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 Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Headaches are as old as civilisation. Our ancients, perhaps, believed that certain spirits were to blame for headaches, including insanity and epilepsy [fits]. It is contended that William Harvey — the first physician to discover the function of the heart and circulation of blood — recommended trepanation, or the process of
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 Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR First things, first. Most people think that homeopathy is simple; some folks, likewise, think it is complex. It is best to recall the wise words of Sir John Weir, the great Scottish physician and homeopath — you’d have seen him portrayed in the award-winning Netflix series, Crown — to the British
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
