Homeopathic Care
Homeopathy for mental health
Did you know that anti-anxiety medication use spiked by 34% during the pandemic, and that levels of anxiety have kept increasing ever since?
Homeopathy offers a gentle yet empowering alternative, with no harmful side-effects. For 40 years, I have been using homeopathy in Ottawa to help patients in my community.
Homeopathy works by harnessing our body’s self-healing abilities. Whatever your condition might be, we can work together to arrive at a homeopathic prescription tailored to support your unique natural defense mechanism to help your body heal itself.
Teamwork is key to homeopathic success, and your role in the process is crucial. By guiding me through how your most significant life experiences have impacted your health, I gain insight into your body’s coping style, the way your body/mind tends to react in times of stress. By describing to me how your condition evolved, what stresses you were going through when it first started, how it affects you today, and what makes it worse or better, facilitates my ability to choose correctly a homeopathic medicine tailored to your body’s unique way of coping or defending itself.
Remember, one size does not fit all; the same homeopathic medicine that helps one person with depression may not help another diagnosed with the same condition. This is because each of us is unique, requiring insight into how we differ from others.
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The homeopathic approach to acute and chronic conditions
Because homeopathy harnesses the body’s self-healing ability, it is useful in treating a wide range of conditions, from acute to chronic. While it may help speed up recovery following an injury, or treat and enhance resistance to the flu, it may also be effective in treating chronic conditions such as arthritis, migraine headaches, and depression. This is done by identifying so-called ‘constitutional’ remedies that correspond fundamentally to a person’s very essence, which may promote the body’s resistance to chronic conditions such as premenstrual syndrome or anxiety.
Is homeopathy good for children?
As a parent, I know exactly how frightened and helpless we can feel when our child is sick. Homeopathy is one of the more popular alternative therapies used in children. A recent study on the use of homeopathic medicine in treating ADHD found an overall improvement in ADHD symptoms, including greater coping efficacy. Preliminary evidence shows that homeopathy may be helpful in treating childhood diarrhea, otitis media (ear infection), asthma, allergies, and colds and flu.
If you are looking for natural health care for your children, homeopathy is an all-natural, holistic medicine that bolsters your child’s self-healing abilities, with no harmful side-effects. If you’d like more information, book a free 20-minute virtual pre-consultation
How does homeopathic medicine differ from conventional medicine?
Conventional medicine is based on the principle of opposites, opposing symptoms with for example anti-depressants, antibiotics, or anti-inflammatories. This is because symptoms are interpreted as the problem, to be opposed at all costs.
In contrast, homeopathy interprets symptoms as our body’s self-defense mechanism in action, applying what is known as the Principle of Similars. Paradoxical as it may seem, the homeopathic medicine that produces in healthy volunteers side effects most similar to your symptoms would likely be prescribed for you. For example, we might prescribe a preparation derived from onion for someone suffering with hay fever, since cutting an onion causes sneezing, watery and stinging eyes, and a runny nose – symptoms similar to hay fever!
Tailoring a homeopathic prescription to what is unique about you
Success involves teamwork. I rely on your observations to guide me as to what is unique about you, helping me to notice patterns in your condition. What are the circumstances or conditions that make you feel worse or better, such as weather, food, or times of day when your condition gets worse or better. Being holistic, I’m also interested in how your condition may affect your moods, appetite, sleep, etc. The more I understand you as a whole person, the more accurate the homeopathic prescription, the better the results.
Star-studded medicine
Did you know that some of the world’s most famous people use and appreciate homeopathic medicine? Among them, Sir Paul McCartney and Usain Bolt. Germany’s national football team and its top two professional leagues are also known to use natural remedies to help recover from injuries, keeping their players healthy and fit.
Why is homeopathy the “Royal medicine”?
Because the entire royal family puts its faith in homeopathy. Queen Elizabeth travelled everywhere with her homeopathic remedy kit. The Queen Mother relied on it, and she lived to 101. King Charles continues to back it, recently appointing Dr. Michael Marshall, a pro-homeopathy doctor with an integrative approach to medicine as head of the royal household’s team of medics. Whatever arguments rage between supporters and sceptics on the value of homeopathy, the royals have sided firmly, though privately, with its supporters.
The value of symptoms
Symptoms are not the problem. Whether it’s pain, depression, insomnia or eczema, symptoms represent a “language” produced by our vital energy expressing an imbalance. They help guide the homeopath to uncover what is at the root of the imbalance that might be contributing to our dis-ease. They can also help us find out what might assist the body in restoring balance.
Counterintuitive
You might wonder why you should take something known to invoke the symptoms you’re already suffering from. While the Principle of Similars is paradoxical, it begins to make sense when you interpret symptoms as a message the body produces, indicating imbalance. While the body’s ability to heal itself is suppressed when using drugs that merely oppose symptoms, it is activated and harnessed by the use of substances based on the principle of ‘Similars.’
What is unique about you?
One size rarely fits all. Homeopathic treatment works by tailoring a treatment to the individual. There are over 3,000 remedies to choose from, derived from the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms. Choosing the right one relies on how well I understand what is unique about you. Not everyone suffering from hay fever will get the same prescription. It depends on your particular experience of hay fever, and how you differ from others with the same condition.
Initial visit, and follow-ups
An initial homeopathic visit can last up to two hours. A follow-up visit three weeks later serves to assess progress, while helping refine my understanding of you, leading to better health.
For more information
To find out more about my practice, you can read my articles about Homeopathy, or book a free 20-minute virtual pre-consultation