My experience with homeopathy is hard to put into words. Sometimes the only way I can think to describe it is pure magic. Today I wanted to talk potencies. If you go to the grocery store and look for a remedy, you will typically see them labeled as “30c” or “6x” if it’s a cell salt. However, there are higher potencies that work on deeper levels. While a 30c can certainly help the body heal from everyday ailments like digestive upset, skin conditions, organ imbalances, and psychological maladies – a 200c or a 1M or even a 10M potency (much stronger) can help literally turn someone’s life around.

When a homeopath is working with a client, they need to assess what the client is ready for. Not everyone is constitutionally strong enough to handle a major life change right off the bat. When I have taken 1M remedies I have been confronted with some of my greatest fears. It’s like shadow work on steroids. I became a magnet for all of my limiting beliefs and social projections. I had to step up to the plate and be seen when all I wanted to do was runaway.

I’m not trying to scare you away from homeopathy, in fact I’m trying to do the exact opposite. I am trying to show you the spectrum of things that homeopathy works for. It works on anything from a bee sting to psoriasis to deep chronic depression to trauma to self-hatred. It’s abstract until you experience it yourself. And then it amazes you. And it shows you that for every problem on earth there is always a solution. It shows you that grace really does exist. 

For example, I have been working with someone recently who has had chronic skin issues for most of their life. For years, it had been like a game of whack-a-mole. As soon as her eczema was tamed with steroid cream, her psoriasis would flare up. When the psoriasis calmed down, the eczema would rear its ugly head.

It had been kept under control for the most part with the occasional use of steroid cream until she got the shingles during an especially stressful time that had weakened her immune system. While she had been able to heal from the shingles overtime with various therapies, her skin issues weren’t responding to steroid cream like they used to.

She went to doctors and naturopaths that had no idea what to do for her. In her own words, she had quite literally tried everything to heal her chronic skin conditions – except homeopathy.

Now, to me her shingles were a blessing in disguise, because it made it really easy for me to give her the right remedy. The remedy Rhus Tox, typically used for chicken pox among other things, is also a remedy for the shingles and skin conditions that get worse when exposed to moisture. The profile of someone who benefits from Rhus Tox is also better from movement and the condition will worsen at night.

All of this information combined with the parts of the body the skin condition showed up for her matched the remedy perfectly. With homeopathy, we take the “three-legged stool” approach – which means the person has to match at least three significant aspects of a remedy for it to be given to them.

Her eczema, which was previously driving her up the wall with how itchy and irritated it was, improved almost instantly with the remedy. Over the course of a couple weeks, she barely notices the eczema anymore and the skin is finally healing. Once the eczema improved, she had a temporary flare up of her psoriasis – which we call a “healing reaction” in homeopathy.

The reason I knew that she was improving and having a healing reaction and not getting worse, is she had a significant increase in energy (homeopathy increases the vital force or life force) and her eczema continued to improve. Sometimes with homeopathy you can experience a temporary flare-up of old symptoms because the body has renewed energy to uproot them and heal them once and for all.

After another dose of Rhus Tox the itching came right back down and her skin is much less red. With time, both conditions should completely clear.

If you’ve ever experienced chronic skin issues, you know how much it can impact your life. How can you focus or get a good night’s sleep when your skin is constantly itchy and irritated? Whenever someone tells me that there is no cure for something, I politely disagree. What other physicians claim is incurable, I have seen homeopathy heal time and time again.