Homeopathy resolved Billy's phobias, asthma, ear infections and constipation.
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Homeopathy helped resolve Billy’s phobias, his asthma, his ear infections and his constipation.
Because Homeopathy concentrates on each individual’s core dis-ease a single perfectly matched remedy can help all the symptoms resolve. Your symptoms’ job is to alert you to the deeper dis-ease. Once that is properly addressed then the symptoms aren’t needed any more.
There is a lot to learn from Billy’s experience. He can demonstrate for us what true healing looks like and when symptoms are just being suppressed.
Click on the link if you missed Homeopathy and Phobias – Part 1
For better or worse? Billy’s case is a good illustration of what Constantine Hering, a great homeopath of old, observed. If a patient’s symptoms were moving in what he called the “Direction of Cure.” Hering noted that as a person heals symptoms tend to move from:
- above to below (e.g. from the head or chest down towards the arms, legs, or feet)
- from within to without (e.g. problems like asthma change to skin eruptions)
- old symptoms reappear in the reverse order of their original order of appearance
When ear goo is good
I had already told Billy’s mother to expect an improvement in her son’s anxiety levels first. Then to watch for the return of his earlier ear symptoms, probably with accompanying discharge from the ear – within to without – and to view this as a very good sign. This meant that his Mom was not unduly upset when it happened. Fortunately, her son did so well on Aconite that she did not feel the need for further conventional treatment and he made a full recovery.
Better out than in
Let’s look at this case with Hering’s observations on the Direction of Cure in mind. Before homeopathic treatment, Billy’s disturbance was in the ear, later moved to the lungs (moving within, so he was getting sicker), and then moved even deeper to the emotional level. After taking Aconite, Billy’s emotional disturbance resolved first, then his lungs improved, and finally he succeeded in forcing out the (formerly suppressed) discharge from his ear.
Don’t ignore those red warning lights
The earlier, repeated ear infections should have been seen as red warning lights telling us that all was not well with this child. The repeated use of antibiotics dealt only with the bacterial infection and not the underlying disturbance that had brought about his susceptibility to those infections. Once the more superficial symptoms were covered up, the disturbance then began to manifest on deeper levels. The moral of this tale is not to ignore your body’s warning signals.
“The treatment was a success … but the patient died”
This is a case worth considering, not just because the homeopathy brought instant benefits, gratifying though that always is! It’s an instructive case because it points out the dangers of seeing the symptom as the problem and being determined to remove it at any price. In this case, sure, Billy’s ear stopped hurting after many, many courses of antibiotics, but his bowels, lungs, sleep patterns, and emotional well-being all deteriorated. We need to ask ourselves what is more important, the symptom or the person?
Learn to love your symptoms
What is needed is a paradigm shift, a new way of seeing symptoms. Symptoms are friends not foes … they are like warning lights on the car’s dashboard telling us that all is not well and asking us to investigate the underlying reasons. If we choose to ignore these symptoms, we risk getting bigger, brighter, harder-to-ignore warning signals next time around.
Children are, of course, prone to the odd acute infection every now and then. The occasional episode is no great cause for alarm, but if your child is suffering from repeated infections of any kind, consider Homeopathy. It is well worth getting professional advice. And don’t forget to love those old symptoms returning—hopefully they’ll be the green light that will allow the body to move on towards cure.