptoms from my own cases:

We have hundreds of homeopathic remedies that can effectively help children suffering from symptoms of PANS & PANDAS. The most effective way of dealing with asthma or any chronic (long lasting or recurring) ailments is constitutional prescribing/constitutional homeopathic treatment. It takes into account not only the patient’s current symptoms of his diagnosis (health problem) but also the patient’s individual way of coping with the disease. Good results can be also achieved through a combination of constitutional homeopathic treatment and homeopathic detox therapy (that can remove toxicity) with a possible occasional doses of some important homeopathic nosodes or sarcodes.

A homeopath will select a homeopathic remedy for the patient during a homeopathic interview/consultation. The homeopath will ask many questions about the patient’s medical history and all relevant and related symptoms, but will also ask about the patient’s life style, medical history, appetite, digestion, dreams, relationships and emotional state and many other aspects of one’s life.

Homeopaths try to look at the whole picture (all pieces of the mosaic) so they are interested in many various symptoms and details. This helps them to select a precise remedy called – similimum – a deep acting remedy that should help to alleviate the patient’s discomfort and improve his overall health and wellbeing.

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References:

Complete Repertory (Master Edition);
Murphy, T.K., Gerardi, D.M. & Parker-Athill, E.C. The PANDAS Controversy: Why (and How) Is It Still Unsettled?. Curr Dev Disord Rep 1, 236–244 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40474-014-0025-3;
https://pandasnetwork.org/;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANDAS.

October 23, 2022October 29, 2022

Why is Homeopathy a top choice for mental health conditions and emotional trauma?

There is one area of health where Homeopathy particularly excels and that is mental health conditions, behavioural issues and emotional trauma. Now why would that be? To answer this question we have to look first at what Homeopathy really is and how it works. We will also need to have a closer look at what a ‘disease’ is, what is its core.

What is Homeopathy and how it works?

Homeopathy is not physical/material medicine. Unlike naturopathy (herbs, supplements) or allopathic medicine (e.g. anti-psychotic drugs) it does not act at the level of (bio)chemistry. Homeopathy affects the deeper (energetic) layers of the ‘body’ and our energetic system. It basically stimulates your own abilities to heal, it gives a nudge to our vital (life) force. This also means that Homeopathy is capable of penetrating through the psyche and can bring on deep healing at the very core of our being. Homeopathy is information – energetic (or frequency) medicine! Why? Because Homeopathy basically releases information from various substances – plants, minerals, animals…

What is a disease?

If we can be open minded and brave enough to admit that a disease is first always created at a deeper (spiritual/emotional/subconscious/…) level then we can also say that it is basically a misinformation. A disease is an information chaos within us! A sick person is missing something at a deeper level, lacks a certain information. And in fact a disease can be also an information – information about an imbalance within us and it always has a meaning or a message for us and should provoke certain questions. Diseases inform us that we have made a mistake somewhere or our approach, way of thinking, opinions or behaviour is/was erroneous and change, insight, understanding and some learning is required.

And here it becomes really interesting!

If a disease is information chaos and Homeopathy is information medicine then this means that a homeopathic remedy can elegantly correct this misinformation within us by giving us the “information” that we lack in our (un)consciousness. In a homeopathic approach this information becomes the remedy that we so much need. The information is always immaterial, therefore it needs a ‘carrier/messenger’ and this carrier is the sucrose/lactose/alcohol/water or other form of the homeopathic remedy. The information is released from its original substance (e.g. plants, minerals) and is then given to us through a carrier (homeopathic remedy in a form of pellets, granules etc.). There is no room to dive deeper here in this article re process of preparation of homeopathic remedies etc but if you want to know more about this then you can read my blog “So what is Homeopathy” in order to find out more. I will only say that this process of “release of information (de-materialization)” and the consequent “loading of the information on the carrier” happens during the process of the remedy preparation (homeopathic dilution/trituration and succussion).

