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Promoting homeopathy as an effective, safe and inexpensive medical therapy.Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-86809967530950966732015-03-27T13:00:00.001+00:002015-05-07T16:45:51.176+01:00PSA (Professional Standards Agency) and ASA (Advertising Standards Authority). The position of ARH.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to a recent report in the Economist (13-19 September 2014) online advertising accounts for roughly one quarter of the total global advertising business. The online purchases we make are being invisibly tracked and monitored, and the results are used to build a personal profile which covers every aspect of our lives, from where we live, to our preferred choice of bathroom tissue. Most of us are oblivious to the scale of this surveillance, but the fact is that online tracking is now commonplace and anonymity is no longer an option. We may like to think that the Internet has opened up international markets, thereby providing us with greater choice, but this comes at a price. For example, someone seeking personal accident insurance may be refused cover because invisible tracking has identified them as showing an interest in skydiving! Or someone seeking employment may be unfairly discriminated against as a result of information acquired through covertly tracking their social networking activities. We are probably realistic enough to expect advertising to be manipulative, but we may be over confident in our belief that we can make informed choices on most aspects of our life. How many of us are really aware of the influence which invisible surveillance exerts on our everyday life? We think we are in the driving seat, yet much of our perceived freedom is actually being controlled by a range of unseen, ‘external’ forces.</div>
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If we combine the surveillance gathering of the advertising industry together with that of the security forces tasked with protecting us, we can see that individual autonomy has already been compromised, and we have far less control over our lives than we realise. This may be an inevitable consequence of our increasing dependence upon sophisticated technology, and perhaps we will just have to learn to live with the results. However, surveillance is not the only tool used to manipulate and control our daily activities. Regulation, which is seen as an effective way to protect us from harm, operates in so many areas of life that we take it for granted. It is easy to forget the extent to which regulation influences everything we do.</div>
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During the build-up to the Scottish referendum, a number of ‘yes’ campaigners cited freedom as their reason for seeking independence from England. The exact nature of the freedom being sought was never properly explored, but presumably the term was being loosely used to indicate political and personal autonomy. At its most idealistic, freedom represents the fundamental right of an individual to determine the course of their life, and to think, act and speak without the imposition of external influences. However, in reality, our individual freedom will always be influenced by the environment in which we live. Laws, rules and regulations form the basis upon which our society functions, which is perfectly acceptable as long as the laws are fair, just and promote the common good. However, over the last couple of decades, we have witnessed a huge increase in the powers conferred to the regulation industry. We are told that regulation is there to offer us protection, but it frequently fails to deliver on this promise, as demonstrated by numerous high profile examples. For instance, we have witnessed the collapse of our global banking system, identified inexcusable systemic failures within our policing system, which have resulted in the exploitation of thousands of children going unreported for years, and patients dependent upon a range of NHS services have experienced consistent neglect and abuse. </div>
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These are all areas where statutory regulation has been in place for many years and where it has indisputably failed to protect the public. Regulation can also be used as a tool to promote a particular agenda, or pro- tect vested interests. The activities of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), when investigating complaints made against homeopaths and other CAM practitioners, provide a classic example of regulation being misused, in order to promote a particular agenda.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The ARH has given serious consideration to applying for accreditation of our register (AVR) via the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Last year we attended a special PSA workshop dedicated to exploring and understanding the implications of becoming an accredited register, and we studied the PSA standards in depth. Our conclusion was that we already have quality standards in place, which we consider to be proportionate to the potential risk posed to the public when consulting with a registered homeopath. We found it difficult to identify any actual (as opposed to hypothetical) benefits which AVR might confer. We have (for example) National Occupational Standards for Homeopathy (NOSs), which describe the practice of homeopathy according to clearly defined criteria. These standards, which meet the requirements generally considered necessary to uphold the principles of best practice, have been used to inform how we regulate our profession for over ten years. We believe that quality practice results from standards which are profession specific, and which change as a profession evolves. However, standards which pertain specifically to a particular profession, such as homeopathy, fall outside of the remit of the PSA, whose only concern is to uphold generic standards which can be applied across the spectrum, to all the health professions it regulates. Normally, this single focus might not matter, but the PSA is so keen to prove its credentials as a ‘robust’ regulator, that it appears to have taken on board every spurious ‘concern’ voiced by Sense About Science (SAS), and other anti-CAM vigilantes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The PSA has granted accreditation to 13 voluntary registers since March 2013. Each register has to satisfy the PSA Accreditation Panel that they meet the 11 core standards set by the PSA, and have processes in place to ensure that all registrants are compliant with these standards. The Panel then produces a report which considers each individual application in detail, highlighting areas where they consider improvements should be made, or specific actions taken. All the Panel reports can be viewed on the PSA website, under the heading ‘Accredited Voluntary Register Panel Decisions’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Last year, the Society of Homeopaths (SoH) announced their intention to apply for AVR. Their application was successful, and the SoH was granted AVR in September 2014. Now they are obliged to comply with, and implement, the PSA requirements, as outlined in a 20-page report. Signing up to the establishment model of regulation comes at a price. Registered members of the SoH are not allowed to use their AVR status to promote homeopathy as a system of medicine which actually works!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">I have studied the reports relating to the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC), the Complementary and Natural Health Council (CNHC) and, most recently, the SoH, and they make unsettling reading. The PSA’s sole function is to scrutinise and analyse the performance of each register, to ensure that the register can demonstrate its commitment to protecting the public from harm. In terms of ‘public protection’ the PSA’s primary objective could be regarded as misleading, because it only accredits the register, not individual practitioners. However, the AVR logo is displayed by registrants, and they have only been accredited by their register. I appreciate that this is a practical approach, but it seems to take us back to square one, where the register is self-regulating, as it was in the first place! It is perfectly reasonable to expect to receive safe and effective treatment delivered by a competent practitioner, but those standards already apply to the homeopathy profession. Regulation cannot guarantee our protection; it is impossible to regulate against human error, or to anticipate the perverted actions of those who set out to deliberately harm the sick and vulnerable, so it is difficult to see the quantifiable advantages of AVR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">When a register first applies for accreditation, the PSA circulates a ‘call for information’, asking for comments and feedback about the applicant. The PSA received 18 responses to their call for information about the SoH’s application, only two of which were positive. This means the majority of responses were probably made by SAS ‘vigilantes’, and their distorted perspective of the nature of homeopathy is reflected throughout the PSA Panel’s 20-page report.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">For example, several ‘learning points’ were identified, which will be re-evaluated when the SoH’s accreditation is reviewed next September. They have been asked to provide their members with guidance about sourcing medicines from correctly authorised suppliers only. Surely the majority of practitioners are caring and responsible enough to do that anyway? Furthermore, what evidence is there to suggest that any patient has suffered harm as a result of being prescribed a homeopathic medicine from an unlicensed source? Is it actually possible to monitor and control how members access their medicines, and what happens if a member does source an unauthorised product? Other recommendations include the establishment of a risk register, to record and manage any risks associated with the practice of homeopathy, and finding ways in which to support people who want to make a complaint against a registrant, but are unable to do so in writing. Risk management and complaints procedures are explored at length in all the Panel reports I have read, and some of the recommendations made seem so disproportionate I wonder what a human rights lawyer would make of them. But there is more to cause concern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Most alarmingly, one ‘call for information’ argued that homeopathy has no evidence base, so therefore does not constitute a health care occupation. The Panel responded to this point by noting that their role is to confirm if their accreditation standards have been met, not to determine the efficacy of a particular therapy. The PSA go on to specifically instruct the SoH to ensure that they only communicate their accredited status in relation to their voluntary register. They must not present accreditation as ‘support for the efficacy of homeopathy’. This would seem to imply that a homeopath registered with the SoH can only use the much-vaunted AVR logo if they refrain from claiming that homeopathy works, or that patients get better following homeopathic treatment! Surely, if this is the case, AVR represents a total betrayal of our profession? Are practitioners expected to deny homeopathy, simply to gain the right to use a logo?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">SoH members will be expected to comply with ASA rulings on marketing and promotional materials, and the SoH will check members’ websites at random, to offer advice / support if they consider a website to be in breach of the CAP Code. It is not clear what sanctions would be taken against a member who refused to make changes to a non-compliant website. What is clear is that the SoH will not be in a position to support a member who chooses to challenge an ASA ruling. So even if a website is legal, decent, truthful and honest, and contains correct information about homeopathy, including references to quality research, if the ASA considers the CAP Code has been breached, the website must be changed or the member may face a disciplinary hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">The SAS vigilantes have already announced their intention to inundate the SoH with fabricated complaints and, now that they have AVR, the SoH will be obliged to investigate each complaint according to the protocols described in their AVR application. If this does happen, the SoH will have to focus time and resources on implementing a set of standards which have been heavily influenced by the personal views of the homeopathy detractors. I believe that the SoH are no longer in the driving seat, nor indeed are the PSA. The hands on the wheel have ‘SAS & Co’ written all over them, so SoH members better prepare themselves for a bumpy ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">I would like to believe that, as homeopaths, we are the custodians of a complex, finely balanced discipline. We have a duty of care to ensure we preserve the integrity of homeopathy, complete with all its nuances, for the ongoing benefit of our patients. AVR appears to be an antithesis to this view, and the ARH will not be applying for PSA accreditation in its current form. We consider it to be more important than ever to remain independent, and continue our quest to see homeopathy recognised and valued according to its own unique merits.</span></div>
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School of Homœopathy and the
Dynamis School
and has been
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a particular interest in sustainable
healthcare and is
a long-standing
advocate for the
protection of the
environment and
animal welfare.
