Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman See book keywords and concepts | Selecting the homeopathic medicine that best suits the person and his or her illness
4. Administering the remedy
5. Observing the reaction to the treatment and deciding whether to repeat or change the medicine
Before you even begin this process, you must be able to recognize situations that are beyond your level of skill. More and more people are becoming well educated about medicine and health, and certainly you can learn to decide whether an illness can be treated at home or consultation with your health professional is necessary. | Gary Null and Amy McDonald See book keywords and concepts | Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Prozac-Free: homeopathic medicine for Depression, Anxiety, and Other Mental and Emotional Problems, Rocklin: Prima Pub, 1999.
-Ritalin Free Kids: Safe and Effective homeopathic medicine for ADD and Other
Behavioral and Learning Problems (with Robert Ullman and Edward Chapman), Rocklin: Prima, 1996.
Joel Robertson, Natural Prozac: Learning to Release your Body's Own Anti-Depressants, New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
Sherry Rogers, Depression: Cured at Last!, Sarasota: SK Publishing, 1997.
Ethan Russo, ed. | Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman See book keywords and concepts | Cook, Trevor. homeopathic medicine Today. New Canaan, CT: Keats,
Gaier, Harald. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Homeopathy. London: Thorsons,
*Grossinger, Richard. Homeopathy: An Introduction for Beginners and Skeptics. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1993. *Kruzel, Thomas. Homeopathic Emergency Guide. Berkeley: North At-
1989.
1991. lantic, 1992.
* Particularly good books
*Jonas, Wayne, and Jennifer Jacobs. Healing with Homeopathy. New York: Warner, 1996.
Lockie, Andrew. The Family Guide to Homeopathy. New York: Fireside, 1993.
Lockie, Andrew, and Nicola Geddes. The Complete Guide to Homeopathy. | | Although the homeopathic movement is considerably smaller here than in Europe, more and more physicians are beginning to use homeopathic medicine, and more and more laypeople also are using homeopathy to treat themselves.
People have sought these natural remedies for their safety. But now AIDS and other immune-deficiency diseases have imprinted upon our minds the importance of having a strong and healthy immune system. A growing number of people seek homeopathy because it makes more
1. F. | | In addition, we've added two new features to the heart of the book—the clinical chapters—designed to make it easier for the reader to choose the correct homeopathic medicine for a particular condition. These two new features, Casetaking Questions and Remedy Summaries, make the book even more user-friendly. By using the list of key questions to ask the sick person (or yourself) for each ailment, you will be able to collect enough information to find the correct remedy. | | The proper role of homeopathic medicine at home is in the treatment of people with mild-to-moderate acute conditions. Acute conditions for which homeopathic home care is appropriate are self-limiting accidents or illnesses that are short in duration, have a generally predictable course, and resolve without significant aftereffects. Using homeopathic treatment at home, you can speed healing of many such conditions. Of course, some acute conditions require medical supervision, and we alert you to potentially serious symptoms in the "Beyond Home Care" section of each chapter in and speed healing. | | Ledum is the most commonly used homeopathic medicine in the treatment of puncture wounds, and you should use it if there are no strong indications for the other medicines. Ledum is particularly valuable when there is redness, swelling, and throbbing pain, and when the wound feels cold to touch but is relieved by cold applications. However, Ledum is likely to help puncture wounds even when these specific symptoms are not present.
Give Apis when the puncture wound feels warm or hot, with stinging pains that are made better by cold applications. There is much swelling at the site of the wound. | Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts | Helleborus viridis was employed as a laxative according to Hager (around 1930) and was important in homeopathic medicine.
Homeopathic Uses: Helleborus viridis is used for diarrhea. precautions and adverse reactions
The drug is not to be administered in allopathic medicine. No risks are known in connection with the administration of homeopathic dosages of the drug. | | Homeopathic Uses: All the above uses are also employed in homeopathic medicine. precautions and adverse reactions
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. dosage
Mode of Administration: Martagon is available as cut drug for internal use in infusions and external use in poultices. Homeopathic dilutions are also available. literature
Satou T, Mimaki Y, Kuroda M, Sashida Y, Hatakeyama Y, A pyrroline glucoside ester and steroidal saponins from Lilium martagon. Phytochemistry, 41:1225-30, Mar. | Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich See book keywords and concepts | Therefore, when a person is under constitutional treatment, he or she must not take any other homeopathic medicine without consulting the doctor. Taking another remedy while under the influence of a constitutional prescription may so confuse the patient's symptoms that it becomes almost impossible to untangle the case.
