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| Hpathy Ezine - April, 2004 | ||||
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Why Choose Homeopathy First? -- Elaine Lewis |
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People always come to us last. By the time they get here, they've already been poisoned, mutilated, and relieved of their life savings. Nonetheless, they believe they've taken the right steps in seeing the "real" doctors first. If only they knew that the modern medical paradigm is built on a faulty premise! Don't get me wrong, it really is a good idea to get a proper medical diagnosis; this makes the homeopath's job so much easier; but after this obvious advantage, modern medicine frequently takes a sharp turn off the main road and heads straight for a deep cliff, careening and lurching dangerously until finally crash-landing in a ravine. What is the fatal flaw here? Symptoms are presumed to be the disease itself! In reality, symptoms are the body's own best effort at self-healing. Consequently, modern medicine is at war with what's best in the human body and allows what's unhealthy and disordered to go untreated and uncured. I'm sure that medical students are correctly taught what the immune response is all about; that fever, for example, is an effort on the body's part to incinerate bacteria and other unwelcome guests; and yet, the treatment for fever is suppression! In fact, Suppression is the goal of the modern medical paradigm. Lesson-one: Suppression is not synonymous with elimination. It means what it says, "holding down". Why would we want to hold down our immunity? Symptoms are a sign of vitality; if you can put out a strong symptom, a high fever, for instance, the way most children can, you've got a strong, healthy immune system. But, in our misguided point of view, we panic when we see symptoms like these and want them stopped immediately! We believe there is no down-side to this, no price to pay for suppressing the immune system, but, in fact, here's what happens: a steady downward spiral of ill-health, with those afflicted becoming more and more dependent on their antibiotics, laxatives, nasal sprays, bronchodilators, anti-inflamatories, sleeping pills, and antacids. Why does this happen? Because a healthy body will continue putting out a symptom as long as the underlying predisposing factor remains unchanged. It's the Underlying Cause that has been neglected in this single-minded pursuit of Symptom Management. Does your doctor inquire about your lifestyle, what you eat and drink, how much stress you're under? Homeopathic patients are always surprised at what the homeopath asks: What do you like to eat? How do you react to weather and temperature? What part of life do you have the most difficulty coping with? We may discover, for instance, that a person's back pains began after sleeping on a water bed or with an electric blanket. When we are sure that we have removed the obstacles to the cure or the causative or maintaining factors, we then try to find a homeopathic remedy that mimics (is similar to) rather than opposes the symptoms the individual has. We want to be friends with the body's immune system, we want to be supportive and unantagonistic; and believe it or not, the body shows its appreciation for this by getting well! |
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