A true, authentic and deep healing

To be truly and deeply healed we need to broaden our horizons – expand our consciousness or in other words expand the influx of information. This is what Homeopathy does! It carries the information that we lack in our consciousness. Homeopathy can help us to focus on finding the root cause of our problems inside us rather than outside in life circumstances. It can helps us to understand where and how did we get stuck. Homeopathy is a beautiful system of medicine that has a potential to heal very difficult and also very peculiar conditions and problems.

What can Homeopathy do for your mental health?

Unlike psychiatric drugs, Homeopathy does change the personality of the patient, it only restores the lost balance – brings back the equilibrium, fixes what is broken, removes what is pathological.

The ‘Mind’ section of our homeopathic repertory is full of symptoms/rubrics that are often incredibly rare, strange and peculiar. Hence, Homeopathy can really help us with so many strange (health) problems that have no explanation whatsoever and cannot be solved with other natural or allopathic options.

Homeopathy is indeed an incredibly unique system of medicine and is particularly well suited for emotional, behavioural or mental health conditions of any kind or origin.

Can a chemical (material) substance in a form of a drug cure a deep rooted emotional trauma that is immaterial (not physical, cannot be touched)? I would question that but what I can say is that Homeopathy can do that because Homeopathy is immaterial (information/frequency) medicine.

A well chosen deep acting homeopathic remedy can really change a suffering person’s life and can eliminate or reduce the symptoms of ANXIETY, FEAR, TICS/TOURETTES, OBBSESSIONS, ADDICTIONS, TANTRUMS, ANGER, RAGE, FURY/VIOLEBCE, DEPRESSION, PHOBIA, ASD, ADD, ADHD, OCD, EPILEPSY, TRAUMA… and it does it in a very gentle way – the homeopathic way!

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References:

Deeply inspired by Thorwald Dethlefsen and his book “The Challenge of Fate” (1979).

October 22, 2022May 18, 2023

Homeopathy for Asthma

Breathing easily is something you probably take for granted. But if you’ve ever struggled to catch your breath…then you have gotten a little insight into what life with asthma is like! Loss of control over your own breathing is definitely very scary and many people with asthma live with that fear every day for many many years.

Asthma has unfortunately become a new “epidemic”, especially in children (in fact, asthma is the most common chronic disease among children¹⁾. It is far too common nowadays and many people suffer from it. It is estimated that almost 340 million people suffer from asthma around the world and it kills 1000 people daily².

Asthma is a chronic (long-term) lung disease. It affects your airways, the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. The air passages in the lungs become narrow due to inflammation and tightening of the muscles around the small airways.

Common asthma signs and symptoms include:

– frequent coughing

– a whistling or wheezing sound when breathing out

– shortness of breath

– chest congestion or tightness.

The symptoms are often worse during the night or exercise and can be triggered by a variety of triggers: cold, dust, smoke, fumes, changes in weather, pollen, animal fur, feathers, perfumes etc.

Asthma as a challenge! What can asthma teach us?

Breath! The “breath of life”! In the book of Genesis (Genesis 2:7) God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life, and only then the man became a living being. A balance between taking (inspiration) and giving (expiration). There may be an imbalance between taking and giving in asthmatic patients (or taking on too much and a consequent inability to give back sufficiently). Another theme may be a desire to close of and refusal to accept certain things in life, especially the “darker side of life”. Another variation may be a a desire for too much domination and power.

Someone struggling with asthma might want to ask himself/herself the following questions:

– what is it that takes my breath away and why?

– what is my approach to dominance and aggression?

– where is an imbalance between taking and giving in my life?

– which areas/themes in my life do I reject and why?

Every human life is unique and each of us has its own unique individual journey so consider this only as a “rough guide” only and you may need to ask some other questions too depending on your life circumstances, personality, character etc. Knowing where the problem is can be very helpful in our quest for a good enough (or rather precise enough) homeopathic remedy that can trigger healing.

Homeopathy & Asthma

Homeopathy can play a very important role in management of asthma and people with this diagnosis can benefit from homeopathic treatment in many different ways. I have seem many amazing results in homeopathic treatment of asthma. Of course results may vary from case to case and depend from many different things but overall I must say that many people (especially children) benefited from homeopathic treatment tremendously and the results were often more than satisfactory. In some cases only one or very few remedies were sufficient to help the struggling patient, in other cases it was a longer gradual process that required some patience and perseverance on both sides but the final results were well worth of the effort. Giving up too early in chronic conditions is always a mistake!

