Many years ago when my husband and I were trying to conceive our second child, who kept us waiting a few years, I remember thinking how much harder that wait would have been if I didn’t already have a child.
I suppose many people in our position, especially those with no children, might have considered some type of medical intervention early on. Readers of my Blog will know I am a big proponent of weighing up risks and benefits of any and all treatments before deciding what course to take.
This week homeopaths around the world are celebrating WHAW (World Homeopathy Awareness Week). It coincides with Samuel Hahnemann’s birthday tomorrow on April 10th.
It may surprise you to know that Hahnemann, a German, is the only physician to be honored with a statue in Washington. In fact, just over a century ago there were 22 homeopathic medical schools, 100 homeopathic hospitals and over 1,000 homeopathic pharmacies. Boston University, Stanford University and New York Medical College all taught Homeopathy.
In the ensuing decades, the AMA rigorously suppressed it because it was bad for their business and that of the apothecaries, whilst at the same time extolling the virtues of tobacco for all, including pregnant women.
Since the Easter Bunny is due tomorrow, let’s take a quick look at remedies that can help if your kids over-do the celebrating.
Nina Ximenes, a biologist and postgraduate environmental education student, recently wrote this excellent summary of the importance of Homeopathy in protecting our environment. It appeared in the April 2012 edition of Brasil’s prestigious Scientific American magazine.
She echoes many of the points I raised in my recent post “Homeopathy and Sustainability.” Thanks, Nina, it is great to see yet another scientist drawing attention to the fascinating new scientific paradigm that is emerging.
It’s a sobering thought that our culture is destroying the foundations of everything we need to be healthy. The air, the water, the food and the communities we need to thrive are being systematically degraded.
Big agriculture means GMO monocultures, pesticides, feedlots with animals pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones all enter the food supply. Amid all this destruction the pharmaceutical companies, offer to make us well again, for a price.
Last week I was honored to be asked to do a teach-in on health by www.occupysb.org. Together we looked at the big picture of what we would need, in an ideal world, to be healthy and happy. We also looked at the obstacles to us reaching that goal, both as a society and as individuals.
My thanks to the Irish Society of Homeopaths for this recent summary of the dangers of antibiotics and recent warnings from government agencies about their use. The summary also reviews evidence in favor of using homeopathy for viral and infectious illnesses:
On Veteran’s Day it is a sobering thought that 20% of those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to suffer from PTSD or major depression. According to the VA, in a 2005 report, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was the fourth most common service-related disability.
PTSD is characterized by flashbacks or nightmares to the event(s) that caused the trauma, irritability, anxiety, hypervigilance and the tendency to startle easily. Often those with PTSD will withdraw from people, places and images that remind them of the original event. Hundreds of thousands of Veterans will also have experienced some form of brain injury. Homeopathy can help, both through first aid and deeper constitutional care.
As dusk is coming and the trick or treaters go out in force, time to take a quick look at some homeopathic remedies that can help if someone in your family gets carried away and eats too many sweets. All of these are in the Deluxe kit.
Did IVF cause Giuliana’s breast cancer?
My thoughts and best wishes go out to Giuliana Rancic, the host of “E! News” and her husband Bill. Giuliana announced on Monday morning in a Today show interview that she has breast cancer. Giuliana and Bill’s reality show has chronicled their two recent IVF attempts. Sadly one failed completely and the other resulted in a miscarriage at 8 weeks. While she was preparing for her third IVF attempt, Giuliana’s doctor insisted she have a mammogram and she recalls him saying:
“I will not get you pregnant, if possibly there’s a small risk that you have cancer… because if you get pregnant, it can accelerate the cancer. All the hormones will accelerate the cancer.”