With a background
in environmental
science and journalism, Delny has
worked internationally on river
and wetland
restoration projects and written
for television and
numerous publications, including
the </span><span style="font-family: Bulldog; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500;">Times Literary
Supplement </span><span style="font-family: Bulldog; font-weight: 500;">and
the </span><span style="font-family: Bulldog; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500;">Ecologist</span><span style="font-family: Bulldog; font-weight: 500;">. She
has degrees in
botany, hydro-
biology and zoology, including a PhD
from Cape Town
University.
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<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><i>"I have written this article to bring to the attention of the homeopathic
community an ethical issue I feel strongly about; it’s one I suspect others
feel strongly about too. While the ethical dimension remains the main
driver for change I believe this is not the only reason why experimenting
on animals does homeopathy a disservice. In this article I explain why it’s
time to stop causing harm to animals in the name of homeopathy and to
concentrate instead on forms of research that are more useful in practice,
can benefit humanity and promote the therapy we know and love".
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<span style="font-family: Sabon;">Ask most homeopaths what they
think about the use of animals </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">in homeopathic research and </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">they assume you mean veterinary
research, based on the care of farm
or companion animals. The idea </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">of it involving artificially induced
conditions in frightened laboratory
animals does not naturally spring
to mind – and why would it, given
the safe, non-violent nature of
homeopathy itself? This type of research, however, has been going
on quietly in the background for
years and now appears to be on
the rise worldwide. In a long-overdue examination of an important ethical issue here are seven
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<span style="font-family: Bulldog;"><b>Reason 1: It involves suffering,
often severe</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">Animal experimentation within the field of homeopathy has taken
place for many decades. Today it is
going on in universities and research </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">centres throughout Europe, in
India, South America, Australia and the Middle East (Iran, Israel),
with Brazil, India and Italy particularly well represented in English-language journals. Databases such
as </span><span style="font-family: Sabon; font-style: italic;">HomBRex </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">and </span><span style="font-family: Sabon; font-style: italic;">PubMed / MED-LINE </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">contain the details of studies
involving animals of all descriptions (such as mice, rats, toads,
eels, guinea pigs, non-human
primates) and a wide variety of
conditions, most of them acute </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">in nature. In the majority of these
studies the ‘diseases’ and conditions of interest were artificially
induced first in the experimental
animals. Then one or two (occasionally several) remedies were
given to the animals to study their
effects on the induced condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Sabon;">The methodology used to make
healthy experimental animals ill
has been borrowed from mainstream biomedical research. So
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<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">inflammatory states produced by injecting
animals with substances like </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">carrageenan to promote pain and
swelling (Conforti et al, 2007); </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">artificial diabetes created by means
of alloxan (Kumar & Nayak,
2008); </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">convulsions induced by
strychnine (Alecu et al, 2010); </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">nerve damage simulated by severing sciatic nerves (Mohammadi et
al, 2012); </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">sepsis created by puncturing intestines (Oberbaum et al,
2011); </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">stress and anxiety enhanced
by repeated electric shocks (Bousta
et al, 2001), </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">or forced swimming
tests (Pinto et al, 2008), </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">or sleep
deprivation (Zubedat et al, 2013), </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Sabon;">or the use of medieval-style
restraints (Dos Santos et al, 2007)
and so on. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Sabon;">You will find studies </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">of bone fractures where limbs are
broken mechanically (Alecu et al,
2010), or burns where the skin </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">is scalded or irradiated (Alecu et
al, 2010, Bildet et al, 1990), or
infections with deadly diseases (de
Almeida et al, 2008), or poisoning
by mercury (Datta et al, 2004),
arsenic (Banerjee et al, 2008),
snake venom (D’Aprile, 2013) etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Sabon;">Even the notorious writhe test,
strongly discouraged on welfare
grounds by pharmacologists (see,
for example, Gawade, 2012), has
made an appearance in homeopathic research in the study of
inflammation (Dos Santos et al,
2007). It involves injecting mice
intraperitoneally with irritant
substances like acetic acid and
counting the number of times they writhe in pain, with or without
treatment with anti-inflammatory medicines. Freund’s adjuvant – discouraged because of the
severe inflammation and tissue
necrosis it causes, often leading </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">to self-mutilation – has also been
used (Patel et al, 2012; Sarkar et
al, 2014). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Sabon;">All these experiments
cause harm and suffering, often
severe, and all animals with the
exception of non-human primates
are killed (‘sacrificed’) at the end
of the experiment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">In one particularly disturbing
Brazilian study 12 capuchin
monkeys were poisoned with cyclo-
phosphamide (CP), a carcinogenic
drug used to treat cancer in humans,
to see whether a patented homeopathic combination remedy called
</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">Canova </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">could mitigate the drug’s
devastating effects on the immune
system (Leal et al, 2012). Physical
restraint (squeeze cages) and chemical restraint (ketamine) were used
on a daily basis in order to weigh
the animals and take blood samples from their femoral veins. All
CP-treated animals became ill –
two so seriously that they had to </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">be destroyed before the end of the
experiment. A post-mortem listed
ulcerative lesions of the gastro-
intestinal tract, herpetic lesions of
the mouth and skin, haemorrhagic
cystitis and renal damage amongst
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">While welfare concerns inevitably focus on the experiment itself
we should remember that it’s not
just the invasive procedures lab
animals are subjected to that cause
distress. Experimental animals
great and small experience fear </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">more than anything else – pain
included (Morton, 2013). Thus
heart rates, blood pressure and
stress hormones rise in response </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">to routine laboratory procedures
such as handling and blood sampling and feeding through a tube
(Balcombe et al, 2004). Barren
living conditions can result in
boredom and depression which, </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">in turn, lead to repetitive and uniform movements and even self-
mutilation (Wemelsfelder, 1994). In
the CP experiment the 12 monkeys
were confined in individual cages
for 50 days before the 40-day
experiment even began – a deeply
stressful experience for such highly
social animals. We know that
distressed animals generate unreliable information (Osborne, 2011)
so how can research that causes
unusual behaviour and physiology
ever be considered good science?
