Homeopathy

The more i learn about health the more intrigued i am by the different ways (eg asian) of looking at the mind body connection. In the western world we have been run by allopathic medicine for such a long time, and anyone out of the box is viewed as a quack or a fraud. But asian therapies seem to have a much more holistic way of viewing disease and health. I think the thing i like most about it is that they treat the person rather than the problem. Each person being individual in their genetic makeup, environmental factors, upbringing, stress levels, nutrition and so forth, it makes sense that a person would require different treatments to obtain maximum vitality than anyone else. ie no "One cure fits all." Im currently learning about the ayurvedic system of health where they group people as vata, kappa or pitta, or combinations of the three.

I was staying with a friend in sydney who has just started studying to be a naturopath. She says i should take up the same degree since i like talking about health so much. She was studying for a homeopathy test at the time i was staying with her, so i got to hear a lot of her revision notes. Prior to this, all i knew about homeopathy was that 'like cures like' (I didn't understand what that meant though). What they do when treating someone in homeopathy is learn all their symptoms, stress levels, whats going on in the persons life so they can get an accurate picture and then determine which herb/drug matches the persons symptoms. The idea being that they then take that drug, dilute it and succuss it (shake) then dilute it some more, so that by the end of it there's no molecular content of the herb left, which is good when you're prescribing someone arsenicum but only the spiritual memory of that drug which is released into the carrier which then the person takes and it tells their body how to treat the cause of the sickness (rather than just suppressing symptoms as most allopathic medicines do). At first it sounded a bit mumbo-jumboish to me.

But the weird thing is that it works. When i first got there Hollie was really sick, she went to a homeopath and got prescribed a treatment. And within 24hrs she was feeling a lot better. It reminds me of something i learnt about ages ago, which i can't remember the proper term for, but it was something about water memories. Water records and remembers things. You give water a message and it holds onto it.

I think it came from the work of Mr Emoto a japanese scientist who wrote messages on water bottles, then froze them into crystals and took photos of the crystals. He also took samples of water from different sources all over the world, waterfalls, city supplies, water that had been blessed, water that had been cursed, water that had had different types of music played to it. Some water formed beautiful well shaped crystals, and some didn't form any crystals at all. So it makes sense that if you introduce something like a herb to water or whatever carrier that it would hold onto that message. Reminds me of a quote I heard once, that stuck with me.

Friends are those who know the song in your heart and play it back to you when your memory of it has gone.
Herbs are those who know your ideal self and remind your body how to restore you to that state.