[AlternativeAnswers] Re: World Homeopathy Awareness Week

 

Happy WHAW!  This is our 11th year and the Theme is Homeopathy's role in helping Infectious Disease.

Homeopathy has a long successful history in this area:

Leptospirosis in Cuba-

Cuba prevents annual epidemic among 2.5m people using homeopathy | Irish Homeopaths

	Cuba prevents annual epidemic among 2.5m people using homeopathy | Irish Homeopaths Cuban medical researchers have successfully prevented the annual outbreak of Leptospirosis in Cuba among a population of 5 million people across two regions using homeopathy in both 2007 and 2008, a homeopathy conference in Havana Cuba heard recently.
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1918 Spanish Flu and Flu Epidemics-

http://www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/files/neustadter_nov04.pdf


Elizabeth Byszeski
Classical Homeopath


http://www.worldhomeopathy.org

WHAW - World Homeopathy Awareness Week

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Good Morning!

World Homeopathy Awareness Week

April 10th - April 16th The father of homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who discovered the law of cure known as "Similia Similibus Curentur", is honored each year at the start of his birthday in order to bring awareness to this amazing form of medicine. Homeopaths, patients and supporters around the world celebrate this invaluable healing science that has transformed millions of lives. Homeopathy is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world. 

Homeopathy Works!

Homeopathy seeks to stimulate the body's defense mechanisms and processes so as to prevent or treat illness. It stimulates a person's immune system and body's natural defenses. Homeopathy not only offers relief from temporary disorders but, can provide long term healing. 

Homeopathics are created by taking the remedy: a plant, mineral, chemical, or animal substance, diluting it in water and shaking it vigorously. The more it is sequentially diluted and shaken, the more potent the medicine. This is why minuscule doses are used.

"Like cures Like". Here are some perfect examples:

* A full strength dose of Ipeca will cause vomiting. 

In a very diluted dose, it becomes a remedy to control nausea and vomiting. 

* Coffee before bed will generally cause a sleepless night. 

In an infinitesimal dose, it is used to treat insomnia. 

*A large dose of sodium sulfate will characteristically provoke diarrhea. 

An infinitesimal or homeopathic dose can cure that same type of diarrhea.

In general, the first session with a homeopath is for him/her to get to know your genetic heritage, lifelong health history, body type, psychological type, and present symptoms. The homeopath will ask many questions which seem out of the norm from a conventional doctor, but you must remember, his job is to consider your "whole" person.

He will ask questions like:

1. What time of day is your energy highest and lowest?

2. What type of weather or temperature do you love, hate?

3. How are you affected by being in the mountains, seashore?

4. What foods do you crave, are averse to, irritated by?

5. What position do you sleep in?

6. What dreams do you remember?

7. How does motion or lying down affect you?

There are hundreds of remedies with homeopathy as well as other modalities that employ the same theory called the Doctrine of Signatures. Start by looking at Avoiding the Antidotes. These are the contraindications when taking homeopathic remedies. Check Determining Dosage to understand how to take homeopathic remedies. Match Signs and Symptoms in order to choose the Best Homeopathic Remedy. Homeopathy is a profound and great integrative therapy that can be used in conjunction with many other forms of health care.

Homeopathic remedies can complement conventional drugs. There are no contraindications and no known side effects. 

Avoiding the Antidotes

Homeopathic remedies are powerful remedies but they work in such small doses that they can easily be compromised! According to Classic Homeopathy, the following antidotes should be avoided:

Avoid heat, light, moisture. 

Keep homeopathic remedies tightly sealed in a cool, dark place. The steam in your bathroom may not be a safe place for them. Consider an area outside of the medicine chest.

Refrain from mint.

Mint or peppermint toothpaste, mint in your ice tea or mint chocolate chip ice cream should all be avoided during the time you are using homeopathic remedies.

Avoid Aromatics.

Menthol, camphor, tiger balm and perfume can neutralize homeopathic remedies. 

Don't touch.

Pour the remedy pills from the bottle into the cap. Then pour them under your tongue. The oil from your hands can affect them.

Not with meals.

Take one half hour before eating or one to two hours after.

Don't chew or swallow.

Dissolve homeopathic pellets under the tongue. They absorb quickly into the bloodstream this way. Homeopathic drops can be taken the same way or in a glass of water.

Avoid stimulants.

Avoid smoking, coffee and caffeine especially within 30 minutes of taking homeopathic remedies.