The short answer is, it can’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bulldog';"><b>Reason 2: It’s unethical
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">It is hard to reconcile much of the
methodology mentioned above
with homeopathy, a non-violent,
safe and progressive system of </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">medicine that evolved in response
to the harmful medical practices of
the day. But these experiments –
sometimes bafflingly referred to as
‘pre-clinical research’ – are taking
place as you read this article. They
are being approved by ethics committees, presented at conferences
and published in journals. It is
important to note at this point that
it is almost exclusively mainstream
university researchers – rather than
homeopaths – that are involved in
this work, a fact that has important consequences for the nature </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">of the research and its relevance </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">to the practice of homeopathy </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">(see Reason 4).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Scientific journals have an important role to play in ensuring the research they publish gives full
consideration to animal welfare
and ethical issues, yet currently
around 45% of English-language
journals that publish animal
research have no ethical policies on
animal use, while 19% simply ask
that research is conducted according to relevant laws or institutional
guidelines (Osborne, 2011). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">These
can vary a lot in both the level of
detail and the standards required,
and often do not reflect best practice which now requires researchers
to question whether the work actually justifies the use of animals and
whether alternatives could be used
instead (see Reason 6). So merely
citing guidelines does little to ensure that a robust ethical review
has taken place or that alternatives
to animals have been thoroughly
investigated.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">When you combine weak animal
welfare legislation with weak journal publication policies that don’t
reflect best practice in animal
research you encourage work of
dubious ethical quality, like that
involving the writhe test described
earlier, or Freund’s adjuvant, or
non-human primates. You also
encourage bad science. The findings of the CP study, for example,
are completely invalidated by a
small sample size. Twelve animals,
assigned to three treatment groups,
were used in this experiment –
effectively too small a number for
the results to have any statistical
power (particularly as two of t</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">hem died). So even though the
researchers concluded that </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">Canova
</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">protects against DNA damage and
damage to white blood cells, these
conclusions are unsupported. An
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">never give the green light to a
study involving animals that was
doomed to scientific failure, nor
one involving non-human primates
unless under very exceptional circumstances, nor one where alternative testing methods existed. And a journal editor working to a clear
and robust ethical policy on animal
research would have rejected the
work for similar reasons.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">This is just one of many examples that demonstrate how weak
standards do nothing to foster
high-quality, innovative research
or encourage a shift away </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">from
animal models towards more </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">scientifically relevant and ethical
testing methodologies (see Reason
7). They encourage instead the
kind of projects that do not require
time-consuming enquiry and evidence gathering – work that cannot
hope to address the burning questions that need answering within
homeopathy. So more and more
work is done, much of it ‘generally
adequate’ (Bonamin & Endler,
2010) rather than outstanding </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">in quality, and more and more
research papers follow the multitudes of other such publications
into the ever-expanding cyber-
vaults of electronic databases.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">Researchers often fail to meet
even basic legal or institutional
requirements on animal welfare.
We know this from numerous ex-posés of work carried out at top
UK research institutions (the
breaches of animal experiment
licences at Imperial College in
2013, for example), which gives
little confidence that the same
behaviour is not occurring in other
parts of the world and within basic
homeopathic research. One standard requirement of virtually all
welfare guidelines that is never followed by homeopathic researchers
(for fear of interfering with the
experiment) is the provision of
appropriate analgesia or sedation
to relieve pain and distress. Thus
control group rats in one of the
Freund’s adjuvant studies were left
for three weeks whilst arthritic
lesions in their feet became progressively more severe and painful.
No pain relief was given because
this would have invalidated the
experiment. Had the 12 monkeys
in the CP experiment received the
same standard treatment given to
human patients undergoing CP
therapy, their suffering would have
been alleviated somewhat by anti-
inflammatories, anti-nausea drugs
and intravenous fluid via a drip.
Instead, all that two of them
received was euthanasia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Ultimately what really brings
home the unethical nature of much
of this research are the insights that
homeopathy has given us into the
inner worlds of animals and their
spiritual dimensions. Through our
provings we have come to recog-
nise the capacity of all kinds of
species to experience joy, fear, grief,
frustration and more (read, for
example, some of the provings in
Nancy Herrick’s </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">Animal Mind,
Human Voices</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">). We cannot plead </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">ignorance of this, or of the ability
of animals to suffer in much the
same way we do, and with this
knowledge comes a moral duty
to do all we can not to add to
this suffering.</span><br />
<i style="font-family: Bulldog;"><br /></i>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">"</span><i style="font-family: Bulldog;">Humankind’s greatest goal, which
outweighs the lengthening of life
through medical advancements, is to
evolve spiritually and (that), in order
to do this, there is a need for us as
a species to learn to think of other
beings as ends, rather than means.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">(David O. Wiebers, Emeritus
Professor of Neurology, 1994).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Bulldog;"><b>Reason 3: It’s not getting us
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">We do research into homeopathy
for three main reasons: to add to
the evidence base; to determine
mode of action; and to improve
clinical care for our patients.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">As far as the evidence base is
concerned, sceptics say there IS no evidence for homeopathy. This
is not true of course but, while
many randomised controlled trials
(RCTs) of homeopathy have been
carried out – with 44% showing a balance of positive evidence (a comparable percentage to trials
of conventional medicine) – less
than a third actually reflect real-life
homeopathic practice, i.e. classical,
individualised homeopathy (</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">British
Homeopathic Association</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">, 2014).
It is hard to shoehorn a complex
and holistic therapy like homeopathy into the confines of an RCT
and doing so tends to turn trials of homeopathy into efficacy trials
of a single remedy, as in conventional, ‘one-size-fits-all’ drugs trials. But ways around such obstacles are being developed; see, for
example, the ingenious ‘cohort
multiple RCT’ (Relton et al, 2010), </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">clearing the way for clinically relevant trials of homeopathy and,
ultimately, additional evidence for
its effectiveness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">How do basic animal studies
contribute to the homeopathic
evidence base? They can (and do)
demonstrate biological action and
they also disprove the notion that
homeopathy is merely placebo.
And there are certainly a very large
number of them. But there is only
so much that can be achieved
through basic research. Ultimately
lab animal studies represent the
weakest evidence for an intervention (Phillips et al, 2009) and </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">no number of them outweigh the
findings of even a SINGLE well-conducted human study (Hess,
2004). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">So, if demonstrating the
effectiveness of homeopathy is </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">a priority – as researchers say it </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">is – then research efforts clearly
need to be focused on clinical trials, either human or veterinary,
rather than basic animal research.
In Brazil just 3.7% of academic
research into homeopathy between
1985 and 2006 involved clinical
studies – a staggeringly low proportion (Estrêla and Caetano,
2013). With cancer sufferers in
every town and intractable problems with chemotherapeutic drugs,
how much more useful would the
CP study have been had it involved
real-life cancer patients receiving
CP as part of their treatment –
perhaps at the hospital where one
of the researchers was based?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Veterinary research directed at
improving the health of animals
has yielded positive evidence for
the effectiveness of homeopathy
and practical benefits at the same
time – without recourse to harm. A recent study of diarrhoea in
piglets carried out in the Netherlands, for example (Camerlink et
al, 2010), demonstrates the role
homeopathy can play in reducing
antibiotic use on farms, while a
British study of Cushing’s disease
in horses and dogs showed success
rates comparable to conventional
treatment but without the side-
effects, relapse rates and cost
(Elliott, 2001). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Numerous small
but valuable studies like these have
been carried out over the years but
RCTs of veterinary homeopathy
remain the holy grail of evidence-
building, just 44 of them having
been published in peer-reviewed
journals by the end of 2013 (British
Homeopathic Association, 2014).
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Perhaps the greatest spanner in
the works as far as gaining acceptance of homeopathy is concerned is
the fact that we don’t understand
its mode of action. People want to
know not only that homeopathy
works, but also HOW it works.
Researchers using animal models
often propose a possible mode of
action, for example that the remedies act directly on inflammatory
mediators, or on the immune system, or on certain enzyme pathways and so on. These explanations are based on a conventional
and materialistic view of the body
and in many respects they are half-right. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">As homeopaths, however, we
know the situation is significantly
more complex than this because
our remedies act first and foremost
at an energetic level, </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">on the vital </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">force itself. They affect the whole organism, touching the mind and spirit as much as they act on the body. If we want to explain the mode of action it would seem logical to study the energetic qualities of our remedies and the phenomenon of the vital force itself, not simply the physical manifestations of treatment. Homeopathy is not allopathy, it is energy medicine and it requires a completely new approach to research. To quote </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">a wise but unknown author: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><i>‘If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got’. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">Over the decades </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">countless animals have been experimented on, yet this has brought us
no nearer to demonstrating mode
of action. It is time for something
different – to move out of the tired
rut of animal experiments, to be
innovative and creative and to
embrace new ideas emanating </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">from other fields of science.
