I am currently taking constitutional remedies. I have an embarrassing question to ask. If I kiss someone who has used listerine, or mint toothpaste is this a problem. Also, I live in an area that has a new coffee house where coffee is ground fresh and the smell is all around the neighborhood. Is this a problem?

Gail,

I am not a homeopath so you may want to wait and hear from one of the experts but from what I understand it really depends on the remedy you are taking and also how "right" the remedy is. Some remedies like phos. can be antidoted by just the smell of coffee while others are difficult to touch, but if yours is one that is antidoted by menthol than I would guess that you need to excersize caution while kissing someone with that on them. On the other hand, I have heard many of the homeopaths here say that if the remedy is the similimum than not much can antidote. I guess the best advice is to do your best to stay away from what your homeopath warned against and if you think you may have antidoted than contact him/her.

take care,
barb\

What lovely questions.

Regarding the coffee smell, just enjoy it. I don't think the smell alone could antidote.

And kissing, one of the few things more important than homoeopathy. It's a matter of balance. Don't go for full on kiss a second after your kissee has just swigged mouthwash, but after it's subsided a bit, fine.

We homeopaths can get a bit paranoid about patients antidoting remedies. In reality these substances antidote remedies only infrequently- it depends on the patients sensitivity to the antidote, the relationship with the remedy they have just taken and the belief systems of the patient and their homeopath. I know one practitioner who never mentions antidotes to his patients and has only ever had one patient antidote a remedy.

Take the advice of your homeopath and make an effort to avoid these substances but try not to worry too much- as Anna said, it is a question of balance. You will know if you antidote a remedy because the good feelings and extra energy you got from it will fade. You will then know that you are espescially sensitive to that antidote and can make an extra special effort to avoid it. Most of the time a repeat of the same remedy will pick up the cure from where the other left off.

[This message has been edited by Rubric (edited 13 October 2000).]

Homeopathy, is advanced chemie, and not a belive system, nothing in homeopathy, is based upon a belive, but upon scientific controlled results!
Some remedies is antidoted by this, or that, each remedie has its own spesific antidotes,that can be found in food,drinks, smells, sourroundings, etc, and thats called then a maintaining cause. A habit may be called a belive, so in this way, only, is it possible to place it under the rubric belive.
To try to put homeopathy under a belive system, is showing that the person who says this, is a complete ignorant, in stolen clothings, the clothes of a real homeopath.

Twisting words to suit a twisted purpose? The words are plain for all to see; the meaning clear. To read what isn’t there is delusion. To inject fear into the hearts of patients with a lengthy volume of antidotes is to side with the disease. A healer worth his salt would know the power of the heart and mind to influence the cure, and wears a suit tailor made from the finest cloth… paid for in full.

REgret that my own suit is not tailor made, does that mean I'm a charlatan?

No, of course not. It was a euphamism. Between you and me I don't actually own a suit .

headless people, do usually not need clothing, thanks for confirmating.

Rubric - you say you are a homeopath (not listed in your profile) How do your patients understand you - you talk in riddles.

Reference the following quote from your posting:-

"the relationship with the remedy they have just taken and the belief systems of the patient and their homeopath. I know one practitioner who never mentions antidotes to his patients and has only ever had one patient antidote a remedy". So because for example, you tell me that it is possible to antidote the particular remedy you have just given me, my brain springs into action and triggers the antidoting of my remedy ??? Yeah ....... I get that one !!!!

The only other interpretation of your statement that I can see is that when the practitioner mentions possible antidotes - the patient goes and takes an antidote !!!

Your statement just does not make sense. What are you implying ?