Homeopathy heals the central disturbance of your dis-eased state. Sure, many so called homeopathic remedies are used in a palliative way, as is done in allopathic medicine. However, treating in this manner, such as using a remedy for arthritis, or a remedy for gout, or for a headache, is not what homeopathy is about. You may even get some relief for a while using remedies in this manner, but that is not cure.
Homeopathy, if used in the classical manner, cures disease, for it treats the person holistically, that is from the inside out. If you can accept that most diseases result from our reactions to the traumas in our lives, then you will understand that treating the emotions will cure the disease.
Many people visiting an homeopath for the first time, will find the long history taking and probing questions to be a very long- winded way to treat a disease. The time spent with a patient gives the homeopath time to gain insight into what may have been the triggering factor in the patient’s disease.
Rheumatoid arthritis is classed as an autoimmune disease, which means that your immune system, instead of safeguarding your health, has decided to attack you. The initial inflammatory process has gotten out of control, the immune system has lost its intelligence, and gone on an uncontrolled path of destruction.
This is where the homeopath will be searching long and hard for the causation of your disease. Most of us have had some, or many, emotional traumas in our lives, and it is here that one so often finds the beginning of the disease state. Many exacerbations of RA occur after having to deal with some stressful event.
Finding the trigger for the disease is no mean feat, many patients will require time before they can open up to reveal some long buried emotional trauma in their past.
Patients often say that unburdening themselves in this manner has proved to be curative, however, the homeopath has only touched the tip of the iceberg. What the homeopath usually finds is, that after much study a suitable remedy is found, one which bears the most similarity to this particular patient’s dis-ease state.
Unfortunately this is not often cause for celebration, for it may only treat one layer of the disease, just like the skins of an onion, the peeling goes on. Similar to a Sara Lee cake, there’s layer upon layer, one thing leads to another, and slowly but surely the entire disease is treated and the patient is returned to health.
We all look for a quick fix for our disease, but this not not the curative approach, for relieving pain with analgesics, is not curing the cause. It’s just alleviating the pain, while the disease continues to set up house.
