Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Drosera rotundifolia is the world’s only carnivorous plant, i.e., a plant which behaves almost like an animal. It is found in boggy places where it overpowers, smothers and decomposes insects by exuding drops of acrid, viscid liquid. Drosera is predominately a cough remedy, especially whooping cough, but offers much more because
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE They say silence is golden, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean laryngitis, epecially during cold and flu season when laryngitis can add insult to injury. Generally speaking, laryngitis that accompanies an acute respiratory illness is not particularly serious, but, yes, it’s annoying. Keep in mind, however, that today we are
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Remember the old commercial that warned, ‘It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature’? Well, the advertiser may have been hawking margarine [which you know you’ll never find in my home], but the sentiment remains true just the same. Cybersickness is much the same as seasickness, except your body is not actually
Words: Dr Miranda CASTRO The primary symptoms of seasonal allergies, or hay fever, are runny, itchy eyes, a runny and/or stuffed up nose — and, sneezing. Homeopathy can help. I adore sneezing. It is a thrilling experience for the body, but as a child I puzzled over why I had to say ‘bless you’ when
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy is not just a system of medical treatment; it is an advance in the area of mind-body, holistic medicine. It involves treating the individual having an illness, or disease, with highly diluted substances, prescribed primarily in pill, or liquid, form with the aim of triggering the body’s natural capacity for
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV Dengue [break-bone fever], as WHO explains, is a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people. It is more common in tropical and subtropical climates. Most people who get dengue will not have symptoms. But, for those who do, the most common symptoms are high fever, headache, body aches, nausea, and
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Illness, according to homeopathy, is internal imbalance. Homeopathy suggests that Illnesses first occur at the most fundamental levels of our being. This underlying imbalance is the cause of all disease, which presents itself in due course in the body as symptoms. These symptoms are manifest, or created, by the body in
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV Symphytum officinale, a homeopathic first aid remedy, is also known as common comphrey, knitbone and bone-set in herbal medicine. The latter names precisely describe its sphere of genius, the mending of broken bones, and the treatment of bone diseases, ranging from inflammation of the bones, or osteitis, to cancers of the bones,
Words: Dr Ronald D WHITMONT I have treated numerous cases of microbiome/immune system damage that have presented in the form of recurrent and chronic illness. These conditions can present as: chronic inflammatory illness [fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue], chronic infectious illness [chronic Lyme disease], recurrent acute illness [streptococcal pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, otitis media, sinusitis], allergic conditions
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Homeopathic analysis and prescription is an excellent way to address the energetic disruption caused when a particular personality type is reproached. As no two personalities are alike, there will be a different remedy for each, and homeopathic case-taking allows us to zero-in on the particulars of the personality and prescribe the
