From the moment we get out of bed in the morning, we are on our feet. Poor things. They’re stuck receiving very little attention from the rest of our bodies while mercilessly residing at the business end of the punishment from our daily movements.
Enter peripheral neuropathy: the equivalent of our feet screaming in protest. (more…)
Drug tests.
Remember when early radio and television shows closed by saying, “Keep those cards and letters rolling in?”
Well, believe me. Cards, letters, emails and phone calls roll into my office every day. In fact, my team receives scores of correspondence from readers and students alike — most of them containing questions.
Now, many questions are too specific to an individual’s unique experience for me to answer without taking the entire case.
Additional questions, unfortunately, involve relatively obscure topics that wouldn’t interest a broad section of my readers. It’s not that they’re not good questions. It’s just that I endeavor to serve as many folks as possible with each post.
Often, requests for information are just too detailed to get into a short format, such as my blog or my Memos to Mighty Members. But I do carefully consider each question and request for information that comes my way.
Recently, one of you wrote in asking whether anything in homeopathic remedies could potentially show up on a workplace random drug test.
I can tell you right now that I know people who use homeopathy and have drug tests for their employment on a regular basis, and nothing improper has ever shown up on the tests.
I even had a client some time ago who was utilizing homeopathic Cannabis sativa 30C for inability to concentrate and passed his employer’s drug test with no concern!
Now, I'm not going to say homeopathy absolutely won't ever show up on a drug test someday. An extraordinarily sensitive test to identify nanoparticles of a gross substance may be invented making this answer outdated.
But as of right now, I don't care if a person is taking one of our more commonly utilized medicines, like Arnica 200C or homeopathic Nux vomica 200C. It doesn't matter.
Our medicines are so diluted that very little of the original gross substance remains in each homeopathically prepared remedy.
In fact, that’s one of the points that naysayers make against homeopathy. They say there's nothing in it.
That’s, of course, not true. It’s just that they can't readily identify the molecules — at least not with the usual ways of testing — because each medicine is so highly diluted.
The whole point of homeopathy is that the substance is no longer in its gross form. For instance, when we employ homeopathic Belladonna, we are not utilizing it in its natural state—deadly nightshade. My goodness, no.
Instead, homeopathic Belladonna has been highly diluted by the manufacturing pharmacies to precise specifications (see Answering Questions: X or C). There's nothing in our homeopathic medicine that would resemble a relationship to the toxic downside of the gross substance from which they are derived.
Homeopathy may be used with confidence. Our medicines are on such a higher plane — a completely different level. With homeopathic medicines, there are no side effects. They're not narcotic. They're not synthetic pharmaceuticals. They’re not addictive.
Although, I may have to amend that last statement. Indeed, homeopathy can be addictive. Because it's a heady experience to help someone, many of my students can't stop amassing knowledge and collecting remedies. So, I suppose the successful use of a polite, natural, gentle, efficacious medicine can be very addictive.
But good news: The ardent desire to keep healing one’s family autonomously won’t appear on a drug test either.
My friends, pass on the good news of Practical Homeopathy®!
Warmly,
P.S. My friends, if you are new to homeopathy — even if you’ve used homeopathy before with mixed success — the Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum was developed to provide a much-needed foundation as you develop your knowledge and hone your skills.
I promise this endeavor will not fatigue you. This kind of thinking — the thinking behind my Practical Homeopathy® — won’t mire you in complex, over-intellectualized methods or esoteric thinking.
Instead, its simple and clean approach will likely amaze and energize you. It will empower you beyond your wildest imagination. It will invigorate you and nourish you for the rest of your life. It will galvanize you into knowing something you’ve suspected all along — that you can treat your family yourself.
I urge you to step through the Gateway and begin a journey to healthcare autonomy that no other paradigm can provide. All it takes is one click.
After a month of skeletons poised on neighbors’ lawns, I was “spurred” on to write about bone spurs.
Most often, bone spurs show up on shin bones and knees. However, an exostosis can also show up in the mouth on the maxillary or mandible (upper or lower jaw bones), and a calcaneal spur can occur on the heel bone. If you’ve never had one, they’re often painful and unsightly. (more…)
An X-ray here, and an X-ray there. One at the dentist. One at urgent care after a severe wrist injury resulting from a fall. One at the chiropractor because of chronic back pain.
What’s the harm? (more…)
Insult to injury. There’s no better way to describe it.
After the recent flooding from heavy rains and storm surges in the Southeast, it was only a matter of time before mosquitoes moved in, bringing aggravation, discomfort and other potential ill effects with them. (more…)
We’ve all heard the old adage, “Never swim without a buddy.” Well, I’m going to borrow from that sentiment a bit to say: It’s also best to study homeopathy with a buddy. Indeed, there is strength in numbers!
Certainly, you can study homeopathy by yourself. It’s certainly better than not studying it at all. However, over the course of my four decades in homeopathic education, I have found that the best method to learn more about this powerful yet gentle paradigm is to surround yourself with like-minded study buddies. (more…)
From the coasts of Florida through the mountains of the Carolinas and Tennessee, the entire southeast is reeling from the recent hurricane. The scope of damage is gut-wrenching.
For countless residents, the angst and anxiety in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene is unbearable. Practical Homeopathy® offers assistance to stabilize emotions so that those affected can more effectively pull themselves up by their bootstraps to try to rebuild. (more…)