THE MAKING OF A HOMEOPATH
I had the good fortune to be born into a homeopathic family. My fathet, Dr. Edmund Prior Banning, was a homeopathic physician, and, unbelievable as it sounds, fought in the Civil War. | Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts | The plant is an important drug in homeopathic medicine.
Flower and Fruit: The raceme is loose and has about 30 flowers. The pedicles are 1 to 2 cm long and are covered in scattered bristles. The sepals are 6.5 to 10 mm long, oblong, acute, glabrous or with scattered bristles, and red or green. The petals are 17 to 22 mm long, obovate, slightly margined, violet or white with dark veins. The fruit is on upright, patent stems. They are upright, cylindrical, and conically acuminate. | Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts | As Chapters 2 and 4 illustrated, homeopathic medicine threatened its orthodox competitors in part because it could be rendered portable through the use of kits and manuals. Indeed, homeopathy was a successful alternative—and despite its relatively small number of trained practitioners, a powerful threat to orthodox medicine—in part because it had developed two distinctive modes of practice and strands of self-propagation. | Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts | Rose is also used in homeopathic medicine.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers are usually solitary, more rarely in twos and threes, on 2- to 3-cm long, thickly glandular pedicles. The calyx is round to pear-shaped and is usually thickly covered with stem glands and gland bristles. The velvety petals are pink to purple, 2 to 3 cm long and wide. The style and stigma form the ovary that is surrounded by carpels enclosed in the calyx, forming woolly capitula. The ripe, red-brown false fruit is 1 to 1.5 cm long. | | The plant is also used in homeopathic medicine.
Flower and Fruit: The small, greenish-white flowers are in loose, terminal cymes and are dioecious. The 4- to 5-sepaled calyx and the 4 to 5 petals are downy on the outside. There are 4 to 5 stamens whose filaments are hairy at the base. The compressed ovary has a short style and stigma, which is divided in two. The fruit is circular and winged with a broad, greenish-white, later ochre-colored margin.
Leaves, Stem, and Root: The plant is a bush or small tree up to 4 m high with glabrous, smooth, dark or red-brown branches. | Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts | No one reported any adverse effects from the homeopathic medicine.
Food Allergies
Most people think that seasonal allergies and food allergies (or sensitivities) are two distinctly different things. Guess again. Seasonal allergies are definitely aggravated by food allergies.
Starbuck told me about an eight-year-old kid who was brought into her office by his mother, who said, "He's got really bad allergies this year!" Starbuck took a history and found out that the kid had had dairy allergies when he was younger, but according to the mother, "not anymore. | | I told you earlier that arnica was available as a gel or orally as a homeopathic medicine. Homeopathy is the practice of treating conditions by giving miniscule doses of compounds that would cause adverse effects in larger amounts, much like a vaccine does. And we're talking tiny amounts. Homeopathic doses are extremely diluted. They have no detectable amount of the plant in them and are generally considered safe for internal use when taken according to the directions on the product labeling. | Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts | If you wish to protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic medicine or any other "complementary" or "alternative" modality, it is crucial that you take action to post your comments with the FDA right now and write your representatives in Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural medicine. (And be sure to really write them. Just sending an email has virtually no impact compared to writing a physical letter in your own words.)
Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment posting page for this docket. | | And finally, write your Senator or Congressperson about this issue and let them know, in blatant language, that you will not stand by and allow the criminals running medicine today to take away your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs and homeopathic medicine. Write the letter in your own words, even if it's just two sentences. Individual letters have a hundred times the impact of form letters.
Medical wasteland USA
Everything is at stake here. | Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts | Homeopathic Uses: Uses in homeopathic medicine include inflammation of the mucous membranes (particularly of the respiratory tract), feverish infections, inflammation of conditions of the mammary glands, and rheumatic conditions. precautions and adverse reactions
General: All parts of the plants are poisonous, due to the presence of mucous membrane-irritating saponins and of the toxic, perorally effective lectins. The toxicity is reduced through cooking, since this destroys the lectins. | Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich See book keywords and concepts | Clinical evidence accumulated over more than 150 years of use demonstrates that homeopathic medicine is the viable alternative to standard medicine. You now have access to a scientific system of medicine that is proven safe and effective.
CHAPTER ONE
What Is Homeopathy?
