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What is health, anyway?

(Just some thoughts… please e-mail your own thoughts on this.) Excellent health is far more than just the absence of illness or disease. Among other things, health is… Balance Strength Energy Enthusiasm Being confident in your abilities Being effective in what you do Making good choices Knowing you are loved Having plenty of yourself to […]

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Astragalus and Other Aids to Getting through Winter

Many of our patients are familiar with Echinacea. It’s an herb that stimulates the immune system. Taken at the first sign of a flu-like illness, it can help you fight it off. Sometimes you won’t even get the illness, it just goes away. Otherwise it should be easier for your body to defend itself if […]

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About Antidotes

We really don’t know why things like coffee and mint can antidote or counteract the effect of homeopathic remedies. I have seen people continue to drink coffee and yet they got the improvement they needed from a remedy. We just can’t know in advance whether you will be able to get well if you continue […]

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Intercurrent Illnesses

So, what is an intercurrent illness? When a person is being treated (“constitutionally”) with homeopathy to improve their long-term health, or be cured of a chronic condition, an illness that comes up “out of the blue,” like a flu or a cold, or some other illness, is referred to as an intercurrent illness. The important […]

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A Day in the Life of a Homeopath

The following is a description of a more or less typical day. They’re all different. Some are more interesting or rewarding than others, but in general it’s both interesting and rewarding, and that’s why we do what we do. One day in our office looked something like this: The morning started with the first follow-up […]

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