Hi Shauna,

The idea about not vaccinating and using homeopathy doesn't mean you should substitute vaccines for "nosodes" used randomly to prevent a disease.

It means that, instead of relying on vaccines to protect you against specific diseases (for which no proof of their efficacy exists, truly) you treat your children with homeopathic medicine should they come down with ANY illness.

In homeopathy, if we don't have symptoms on which to prescribe, we can't prescribe. In the case of epidemic disease, we can follow some "rules" about genus epidemicus prescribing in order to administer a good Genus Epidemicus remedy as a prophylactic against the epidemic disease--but each epidemic is different, and must be understood before this can be done. So, again, its a case of having some symptoms manifest first before we can cure by giving a medicine which causes similar symptoms.

So giving nosodes instead of vaccines is just a useless practice, infuriating because it can easily become dangerous. I don't think there is controversy about this; it's pretty clear.

Instead of using vaccines, you can choose to seek out homeopathic medical care for your child. That means using homeopathic medicine as a first line of treatment.

Some of the diseases parents are convinced into vaccination use against are really simple childhood diseases that our grandparents used to try to expose us to--so that our bodies would have the necessary opportunity to create resistance to such diseases and become far more efficient at "treating" and "curing" itself. Once these diseases are endured, the host is never susceptible to them again...and generally, susceptibility to any type of disease is lessened considerably. Homeopathic medicine just helps the body to deal with disease and establish this lack of susceptibility.

Giving a remedy when no disease is present only creates an artificial disease, and is unnecessary. Your best option is to treat with homeopathic medicine because it is effective when it needs to be, and allows the body to depend on, nurture, and strengthen its own ability to heal itself. Find a really good homeopath and stick with her!

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