GREENMAN WISDOM - Homeopathy

How do we treat dis-ease? With fear or with love?

Most of us regard disease with fear, as a threat to our life, and as an enemy to be destroyed. We suppress the fever. We cut out and poison the cancer. We medicate the high blood pressure to lower it. Some call this method of medicine, antipathy - the use of opposites to treat suffering.

Greenman Wisdom, as found in natural, holistic healing methods such as naturopathic medicine and homeopathy, is to regard disease as a teacher. Disease teaches us to pay attention to the sacredness, the holism of life. It teaches us that something is out of balance in our life, that our vitality is disturbed and distressed. Teachers like disease serve us. They help us realize our life's purpose. Such teachers deserve our respect, honor, and our love.

Samuel Hahnemann, M.D., the founder of homeopathy, wrote of this in the Organon of the Medical Art. For instance, he wrote in Aphorism #9: "the spirit-like life force that enlivens the material organism as dynamis, governs…and keeps all parts in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, so that our indwelling rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence." He wrote extensively about the nature of health, and disease, and how to treat disease by restoring health.

Homeopathy is the use of similars to relieve suffering. Rather than opposing the symptom of the disease by a medicine, homeopathy stimulates the vital force with a medicine similar to the disease process.

For example, in a fever from a sore throat, perhaps with a strept infection, rather than give an antibiotic to kill the bacteria, homeopathy may give Belladonna, an ultra-dilute, non-toxic energetic form of the plant medicine. Belladonna's medicinal action is to cause symptoms of high fever with congestion and inflammation of throat, skin, and brain. These symptoms are similar to some individuals reactions of disease when they have strept throat. Used homeopathically, Belladonna stimulates the individual's vital force to respond to the disease, and restore health.

Homeopathy is gentle, safe and effective holistic medicine that is verified by science. It is commonly effective for viral infections such as influenza. Homeopathy is renown for its success in treating the pandemic influenza of the early 1900s.

Homeopathy is a way of healing that respects Nature, which health and disease manifest. It treats disease with love, not fear. That's Greenman Wisdom.