Translating the results of basic </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">animal studies to real-life situations
involving sick humans is an impossible task (see Reason 7), and we
know from mainstream medicine
that it is clinical research rather
than basic research that has the
most effect on patient care (Pound
and Bracken, 2014). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">As a consequence none of the animal experiments referred to above are likely
to be of help to practising homeopaths. Stuart Close, professor of
homeopathic philosophy at the
New York Medical College from
1909-1913, concluded that</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Bulldog';"><i>"... nothing of any real therapeutic
value has ever been learned by
experiment upon animals that could
not have been learned better, more
simply and more humanely by
harmless experiments upon human
beings; while the knowledge gained
in such experiments on human
beings is equally valuable for use </i></span><i style="font-family: Bulldog;">in the treatment of sick animals.</i><br />
<i style="font-family: Bulldog;"><br /></i>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">The great majority of our patients
present with chronic complaints
that develop naturally and uniquely, conditions that are influenced
by life events, environmental factors, inherited traits and so on that
all need to be considered when
prescribing. Relatively few patients
present with severe poisonings,
burns, or artificially induced
tumours and, even if they did, </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">they would receive individualised
treatment because homeopaths,
of course, practise ‘personalised
medicine’ (see Reason 7) and prescribe on the totality of the symptoms not the condition itself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">If animal experiments don’t positively influence patient care, don’t
add significantly to the evidence
base and haven’t brought us any
closer to discovering mode of
action, then who exactly </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">does
</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">benefit from this research and </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">why is it still being done? To boost
publication records and academic
careers? Out of curiosity? Out of
personal bias and habit? Of all </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">the
reasons for animal research these
are the ones least well tolerated by
society, a point explored further in
Reason 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">T</span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">he process of making animals
ill and then treating them with a
single remedy appears crude and
oversimplified to the homeopath,
particularly as the focus is almost
always on the physical body and
on what happens at the organ </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">or cellular level. (According to </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">the Sensation method [Sankaran,
2004] this information equates to
Sankaran’s levels 1 and 2: name
and fact.) In focusing on the detail
researchers become closed to the
possibility that the piece of information they seek may not be needed to solve the clinical problem
being addressed. And they can </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">lose the bigger picture entirely. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">The
role of the vital force, for example,
which ‘governs without restriction
and keeps all parts of the organism
in admirable, harmonious, vital
operation’, is rarely explored. This
is unsurprising given the mainstream view that humans and animals are simply physical beings
made of component parts rather
than energetic ones capable of
existing and experiencing them-
selves at many different levels
simultaneously (Morrish, 2007).
Yet to overlook the vital force
when studying homeopathy seems
absurd. So too does the one-
condition-one-remedy approach
and inattention to emotional state
(usually fear) unless, of course, it
forms part of the experiment. This
is not homeopathy. It is a pale and
distorted version of the therapy
that ultimately does it no favours
(see Reasons 3, 5, 6).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Bulldog;"><b>Reason 4: It’s not homeopathy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Most basic animal research in
homeopathy is geared towards testing the efficacy of a highly diluted
medicine rather than the effectiveness of homeopathy itself. The
work is heavily influenced by an
allopathic approach to disease and
treatment and it reflects both the
conventional backgrounds of the
researchers involved and a lack of
training and experience in homeo-
pathic prescribing. The remedies
used are sometimes patented
combinations, the homeopathic
rationale for which may be unclear
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">Canova</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">, for example, contains 17 different remedies, 15 of which
are polycrests). More typically they
are single polycrests and usually </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">relevant to the condition studied –
although this is not always the
case. One study used </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">Chamomilla
</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">6c to treat depression in mice
induced by housing healthy animals with dying cage mates (Pinto
et al, 2008). The researchers concluded from behavioural studies
that the remedy ‘hastened the
recovery of normal behaviour’ but,
as the results did not appear to </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">be statistically significant, this conclusion lacks foundation. From </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">a homeopathic perspective </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-style: italic;">Chamomilla </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">appears a strange choice for
the condition studied, but then </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">the researchers in question may
not have seen the effects of the
remedy on a fractious two-year
old cutting teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bulldog';"><b>Reason 5: Public opinion
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Public concern about the use of
animals in research is a powerful
agent for change. It has brought
about such things as a complete
ban on the testing of cosmetics in Europe and Norway in 2013 (swiftly followed by similar bans
in Israel, India and Sao Paulo in
Brazil) and has led to the establish-
ment of numerous centres around
the world researching alternatives
to animal testing in toxicology
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">and medicine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br />
In 2009 a wide-ranging poll was </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">carried out by YouGov in six EU
member states (UK, France, Italy,
Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden)
before the introduction of a new
EU directive on the protection </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">of animals in scientific research
(Directive 2010/63/EU). The results
were highly consistent across the
region and are summarised below.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">79% of those polled either
agreed or strongly agreed that the
new law should </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-weight: 700;">prohibit all experi-
ments on animals which do not
relate to serious or life-threatening
human conditions</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">, signalling a
clear opposition to all non-essential
and curiosity-driven research.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">84% of respondents either agreed
or strongly agreed that the new law
should </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-weight: 700;">prohibit all experiments
causing severe pain or suffering to any animal</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">, while 80% of those
questioned agreed or strongly
agreed that </span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon'; font-weight: 700;">all information about
animal experiments should be pub-
licly available</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">, except confidential
information and information that
would identify researchers or
where they work.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Directive 2010/63/EU, now part
of law in all member states, broadly reflects these attitudes and desires.
Its emphasis on transparency is
expected to have a major influence
on the use of animals in scientific
research in Europe – and ultimately
in other parts of the world.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">The directive requires all researchers to produce a short non-technical summary of the work
they plan to do with animals. In it they will need to state the unknowns that are being addressed,
the predicted harm that will be
done to the animals and why alternatives can’t be used. These summaries will be published on national websites that can be accessed by the public. Entering words such
as 'homeopathy’ or ‘ultra-high
dilution’ and ‘animal model’, for
example, into a database search </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">will retrieve information on all
relevant studies in that country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">At the time of writing no basic
homeopathic research involving
animals appears to be taking place
in the UK, although British journals continue to provide a platform
for this work. In other EU coun-
tries researchers are likely to find
their work coming under close
scrutiny in the coming years, particularly by campaigning organisations. Judging by the response to
the YouGov poll it isn’t hard to
predict how the public would view
harmful experiments on animals
that involved safe medicines
already tested on humans – and
information spreads fast in the
digital age. The UK homeopathic
community, both practitioners and
patients alike, would certainly be
unhappy and want clarification on
the issue by professional registering
bodies and homeopathic pharmacies. The response from those not
sympathetic to homeopathy might
understandably be stronger ...
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<span style="font-family: 'Bulldog';"><b>Reason 6: It’s quite possibly
unlawful (depending on where
you’re doing it)</b>
</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Directive 2010/63/EU places strong
emphasis on the 3Rs (test methods
which replace, refine and reduce
the use of laboratory animals) and
especially on replacement. The
goal of the directive is to achieve
full replacement of procedures on
live animals for scientific and edu-
cational purposes as soon as it </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">is scientifically possible to do so.
Article 4 states that: ‘wherever
possible, a scientifically satisfactory
method or testing strategy, not
entailing the use of live animals,
shall be used instead of a procedure.’ Within homeopathy it
should be easy to comply with the
3Rs requirement and with Article 4
for the obvious reason that our
medicines have always been tested
on people, not animals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">European researchers who continue to harm animals in the course
of homeopathic enquiry may find
themselves open to legal challenge </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">by campaigning welfare organisations who will be monitoring the
new databases. These organisations
would refer to the harm / benefit
test now required by EU law and
argue that the predicted harm
would not be justified by the expected outcome (see Reason 3).
