Through online biochemistry degrees, you can learn about the molecular makeup of the living world. The degree helps in studying the effects of chemical and biological reactions on biological systems,The Doctor of Homeopathy degree program is course intensive and encompasses advanced-level academics and training in anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, homeopathic philosophy, varying degrees of homeopathy, homeopathic animal remedies, complementary and alternative medicine, dietary/nutrition remedies, homeopathic treatments for various health conditions, drug/herb/vitamin interactions, ethics and legal aspects.A homeopathy diploma can be earned over a course of time usually involving anywhere from two to four year programs; encompassing the philosophy and principles of homeopathy, anatomy and physiology, material medica (animal, plant, chemical and mineral substances), homeopathic repertory (symptom index).
Students can train to pursue a number of careers in this field including nutritionist, herbalist, homeopathic therapy, and many other professions with an online education in homeopathy. Undergraduate degrees are offered through a variety of online programs.Medical practice was not unified. American medicine was diverse and competitive; perhaps the most open medical marketplace of any Western nations. Doctors often disagree about the proper therapy and about diagnosis. Their practice had to be responsive to the context in which it occurred.
Detailed history is very essential as homeopathy believes in treating the individual and not the disease. So the physician needs to know the individual and not about his disease. Also the chronic diseases are due to suppression of skin affections or emotions; hence detailed history will reveal whether any past ailments suppressed has lead to the present complaints.The first thing you will take is an instruction of 200 hours that will in the end lead to a diploma. The good thing about this is that if you decide not to go ahead and continue with the course you don’t pay for the whole program and loose a lot of money, but only pay for the 200 hours you have gone through.
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There’s nothing more empowering than using natural home remedies effectively. It has enormous WOW factor. Why? Well for a start, using natural remedies, you know you can’t do any harm as they’re gentle, non-invasive and work in harmony with your body. But the real WOW factor comes when you do good! It can be so exciting, that you can do so much good, in the comfort of your own home, without knowing much.
There are a variety of natural home remedies that you can safely use yourself, without knowing very much. There are some herbs (although many need more in depth information), there’s flower essences, there’s aromatherapy, there’s good nutrition, there’s kitchen home remedies and then there’s homeopathy.
Perhaps, out of all of them, homeopathy has the potential for doing the most good. All of the commonly available homeopathic remedies have a wide scope of use. For instance, the homeopathic remedy Arnica, the king of injury remedies can resolve the following conditions:
- any ailment which stems from an injury, however far back including concussion, surgery, dental extractions, sprains, strains
- jet lag
- shift work fatigue
- labour
- arthritis, rheumatism
- sepsis, infections
- colds, flus
- skin eruptions
- malaria
- whooping cough
- pneumonia
- gout
- meningitis
Whilst I’m not proposing that you, as a home prescriber, attempt to treat such serious ailments as meningitis or pneumonia, I am suggesting that, with a bit of knowledge and a sharp eye, you have the potential of nipping these conditions in the bud.
Using natural home remedies does mean that you have to be a bt of a detective. You need to notice things about you or the family member you’re trying to help. For instance, you need to know their normal habits and traits, so you know when they have deviated from them. Someone who needs the homeopathic remedy Arnica is often averse to the approach of others. It’s logical when you look at it. As Arnica is the king of injury remedies, those needing it have been hurt. If they’ve been hurt once, the approach of someone may raise fears that you may further hurt them.
This isn’t a normal behaviour. So if your dog is suddenly apprehensive of your approach, he may have been injured.
I remember hearing of someone who had suffered severe gastritis for years. He’d been to see doctor after doctor, to no avail. Finally, he saw a homeopath. Homeopaths always ask about what happened to cause the problem. This was easy – a kick in the stomach from a donkey. Arnica was prescribed, and the gastritis disappeared completely.
Now if that had happened to you, with your homeopathic kit of natural home remedies, you could have prevented something like that from developing.
Lets dip into the mix and see what other examples of natural home remedies there are. Tomatoes are a popular food and can be easily grown in many climates. Tomatoes are full of a nutrient called lycopine. Lycopine is a natural sun screen. If you know some basic nutritional knowledge like this, you can eat your sunscreen – a much healthier option than the topical one.
What do you do if you’ve been stung by a plant or insect which packs a punch, and you’re in the middle of nowhere, with help miles and hours away? If you know your natural home remedies well, you’d know that if you urinate on the area, all will be quickly resolved.
Isn’t it fun!
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Alternative medicine is enjoying a boom as people start to take control of their own lives. As an alternative medical practitioner, a homeopath, I am very excited about this. When people take control of their own lives, there is no limit to what becomes possible. The limitations occur when you hand over that control to others. No one else but you, has your own best interests so much to heart.