Andrew Pacholyk MS L.Ac

http://www.peacefulmind.com/homeopathy.htm

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Recipes: Passion Hot Chocolate

 

Recipes: Passion Hot Chocolate

Ingredients (for 2):

4 cups whole milk/skim milk/2% milk/ OR almond, rice or cashew milk

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon maca root extract

1 pinch of red pepper flakes

2 tsp raw honey

pinch of mineral or sea salt

1 vanilla bean scored or 1 tsp organic vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg

40 drops damiana extract or 40 drops of ginseng extract or 40 drops herba epimedium grandiflorum

AKA horny goat weed

Directions:

In a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium-low heat, slowly bring the milk, vanilla, salt and nutmeg to a gentle simmer for about fifteen minutes. Slowly add in the cocoa powder and honey. Use a whisk to blend in the cocoa powder and honey, making sure they don't stick to the bottom of the pan. Add in the 40 drops of herbal extract and pinch of red pepper flakes. Let simmer another 1-2 minutes. Serve with stiff whipped cream and top with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

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Elements of Celtic Healing

 

Good Morning!

Elements of Celtic Healing

First and foremost, The Celts were and are a remarkable, inventive and long-enduring people, versed in rituals and protocols of nature, a strong connection to the earth and sea and a reputation for mystery, myth and magic. It is from these elements that we can learn, understand and incorporate each facet into our everyday healing practices! 

1. Water: including lakes, streams, rivers, springs and wells, have been held in deep respect, honor and places to visit on pilgrimage. The power of water has refreshing, hydrating and rejuvenating powers that call, the Celts (and most every other culture) to their healing banks and shallows to gather, drink and bathe in the ever sacred waters! Water is considered a fertility symbol, found in the Culdron of Daghda, in the Baths and Sanctuaries of Sulus, on the shoreline of the Boyne River and flowing along Brigid's Well. 

2. Sacred Herbs: found in burial sites and ritual shafts, handed down in folklore and stories, and made available from the hand-me-down recipes and tales of intrigue, tell a story of the plants and perennials that have made their way through Celtic history. From Bilberry and burdock to mistletoe and willow bark, herbs were utilized not only for their healing properties but for their taste, color and metaphysical healing aspects, as well. 

3. Stones: were seen as tools for divination, objects of protection and luck and places of worship and blessings. From the standing stones at Carnac and megaliths at Stonehenge to the Winter Solstice tomb at Newgrange and the looming mound in Glastonbury, stones have been used to mark territories, honor grave sites, invoke seasonal ceremonies, revered as touchstones and used as altars or "mass rocks" for centuries. The Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny) is often referred to as the Coronation Stone or Jacob's Pillar and is where many high kings of Ireland where crowned. The Turoe Stone in Galway, Ireland is considered the omphalos or "navel" stone. This "earth navel" is considered the meeting place between living mortals, the gods and the dead. 

4. Fire: has been used for its powerful healing, purging and cleansing properties. Offered as a tool of celebration in many of the major holidays and seasonal transitions, fire, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective properties. Cows were driven between two pillars of fire as a cleansing ritual, while tribes would jump over bonfires to achieve fertility, prosperity and protection, fires lit to represent stages of the sun and its light are all good examples as to how fire plays a major role in ritualistic aspects. 

5. Music: and songs are elements of storytelling, the expressing of one's emotions and a way to connect with people and the past. Music's magic and mystical connections are undeniable and there is no better way to recall memories, honor life's transitions and bring hope to anyone seeking enlightenment. The lithful melodies of the harp of Daghda, were played as a passing of the seasons. 

6. Nature: and all its power, glory and destruction where feared and honored as a way of understanding it's approach through the rhythm of the seasons, from the attention payed to natural locations and to the tides of the moon and weather divination. Trees were seen as revered, ancient elders whom gathered in sacred groves on ancient hilltops and used as divination tools. The trinity of water, fire and earth were also respected as nature's way of washing, purifying and honoring. 

7. Symbols: are the binding which holds together cultural beliefs, religious significance and etheric ideas. Every symbol is a message from some deeper unconscious part of ourselves to the more conscious everyday part of ourselves expressed in a language that needs to be learned and understood. The symbol has been called the royal road to the unconscious. Another way to say that symbols are the window to the soul. There is a very small number of original, natural symbols that make up the countless millions of symbols in existence today. 

8. Storytelling: has always been the way in which the Celts would teach lessons, entertain their tribe and make as one of the cornerstone beliefs within the society as a whole. Stories gave people an identity. It was a way to keep a communities' self image, uniqueness and trbal psyche together. Stories were told of shifting backwards and forwards between two worlds, this world and the Otherworld. Storytelling would glide along the edge of history and sometimes, blurring the line, but the main purpose of the story was always the message it had within it. The greatest Celt stories would wander between warriors and giants, fairies and lovers, gods and goddesses and traditional local lore. 

9. Dieties: have played a major role in the construction and fabric of the Celt cultures. The common denominator in all religions is the belief in the spirit world and life after death. Priests or shaman have always been the inter-mediators between the material and spirit worlds. 

10. Rituals: give us the opportunity to start anew, refresh and reboot our lives, our intentions or goals. Not much has been recorded about the healing rites and rituals of the Celts. What is known is based on the literature recorded by early Christians, the Greeks and Romans and archaeological evidence.