Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Homeopathic remedies used in dilution have far-reaching and astounding results in mental, emotional, and physical conditions. Homeopathic remedies used in mother tincture form are also of great value and though they may not target the deeper energetic planes, they do produce excellent results in a variety of external problems. The following
Words: Dr Luc De SCHEPPER As a physician, I first started to notice significant numbers of hypersensitive patients in the early 1980s, when a cluster of special people descended on my office. They claimed that they reacted vehemently to the slightest dose of medication — even with alternative modalities like herbs and vitamins, oxygen therapy,
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV One of the most important elements to guide the homeopath to the appropriate remedy is the mental and emotional state of the patient. Each remedy has its own mental and emotional range and curative effect. Remedies that we use to treat ailments from grief, for example, were found to produce the
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Quite a few of you have asked me for a remedy for chigger bites. I must confess, I had never heard of chiggers until about 15 years ago. Perhaps, they are more of a Southern thing, and I just wasn’t exposed to them in New York. But, now that I’m in
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE It’s time, in summer, for backyard barbecues, or picnics in the park. In our winter imaginations too, many envision their summer yards and parks as manicured fields of green, inviting grass, lush foliage and brightly-coloured flowers — that endless bed of green with only our desired plants and no pesky insects.
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH We have all experienced feelings of loneliness at some point in our lives. At these times we may feel isolated and alone, or dejected and not understood. Or, we may have a constant feeling of being uncared for, or neglected by a friend, relative, or fellow worker. We may, at times,
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH The onset of influenza usually takes us by surprise, so I give my patients an information sheet listing the primary homeopathic remedies for flu at the beginning of the season and suggest that they stock up on all, so that they have them ready in case they fall ill. The onset
Words: Dr Bernardo A MERIZALDE There are similarities between modern psychiatry and homeopathy. Recent neurobiological research tends to validate old homeopathic concepts that Dr Samuel Hahnemann, MD, the founder of homeopathy, described in detail in his Organon — the bible of this holistic medical system. Psychiatry continued to be undefined as a specialty into the
Words: Dr Miranda CASTRO Fevers are not all bad. In fact, medical research over the past twenty years has consistently shown them to actually help in fighting infections. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, ‘Give me a fever and I can cure the child.’ A weak child may be endlessly ‘sick’, neither very ill nor
Words: Dr Luc De SCHEPPER The diagnosis of prostate problems shakes many men out of complacency about their health. Prostate cancer, the final stage of prostate suffering, is already the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer. In recent times, approximately 94 million new cases of
