Deeper healing with homeopathy

The crash landing scene in Madagascar 2 involves the character Skipper being alerted to a flashing, red light on the cockpit dashboard. He asks for the instruction manual in order, we think, to find out what it means. But instead, he uses it to smash the light, saying triumphantly, “Problemo solved!”  The camera then pans to smoking engines and the crash-landing follows.

It’s funny because it is so ridiculous.  And yet that is how most conventional medications work: They remove the symptoms, but fail to address the underlying cause. Which is why, so often, when someone stops their medication, the symptoms come back.

The homeopathic approach to healing is different. It recognises that mind and body are one, inextricable system. The mind can trigger symptoms in the body, and the body in the mind. That is why a homeopath will always ask you “What was going on – either physically or emotionally – leading up to, or around the time your illness started?”  And often, a hitherto unrecognised cause is discovered.

I have seen IBS caused by suppressed anger, cystitis by an invasive birth procedure, burnout by suppressed grief, night terrors by a difficult brith, failure to conceive by anxiety, chronic fatigue and gastric problems by anti-depressants, to name but a few. In all these cases, giving remedies to heal the underlying cause, also healed the presenting symptoms.