In homeopathy we have a wide range of remedies- from large “polychrests” that have many symptoms across all parts of the body, to smaller remedies that seem to be quite specific for different organs or parts of the body. Dr. James Compton Burnett, was a Medical Doctor turned Homeopath in England in the late 19th century. He was an excellent
March is endometriosis awareness month, so it’s time for me to talk Endo. Endometriosis New Zealand estimates at least 120,000 girls and women in New Zealand are living with Endometriosis – so it’s important we are all more aware of this condition and how it affects women. First of all, let’s talk about what Endometriosis is and how it presents,
I started working in a Pharmacy in my second year at University, and started my internship at the end of 2005. As an intern, I learnt about compression socks, and at the same time learnt that many women working in pharmacy had varicose veins, because standing all day is a risk factor. I decided I didn’t want to get them,
One of the wonderful, but sometimes also difficult things about homeopathy is the many many ways of analysing a case and coming up with different remedies. While sometimes there is an agreement on a particular remedy, many times in groups of Homeopaths you can present a case you are having difficulty with and you may get 6 different remedies from
One thing I do when I’m learning about something is try and make connections with things I already know. This is part of Piaget’s theory of learning, where first you try and assimilate knowledge into what you already know, before accomodating the knowledge and coming into balance with your new understanding. It’s probably also why homeopathy can be a hard
For many children in New Zealand, school will start either this week or next week. Some children are excited, others apprehensive, and some just do not want to go. Homeopathy can be a support for mental, emotional and physical complaints associated with school. If you have a child who is anxious and does not want to go to school, consider
Last year I did a new thing, and created two sequence remedies. But let’s start at the beginning. I heard Ambika Wauters on Eugenie Kruger’s Homeopathy Hangouts Podcast, then reached out to her and watched some recorded lectures about her colour and sound remedies. I read her book (the new version with the sound remedies included), then sourced the
One of the most important things about being human is the urge to create. This creative force is what brings children into the world, creating life from two mere cells from separate parents. Women then grow this life and facilitate this creation of a human being in the womb. While the physical is important, equally, it is creativity that
There is one certainty in life, and that is that time marches on. It honestly does not feel like a year since I last undertook this process, but here we are. If you follow my page you know that I am always busy and juggling, and so having some structure and outline in the form of goals does give me
Wow, this year has been a big year, and some times I definitely had too much on my plate. In writing this post I decided to review what my goals were for this year. You can read them here for yourself, but I’m going to go through them all below. First though, I want to reflect on what I have
If you haven’t seen your Homeopath for a while, and something comes up, but you can’t get in to see your Homeopath, you could consider repeating your constitutional remedy. Is this the same as what you have had before? In which case you can usually repeat the remedy you had for this, and if it doesn’t help then see your
This is one of my favourite remedies for infection as it is one of homeopathy’s most septic remedies. It has a long history of use for severe infections in a time before antibiotics, including sepsis and typhoid which often were fatal. Reading cured case snippets in references like Clarke’s Dictionary of Materia Medica is worth doing if you have any
Antibiotics were life saving when they were first introduced- and they still can be. However we overuse them, and resistance is a rising problem. In addition to the wider societal implication of antibiotic overuse, there is also a personal cost. Usually antibiotic therapy is not targeted to a specific causal “bad” bacteria causing the problem. Instead they are “broad spectrum”
It’s my birthday! If you are at all interested in astrology, you will probably know this makes me a Scorpio. I am not very knowledgeable about astrology, in fact if you have an interest you probably know more than me, so I did some research to find out more about the intersection between homeopathy and the zodiac – and the
At the moment I am working on a Graduate Certificate of Professional Coaching through SIT. Not because I have a burning desire to be a life coach or health coach, although I acknowledge the great work they do, but because I am aware that much of my work as a Homeopath does involve some level of coaching, supporting people to
As I mentioned in my last two posts, I am away overseas. I thought I would share with you some of the remedies – homeopathic and otherwise – that I have in my travel kit. This may be useful for you to bookmark for next time you are travelling. If you are going on a long haul flight and skipping
This is something that will be familiar to anyone who has travelled across a number of different time zones on a plane – you arrive feeling like you have been crammed into a tube for too many hours, and then instead of being able to rest, your body think’s it’s time to be awake in the middle of the night,
It is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, and so an opportunity to reflect on the Māori language, and this year I am taking time to reflect on remedies through a holistic Māori lens. I have discussed Te Whare Tapa Wha before, (you can read the post here), it is my favourite holistic model of health. For a quick recap,
On the weekend I attended the New Zealand Homeopathy Conference: I will talk more about the content but firstly I want to discuss the magic of the coming together in person of so many Homeopaths from around New Zealand. One question for the weekend ( with a prize) was about the collective noun for Homeopaths- and several people individually came
One thing I have been doing this year is contracting for Open Polytechnic, and doing workplace assessments for Pharmacy Technicians who are working on their Level 4 and Level 5 diplomas. I love this – it’s amazing to get out of the house and explore a different part of Northland, plus get the opportunity to talk to other Pharmacists and
I’ve seen a couple of comments lately about the cost of seeing a Homeopath, and it is also something that came up in my homeopaths demographic survey last year, so I thought it was worth discussing. You may already understand that it is not a matter of cost but of value, and that this is not just unique to Homeopaths,
“She looks like she has it all together, and I’m a mess.” I hear variations on this all the time. Social comparison is a really harmful behaviour, especially when what you see is the good times and you notice it when you are feeling overwhelmed or struggling with life. A study published in the Journal of Behavioural Addictions cites social
The last two days we have talked about the influence of birth order, and some homeopathic remedies that may be indicated for middle and youngest children. Today, finally, let’s look at Eldest and Only children. The Eldest are used to being first. It can also come with a lot of responsibility, often they are expected to help at a much
Continuing my birth order post, let’s look at Youngest children. The “baby” of the family, they may be more indulged and be considered less capable than their siblings were at the same age. While they may or may not be spoiled in terms of what they physically are given, they certainly don’t usually have the responsibilities of their older siblings,