I like to drink dandelion tea mixed with a few other herbs like fenugrek, anise, burdock, fennel. Will these interfere with my homeopathic treatment? What about Reiki? or other energy treatments, accupressure, accupuncture? I would be interested in hearing your opinions. Thanks

I have no problem with herbs. I also use the once you mention in tea and it has never antidoted a remedy I have taken.The court is out as they say about using acupuncture. Am not sure about this.

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Is the patient responding to your homoeopathic remedy, or the acupuncture? How do you differentiate?

With accupuncture, not only do you question if a response is to the remedy or the accupuncture, but is lack of response due to an incorrect remedy or the accupuncture treatment....Qi gong can also impact response to remedy and a poorly selected Qi gong form is as detrimental as a poorly selected remedy...I think this can apply to any energy practice...as I know I will be asked where my info came from, I'll tell you now that I have had the personal opportunity to ask this question of a Chinese Qi Gong Master.
Denise

Thank you all,
I am getting the impression that treatment with homeopathy is very restrictive.
I'm disappointed that I cannot do QiGong and continue with homeopathic treatment. I was looking forward to joining a class in January (it was to be a christmas present to myself). What about TaiChi? I guess it would be the same. Are you saying that any form of excercise or treatment involving the vital force can interfere with the remedies action? Tantric Yoga? What about just plain sex? Lots of energy flow there.
I always say a little prayer during any energy treatment or excercise involving the chi that says something like this -- It is thy will not my will, may the energy go and flow where it is needed and then I give thanks. I do not understand how a system of restoring health through working with the vital force (homeopathy) can be so easily thrown off track by shall we say creative visualization - what about meditation??? Surely there is some middle ground here. I would imagine that most homeopathic patients (at least a few years ago in North America anyway) where exactly those type of people who were practicing TaiChi, meditation, etc. I am not a practitioner, just a patient. Therefore I just want to get well and am not concerned with whether it is the qigong or the homeopathic remedy that is making me well. I am new to homeopathic treatment and have successfully avoided allopathic doctors for years by using various cleansing herbs, reiki, accupressure etc. I have stopped a constant pain in my shoulder by using a somatic education technique taught to me by a qigong teacher. I have spent the last few months looking at homeopathy for the first time and so much makes sense to me that I would like to continue exploring this discipline, but now I am not sure ...... Please may I have more opinions here. Do any of you Doctors practice any form of meditation, movement exercises, etc.?

Jayj,

I am a homeopathic patient, not a practioner, but I can tell you that I've been practicing Tai Chi for a year and don't believe it has affected my treatment. I did have a few months 'down time' homeopathically but I think it had to do with some other things, like 9/11.

Honestly, I would not be willing to give up either one at this point anyway. They have both been so important to me. I don't like the idea of homeopathy being that restrictive, either. Intuitively, it doesn't make sense to me. I also do yoga.

I'll be interested in what others have to say.

Contenta

First...the reason you may wish to restrict 'healing' energy practices such as Qi Gong and Reiki is not that it will 'interfere' with the remedy action, but because your practitioner will not know if your responses good or bad are a result of his remedy selection or your healing practice...From my experience, Tai Chi and yoga, although energy work and of value for well being, work on a level that would be similliar to the energy produced my a true musician, an incedible dancer, and, uh, great sex... I think you can continue to practice these... I was practicing Qi Gong when I came to homeopathy, and it became clear to me rapidly that there is a similliar impact on the vital force from each of them, which is why I asked my questions....after you have been prescribed for accurately,and confirming this will take some amount of time, there should be no reason to restrict any energy practice you wish to paricipate in...something to think about...if you are doing a Qi Gong healing form that is suited to you, and this is as individual as a remedy selection, you should not need homeopathy, and if you are having curative response to a remedy, you do not need a Qi Gong healing form...it is easier to come to the curative homeopathic remedy unless you happen to live in a culture that has an abundance of Qi Gong masters...doing any old Qi Gong healing form is somewhat like picking a remedy because you heard it worked for such and such...again, I see no reason to restrict yourself from Tai Chi or Yoga, but would stay away from energy practice with healing intent at least until you have had a curative response to your homeopathic remedy... Denise

Simply put, so the homeopath knows whether your remedy is right, whether it is working or not!

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Reiki will not interfere with the homeopathic treatment as the energy is directed to where it can best be used, either on a physical or spiritual level.
It should be seen as an aid to the curative process as it treats on quite a different level to homeopathy.
Hahnemann started to investigate the use of other energetic modalities in the Sixth edition of the Organon. Aphorisms 286 to 290 deal with magnetism (hypnotherapy), galvanism & massage.
I see no problem with using acupunture or modalities that work with Chi/Qi as if the energy can be raised or balanced, then the body can start to help its way to health. I have had instant relief for my hayfever with acupuncture & was able to avoid over the counter medication. I have lessened the symptoms over the years with constitutional treatment, but there are times that one needs instant relief.
There are so many extraneous factors in today's lifestyle that drain our energy (EMF's from all our electrical equipment etc) that any modality that can bring the physical body back into balance should be considered.
As to the use of herbs, perhaps consider Aphorism 260 & especially the footnote 140 to see if that applies to what you are taking.
We were taught to ask pts what types of teas they drank, and this was pertinent in one case where a patient in student clinic had come in for treatment for her hot flushes was found to be taking many cups of ginger tea ( which in TCM raises body temp!).When she stopped the tea, the flushes diminished & then we could see a different picture.
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Hello,

This is my first email to this forum. I would like to answer your a question a bit if I may. It appears as though anything, and I do mean anything (even a bump in traffic for some people) that affects your nervous system to enough of an extent (and this extent varies in all indiviuals) can antidote your remedy. If the remedy really is the similimum, then it WILL be harder to antidote. But it appears as though, at this point at least, that acupuncture may not really affect a remedy due it's manipulation of the vital force in a much more superficial way than Homeopathy does.

I have been very interested and truly intruigued on the subject of antidoting remedies and what part other modalities that are used simultaneously with Homeopathy play.

Some Homeopaths do have different theories!

But from what I can gather from conversing with many Homeopaths including George Vithoulkas, Miranda Castro and Rajan Sankaren, what antidotes remedies is what "messes" with your nervous system after you have administered the remedy.

I hope this helps.

Take care....

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