…putting the 'CARE' back into 'healthcare'.
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Parenting, Principles, Time Line Treatment on May 20th, 2012
A holistic view of health and medicine turns many commonly held ideas either inside-out, upside-down, or both. Medicine which is curative of the root cause rather than suppressive of the symptoms; seeing the interrelationships of different systems, rather than single body parts which are ‘broken’; or even the radical concept of being able to remove [...]
Posted in Conditions, Family Medicine, Healthy Emotional Expression, Inside The Consult Room, Parenting, State of Health, Time Line Treatment on May 18th, 2012
I’ve been discussing a number of aspects of resonance, and some ways to find it for yourself. In very simple terms, you can measure if an activity is resonant for you if it seems to give you energy, rather than cost energy to do. People who are in love with their work, for example, will [...]
Posted in Healthy Emotional Expression, Infertility, Inside The Consult Room, Menopause, Parenting, Sepia on Apr 18th, 2012
The general feeling of the phenotype Sepia is of being totally fed up. More specifically, it is a state of feeling drained by the endless obligations of daily life, whether from family, work, or a combination of the two. It is quintessentially portrayed as a “mother’s remedy”, however it may be applicable in any situation [...]
Posted in Family Medicine, Parenting, Sulphur on Apr 16th, 2012
A couple of weeks ago I had a new patient come in for Heilkunst treatment. Her intake form indicated that she was two and a half years old. As soon as her Mom and she arrived, it took me about 30 seconds to apprehend her Constitution. Mom had a harboured exasperation and the child made [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Parenting, Phosphorous, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Apr 3rd, 2012
The element of phosphorous in nature is one which has a low combustion point, and is used as an ingredient in match heads, due to its easily being ignited into flame. The image of the match head being quick to burst into flame, yet also quick to burn itself out is a great image for [...]
Posted in Aconite, Family Medicine, Inside The Consult Room, Parenting, Principles on Mar 7th, 2012
The easier aspects of homeopathic prescribing can be done at home. Simple first-aid prescribing, and common ailments of coughs and colds can often be successfully prescribed for by the home prescriber for his or her family. The over-arching principle which homeopathy is based on is “the law of similars”. This underlying principle is always the [...]
Posted in Anthroposophy, Healing, Healthy Emotional Expression, Inside The Consult Room, Parenting on Mar 4th, 2012
When assessing a patient, both in their present life, as well as in understanding the nature of their past, I apply the model from Anthroposophical Medicine of growth and development unfolding over 7-year cycles. To introduce this idea in this blog, I will outline the nature of the first four cycles of life in its [...]
Posted in Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Lachesis, Medorrhinum, Parenting on Feb 9th, 2012
Early in my practice, I was treating a family where I learned a lot about putting the remedies that I had learned in school into real-world practice. The young daughter of this family had a peculiar obsession, which was that she had done something wrong, and would repeatedly ask her mother if she was too [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Parenting, Principles, Therapeutics on Feb 6th, 2012
There is a lot of confusion about what homeopathy is, and how it works. There is much heat generated in public discussions around the point about how the remedies are made, and whether or not it is possible for them to have any medicinal effect whatsoever, since they have been diluted past the point of [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Parenting, State of Health, Sulphur on Jan 25th, 2012
What’s it like to live with a Sulphur constitutional type? It’s certainly a question that comes up either directly or indirectly from patients all the time. The sulphur constitutional type (1 of 6 personality types which can be balanced by their corresponding homeopathic remedy) becomes the focus of so much attention due to the fact [...]