Once you start taking control of your own life, you start to question what’s best for your family, including your pets.
You might now be asking yourself what could be the best alternative medicine for dogs.
There are many different alternative medicine modalities about and you need to do a bit of research to decide what is most appropriate. There’s homeopathy, reiki, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, flower essences, herbs, acupuncture or pressure, massage, Bowen therapy, to mention just a few. Many of these modalities will only be able to work in a limited way. For instance (and I’m no masseuse, so could be wrong), massage will probably only be good for strained muscles. And, although some can act on a deep level, they can be slow to show results, such as flower essences.
And alternative medicine for dogs, really starts with their diet. If you’re feeding your dog an unhealthy diet, it doesn’t really matter what modality of health care you use – it’s not going to bear fruit. “You are what you eat.”
Commercial dog food have few regulations and even fewer which are enforced. From the poor quality ‘meat’ by-products, to the nutritionless filler, to the dangerous preservatives, your dog is slowly being poisoned. Label claims of ‘preservative free’ or ‘natural’ are largely meaningless.
Once you start feeding your dog a wholesome and REALLY natural food, you will see huge improvements in health. Sometimes, that’s all you need.
But sometimes, you need to do more. Then you need to scour what’s available in alternative medicine for dogs.
As a homeopath, you could say I’m biased (I agree!), but out of them all, the alternative medicine for dogs I consider has the greatest breadth and depth of real healing, is homeopathy.
Homeopathy has the potential to deal with ailments as diverse as ligament damage, to heart disease, from an embedded grass seed to depression. The only areas where I consider medical services are required is the setting of a broken bone and the stitching up of extensive wounds.
I don’t know of any other alternative medicine for dogs, where all this is possible. And homeopathy addresses the cause, rather than the effect.
Lets look at that for a minute. Imagine a woman has just given birth, and has since developed haemorrhoids, or piles. Now there is a common homeopathic remedy for piles called Hamamelis. And this may well help. But it’s unlikely to cure. So you might have to keep taking it for a long time.
There’s another common homeopathic remedy called Pulsatilla. And this helps with many ailments that develop from childbirth, including piles. Taking Pulsatilla is more likely to cure them for good.
So if you can treat the cause, expect outstanding results. A permanent cure is the aim.
One of the things I love about treating animals is their desire to help in the choosing of the right remedy. Most dogs are pretty outgoing and will make it very clear when you’ve selected the right remedy – they’ll lick the bottle, their lips or your hand, they’ll sit expectantly and wag their tail, they’ll look interested and attentive.
If, on the other hand, you selected the wrong remedy, they’ll turn their head away, walk off, perhaps even snarl at you if you persist.
To me, their body language is very clear. You really don’t need to be an animal communicator.
Once you have gained a bit of an understanding of what’s available, choosing an holistic vet, for the more difficult ailments, who practices alternative medicine for dogs becomes easier, and you become involved with your dog’s treatment.
I am passionate about your right of freedom to choose. But to choose, you have to know something about the subjects you want to choose between. So you need to listen to both, or all, sides of every aspect of every junction in your life that offers you that choice. Alternative medicine for dogs gives you plenty of choice!
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I suppose I’m biased. But I love homeopathy. It’s my all time favourite alternative medicine. It’s so deep, so far reaching. And I love to tell others how I healed myself or members of my family, using it.
My dogs like to jump up and bite at my horses tails. Normally, I’d let the animals sort it out themselves, but the horses had become so used to it, they had stopped reacting. So their tails were jagged and short, making lousy summer fly swats.
The idea was I would encourage the dogs to jump up at the horses tails, then command them to stop doing it.
Of course, the last laugh was on me.
The dogs refused to co-operate and the horses didn’t like all the commotion at their rear end. I ended up with a nasty kick to my fore arm.
The fore arm has little flesh, but a lot of bone and tendons. It doesn’t take much to get in deep.
My first reaction was to reach for my treasured bottle of homeopathic Arnica. Although the pain disappeared and no bruising developed, thanks to Arnica, the swelling just kept gradually creeping up my arm.
And I couldn’t carry anything heavy, or twist my arm.
I had to look at other remedies.
The remedies which best follow Arnica, when Arnica fails to completely cure a soft tissue injury, are Bellis perennis and Calendula.
Both are in the same family of plants.
Bellis perennis is the best remedy for a contusion and for any deep bruising or trauma.
A few doses of homeopathic Bellis perennis and the swelling subsided and my arm was back in full working order within a couple of days.
