My Personal Experience With Homeopathic Medicine

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What is homeopathy? If you would have asked me that question at the beginning of the semester I would have told you something like; “Homeopathy is witch doctor medicine,” “Hocus Pocus,” or “Medicine for granola crunching hippies.” However, jump ahead 30 days and whoa, not only was I completely wrong about what homeopathy is, but come to find out I’m extremely interested and intrigued by it. In only thirty short days, my entire way of thinking about homeopathy and naturopathic medicine has completely changed. Three things that helped changed my perspective about homeopathy are; Laws of Similars, homeopathic remedies, and my own personal experiences with homeopathic medicine.
Homeopathy comes from two Greeks words meaning “similar to disease or suffering.” In Greek, the word “homois” means similar and the word “pathos” means suffering. A German medical doctor named Samuel
Homeopathic remedies are really interesting and have proven to work. After checking with my physician last week to make sure it was okay, I started taking the homeopathic remedy Kali Phosphoricum 30c for my tension headaches associated with fatigue. I started off with the recommend dose of five pellets three times a day and by the end of my second, five pellet dose my headache was gone. Okay, first off if you know me, then you know that I eat Advil, Tylenol, and Excedrin like Skittles because I ALWAYS have a headache. An average day for me with a headache consisted of me taking four Advil Migraine capsules in the morning, two extra strength Tylenol tablets over lunch, and four more Advil Migraine capsules in the evening. Can you imagine my surprise when my headache disappears after only the second dose of Kali Phosphoricum? Yeah, it was pretty

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