They would also argue that homeopathic medicines have been around
for a long time, a lot is already
known about them from human
studies and there is no legal requirement to test them on animals
prior to using them on humans.
They would cite the many alternatives (humans, plant bioassays, in
vitro tests) that exist, and their case
would be strong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Outside Europe, in countries
with weaker legislation, there is
even wider scope for harm. India<br />
is harmonising animal welfare law
with EU legislation but doubts
exist over how practical these
frameworks are and how seriously
the government takes their enforcement (Akbarsha MA and Hartung </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">T, 2013). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">In Brazil law-makers
have worked hard to overhaul
1987 welfare rules governing the
use of animals in scientific research,
yet the new 2008 legislation has
numerous significant omissions, for
example it fails to refer to or place
emphasis on the 3Rs, has no severity classification system for procedures and does not even require
research to be designed with consideration for its relevance to
human and animal health, the
advancement of knowledge or </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">the good of society (Filipecki et al,
2011). It thus falls to the National
Council for the Control of Animal
Experimentation to develop strategies to improve regulations and </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">to positively influence both animal
welfare and the ingrained culture
of animal experimentation in </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">the country. This could take </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Bulldog';"><b>Reason 7: It’s not necessary
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Mainstream medicine has built its
foundations on animal research,
yet these are looking increasingly
shaky as scientists begin to evaluate evidence for the reliability and
success of animal models in predicting effects in humans. A recent
article in the BMJ highlighted the
fact that even the most promising
findings from animal research often
fail in human trials and are rarely
adopted into clinical practice
(Pound and Bracken, 2014). The
authors concluded that the benefits
of animal research remain un-
proven and may divert funds from
research that would be more rele-
vant to doctors and their patients.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">Elsewhere an open letter from 21 scientists to Prime Minister
David Cameron stressed the dangers of relying on animal models
when testing drugs intended for
humans and emphasised the need
for greater use of human-based test
methods (Archibald et al, 2011).
Increasingly such methods are com-
ing online, ranging from sophisticated computer programmes that
can detect toxicity in minutes
rather than months of animal testing, to in vitro models that simulate whole organs and organ systems. Thus mainstream biomedical
research appears to be moving
away from animal models, albeit
slowly, driven by public opinion,
the need to reduce the incidence of
adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and
the cost and time required to bring
a new drug to market.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">The great irony (that won’t be
lost on practising homeopaths) is
that two of the latest testing tech-
nologies suggest this movement is towards a rudimentary form of homeopathy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">One method is
‘micro-dosing’, which involves giving human volunteers tiny doses of a potential drug at levels high
enough to allow scientists to see its effects in the body but not high
enough to cause harm. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">The second
is ‘personalised medicine’, in which
scientists obtain genetic and molecular information from a person in
order to predict how they will react
to a certain drug. The aim of this is to make treatment more targeted
and effective and to reduce the
number of ADRs.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">ADRs of course have never been
a stumbling block for homeopathy.
The safety of our medicines has
allowed experimentation on large
</span><span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">numbers of consenting men and
women of all ages and ethnicities, </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">each of whom has been able to
communicate their reactions and
experiences, whether physical,
mental or emotional. Over the
decades this non-harmful, human-based research has led to the development of a rich, multi-dimensional
and valuable homeopathic materia
medica tailor-made for ‘personalised medicine’, and to a greater
understanding of the nature of
health and disease. As Close observed almost a century ago: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><i>‘Experiments of homoeopathy are
made by men, upon men, for men
under the natural conditions which
belong to the everyday life of all
men’ (Close, 1924). </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Sabon;">It comes as
another ironic twist then to see
homeopathic research move away
from humans as the primary research subjects and towards genetically identical laboratory animals
maintained in carefully controlled
environments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Sabon';">If all animal experimentation
were to be banned tomorrow, then
research into homeopathy would
be more likely to thrive than to
suffer. The focus would shift easily
towards humans – both healthy
and sick; to sick animals, to well-trialled plant bioassays and in vitro
tests. Funding would be reassigned
and progress towards a large, high-quality evidence-base accelerated.
We could take full and confident
advantage of the safety of homeopathic medicines – downplayed by
an allopathic approach to homeopathic research – and, perhaps </span><span style="font-family: Sabon;">most importantly, research would
fully reflect the ethical principles
and innovative thinking that led to
homeopathy’s birth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Sabon;"><br /></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-87451916377771794472015-03-23T12:46:00.000+00:002015-03-25T14:16:13.694+00:00Cataracts. A miracle, or just homeopathy in practice?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This blog has been provided by Christina Villacorta, after she shared it with the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths. Many many thanks to her for allowing me to share the story, which is quite amazing.</span><br />
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<i> I would like to add a little anecdote to the cataract topic, I know it is </i><i>a guinea pig, nevertheless I find it interesting!</i><br />
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<i>Last year, I was treating Punky, my guinea pig, for some fat lumps under his </i><i>belly. The only reason I did it was because they were big enough to </i><i>bother him, one was close to his leg and it was very big. My daughters </i><i>asked me several time to give him something but I have to say I do not feel </i><i>comfortable prescribing for animals, they don't say much! </i><br />
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<i>Anyway, I gave</i><i> him some therapeutic remedies with great success and the girls were happy </i><i>and so was I. </i><br />
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<i>Now, soon after, my daughter held the guinea pig and she </i><i>called me, very distressed, the poor thing had a white eye!!! It was quite thick </i><i>and blue looking so I explained he had a cataract, he was old and it </i><i>happens. </i><br />
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<i>Again they ask me to give something to this poor thing but I know </i><i>cataracts can be tricky to treat and I have not heard of much success. I </i><i>have never treated one myself but .... I had nothing to loose. So I went to </i><i>old Clark prescriber and looked under cataracts: </i><br />
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<i>Having nothing better to go for, I put a Calc-fluor 30 in his drinking bottle and forgot about it. About a week after, I was called again by my daughter who </i><i>was holding the guinea pig and she was shocked, but so was I!</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The cataract </i><i>was nearly gone, I would say 90%! </i></span></b><br />
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<i>I still gave him the Sulphur for a couple </i><i>of weeks and the cataract never came back! This is nearly a year after.</i><br />
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<i>I do not know what to think. It is one of this miracles that we see with </i><i>homoeopathy and I wish it would have happened with a patient but I have never </i><i>treated anyone for that. But Punky is </i><i>happy and so my daughters. It was truly amazing to see what therapeutics </i><i>can do even without treating the totality.</i><br />
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I share Christina's view. Homeopathy does sometimes work miracles. But of course it is not a miracle at all. When treatment is based on sound homeopathic principles, whether we treat humans, animals or plants, healing and cure take place. Why else are we all doing it?</div>
Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-42557716064627481722014-07-08T16:38:00.003+01:002014-07-08T16:38:35.012+01:00Homeopathy and Horses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">n fact the idea of using homeopathy, as a treatment for animals - termed veterinary homeopathy, dates back to the inception of homeopathy when Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy, wrote and spoke of the use of homeopathy in animals other than humans.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The owners and trainers of horses have found this natural system of medicine hugely benefits the racehorse as it treats the totality of the animal, stimulating the body’s healing process whilst having no side effects or withdrawal symptoms.</span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-37796225016101279942014-07-08T16:25:00.003+01:002014-07-08T16:36:00.869+01:00Homeopathy and Cancer - can it help our quality of life?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-50776194480983810142014-07-08T16:16:00.001+01:002014-07-08T16:16:20.233+01:00How Homeopathy can help protect you against adder bites<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-16339421877110138692014-07-08T16:07:00.002+01:002014-07-08T16:07:38.647+01:00Surgery? How can Homeopathy help?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-78513512292376736292014-07-08T15:47:00.002+01:002014-07-08T15:47:26.522+01:00Homeopathy. Provings make this medical therapy effective and safe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">All the symptoms experienced, physical, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">emotional and mental, are gathered and recorded in detail. The 'provers' </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">are not told anything about the substance they are taking, so they cannot </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">be influenced by any pre knowledge. Also, the person supervising the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">proving does not know what substance is being tested. </b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Finally, all the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">symptoms experienced by the 'reactive' provers are collated and organised </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">systematically. This information forms the basis of our 'Materia </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Medica', a vast and rapidly expanding database which describes the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">curative properties of our remedies. Once a newly proved remedy starts </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to be used in clinical practice we can fine tune some of the prescribing </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">details as we learn more about the substance's healing potential.