We have many fascinating homeopathic remedies that can help with the symptoms of asthma. Some of the most important rubrics in our homeopathic repertory that cover the symptoms of asthma are:

RESPIRATION – ASTHMATIC (585 homeopathic remedies);

RESPIRATION – ASTHMATIC – HAY ASTHMA (114 homeopathic remedies);

RESPIRATION – DIFFICULT (898 homeopathic remedies);

RESPIRATION – WHEEZING – WHISTLING (247 homeopathic remedies);

RESPIRATION – RATTLING (261 homeopathic remedies);

CHEST – CONSTRICTION (526 homeopathic remedies);

CHEST – OPPRESSION (600 homeopathic remedies);

COUGH – SUFFOCATIVE (245 homeopathic remedies);

COUGH – ASTHMATIC (152);

… and many more rubrics…

As you can see we have hundreds of homeopathic remedies that can help people suffering from symptoms of asthma. The most commonly used homeopathic remedies in asthma (depending on the specific symptoms and their totality) are:

Aconite, Antimonium tart., Aralia, Arsenicum alb., Bacillinum, Blatta, Calcium carb., Campora, Carbo veg., Causticum, Cocculus, Cuprum, Drosera, Hepar sulph., Ipeca, Kalium bich., Kalium carb., Lachesis, Lufa, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Moschus, Natrium suplh., Nux vomica, Passiflora, Phosphorus, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Sambuca, Silicea, Spongia, Sulphur, Sulph-acid., Thuja, Tuberculinum, Valeriana…and a good few more…

The most effective way of dealing with asthma or any chronic (long lasting or recurring) ailments is constitutional prescribing/constitutional homeopathic treatment. It takes into account not only the patient’s current symptoms of his diagnosis (health problem) but also the patient’s individual way of coping with the disease. A homeopath will select a homeopathic remedy for the patient during a homeopathic interview/consultation. The homeopath will ask many questions about the patient’s medical history and all relevant and related symptoms, but will also ask about the patient’s life style, medical history, appetite, digestion, dreams, relationships and emotional state and many other aspects of one’s life. Homeopaths try to look at the whole picture (all pieces of the mosaic) so they are interested in many various symptoms and details. This helps them to select a precise remedy called – similimum – a deep acting remedy that should help to alleviate the patient’s discomfort and improve his overall health and wellbeing.

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References:

WHO: Asthma – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/asthma
The Global Asthma Report 2018 – http://globalasthmareport.org/
Ruediger Dahlke – Disease as a symbol.
Complete Repertory

December 15, 2021May 18, 2023

So what is Homeopathy?

A brief history of Homeopathy

Homeopathy was developed and founded by a German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), who grew up in Meissen. Hahnemann was dissatisfied with the medical practices of his time. He discovered that illness could be treated with very small amounts of the substance that, in larger quantities, caused it. Although the idea that “like cures like” (similia similibus curentur) can be traced back to the Greek physician, Hippocrates (460-377BC), it was Hahnemann who developed it into a system of treatment. The term “Homoeopathy” originated from the Greek words “Homoeos” and “Pathos” which means “similar” and “suffering or disease” respectively.

Homeopathic remedies

Homeopathic remedies are made from natural sources – animals (milk/venom), plants, minerals, gem stones… But they can be also prepared from synthetic materials (drugs etc.). Homeopathic preparations are made by using a process called homeopathic dilution/trituration and succussion. Soluble substances are dissolved in alcohol and then repeatedly diluted and succussed (shaken). Insoluble substances are triturated (ground up) with lactose/sucrose. We have now more than 8000 homeopathic remedies at our disposal to help suffering people and animals.

If you want to know more how are homeopathic remedies made then please watch this interesting short video:

So what is that thing called “Homeopathy”?

