This question is rooted in a confusion most of us have between allopathic and homeopathic medicine. A conventional doctor (and even many holistic doctors) will give you one medicine for -X-, another for -Y-, etc. However, the way homeopathy works is really fundamentally different. Reading my book, Impossible Cure, especially Chapter 4, will help you to understand this better.
Your homeopath is not picking a remedy just for your child’s autism (or -Y-). He or she is a picking a remedy that matches your child. The idea is that if it is homeopathic — i.e. matches your child’s overall state well — it will enable him or her to heal as best they can. If that means healing from -X-, it will. If it means casting off vaccination damage, it means that. If it means sleeping better to gain strength, it will do that. If it means the brain or the gut repairing itself, it will do that.
In other words, homeopathy helps a body heal itself. The body has its own deepest (and often unknowable) wisdom about how it can best heal itself and in what order. Homeopathic rules of thumb, like “Hering’s Law of Cure” give us some guidelines about what this usually looks like — from the most serious internal symptoms (including mental/emotional symptoms) outward toward less significant symptoms that are less life-threatening to the organism.
In other words, homeopathy doesn’t attack a specific ailment or chemical or body part, like conventional drugs or even supplements try to do. Instead, it enables the body to heal itself. There are, of course, certain remedies that tend to affect certain symptoms or ailments more than others, and they can be useful for them. But the best, deepest forms of healing are the kinds that are accomplished by a remedy that simply matches the individual state of the patient, no matter what their disease may be. That remedy then triggers a process of healing in the patient that can be truly and deeply curative. It isn’t a patch, it’s a transformation.
~ Amy L. Lansky, Ph.D.
About the Author: Amy Lansky was a Silicon Valley computer scientist when her life was transformed by the miraculous homeopathic cure of her son’s autism. In 2003, she published Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy, now one of the best-selling introductory books on homeopathy worldwide (www.impossiblecure.com). Her second book, published in 2011, explores the topics of consciousness, synchronicity, and personal transformation – Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within (www.activeconsciousness.com). Her blog can be found at: http://www.amylansky.com.
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