</b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So, unlike conventional medicine, which is first tested on laboratory </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">animals such as mice, rats and monkeys, homeopathic remedies are </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">only trialled on healthy human volunteers. Because of the special way </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">homeopathic remedies are prepared they are safe and non toxic, so, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">even if a prover experiences unpleasant symptoms whilst participating </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">in a proving, they know the symptoms will pass once they stop taking</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>The first proving was undertaken by the founder of </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">homeopathy, a medical doctor called Samuel Hahnemann. He had </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">been reading about the toxicological effects of Peruvian bark (</b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Cinchona, </span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">known by homeopaths as </b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">China</span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">) and noted the poisoning symptoms </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">sounded remarkably similar to the symptoms of malaria. </b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20July%202010.pdf">This article first appeared in the ARH Newsletter, "Homeopathy Healthy Medicine"</a></span></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-75697593300087438452014-07-08T15:37:00.003+01:002014-07-08T15:37:55.932+01:00New Research on Statin drugs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Statins are prescribed </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to lower cholesterol </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">levels and therefore prevent </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">cardiac diseases in </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">those who are most susceptible </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to heart attacks, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">strokes or peripheral artery </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">disease. This is achieved </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">by interfering with the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">liver’s job of producing cholesterol, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">whilst helping the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">liver absorb more bad cholesterol </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">from your blood. It</b></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-62626862111718203102014-07-08T15:26:00.005+01:002014-07-08T15:26:59.766+01:00How Homeopathy cured my ear infection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unfortunately I continued </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to suffer from painful ear infections at </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">intervals throughout my young adult </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">life, until I discovered homeopathy in </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">my early thirties. By this time, any </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">approaching ear infection frightened </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">me so much, because of the pain I </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">knew was coming, that I would always </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">rush to the GP for antibiotics.</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Fortunately my homeopath was kind </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">enough to understand this and treated </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">me with homeopathy alongside </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">antibiotics to begin with. I was treated </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">constitutionally (an individualised </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">therapy for my specific symptoms) in </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">this dual fashion through 3 ear infections </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and I noticed straightaway that </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">each subsequent infection was milder,</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Finally I decided to manage future </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">ear infections with only homeopathic </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">treatment and paracetamol. This </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">was the breakthrough and shows the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">wonder and effectiveness of homeopathy.</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>After finally managing to </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">deal with an ear infection using only </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">homeopathic remedies, </b><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have not </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">suffered a single ear infection since</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Because of the excruciating pain I </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">used to endure this was a huge </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">relief. </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Naturally enough I became fascinated </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">with homeopathy, took a short </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">first aid course and then bought </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">books and began to study the subject </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">myself for use at home. </b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">sister is now an </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">experienced homeopath and after </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">20 years I am a pretty good amateur. </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With my sister’s help, homeopathy is </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the first port of call for any condition</b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I also </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">used homeopathy </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">throughout </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">my </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">pregnancy </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and for </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the birth </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">of my </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">son at</b></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-85455821541953107822014-07-08T15:17:00.000+01:002014-07-08T15:17:08.720+01:00How to protect yourself from the sun through homeopathy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Naturally, in order </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to prevent any ill-effects which the sun and heat </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">may cause, we suggest that you drink regularly </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to keep yourself hydrated, only expose yourself </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to the sun for short periods at a time and protect </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">yourself with sun cream, re-applying frequently, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">especially after swimming.</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Despite these preventative measures, if you do </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">happen to find yourself unwell due to the heat </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and sun that you have experienced, below are a </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">few remedies which may be able to help. </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The ARH would like to wish everyone a very </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">happy holiday. </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This article first appeared in the <a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20July%202010.pdf">ARH Newsletter, "Homeopathy Healthy Medicine".</a></b></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-86931366444722564572014-07-08T15:09:00.003+01:002014-07-08T15:09:20.405+01:00Fragrance Allergy and Homeopathy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“You could wear a plastic bubble on your head and an oxygen tank on </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">your back!” The general practitioner laughed as he spoke these words </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to me. I had suffered, for at least five years, with a chronic struggle to </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">breathe. </b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>A patch test was performed: </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the application of </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">various substances to the </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">skin under adhesive tape </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">then left in place for forty-eight </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">hours and examined </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">for response - inflammation </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">indicating an </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">allergic reaction. </b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The diagnosis: </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">allergy to fragrances.</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>I was advised: </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“stop wearing perfume </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and keep away from fragrances.”</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>I ceased wearing </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">perfume but avoiding </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">fragrances was impossible </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">since many items in daily use have a fragrance: soap, shampoo, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">deodorant, washing powder, bleach - the list is endless. </b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our home was </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">almost fragrance free but I became </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">desensitised and fragrances in the</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>One day at work I collapsed. A hint </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">of polish spray, in another room, </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">had been sufficient to take my </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">breath and affect my eyes. </b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A colleague </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">had recently read a newspaper </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">article on homeopathy. I </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">made an appointment with a homoeopath </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and within days of beginning </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">homoeopathic treatment my </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">breathing was easier. My symptoms </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">disappeared without return.</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>I had been told: </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“nothing can be done” and </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“allergies are difficult to treat. Learn</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Well, I didn’t have to live with the </b></span><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">symptoms or wear a plastic bubble </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">on my head and an oxygen tank on </b><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">my back - thanks to homeopathy!</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This article first appeared in the <a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20July%202010.pdf">ARH Newsletter "Homeopathy Healthy Medicine"</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The ARH would like to thank Anne </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bagust for sharing her interesting </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">story.</span></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-34588168556580481972014-07-08T14:59:00.002+01:002014-07-08T15:10:56.280+01:00Homeopathy and Travel Sickness. Give yourself an easier time!