The most sincere answer to this question would be: “We don’t exactly know yet because we are only somewhere at the beginning of our exploration of this mythical and fascinating art of healing called “Homeopathy”.
Homoeopathy is 200 years old and is one of the most widespread non-conventional approaches to treatment known to the world. Homeopathy is definitely one of the most popular healing systems in the world and its popularity is growing – more than 200 million people worldwide use Homeopathy on a regular basis*. It is because Homeopathy is all-natural, safe, effective, non-toxic, gentle, it has no harmful side effects. It is not tested on animals and is environment-friendly. It can be used also in pregnancy and during breast-feeding. No wonder it is so easy to fall in love with Homeopathy.

So what is Homeopathy? Although there is no simple answer to this question I will do my best to explain and give you at least a rough idea about Homeopathy and to keep it very simple and short:
Homeopathy is a healing system that stimulates your own abilities to heal. The most important thing to note is that Homeopathy is not a physical medicine! Homeopathy is in fact an information-energetic medicine that acts deeply at all levels of health. A homeopathic remedy triggers the body’s own healing forces (vital force). Of course, this is a very simplified explanation – the theory and philosophy of homeopathy is far more complex. We don’t exactly know how the information from the remedy source is transferred to the remedy and then to human energetic system. We only have theories and the most recent one is very promising: nanoparticles. Please read more here if you like:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570304/

Homeopathy is often wrongly labelled as non-scientific but that is not the case and in fact we have hundreds of scientific studies at our disposal providing sufficient evidence that Homeopathy works and is scientific:

But the most important thing for you is that Homeopathy can help and treat a huge variety of both acute and chronic diseased, including mental health complaints and emotional trauma. We don’t necessarily need to understand everything – in our homeopathic discoveries we are still at the very beginning of our journey…

The most effective way of dealing with any chronic (long lasting or recurring) ailments is constitutional prescribing. It takes into account not only the patient’s current symptoms of his diagnosis (health problem) but also the patient’s individual way of coping with the disease. A homeopath will select a homeopathic remedy for the patient during a homeopathic interview/consultation. The homeopath will ask many questions about the patient’s medical history and all relevant and related symptoms, but will also ask about the patient’s life style, medical history, appetite, digestion, dreams, relationships and emotional state and many other aspects of one’s life. Homeopaths try to look at the whole picture (all pieces of the mosaic) so they are interested in many various symptoms and details. This helps them to select a precise remedy called – similimum – a deep acting remedy that should help to alleviate the patient’s discomfort and improve his overall health and wellbeing.

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References:

Wikipedia

*https://www.hri-research.org/resources/essentialevidence/use-of-homeopathy-across-the-world/

December 4, 2020May 18, 2023

Homeopathy for Allergies

Allergies can cause huge discomfort and it is not easy to live with them. They can be imprisoning. Allergies have now become extremely common, especially in children. Nowadays, it is not easy to find a child which is completely allergy-free. On a material/physical level, we can attribute this to various different factors, like environmental pollution, chemicals in our food and water, junk food and excessive consumption of meat, genetic modifications, vaccination and conventional drugs and many others.

On a deeper (emotional/somatic/psychological/spiritual) level, we have lost connection with nature, ourselves and others too. We often need to ask ourselves and meditate on the following questions: What are we really allergic to? People? Behavior of others? What do we see in others that makes us so upset and irritated and do we not act often in the same way? What are we so fed up with and why? Theme of hidden aggression which is directed in the wrong direction (inadequate immune response as a symbol of it) – energy instead of allergy! Of course there are many more questions to ask…

What are allergies?

Allergies are a number of conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment. These diseases include hay fever, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, allergic asthma, and anaphylaxis.

Symptoms may include red eyes, an itchy rash, sneezing, a runny nose, shortness of breath, or swelling. Common allergens include pollen and certain foods. Metals and other substances may also cause problems. Food, insect stings, and medications are common causes of severe reactions.

Conventional medicine often involves taking antihistamines or steroids to manage symptoms and this medicine can also have unwanted side effects.

Can homeopathy help with allergies?

