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 Christine LASCHKOLNIG Homeopathy not only offers help when the body rebels, and the past catches up with the present, but also when relationships reach a point of crisis — often cumulating in the feeling of being trapped and having lost one’s freedom. In many cases unresolved problems and enmeshments with parents stand in
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
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV Gelsemium sempervirens. This is the homeopathic remedy that helped me with COVID-19 long haul symptoms. While I was working on this article and studying the mental symptoms, I was struck by what a wide range this remedy has, and how many people it has the potential to help. If everyone reading
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH The treatment of illnesses through homeopathy is a unique adventure that encompasses the totality of the patient’s mental, emotional and physical symptoms from the past and present as well the unique inheritance of the patient presented in miasms, through ancestral traumas and by the predisposing factors, aetiology [causes], triggers etc. The
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV This is my approach to flu treatment. As homeopaths we are taught that that when a person develops an acute illness, one of two things may be going on: first, this could be an exacerbation of their chronic complaints. If that’s the case, generally speaking, the chronic symptoms may persist during
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Homeopathy offers a unique insight into particular character traits exhibited by individuals; it also reveals details and dimensions not found in other forms of investigation. In the homeopathic approach, not only are the characteristics of the substance captured, but also its origins in the particular ‘kingdom,’ which it belongs to with
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Fear of people is a prominent state of distress exhibited in many different ways in several homeopathic remedies. Understanding the fear of people through analysis of the essence of a particular remedy gives insight into the state of fear unique to that substance. The following is a selection of scenarios which
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH There is always something to celebrate, or honour, at times in our life — cultural, or religious occasions; birthdays and anniversaries; births and deaths. Usually these ‘festivities,’ more often than not, result in ‘too much’ of something, most likely overindulgence in food and drink. Indulging in lavish dinners and drinking beyond
Words: Dr Christine LASCHKOLNIG The body reflects our temperament; choleric personalities, who explode like volcanoes, develop illnesses that have a sudden and acute onset. Individuals who tend to withdraw from the world and suppress their emotions develop insidious and chronic diseases, as their body is too weak to fight disease-causing circumstances, for example, with an