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With school holidays now underway, it is inevitable that many families will be taking to their vehicles for their annual ‘car journey’ to the seaside, grandparents or campsite over the</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">coming months. Memories of previous trips may have you reconsidering the length of your journey </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and, unfortunately, even homeopathy can’t help with pacifying backseat drivers, occupying squealing impatient children with car games or dealing with that infamous line “are we </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">nearly there yet?”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">§ Cocculus – use when you want to lie down and when food or the thought of food brings on a feeling of nausea</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">§ Petroleum – use if headache is overriding symptom but there’s a feeling of hunger</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">§ Tabacum – use when the slightest motion causes extreme nausea and you are pale,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">§ Zingiber – use when there’s a sense of vertigo and limbs being heavy</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In addition to the above, there are a number of over-the-counter therapies such as wrist bands, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Kwells and other travel-sickness relief pills which may help ease the symptoms, although, we recommend that for a more individualised remedy, please consult a homeopathic.</span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-35899903785345737002014-07-08T14:46:00.002+01:002014-07-08T14:56:55.174+01:00Sporting Glory or just sprains and strains?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">If the recent football frenzy, or Murray mania didn’t totally take you over, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">maybe the extensive press coverage of the World Cup and Wimbledon </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">will have inspired some of you to try your hand at a sporting activity. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">those of you who are already heading to the nearest playing field or local </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">tennis courts in anticipation of becoming the next Maradona or Federer, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">we have put together a basic list to help you to cope with any sprains </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and strains which you may encounter on your way to winning glory! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">§ Arnica – eases bruising and soreness</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">§ Bryonia – useful for torn/damaged ligaments or tendons, especially if</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In addition to the above remedies, the pain of sprains may either be eased by hot baths and applying warmth </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to the vulnerable area, or the opposite, by the application of an ice pack to reduce swelling. Resting the </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">muscles and tendons may also prove helpful whilst firm bandaging can alleviate the pain of dislocation.</span><br />
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There is nothing more frustrating than wanting to play your sport, and not being able to do so. Let homeopathy get you back in action quicker!<br />
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-88695942126913196722014-05-28T15:24:00.003+01:002014-05-28T15:24:51.817+01:00Is your garden plagued by snails?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With the weather hotting up, it’s time for you to enjoy your garden, though you may not be so keen to share it with the snails and slugs intent on consuming your plants!<br />
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If this is a problem you’re encountering, try watering your plants with a homeopathic preparation of agricultural Helix Tosta 6X (available from <a href="http://www.moodiebiz.com/">www.moodiebiz.com</a>). Mix 10 drops in one litre of water, shake vigourously for about a minute, then add a further 20 litres of water to the mix before applying to your plants.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20May%202010.pdf">This article first appeared in an ARH Newsletter in May 2010</a></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-69727769714712126472014-05-28T15:18:00.004+01:002014-05-28T15:18:28.071+01:00Homeopathy for Hay Fever<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Looking forward to dry, sunny days? Maybe not - if you suffer from hay fever.</b><br />
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It is estimated that a fifth of the population dread this time of year because they suffer from hay fever or similar allergies . They can expect to experience a range of respiratory disorders, together with sneezing, itchiness and watery eyes.<br />
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Hay fever is an allergy where the immune system of sufferers overreacts to pollen and spores. It usually occurs throughout spring and summer, when pollen and spore counts from trees, plants, grasses, fungi and moulds are at their highest. When the body comes into contact with pollen, the lining of the nose, mouth and eyes release a chemical called histamine which causes an allergic<br />
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We asked our members to recommend some of the homeopathic remedies their patients most frequently found useful for the treatment of hay fever. Here is a brief list of remedies, which includes some of the key prescribing symptoms.<br />
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Please note this is only intended as a guideline. It is recommended that you consult with a registered homeopath in order to receive an appropriately individualised prescription.<br />
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Dripping nose with burning discharge, violent sneezing, stinging, watery eyes.<br />
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Ssneezes because of tickling feeling in nose, burning sensation in eyes, nose and throat,<br />
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Eyes the biggest problem, with itchy and dry eyes, and burning discharge. Tickling cough, intense<br />
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Bland watery nose and eyes, worse in the heat, eyes itch and feel gritty, and may produce yellowy<br />
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Constant , maddening tingling in nose, burning and redness of eyes, sneezing provokes tears.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20May%202010.pdf">This article was first published in an ARH Newsletter, May 2010.</a></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-23060812666757721552014-05-28T15:10:00.001+01:002014-05-28T15:10:24.867+01:00Ashes to Ashes. Homeopathy for stress.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Whilst the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano has expanded our knowledge on such geological matters, for Icelandic residents, there are potential health effects. These include eye and skin irritation, as well as increased respiratory problems for conditions like asthma or other lung conditions.<span class="s1"></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Volcanoes emit water (H2O), and a variety of gases including carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), hydrogen chloride (HCl), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and hafnium (HF). These gases interact rapidly with the ash particles of a volcanic plume and especially atmospheric water to form acidic aerosols.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Since the UK is located over 900 miles from the volcano, it is unlikely that these health issues will affect us. However the stress, frustration and anxiety of being stranded abroad because your flight has been cancelled, can give rise to a whole range of emotions. If you find yourself in this or a similar situation, you may find the following remedies helpful:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.a-r-h.org/FindMembers/find.php">http://www.a-r-h.org/FindMembers/find.php</a></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This article was first published in an ARH Newsletter, dated May 2010. The ARH would like to thank Myriam Shivadikar for her contribution towards this article.</span></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-59699244221924036212014-05-28T14:56:00.001+01:002014-05-28T14:56:33.575+01:00What is Homeopathy?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In last month's newsletter, virologist Dr. Gillian Bullock had asked us to briefly define 'homeopathy', and had quoted the following from the New Collins English Dictionary, which says that Homeopathy is:<br />
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<i> 'A method of treating disease by the use of small amounts of a drug that, in</i><br />
<i>healthy persons, produces symptoms similar to those of the disease being treated'. </i><br />
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We learned that homeopathic medicines are called 'remedies', and are made from naturally occurring substances such as plants and minerals. Remedies are prepared in a special way to make them safe, non-addictive and free from toxic affects.<br />
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Now we will explore the reference Collins Dictionary makes to 'similar' symptoms. In conventional medicine, you are usually given something that has an opposite effect on your symptom. So, for example, if you find it difficult to sleep, you will be given a drug which will make you sleep.<br />
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The trouble is that the sleeping pill only helps with the symptom(sleeplessness). It does not sort out the reason behind the sleeplessness. This means that after a while, you may find you have to use a more powerful sleeping tablet in order to sleep, which could start to have an adverse affect on the way you feel during the day.<br />
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With homeopathy, you will be given a remedy which is known to produce similar symptoms in a healthy person, to those you are currently experiencing. We know that drinking coffee can stimulate the nervous system, and that if you have a cup of coffee shortly before going to bed, you may find it difficult to fall asleep.<br />
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Coffea (the Latin name for coffee), when given as a correctly prepared homeopathic remedy, may actually help some sufferers of insomnia to naturally overcome their sleeplessness.<br />
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This is known as the 'Law of Similars'. Basically it means that a naturally occurring substance which can cause a particular set of symptoms in a healthy person, can be used to treat a similar set of symptoms experienced by a sick person. The closer the match between the patient's symptoms and the remedy's ‘symptoms', the more effective the treatment.<br />
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<a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20May%202010.pdf">This article was first published in the ARH Newsletter, May 2010.</a></div>
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‘A pill for every ill’ was a paper published in the March edition of the Journal of Social Science and Medicine. Written by Professor Joan Busfield from the University of Essex, it states that the NHS prescription bill has exploded in the past 20 years from £4 billion in the early 1990’s to around £18 billion at the present time. This means that the number of prescribed medicines per head has risen from 8 per person to more than 16 per year in the past two decades.<br />
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Prof Busfield cites the pharmaceutical industry as the main reason for why this escalation has come about. According to the author, the pharmaceutical industry has recognised that in order to maintain steady growth and profitability in the future, it needs to expand its markets.<br />
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<b>Therefore in addition to treating recognised illnesses, the industry is creating ‘new disease’ categories by prescribing normal, healthy individuals with drugs for naturally occurring problems such as sexual dysfunctions.</b><br />
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The report also suggests that the general public have lost their sense of stoicism, and have become more demanding in recent years. Michael Sumners, the vice-chairman of the Patients Association, believes people are generally reluctant to tolerate any discomfort, seeking a drug solution for even the slightest of ailments.<br />
