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Constitutional
Homeopathic Treatment
by Mary Aspinwall
Over the past few months I have been writing about how Homeopathy
can help in first aid situations and acute illnesses. These
are the sort of things that the home prescriber can treat
very easily with a little study and practice.
For more serious and chronic conditions constitutional treatment
with a homeopath can be of enormous help. Initial homeopathic
consultations are very long and detailed. Symptoms are like
the red emergency warning light on the dashboard of a car.
They are there to highlight some deeper dis-ease that needs
addressing, so the homeopath will focus not just on your symptoms,
but on you and your situation as a whole.
Generally, if people are allowed to talk freely, they will
keep coming back to the issues they find most difficult or
distressing, highlighting the same point in many different
ways. To see how this works in practice let’s look at
two, very different, individuals, who kindly gave me permission
to refer to their cases.
A young boy came to see me and was critical of my consulting
room saying it was messy (to be honest, it’s not that
bad!). He liked to keep his own room very tidy and hated it
if anyone moved anything out of place. He didn’t enjoy
visiting friends and had a very strong desire to stay at home,
where he kept to a very strict routine of his own devising.
He loved to eat eggs, but they had to be cooked for a very
precise number of seconds or he didn’t enjoy them at
all. The theme running through everything he said was his
strong need for structure in order to feel safe and protected.
Even the eggs he so loved represented a safe, protective structure.
His many disturbing physical symptoms responded beautifully
to a dose of Calcerea carbonica, made from the lining of the
inside of an oyster shell, another naturally occurring example
of security.
Compare this to a case of a teenage girl who visited me with
extremely violent menstrual pains. The cause of her dis-ease
was almost the exact opposite. She had a horror or routine
of any kind. It would make her feel suffocated and trapped.
She hated tight clothing, especially around the neck, for
the same reason. She loved to be in company, to talk, to dance
and generally have fun. The funny thing about her period pains
was that they came before menstruation and disappeared almost
as soon as the period began, as this represented a type of
release. The pains completely went with one dose of Lachesis
(extremely diluted venom of the Bushmaster snake). Lachesis
is particularly well-suited to people who hate to be constricted
in any way.
We hear a lot these days about “stress” and how
it causes illness. However, the dis-ease that each person
experiences is unique to them and it is important to realise
that one person’s stress might be another person’s
delight.
Successful Homeopathy depends on fully understanding each
individual’s dis-ease and removing it. Then they can
return to a state of ease and harmony, where those warning
symptoms are no longer necessary.
© Mary Aspinwall
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