Is there an alternative to taking out the warning light with highly toxic and expensive drugs?

From an alternative perspective the more steroids you take the more suppressed the immune system becomes and the more allergies you will acquire, plus a lot more unpleasant chronic diseases. It is generally accepted by both allopaths and homeopaths that any stress/emotional trauma can trigger these symptoms.

Hay fever is most common in people with a family history of similar complaints or a personal history of eczema, hives (Urticaria), and/or asthma.

Lung disorders are seen as emotionally linked to grief/sadness at one end of the spectrum and courage/righteousness at the other.

An allergy is an overactive response of the immune system by people building up a high level of defence physically and emotionally. (An interesting viewpoint suggested by Louise Hay is that they indicate fear of all sorts of things e.g. persecution, guilt, and general emotional congestion and that by looking at particular allergens we can identify the associated fears e.g. pet hairs are to do with stroking and symbolise love which may be shut out of our lives on a mental and physical basis) – could these ring true for you?).

A homeopathic approach.

From a homeopathic perspective taking a time line to establish why you have allergic rhinitis is important. It is no good just finding a remedy to fix the symptoms. It is more important to find out what caused the symptoms as it is pointless swapping short term relief for long term chronic diseases.

With allergies homeopaths tend to place the emphasis on:

• physical trauma (such as car accidents)
• emotional factors (grief, divorce, redundancy etc).
• environmental factors (poor housing, air pollution etc)
• inherited factors (genetic and social)
• toxicity (through drugs, diet etc)
• on going stress
• diet (obesity, malnourishment)
• Poor bowel movements

Because we are unique individuals, allergies manifest differently in different people depending on their pre-disposition and general inherited weaknesses (which homeopaths call miasms).

My own clinical experience with this disorder is that the oral contraceptive pill, the abuse of steroids or on going emotional stress, shock or vaccinations are some of the main causes. It is important that these are taken into consideration then choosing indicated remedies for the chronic condition. As you can see that the signs and symptoms of stress can result in many unpleasant symptoms they are the bodies warning signals if you suppress them they lead to more chronic diseases.

Homeopathy seeks to look for the root cause/s taking into consideration both internal and external factors. It then seeks to restore this balance by gently stimulating the body to naturally complete its healing process with the indicated remedy/remedies, without any of the side-effects associated with drug therapy.

Homeopaths have developed many remedies that can treat allergies in a safe and effective manner without the toxic and long term damaging effects of drug based treatments.

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We are heading towards spring and summer at a great rate of knots and for many of us the prospect of warmer weather sunny days and general feeling of wellbeing is a welcome break from the grey winter months. For others (2 to 3 million people in Britain) the spring and summer herald in the nightmare of itchy noses, streaming eyes and continues sneezing – the hay fever season. So now is the time when the wise start preparing for this by using an alternatives medicinal approach such as homeopathy to cure the problem.What is hayfever?

Hay fever (also called allergic rhinitis or pollinosis), is an allergy characterized by sneezing, itchy and watery itchy eyes, a runny nose and a burning sensation of the palate and throat. (Inflammation of the nasal passage forces fluid out of the nasal tissues, resulting in a runny and blocked nose).

These symptoms are caused by a reaction of the immune system to an environmental trigger. With hay fever the body’s immune system overreacts to external substances such as pollen, house, dust, and feathers as if they were toxic and the end result is irritation and inflammation.

Are there underlying causes of hay fever?

These appear to be:

• Environmental triggers such as dust, moulds, pollens, grasses, trees, and animals.

• Food allergies, especially milk, wheat or sugar can both cause or aggravate existing allergies.

• Stress/emotional trauma appears to aggravate (may also cause!).

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The proper functioning of the cardiovascular system is dependent on healthy heart energy. Using a time line helps the homeopath establish the root cause and they tend to place the emphasis on:

• physical trauma (especially car accidents)
• emotional factors.
• environmental and climatic factors
• susceptibility from a miasmatic perspective
• toxicity

From a Chinese energetic perspective the heart regulates the flow of blood and stores the Shen/Spirit. If the Heart Blood is insufficient, the face will be pale and lack lustre. If it is stagnant, the face will be purplish. The heart is seen as having a direct relationship with:

• the tongue
• lymphatic system
• arteries
• thymus gland
• circulation, blood
• face colour
• weak ankles
• mind
• haemorrhoids
• nervous system
• sense of taste sweet
• growth & development pains

The heart rules the blood and blood vessels and it regulates the flow of blood. When it is functioning properly the blood flows smoothly and so Shen/Spirit is nourished and the individual responds appropriately to the environment.

