Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Patients today can be complex and complicated. No two individuals, or patients, share the same understanding and approach to health. Some patients are spiritually aware and understand that health is a continuum; others see health as a finite state. Some present with a basic understanding of homeopathy, while others are held
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Septicaemia, or blood poisoning, is a systemic infection in which pathogens are present in the bloodstream, having spread from an infection in any part of the body. Characteristically, septicaemia causes fever, chills, prostration, pain, headache, nausea and diarrhoea. Once diagnosed, it is customarily and vigorously treated with antibiotics. However, the symptom-picture
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Classical homeopathy, a highly successful and gentle method of healing, was founded over 200 years ago by the legendary German chemist and physician, Dr Samuel Hahnemann, MD. This alternative approach to the treatment of acute and chronic health problems is an energy-based therapy founded on the belief that dis-ease can be
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH It’s difficult, but also exciting, to believe that ThinkWellness360 is one-year-old. Time flies, yes. As I now reflect on the past year, I realise that it has been my privilege to create in words a comprehensive selection of articles on the many fascinating aspects of classical homeopathy. All my articles, through
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Disease is a result of a morbific stimulus which resonates with the particular level of susceptibility [predisposition] of the organism. The stimulus, or exciting, cause may be a microorganism, chemical, emotion, vaccination, etc., but without a strong susceptibility to the morbific agent, disease is not produced. That is, there must be
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Classical homeopathy is based on the belief that disease can be cured by strengthening the body’s defence mechanism with substances carefully selected for their energy-giving properties. Disease and the body’s defence mechanism originate on the dynamic plane, and homeopathic medicine directs itself to this plane, aiming to change the imbalance in
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH If you are living in a part of the world that is consistently challenged by its weather, you understand the burning desire to get out of the house and into the luscious environment brought forth by the coming of temperate days. Children are already enthusiastically awaiting temperatures that are conducive to
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH It was right from the late 1700s up until the early 1800s that Sir Isaac Newton promoted the definition of the universe as being made up of solid objects. Newtonian physics was extended into the 19th century to describe a universe composed of fundamental building blocks called atoms. Atoms were thought
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Most animal guardians believe that most acute and chronic illnesses experienced by their dogs and cats can be treated only by conventional veterinary medicine [allopathy] since the conventional view has been promoted as gospel and has rarely been challenged. While standard veterinary intervention may excel in emergency situations and in times
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH All adverse health conditions, according to homeopathic tenets, are a result of imbalances in our physical, emotional and/or mental energy systems. Fortunately, our bodies have a built-in alarm system which continuously alerts us to problems and this alarm system continues to function in our senior years constantly making us aware whether
