I think the best part of being a homeopath is to hear people's "other song". Let me explain. As I told my patients and students numerous time, part of us is Divine (we're hoping 100% of the time we're connected to that part!) and part of us, the Other Song, is less. Some people get easily angry, others are more messy, some are often sad, everybody has their "other song". When we look for a remedy (doesn't matter what the official diagnosis is), we want to address the other part of us, the unbalanced part, the one that prevents us from doing our Avodat Hashem. Hahnemann said (the founder of homeopathy) that a healthy state is when the "reasoning spirit who inhabits the organism can freely use this healthy instrument to reach the lofty goal of human existence" (from his book The Organon of Medicine ). We're born with this "less divine" part of us, and the job of the homeopath is to hear, identify and treat the other song so t
The past 2 classes in Homeopathy during Pregnancy and Birth, we learned about constipation, diarrhea and urinary troubles. Sounds very delicate, doesn't it? Let us look at the options homeopathy gives us in order to clear these troubles safely and swiftly. Constipation and Diarrhea As with every health trouble, in order to find the right remedy we need more than the official "diagnosis". To tell your homeopath you have Diarrhea is not going to help one bit, he (or she in my case) needs to know what type of diarrhea or what type of constipation are we are dealing with : - soft stool passed with great straining - Alumina - large, hard dry stools as if burnt - Bryonia - large round balls stuck together with slimy mucus - Graphites - constipation caused by iron pills - Ferrum met. - irregular, dry, crumbling stools - Natrum mur. - feeling of something "left behind" - Nux vomica - bashful stools: starts out and get back - Silica As you can see, there are many type