I’m writing this for all of you who use homeopathic remedies, but mainly for beginners because I’ve noticed that orthodox medicine has spoiled us and given the impression that a medicine can cure a body-part to the exclusion of the whole; and so, if the body-part doesn’t heal immediately after taking a homeopathic remedy, even though the person may feel better “in general”, many a user of homeopathy laments, “Homeopathy doesn’t work!”

We lose a lot of cases to ignorance of The Law of Cure, and so if I can have your attention please, everybody, I’d like to explain it to you, because without this knowledge, we can scarcely manage even a single case!

The Law of Cure, also known as Hering’s Law, observes that true healing takes place:

1. from the inside out

2. from the center to the periphery

3. from the most important organs to the least important organs

4. from the top down and

5. in reverse order of occurrence.

What this means is, you cannot go to the homeopath and say that you want your acne to get better before anything else because you would rather look good than to feel good!  The homeopath has no control over that!  The right remedy will start healing on the mental/emotional plane first, regardless of what you want!

The homeopath takes a detailed case of the whole person–mentally, emotionally and physically–and finds a remedy that matches the patient’s profile. This remedy acts as a catalyst, jump-starting the immune system into forward motion, after which, it’s Hands Off! Watch and Wait–an oft-repeated phrase in homeopathy–and observe Hering’s Law in action!

Think of the remedy as the ignition key that starts your car: once started, the car knows what to do! We should not interfere but rather trust that the car will change gears when it’s supposed to, regulate the flow of exhaust as it should, inject the fuel into the cylinders in a timely manner without us imposing an agenda on it that is not compatible with its workings (which is what drugs do, by the way.  They force the body to do something fundamentally unnatural, like paralyzing the bowels when they’re attempting to flush out contaminated food); and similarly, we shouldn’t keep starting the car over and over again.  What’s the point of that if it’s already running?  We should have faith that once the car is started, it will do what a car is supposed to do.

When we give a remedy, we are starting up our own internal engines and trusting that our body will move purposefully to make corrections in an appropriate manner.

You might ask, “If the immune system is so great, why do we have problems at all? Why doesn’t this fabulous immune system just cure everything?”

For one thing, often times, viruses and bacteria are in disguise, cleverly cloaked in the material of our own tissues, or hiding inside our own cells, the immune system sometimes really does not know what’s going on; but, this is what’s great about homeopathy; the remedy is actually a CLEAR PICTURE of the illness, the immune system acts swiftly and decisively when it can ”see”; BUT, it will act according to Hering’s Law, and you must learn to wait and watch and appreciate the direction of cure, appreciate that while the mental and emotional symptoms clear up, a simultaneous aggravation at the physical level may temporarily occur; this doesn’t mean you’re getting worse, on the contrary, this is a good sign!

I had a client with psoriasis once who only wanted her psoriasis to end, and even though her energy came up after the remedy, her sleep improved, and she felt more calm, she was dismayed because the psoriasis was only partially better in some spots, and worse in others! I tried to tell her that this worsening was only temporary; the disturbance was moving outward, to the periphery, in accordance with Hering’s Law. This (ex) client is now taking CHEMOTHERAPY for psoriasis, because it’s all she cares about! (You may have seen this psoriasis drug advertised on TV.) She didn’t have faith that her body would get to the psoriasis in due time, or that the aggravation of the psoriasis was the result of the improvement at a deeper, level and that the disturbance from the deeper level was now showing up on the skin. For her, it was just seen as proof that homeopathy could not help with her psoriasis.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy, said in his ORGANON OF MEDICINE, paragraph #253, “The very beginning of improvement is indicated by a sense of greater ease, composure, mental freedom, higher spirits, and, a return to naturalness.” When I see this after giving a remedy, I celebrate!  It means the case is headed for cure.  I would rather see this than an improvement in the chief complaint with no change in general for the better! 

If you’ve been given a remedy by your homeopath, and you experienced the all-important transformation on the mental-emotional plane, then please; sit back and relax and watch the fluctuations and odd occurrences come and go and just say, “Hmm…that was interesting….” The body has a plan, a road map that may make no sense to you or me, but if you experience that all-important improvement at the “core”, if your energy comes up, if your appetite improves, if your sleep improves, if your disposition improves, relax in the knowledge that you’re going to be fine. If you see a relapse in this all-important area–the mental/emotional/energetic plane, then yes, repeat the remedy; otherwise, let your case alone and be happy that the remedy was well-chosen and acting in accordance with Hering’s Law.