Dear Tom,

I think there's not a single one of us who wasn't brought up on standard medicine.
Sometimes you get great results, and I have probably many times thanked God for Valium; but, what standard medicine is really good at, besides surgery and life-saving techniques, is arriving at a diagnosis. But arriving at a diagnosis doesn't cure you. Modern medicine has no principles, no hypothesis about cure. (Our hypothesis is the Law of Similars) Their only goal is symptom-management.

Often they will manage a person's symptoms while the person's health declines. They don't feel they have any responsibility for that; because, the blood pressure is under control, or the tumor is shrinking, and the fact that the person is becoming apathetic or debilitated is irrelevant--it's not their job, not what they were assigned to take care of.

All of us here, I dare say, are not just into homeopathy. I'm sure we are all educated about the main source of ill health in western society, which is our diet--denatured foods; foods with all the fiber removed, the germ removed from the wheat for the sake of longer shelf life. We all know that the fast-food diet is just empty calories. Our diets are full of white sugar--a poison. It destroys calcium and the B vitamins...it's a mischief-maker in the body. I don't think any of us would counsel a person to deal with his health problem by taking a homeopathic remedy without pointing out that the cooked-food/white sugar/white flour diet he's on is most surely responsible or contributing to his ill health.

We're also familiar with tonic herbs, vitamin C,
vitamin E and so forth, but I suppose we're the lucky ones who have also, in our reading, etc., found out about homeopathy; because homeopathy really can work miracles, and we've all seen and experienced it. Here's a typical scene: it's night, everything's closed, and your child is sick; crying; inconsolable. I feel sorry for the mothers who don't know homeopathy because many of them probably wind up in the emergency room in the middle of the night; but, we, with out home-remedy kits, and our acute prescribing books, look up the symptoms and give a remedy, and in minutes, everyone's back to sleep! (I must admit that one night it took me 5 hours to find the right remedy! But when I did, my daughter's face immediately went tranquil and she fell asleep.)

I look forward to other people's replies; thanks for asking!

Snoopy