A Day in a Homeopath’s Clinic

A Day in a Homeopath’s Clinic

(From the clinic of Fran Sheffield, Homeopath, November 2010)

We’re going to take a look at how a typical day in Fran’s clinic runs. Before we do, there are just a couple of things of which to be aware-

1. The cases presented from this clinic day are ‘snap-shots’ rather than full cases. Anything that could identify the patients has been removed but the symptoms and complaints remain unchanged.
2. Chronic conditions form the bulk of homeopathic practice. Most of these cases are repeat (follow-up) appointments for a chronic problem. The homeopathic treatment of chronic conditions takes time but with the correct prescription, patients can expect to see improvement with each appointment.
3. Homeopathic remedies don’t control or medicate the body as do conventional medicines. Instead, they stimulate and strengthen the body’s innate ability to heal – the body decides in which order to deal with things but the most serious problem is always addressed first.
4. All of the patients we’ll meet today have already seen a conventional doctor for their condition. Conventional drugs are either being used in conjunction with homeopathic treatment or, in discussion with the prescribing doctor, have been replaced by homeopathy as improvements have taken place during treatment.
5. Remedies are chosen for the specific symptoms the person experiences rather than the name of the condition from which they suffer. For this reason it is possible for ten people with the same disease to each be prescribed a different remedy because of the differing symptoms they experience.
6. Remedies are matched to the person’s symptoms while the strength and frequency of dose is matched to their sensitivity. This is the reason for a test dose being prescribed at the beginning of treatment for some of these patients.
7. The names of the remedies prescribed have been omitted to avoid confusion as more was involved with their selection than information contained in the case synopses.

What Can Homeopathy Treat?

Q. What Can Homeopathy Treat?

A. People often ask if homoeopathy makes a difference for asthma, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, emphysema, glaucoma, Parkinson’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis… or any one of a hundred other diseases. The answer is both yes… and no.

Homeopathy works best when given for the symptom complex of an individual, not for a diagnosis given to many.

This is because we don’t just suffer from isolated and disconnected diseases – everything about our health is interconnected. For example, a problem with our heart may be affected by anxiety which is then related to a skin problem or even a  stomach disorder.

In this illustration, the homeopath would not see the possible heart failure, eczema, gastric ulcer, and panic attacks as complaints to be managed separately but parts of a larger dis-ease represented by it’s combined symptom complex – and a matching homeopathic remedy would be chosen for the idiosyncratic symptoms of this complex.

When the full extent of the body’s dis-ease is reflected back to it in this way, a healing response is triggered in which many symptoms resolve at the same time; while the remedy is the stimuli, the body’s response to it creates the healing.

Source: Homeopathy Plus