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Furthermore, it seems many people no longer accept what they are told by medical professionals, and use the internet to find solutions for their health problems.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Journal of Social Science and Medicine, March 2010; Daily Telegraph, March 2010; The Observer, 28 March 2010)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20May%202010.pdf">This article was first published as an ARH Newsletter in May 2010.</a></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-51959454933515588272014-05-28T14:31:00.003+01:002014-05-28T14:31:45.272+01:00Homeopathy Helps Piglets!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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E-Coli diarrhoea amongst newborn piglets is a major problem within the agricultural industry. The antibiotic cure is often labour-intensive to administer to large numbers of sows, and subsequently costly. Therefore when research was undertaken to investigate the effect of homeopathic remedies on pigs in the last month of gestation, many farmers were eager to find out the results.<br />
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The study was conducted on a commercial farm in the Netherlands by The Biological Farming Systems Group at the Wageningen University. It included assigning fifty-two sows (none of which had been vaccinated against E.Coli) to either a placebo group, or homeopathic treatment group, for the investigation. The 525 piglets that were born from these sows were monitored for frequency and duration of diarrhoea.<br />
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The results published in the journal Homeopathy in January 2010, showed that the placebo group suffered over 6 times more diarrhoea than the homeopathic group. Moreover, within the homeopathic treatment group, the diarrhoea was less severe, there was less transmission and the duration appeared shorter.<br />
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Since a high use of antibiotics can cause problems within animal health, and, in the organic sector the amount of antibiotics given to livestock is restricted, this investigation provides farmers with a safer and less expensive alternative to conventional treatment.<br />
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<a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20May%202010.pdf"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This article was first published in an ARH Newsletter in May 2010</span></a><br />
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The season of Spring is barely upon us, with only a peppering of crocuses, snowdrops and daffodils around, but it seems that tree pollen is in full force as the hay fever season kicks in.<br />
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Hay fever is an allergy caused by a weakened immune system, which results in an irritation to the nose and eyes. It is seen as an extremely obstinate ailment to treat, a permanent cure depends on raising the quality of the immune system.<br />
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Homeopathy may help to treat the allergy by strengthening the immune system through individualised constitutional treatment, although it may take several seasons to eradicate the<br />
problem fully. In the short-term, however, the discomfort may be reduced by using a number of different remedies including:<br />
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<b>§ Allium Cepa 30C</b> – dripping nose with burning discharge; violent sneezing; stinging, watery eyes<br />
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<b>§ Arsenicum Album 30C</b> – sneezing because of tickling feeling in nose; burning sensation in eyes, nose and throat; discharges may be acrid<br />
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<b>§ Euphrasia 30c</b> – eyes the biggest problem: itchy and dry eyes, burning discharge. Tickling cough; intense sneezing; runny nose with bland discharge<br />
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<b>§ Pulsatilla 30C</b> – bland watery nose and eyes; eyes itch and feel gritty, and may produce yellowy discharge; lots of sneezing; worse in the heat<br />
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<b>§ Sabadilla 30c</b> – constant , maddening tingling in nose; burning and redness of eyes; sneezing provokes tears; eyes water and burn<br />
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The main cause of hay fever in early spring is tree pollen and therefore a homeopathic<br />
<b>‘Tree Pollen Mix’</b>, available from most homeopathic pharmacies, can be helpful. It is always best to discuss your specific requirements with a registered homeopath since a susceptibility to hay<br />
fever suggests a deeper underlying cause requiring individualised treatment.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20March%202011.pdf">This article was first published in Homeopathy Healthy Medicine, March 2011</a></span></div>
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Animal injuries are commonplace although, when they appear among working animals, the repercussions involved are heavily increased and the resultant situation more severe.<br />
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So when Todd, a part bred Hanoverian show jumper, had an accident which led him to have a thorn embedded in his lower leg, his owner and trainer naturally became very concerned. The horse's leg began to swell and scanning confirmed the thorn was interfering with Todd’s tendon.<br />
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Following regular scans every two to three days, the swelling showed no signs of abating, and the only option available, was surgery. Liz Morrison, Todd’s owner, was fiercely against this idea and decided to contact her local homeopathic vet. The thorn had become engulfed in a cavity, as the<br />
body reacted to the foreign body, trying to isolate it by healing around the thorn, so the vet, Nick, prepared a homeopathic remedy which included high potency Sulphur and low potency Silica.<br />
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The swelling subsided almost immediately and by the next scan, three days later, the thorn had completely vanished and the cavity had considerably reduced in size and was healing. In discussing the situation, Liz Morrison said, </div>
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<i>“I think it is amazing that the homeopathic remedy eradicated the thorn so quickly; I am so grateful Todd didn’t need surgery and made a full recovery.” </i></div>
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As a result of this experience, Liz has used homeopathic treatment on several of her horses</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20March%202011.pdf">This article first appeared in Homeopathy Healthy Medicine, March 2011</a></span></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-63405452385131346212014-03-04T15:34:00.005+00:002014-03-04T15:34:49.839+00:00Still suffering from a common cold? How Homeopathy can help<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We could be forgiven for thinking, with each day becoming longer and signs of life slowly appearing in the garden, that the days of winter are behind us and the worries of a cold emerging are long gone. However, the sudden changes in temperatures which often occur in March and April, following the long, bleak winter months, can result in us falling ill with a cold at the last hurdle!<br />
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There is little point in treating an ordinary cold; it is best to let it take its course and to view it as a useful way to “clean out” the system. If, however, the frequency of annual colds is more than a couple, it is advisable to contact a homeopath to help build up your immune system for the future.<br />
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If, additionally, you see no signs of improvement after a few days of catching a cold and are still feeling run down, then the following remedies may help. Please note that for more individualised treatment, it is recommended that you consult with a registered homeopath.<br />
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<b>Aconite</b> – use at beginning of illness; when illness strikes suddenly particularly at night; chill caused by exposure to cold, dry winds; you have fever and are thirsty and sweaty, especially on covered parts; dry painful cough<br />
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<b>Allium cepa</b> – runny nose with burning discharge; runny eyes<br />
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<b>Arsenicum</b> –cold begins in nose which produces thin, watery, burning discharge, you sneeze a lot and cold often moves to chest; you feel chilly and restless but enjoy sips of water<br />
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<b>Belladonna</b> – high fever, red face and burning, skin is dry but you are not usually thirsty, head almost always hurts with a throbbing pain<br />
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<b>Bryonia</b> – symptoms are slow to develop, you feel irritable and wish to be left alone and still, feel better for large amounts of cold water, remedy works best once the cold has moved to the chest<br />
producing a painful, dry cough<br />
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<b>Eupatorium</b> – remedy of choice if the flu has gone to your bones which ache, you are very thirsty and feel better for sweating, although this does not help with your headache<br />
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<b>Gelsemium</b> – you shake and shiver, symptoms develop slowly, you feel tired and weak and your body and muscles feel heavy. You may have a headache at the back of your head. You feel ‘fluey’.<br />
(Homeopathy for Common Ailments by Robin Hayfield)<br />
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<a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20March%202011.pdf"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This article first appeared in Homeopathy Healthy Medicine March 2011</span></a></div>
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Alliance of Registered Homeopathshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844155393012396948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4731458130557299840.post-21383296756142043432014-03-04T15:25:00.003+00:002014-03-04T15:25:28.674+00:00Pulsatilla Nigricans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pulsatilla is also known as pasque flower, meadow anemone, wind flower. It favours sandy soils and sunny conditions, and grows in meadows throughout central and northern Europe. The remedy is made from the whole plant whilst in flower.<br />
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Pulsatilla is an incredibly versatile remedy, which can be used in many ways, but can be especially helpful in treating children experiencing the symptoms of common childhood ailments.<br />
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The child who might benefit from Pulsatilla is generally, mild, sweet natured, a bit timid, and very eager to please. They really need to feel supported an loved, so if they’re off colour, they will probably be very clingy, and not want Mum to leave them on their own. In fact what they really want is for Mum to give them a good cuddle!<br />
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However, the Pulsatilla child can also become cross, irritable and even manipulative, if they don’t get their own way. Their moods can be very changeable, laughter and sunshine one moment, then<br />
tears and tantrums the next (rather like the ‘wind flower’ changing direction with the breeze).<br />
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Physical symptoms can also be very changeable, so for example, pains can shift rapidly from one spot to another, or a cold may be accompanied by a free flowing runny nose, which suddenly changes to become blocked and ‘bunged’ up.<br />
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Generally, someone who might benefit from Pulsatilla is warm blooded (so will often shed layers of clothing, and hates being in the hot sun!), thirstless, and craves fresh air, which relieves their symptoms. Catarrh and discharges (from nose, ears, eyes, cough etc) are yellow or yellow/green, and although they may be profuse, they are generally bland, but might be smelly.<br />
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Pulsatilla ‘types’ tend not to like rich foods, which can also disagree with them, so they’ll often either love or loathe butter. However, the Pulsatilla child may both love and crave peanut butter!<br />
In conclusion, Pulsatilla can help with a whole range of symptoms which have the characteristics described above.<br />
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If the picture fits, you can try giving one Pulsatilla 30C every half hour for up to four doses, then reduce as symptoms improve.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www1.a-r-h.org/NewsandEvents/HHM%20March%202011.pdf">This article was first published in Homeopathy Healthy Medicine, March 2011</a></span></div>
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