To answer the question about using homoeopathy for injuries, there should be no problem for people to do that. If someone needs treatment, then do it. The thing is, you need to determine whether it reallys deserves the use of a remedy. Could the person cope without it? Yes? Then don't give a remedy. Is the person in alot of pain? Yes? Then give a remedy. If you didn't have any remedies at home, would you bother seeking treatment elsewhere? No, then don't give a remedy. Is the person in serious danger? Yes, then by all means, try a remedy.

The only thing you have to be careful of is suppressing an aggravation from a remedy prescribed for the person. If you have just been to a homoeopath, and a week later you get a cold or flu, even if everyone else has got one, don't use a new remedy. Your vital force may use the epidemic to balance things out.

There are reasons so many homoeopaths freak out when people use first-aid remedies - many homoeopaths lack confidence treating acutes, so I think their view is coloured by that. But, another reason is that people mistake aggravations for acutes, and end up suppressing them.

It is almost impossible to antidote a well selected curative remedy. I have only once ever seen this happen, in a patient who went to the dentist. But I suspect now, after further treatment, that she had not had the correct remedy yet - the gas antidoted the palliative effect of the remedy. A first aid prescription will not "ruin" your remedy - it will certainly reveal that you are not cured yet.

[ 07 January 2002: Message edited by: DavidJK ]</p>

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.