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              (anxiety, panic attacks, depression, insomnia, hyperactivity, autism spectrum and the likes)

 

Human mind, mental-emotional sphere, our thoughts, our dreams, our feelings…the way fear, happiness or excitement is felt in our body,  and the way those feelings lead to certain physical symptoms like some butterflies in the tummy, or how fear makes our stomach tremble…even vomiting due to intense anxiety, all of the above tells us that there is a strong connection between our feelings and emotions and the symptoms in our physical body;

The modern medicine is calling them  psychosomatic symptoms.

 

The German New Medicine, which became very popular lately, is telling us the same thing: The Mind is the most important cause of disease.

 

“Through the millennia, humanity has more or less consciously known that

all diseases ultimately have a psychic origin and it became a “scientific”

asset firmly anchored in the inheritance of universal knowledge: it is only

modern medicine that has turned our animated beings into a bag of chemical

formulas”

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Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer

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In Homeopathy, The Mental/Emotional symptoms exist in the Repertory from the beginning of it in 1790;  That’s why Homeopathy treats the person as a whole, because Hahnemann was aware from the beginning and saw it in the provings also, that you cannot treat just the physical symptoms as you would fix the engine of a car…ignoring everything else. It’s definitely not the right way to bring back the patient to the state of health.

We are a lot more than just a body…We are mind, body and spirit…or physical, mental and emotional. The right form of Medicine, will take all of the above into consideration when treating a person.

The Mental section in the Homeopathic Repertory is the biggest section out of all, a very helpful tool in the Homeopath’s kit.

 

 Mental/Emotional symptoms are of huge importance and helps the Homeopath understand the patient at a much deeper level, understating the nature of the disease, also how and why was the patient susceptible to it (genetics/miasms), how is it affecting him that is different than others (particular/characteristic symptoms) and then match this analysis with a remedy in the Materia Medica that has the same characteristics, modalities, etc and you get the patient on the right way towards health.

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Mental Emotional health is influenced by  the experiences that we have, our relationships with our friends, our family, the childhood and even our birth sometimes plays a huge role in the adult’s mental health state. Childhood trauma is of tremendous importance and cannot be neglected during actual treatment because its consequences got imprinted in our DNA and they also get transmitted to further generations if proper treatment is not administered.

 

Also TOXICITY which can come in various shapes and forms in today’s times – from formula and canned foods given to babies, to all kinds of processed foods, fast foods, all of the flavourings and preservatives, colouring agents, sweeteners etc added to almost everything, abuse of prescription drugs and vaccinations, alcohol, smoking and recreational drugs…it’s too much for the body to deal with, its almost impossible not to develop symptoms of toxicity which disturbs the gut first and digestive system,  then goes to nervous system (many of them above contain toxic substances which can go through the blood-brain barrier and disrupt the nervous system functions, neurotransmitters balance and production, leading to numerous issues).

In the above context, an individual  homeopathic detox is required along side constitutional remedies, since some of the toxic substances described above, can be a blockage in the case.

 

Another factor to consider is childhood abuse (mental, emotional or/and physical) which is also going to shape the person’s emotions, behaviour, reactions, etc and leads to different types of anxieties, fears and worries that can have a huge impact, affecting and even limiting their daily life.

 

Excessive responsibility imposed too early in childhood also may have an impact.

 Children raised by parents who are too strict can lead to certain emotions and anxieties later in life.

 

Mom’s heath during  pregnancy and any strong emotions/fears/abuse will definitely have consequences on the child too.

 

I had a case of a lady in her 70s who had been struggled all her life with excessive perspiration. On telling her symptoms, I got to know when did that start; it was after a physical abuse she suffered in childhood. So I went for that, treated the abuse, and the perspiration became normal again.

 

Another example, a case of a child, 5 years old, who had been suffering with urticaria type allergy; On enquiring about his general symptoms, worries and fears, I find out that he is so anxious and he worries a lot everywhere he goes, cannot stay away from parents at all…cannot go anywhere without them…So I’m focusing on that, because the manifestation on the skin is a consequence of the anxiety (the rash got much worse when he was worried or he needed to go anywhere). So I’m treating the anxiety and the rash fades away…it’s been few years since, no sign of rash, or anxiety.

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Also there are experiences that perceived in a certain way affects our emotional health on long term, leading to fears and anxieties, where the same experiences perceived by someone else, don’t  affect them in the same way…so we perceive everything through our own unique processing system, according to our own individual experiences and family genetics.

 

No wonder we are all different, we are all unique and we all have to be understood from this perspective.

 

This is the very core of Homeopathic Medicine,  it treats everyone individually, according to their own characteristic symptoms, behaviour, mental and emotional state, also genetics/family history; there is no room for one size fits all, it never does.

 

We are such complex beings, and we are created in such an intelligent perfect way, that conventional medicine failed massively to understand or to help properly;

Symptoms of the patient are not understood or analysed and the treatment is only based on suppression.

 

Homeopathy understood this from its very beginning, as Jeremy Sherr is saying below, after master Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy .

 

“Finding the most suitable homoeopathic remedy requires laborious and dedicated study of cases, repertory, original provings and materia medica. Expert software, generalised remedy classifications, the doctrine of signatures, theoretical systems, routine protocols or divination cannot replace the full homoeopathic process. There are no shortcuts if one aims to achieve the best cures and alleviate human suffering. There should be no use of quick systems that jump directly from case to remedy, that bypass deep study of the case, repertorisation, materia medica and provings; nor should there be any magic shortcuts that claim to make the noblest of human arts easier or faster.

The reward for this hard work lies in the knowledge that we have made every possible effort to help our patients. The best results can only be achieved through following the proper process diligently for years, after which a conscientious and industrious homoeopath will achieve remarkable cures —the result of long-term and correct application of homoeopathic principles.

A true healer does not mess with human health and lives”

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              Jeremy Sherr

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