Homeopathy is so brilliant for injuries. The only areas that need extra help is in the setting of a broken bone and the stitching up of a large, open wound. There are remedies which will cover just about every other condition.
But homeopathy isn’t just limited to injuries.
Deep, chronic conditions can be healed, too. Conditions such as hormonal disturbances, migraines, internal organ weaknesses and a whole host of other conditions.
I confess I know little about other alternative medicine modalities, and they all have their place. But I find homeopathy to be just the most rewarding modality to use, the most easy to show others how to use in the comfort of their own homes.
Its depth and breadth is surely hard to beat.
Homeopaths don’t categorise conditions. To treat someone successfully with homeopathy, you need to know the individual symptoms of that person at that time. For instance, a soft tissue injury pain is likely to be an aching pain. This indicates Arnica.
Whereas a nerve injury is likely to have a shooting pain. This indicates Hypericum, the top nerve injury remedy.
And to treat someone successfully using homeopathic remedies, it helps to know the cause. I well remember reading of a homeopath treating a man with severe stomach pains. He had suffered the pain for years, trekking from one doctor to the next, all to no avail. Finally he tried homeopathy. When he told the homeopath that the pain had developed after a kick in the stomach from a horse, Arnica was prescribed and completely cured the problem.
Other alternative medicine modalities can be incredibly useful for musculo-skeletal problems, but it’s often the homeopathic remedies that cure the problem for good.
While it may be difficult to pack say, an alternative medicine practitioner, into a cupboard at home, it’s easy to store a first aid kit. Having a homeopathic first aid kit can prove it’s weight in gold, when you count how many times you can turn to it for every day conditions as well as emergencies.
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I woke up one morning, feeling like death warmed up. It was a struggle to get out of bed. But I had animals to feed, so made a valiant effort. Every few minutes I had to sit down, to gather my strength.
Then I had to phone my patients, another enormous task, to cancel my appointments.
Then I thankfully slumped back to bed.
But then I became thirsty.
And I couldn’t go back to sleep.
Eventually I got up and sat in the living room, feeling sorry for myself, possibly dosing.
I couldn’t think. It didn’t help being a practising homeopath at that time. There was no energy to work out what I needed.
By about lunch time, after getting up to get myself yet another drink of water, I suddenly had a eureka moment.
Normally I love tea – actually I’m a bit of a tea-a-holic. And I love it hot and glug it down. All morning I had been sipping at water, which wasn’t entirely due to the fact that I had little energy. I just didn’t feel like tea.
Odd.
One of the things I most love about complimentary alternative medicine is that it generally individualises you. Everyone is an individual. One size doesn’t fit all. My particular favourite is homeopathy, as this medical modality is all about your unique symptoms.
One symptom, like my total exhaustion, wasn’t enough to prescribe a homoeopathic remedy on, as there are many which have this symptom.
You need to have a few good symptoms of a particular remedy, to work out if it will help you. Three good symptoms is normally enough for acute prescribing.
I knew my condition was acute as I had felt the effects of a cold or flu coming on over a few days. Stupidly, I hadn’t taken any action.
So I had two good symptoms – total exhaustion and flu.
The third symptom came to me when I realised I wanted to sip water rather than glug tea.
The homeopathic remedy Arsenicum album is an enormous remedy, with a huge scope for healing many ailments with many different symptoms. Three of the main ones are exhaustion, desire to sip drinks and flu.
Once I started on the remedy, I fell asleep (always a good sign) and then gradually picked up in energy. By late in the afternoon I was up and active. By the following day I was completely recovered.
When you look outside the complementary alternative medicine area, can you see any modality which will heal such a condition so fast and so completely? Without side effects?
Do let me know if you know of one.
Because I’ll eat my hat. Actually I don’t have a hat. I’d have to buy one to eat it…
I don’t know very much about other areas of complementary alternative medicine other than homeopathy, as this is such a huge subject it will take me the rest of my life to really understand it. There is so much to learn.
But it can also be so simple.
A novice home prescriber, armed with a general homeopathic kit, would have had access not only to the remedy, but also to the information to work out which remedy was best suited to my condition.
In recent years, there have been global health scares for bird flu, SARS and now swine flu. But every year, globally, millions are affected by flu anyway. As far as homeopathy, my all time preferred favourite complementary alternative medicine goes, the strain of the virus makes not one jot of difference to the effect the remedy will have on you.
It’s only your unique symptoms which matter. And they are common in any type of flu.
Arming yourself with a quality homoeoapthic home prescribing kit, with clear instructions, and you’re taking control of your life.
But remain open to the other modalities of complementary alternative medicine, too. They all work with your body, so can assist you.
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