Here are a few basic ideas or principles related to homeo- pathic treatment in chronic illness.


• Likes Cure Likes • Minimum Dose • Self-Healing • Individualization • Single Medicine


Likes Cure Likes One way is to assume that the body knows what it is doing and that symptoms are the body’s way of taking action to over- come illness. This healing response is automatic in living organ- isms; we term it the vital response. The similar medicine acts as a stimulus to the natural vital response.


Minimum Dose The principle that only ‘the minimum dose’ should be em-


ployed is based upon the understanding that the stimulus of the medicine triggers the intrinsic healing response. Following this principle, we give only enough medicine to initiate this healing response. This response then carries on, driven by the body’s need to maintain health and balance. The use of the minimum dose has the advantage that it does not produce the gross side effects so often caused by conventional treatments.


Self-Healing Translation: The homeopathic remedy provides the message; the amplification of the response is done by the vital force, but the work is done by the organism.


Individualization Each person manifests their disease in an individual manner and these differences help to determine the particular homeo- pathic medicine we will prescribe. Three patients with the same autoimmune disease might receive three different medicines.


Single Medicine


Only one medicine is given at a time in order to accurately assess if the patient reacted well to it. The more changes or vari- ables in a treatment, the harder it is for us to evaluate and adjust the prescriptions. Other reasons for giving only one medicine at a time are: • If you give more than one medicine, one might cancel out the action of another.


• The possible interactions between simultaneously given remedies are not known.


We wait and watch while the healing process takes place.


There may be a slight worsening of symptoms (aggravation) at the start, but this should be followed by an improvement as your vital- ity and immune system are stimulated by the medicine. During the healing of chronic disease, old symptoms, that might once have been suppressed, may re-emerge.


My experience as a homeopathic patient and now as a trained Homeopath highlights the need for great patience in learning how to report symptoms and changes in health and also how important it is to have clear communication between the patient and the Ho-


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meopath. The Homeopath should help manage the expectations of the patient about the nature of the treatment and the course of treatment, review the client’s commitment to healing and explain what it means to have obstacles to a cure in relation to mindset, diet, exercise and medicine. The Homeopathic mission is to treat the whole person, not individual symptoms, at all levels of your being – spiritual, emotional, mental and physical and finds the one medicine, ‘like cures like’, match for them.


The possibility that your chronic illness, which you may have been able to manage with suppression, can actually be cured is quite high. There is no need to continue suffering. Find the right relation to your vital force and a highly trained Homeopath and get started.


Joan Elizabeth of Green Amber Healing studied homeopathy at Baylight Center for Homeopathy in Portland, Maine. She decided to study homeopa- thy because it is easier to remain well then to cure chronic disease and because of her growing concern about the cost of health care, the over prescription of


pharmaceuticals and how that causes illness. She believes Home- opathy helps you stay well and is affordable. For more information, visit: www.greenamberattunement.com or call 207-671-0899.


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