Homeopathy is a natural and holistic system of medicine and aims at treating allergies by identifying the trigger point, thus providing sustained and long-term relief. Homeopathy sees allergies as resulting from an internal imbalance and aims to remove the individual predispositions that caused the problem with allergies. It activates and stimulates the body’s vital force – its own natural healing system in order to restore balance and vitality, it does not suppress the allergic symptoms like conventional treatment.

Homeopathy acts on a deeper level, it works on an energetic level. It can often bring true healing on various different levels, including emotional trauma. It does not go against our body (unlike medical drugs) but works with our body.

Homeopathy has a good track record of dealing with allergies so the answer to the question whether or not homeopathy can help is most certainly YES! Sometimes it can bring permanent, on other occasions temporary relief and healing.

Some of the most important and commonly used remedies for allergies with some key notes are as follows:

Allium cepa
Onions are known to cause tearing of the eyes and running of the nose, they are therefore effective in treating such symptoms when given in diluted doses.

aggravated by warmth (warm room), better on fresh air;
coryza with profuse, watery, and acrid nasal discharge;
smarting lachrymation;
hoarseness, tickling in larynx;

Ambrosia artemisifoliae

remedy for hay fever and whooping cough;
respiratory tract in its entire length stuffed up;
irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes with asthmatic attacks;
wheezy cough, smarting and burning eyes;

Apis mellifica

redness, inflammation and swelling or puffing up of various parts;
burning, itching and stinging eyes, sharp pain
very warm-blooded, cold ameliorates
one of the most important remedies for allergic reactions after insect bites

Euphrasia officinalis

inflammation of the conjunctival membrane, profuse lachrymation;
catarrhal affections of mucous membranes;
cold affecting the eyes with excessive watering, burning and extraordinary redness, sticky mucus on cornea;
extreme hypersensitivity to light;

Natrium muriaticum

profuse egg-white nasal discharge;
swollen eye-lids, itchy corner of the eyes;
loss of smell and taste, tongue mapped;
depression and sadness
worse/better at sea-shore

Nux vomica

stuffed up nose, especially in the night, sensitivity to odours;
smarting, dry sensation in the inner canthi, photophobia;
allergy to rice or meat;
treatment of asthma due to hyperacidity;
symptoms worse in the morning, better after nap

Sabadilla

violent fits of sneezing, spasm;
hay fever improves in warm room but worsens in open air and cold;
itching, tingling and tickling, must rub;
history of worm infestation;
coryza with severe frontal pain and copious nasal discharge;

… and so many more remedies…

In fact, we have hundreds and hundreds of homeopathic remedies which could be used for all kind of allergy symptoms. To demonstrate this, if we just take one of the many rubrics in our repertory, which could be used for allergy symptoms: NOSE – HAY fever, annual coryza – we have 229 remedies in this rubric.

So this gives you a rough idea that we could be dealing with so many homeopathic remedies when treating allergies.

The most effective way of dealing with allergies is constitutional prescribing. It takes into account not only the allergic symptoms but also the patient’s individual way of coping with the disease. A homeopath will select a homeopathic remedy for the patient during a homeopathic interview. The homeopath will ask many questions about the allergic disease and all relevant and related symptoms, but will also ask about the patient’s life style, medical history, appetite, digestion, dreams, relations and emotional state and many other aspects of one’s life. Homeopaths try to look at the whole picture so they are interested in many various symptoms and details. This will help them to select a precise remedy called – similimum, which should help to alleviate the allergy symptoms and often other health problems too.

Another option/strategy is to use a system called local or symptomatic prescribing and it is based solely on the patient’s allergy symptoms.

An experienced homeopath is able to determine which tactics is better, so it is definitely worth consulting a homeopath when dealing with allergies. I have special interest in allergies and asthma so feel free to get in touch should you require my expertise.

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References:

Wikipedia

Complete Dynamics Master Edition

Roger Morrison (1993): Desktop Guide To Key Notes and Confirmatory Symptoms.

William Boericke (1906): Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica

Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (2005): Homeopathy “Like cures like”