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Homeopathy is a system of medicine whose principles are even older than Hippocrates. It seeks to cure in accordance with natural laws of healing and uses medicines made from natural substances: animal, vegetable, and mineral. | Rick Levy and Lou Aronica See book keywords and concepts | Examples include mind-body medicine, homeopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation, and biofield therapies. These interventions are considered to be complementary medicine when they are used together with conventional medicine (as when meditation is used to reduce a patient's pain following surgery). | Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich See book keywords and concepts | A potentized remedy does not contain sufficient matter to act directly on the tissues, which means that homeopathic medicine is nontoxic and cannot cause side effects. In over 150 years of use, no homeopathic remedy has ever been recalled.
The Single Remedy
Contrary to the current medical practice of frequently prescribing two or more medicines at one time, most homeopaths usually give only one remedy at a time. We are not sure what the effect of two remedies would be, or the interaction between them, but we are sure of the effect of a single remedy. | | Allopathic drugs, on the other hand, cost a good deal more than homeopathic medicine. New drugs are particularly expensive because of the investment they demand in research and development. According to a representative of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, the expense of launching a new drug is about $55 million. The majority of them, however, to quote Milton Silverman and Philip Lee, authors of PiUs, Profits and Politics, are "me-too" items —minor modifications of existing products that are merely new, not necessarily better. | | Harris's four sons, describes his mother in a family journal:
Mother had been taking care of sick folks some before coming out here and had had some experience doctoring with homeopathic medicine, which an old doctor in Marshall County had been teaching her. He had taught her the method of preparing the medicine and had given her a doctor's book with full instructions. He told her she would probably need it when she came out west as there would be few doctors in this section, which prophecy proved to be entirely correct. | Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts | The individual and not the illness is the focal point in homeopathic medicine. Homeopathy considers the state of the whole individual—physical, mental, and emotional— whereas conventional physicians are often concerned only with the physical aspects of illness. Of course, no system of healing can cure all diseases. One can follow homeopathy as the general rule, backing it up with conventional medicine as required.
Homeopathic medicines are among the safest preparations known to medical science. Most of them (about 80 percent) are derived from plants. | Gary Null and Amy McDonald See book keywords and concepts | Ritalin Free Kids: Safe and Effective homeopathic medicine for ADD and Other
Behavioral and Learning Problems (with Robert Ullman and Edward Chapman), Rocklin: Prima, 1996.
Joel Robertson, Natural Prozac: Learning to Release your Body's Own Anti-Depressants, New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
Sherry Rogers, Depression: Cured at Last!, Sarasota: SK Publishing, 1997.
Ethan Russo, ed., Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs: A Scientific Analysis of Herbal Remedies for Psychiatric Conditions, with Case Studies, Binghamton: Haworth Herbal Press, 2000.
Dr. Judith Sachs, Break the Stress Cycle! | Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich See book keywords and concepts | If so, homeopathic medicine at Home is the book for you.
Saturated in homeopathy by heredity and marriage (both her father and deceased husband were homeopaths), training (after she finished Ohio State College of Medicine, an internship, and residency, she was assistant to a homeopath), and her own private practice, Dr. Maesimund B. Panos is superbly qualified to teach all of us about homeopathy. | Michael Friedman, ND See book keywords and concepts | The therapies used by naturopathic doctors include clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, traditional Asian medicine, homeopathic medicine, acupuncture, physical medicine, hydrotherapy, and lifestyle counseling. In its own way, each therapy supports the self-healing efforts of the body. The naturopathic physician selects appropriate modalities to use on a given individual patient based on traditional knowledge, modern research, and clinical experience. This practice of medicine is at once founded on the healing wisdom of many centuries and a distillation of current scientific research. | Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts | We found a homeopathic medicine generally works much quicker than that, so we've now started blending homeopathy with Chinese medicine, both of which work with the body's own energy. We find that it's a really happy marriage between those two, and so many of our formulas now take into account both of those types of formulations. We find that that's been a very effective approach for us to take.
Mike: That's a unique synergy. I don't think I've seen other companies use that combination.
St. Clair: A classical homeopathy doesn't generally lend itself to putting homeopathy with herbal medicine. | Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts | The homeopathy of plants
There's something I call the homeopathy of plants. homeopathic medicine is something that has now been proven to be scientifically verifiable. Water has memory, and if you consume water that has been energized with the right elements, it can have a physiological effect on your body.
Plants are also made primarily with water, so the water in the plant has homeopathic properties as well. The question is what the homeopathic properties of the water in the plants are. |
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