| I suppose I’m biased. But I love homeopathy. | | | | But homeopathy isn’t just limited to injuries. |
| It’s my all time favourite alternative medicine. | | | | Deep, chronic conditions can be healed, too. |
| It’s so deep, so far reaching. And I love to | | | | Conditions such as hormonal disturbances, |
| tell others how I healed myself or members of | | | | migraines, internal organ weaknesses and a whole |
| my family, using it. | | | | host of other conditions. |
| My dogs like to jump up and bite at my horses | | | | I confess I know little about other alternative |
| tails. Normally, I’d let the animals sort it out | | | | medicine modalities, and they all have their place. |
| themselves, but the horses had become so used | | | | But I find homeopathy to be just the most |
| to it, they had stopped reacting. So their tails | | | | rewarding modality to use, the most easy to |
| were jagged and short, making lousy summer fly | | | | show others how to use in the comfort of their |
| swats. | | | | own homes. |
| The idea was I would encourage the dogs to | | | | Its depth and breadth is surely hard to beat. |
| jump up at the horses tails, then command them | | | | Homeopaths don’t categorise conditions. To |
| to stop doing it. | | | | treat someone successfully with homeopathy, |
| Of course, the last laugh was on me. | | | | you need to know the individual symptoms of |
| The dogs refused to co-operate and the horses | | | | that person at that time. For instance, a soft |
| didn’t like all the commotion at their rear end. | | | | tissue injury pain is likely to be an aching pain. This |
| I ended up with a nasty kick to my fore arm. | | | | indicates Arnica. |
| The fore arm has little flesh, but a lot of bone | | | | Whereas a nerve injury is likely to have a |
| and tendons. It doesn’t take much to get in | | | | shooting pain. This indicates Hypericum, the top |
| deep. | | | | nerve injury remedy. |
| My first reaction was to reach for my treasured | | | | And to treat someone successfully using |
| bottle of homeopathic Arnica. Although the pain | | | | homeopathic remedies, it helps to know the |
| disappeared and no bruising developed, thanks to | | | | cause. I well remember reading of a homeopath |
| Arnica, the swelling just kept gradually creeping up | | | | treating a man with severe stomach pains. He had |
| my arm. | | | | suffered the pain for years, trekking from one |
| And I couldn’t carry anything heavy, or twist | | | | doctor to the next, all to no avail. Finally he tried |
| my arm. | | | | homeopathy. When he told the homeopath that |
| I had to look at other remedies. | | | | the pain had developed after a kick in the |
| The remedies which best follow Arnica, when | | | | stomach from a horse, Arnica was prescribed and |
| Arnica fails to completely cure a soft tissue injury, | | | | completely cured the problem. |
| are Bellis perennis and Calendula. | | | | Other alternative medicine modalities can be |
| Both are in the same family of plants. | | | | incredibly useful for musculo-skeletal problems, but |
| Bellis perennis is the best remedy for a contusion | | | | it’s often the homeopathic remedies that |
| and for any deep bruising or trauma. | | | | cure the problem for good. |
| A few doses of homeopathic Bellis perennis and | | | | While it may be difficult to pack say, an |
| the swelling subsided and my arm was back in full | | | | alternative medicine practitioner, into a cupboard |
| working order within a couple of days. | | | | at home, it’s easy to store a first aid kit. |
| Homeopathy is so brilliant for injuries. The only | | | | Having a homeopathic first aid kit can prove |
| areas that need extra help is in the setting of a | | | | it’s weight in gold, when you count how many |
| broken bone and the stitching up of a large, open | | | | times you can turn to it for every day conditions |
| wound. There are remedies which will cover just | | | | as well as emergencies. |
| about every other condition. | | | | |