Disease = Health

Often when I am asked to explain how Homoeopathy works I realise that it is a supportive health modality. That it is not about stopping things (disease), it is about assisting to a positive outcome (health)...whatever that is!

I shall attempt to explain: when treating someone with an acute disease lets say a fever I would possibly give Belladonna (see below),  the fever might be arrested, but I have seen many, many times the fever will continue to run until it has broken and the patient is not in discomfort (dis-ease, they generally sleep off the fever/acute); the fever must run it's course, not be stopped in its tracks, then health is achieved. I have seen time and time again that when a fever (or another acute) is suppressed then the patient suffers from low grade health, they just don't feel themselves, it can be seen in tiredness, irritability, lack of joy for life etc etc. When there is health you can see it and the person feels it.

Because most of us have schooled to think that
a) there is a pill for every ill
b) that the pill will stop the disease
Most will not go through 'the eye of the needle', but rather take something to stop the pain and keep going. We all need change, we all need discharge (see blog better out than in, 5th April 2012)!

So many times I have seen profound change when a person does a disease properly: which means not stopping it or avoiding it but actually being ill and allowing the discharge to come out. That is muck out of the body, you are cleaning out! A spring clean! The body (mind and spirit) is AMAZING.


Belladonna (some of the symptoms that you can use it for):

Sudden, violent onset
Redness
Burning, heat
Patient is hot to the touch
Sensitive to light, touch, taste and noise
Can be bad tempered
Can twitch and moan with fever
Parts of the body can be red, dry and very hot.
No thirst
Swelling of boils, carbuncles, that are red and hot to the touch.
Sunstroke
Scarlet fever
Dilated shining pupils
Babies can suffer convulsions during teething.