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What will my homeopath need to know?

In order to find the right remedy for you as an individual, your homeopath will need to know all about you. A detailed understanding of who you are,along with any complaints and details of how you experience them, is needed to assess your case correctly. So anything you can tell your homeopath that is typical of who you are will help the process. Finding out about your general energy level, your past medical history and the way you live are also important. Anything you say will be treated in the strictest confidence. The initial consultation may last an hour or more.

How does Homeopathy work

Homeopathic remedies work by stimulating the body's own healing power. This stimulus will assist your own system to clear itself of any expressions of imbalance. The aim is to get you to a level of health so that eventually you will need infrequent treatment.

What is homeopathy?

In 1796 a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick which he called homeopathy ( from the Greek words meaning similar suffering. Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier he realised that there were two ways of treating ill health, the way of opposites and the way of similars.

Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites, (conventional medicine or allopathy), is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on an artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular does of drugs which can sometimes cause side effects or addiction.

The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, such as coffee, which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. Perhaps surprisingly this will enable the patient to sleep naturally.

Starting homeopathy treatment

Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognises that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease.

As a new patient, these ideas may be new to you, but homeopathy has been established for about 200 years.

What is life coaching

Life coaching is an opportunity for you to take time out to look at your life, to help you clarify and focus on what you want, why you want it, and what you need to do to get it.

Homeopathic alternatives

Certain homeopathic remedies are prepared in great dilution from tissues infected with a particular bacterium or virus. Termed nosodes, they have used in some cases to help prevent infection eg cholera nosode.

Alternatively a remedy may be used preventively which would be used to treat the illness in question eg china for malaria. Whilst the value of homeopathic remedies in the treatment of disease is well established, their value in the prevention of specific disease is not well documented. More research needs to be done to check that travellers who have found them to be effective have actually been exposed to the particular disease.

Homeopathy and Foreign Travel

More than thirty million journeys are made abroad each year. They can vary from a day trip to paris, requiring no particular health safeguards, to long expedition in remote mountains needing much forward planning. In these days of fast jet travel, our bodies can be suddenly subjected to conditions they have never encountered before and to which there has been no opportunity to develop immunity.

Health risks and how to avoid them:Each journey and each traveller pose a fresh set of circumstances; there are many variables to consider. By reading further about the country you intend to visit you can prepare yourself beforehand and take precautions.

Water: If you have any doubts about the quality of the tap water, boil it or sterilise it with disinfectant tables or use bottled water from a sealed container for drinking, brushing teeth or washing food. Check that ice has been prepared from safe water.

No Jab No School says labour MP

Mary Creagh a labour mp suggested that any child who has not received all their vaccinations should not be allowed to start school. An attempt to increase the number of children having the controversial MMR vaccine. Though the government says that there will be no compulsive vaccinations, though there was a mention of linking child vaccinations and benefits. It is alarming that there is such suggestion of enforcing inoculation when MMR jabs are allegedly believed to cause autism in some cases.

Hayfever Help

As the weather warms up many people are plagued with symptoms of hayfever – sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes.
Before resorting to antihistamines and nasal sprays there are dietary approaches that can help calm the immune system, boost immune function and help reduce potential allergic reactions.

Diet:
1 Avoid or minimise wheat, gluten (in rye, barley and oats) and yeast – highly allergenic foods
2 Avoid dairy products – increase production of mucus
3 Avoid fatty meats – aggravate inflammation
4 Increase omega 3 intake – oily fish, nuts and seeds. Helps reduce inflammation
5 Maximise nutrient intake through wide variety of fruit and vegetables
6 Drink 1-2litres water/day
7 Avoid alcohol – increases risk of allergic response and strains liver

Supplements:
Consider multivitamin, vitamin C, quercetin, glutamine, bromelain and MSM. Consult nutritional therapist for correct dosage.

Epilepsy and a high fat diet

A UK trial feeding children with epilepsy a high fat diet reduced the number of fits they experienced by a third. The diet appears to mimic the effects of starvation, change metabolism and produce ketones which help reduce seizures.
Researchers are calling for the diet to be more available on the NHS. It consists of low amounts of carbohydrate, controlled amounts of protein but a very high intake of fat.

However, such a diet is not without risks. Side effects included constipation, vomiting, lack of energy and hunger. Not to mention the long term risks of heart disease, obesity and diabetes – a growing problem amongst our childhood population, as demonstrated by Too fat to Toddle – A TV documentary highlighting the horrors of childhood obesity.