If I had to pick favorites when it comes to healing modalities – I would have to pick homeopathy. I have never seen any other modality transform lives quite like homeopathic remedies do. I think that the reason homeopathy isn’t mainstream like it used to be (other than the fact that Pharma has always suppressed homeopathy because it interferes with their profit margins) is because people have a hard time grasping what it is and how it works. I want to do my part to demystify homeopathy for people because it’s one of the best ways to take your health back into your own hands.

So what is it? Homeopathy is a holistic form of medicine. It treats the WHOLE person – mentally, physically, and spiritually using the law of similars because “like cures like.” In physics, when two frequencies are identical – they cancel each other out – this is precisely what homeopathy does.

When you match a symptom profile to a substance in nature that produces those very symptoms – using a “like” medicine and taking the energetic imprint of that substance – the person gets better. WITHOUT harmful side-effects.

And did I mention it’s cheap too? Like $6 a bottle cheap.

Take for example the remedy Apis – which is made from the itchy venom of a honeybee. If you were to get stung by a bee or any other bug or insect that produces swelling and itching – taking Apis would provide relief – like cures like.

Now let’s say you were to give Apis to a healthy person – they would temporarily feel a bit itchy. That’s because with homeopathy, the symptoms it cures in a sick person it will induce in a healthy person.

That’s what we call a “proving” and is actually how the founder Samuel Hahnemann found which homeopathic remedies worked for which maladies. He gave remedies to healthy people and they would record diligent notes on how they felt over the course of a 3-6 months.

They would record their sleeping patterns, mood, temperament, energy, any sensations or pains, physical symptoms, dreams. After they stopped taking the remedy, the symptoms would cease and they would return to their normal baseline of health.

So when a patient came to Hahnemann with the same symptom profile he had witnessed in his participants during the provings, he would give the sick person that remedy and they would heal. All of these remedies were recorded in what is called a Materia Medica, AKA the homeopathic bible.

Next time I’ll be talking about the “direction of cure” which is helpful to know when taking remedies. It will allow you to see if you have chosen the right remedy or if you need to start again and try a new one.

Let me know below your experiences with homeopathy – are you a believer? A skeptic? I’d love you know.