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Are there underlying causes of HBP?

High blood pressure with no known cause is called primary or essential hypertension. Between 85% and 90% of people with high blood pressure have primary hypertension. If this many people have primary hypertension why not find out what is going on in their lives? From an allopathic perspective primary hypertension is incurable, but they try to control with drugs that suppress the symptoms to prevent ‘complications’.

High blood pressure with a known cause is called secondary hypertension. Between 10% and 15% of people with high blood pressure have secondary hypertension.

Stress stimulates the adrenal glands to release the hormones adrenalin and noradrenalin. These hormones stimulate the heart to beat faster and more forcefully, most arterioles to constrict, and some arterioles to dilate. The arterioles that dilate are those in areas where an increased blood supply is needed (such as in skeletal muscle—the muscles controlled by conscious effort).

Stress also stimulates the kidneys to decrease their excretion of salt and water, thereby increasing blood volume.

The kidneys also respond directly to changes in blood pressure. If blood pressure increases, the kidneys increase their excretion of salt and water, so that blood volume decreases and blood pressure returns to normal.

Conversely, if blood pressure decreases, the kidneys decrease their excretion of salt and water, so that blood volume increases and blood pressure returns to normal.

Many kidney disorders can cause high blood pressure, because the kidneys are important in controlling blood pressure. For example, damage to the kidneys may impair their ability to remove enough salt and water from the body, increasing blood volume and blood pressure. In 5 to 10% of people with high blood pressure, the cause is a kidney disorder. Such disorders include renal artery stenosis (narrowing of the artery supplying one of the kidneys), kidney inflammation, and injury.

The problem with the medical drug based approach is that the drugs create further stress on the body and in particular the kidneys and adrenal thus starting the negative downward spiral into reliance on more drugs.

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A friend took her car to the garage because her oil warning light came on. The mechanic told her she could take the quick easy option or fix it properly – she chose the ‘easy’ option and tem minutes later was driving off with no warning light showing. Next day as she sat by the roadside waiting for a tow truck she rang the mechanic ands asked what he had down – easy he said –I just took the bulb out!

Would you go back to that garage?

David, a man of 38, first became aware that all was not well because of the continuing headaches he was getting and was advised by his optician to see his GP. At the surgery the blood pressure was taken and was 170/90 – he then left with 4 different drugs, which within a year, led to a host of other symptoms - ranging from a general feeling of being tired and unwell, acid reflux, indigestion, aching muscles, muscle twitching, joint pains, pains in the knees, and breathlessness. The ‘plus’side was that his blood pressure was slightly down (but the diastolic rate was still the same) – another success for the GP and drug company. David - came to see me at the end of the year as although his high blood pressure was now 150/90 the ‘side effects’ were killing him!

Would you go back to this GP?

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By now if you have followed the previous blogs you should be clear what your primary motivation for taking the big step in changing your life and have thought through some of the secondary factors that help you make decisions – be warned recent scientific evidence shows that most of us make major life decisions on emotions (think secondary factors) rather than logical (primary) – a bit like buying a new pair of shoes because you like the colour (feelgood factor) but they are not in your size!

So if you have clarified your needs the next step is to check out the course providers – the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths (www.a-r-h.org ) ‘Which Course Guide’ will give you a base to start from, as will the Society of Homeopaths ‘Register of Course Providers’. (www.homeopathy-soh.org) . Then, if you can do the leg work by internet – visit the websites of individual course providers – ask for a prospectus etc and shortlist those you consider might meet your needs.

Now visit your short listed college/s when it’s in action, to observe how things work and talk to the students – particularly those in their Graduation Year. If you find yourself motivated, enthusiastic and challenged then it’s probably the course for you!

NB: If after joining a course you feel you have got it wrong do not be afraid to change. It is better than wasting three or four years on the wrong course and never ending up practicing!

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If your primary motivation for studying homeopathy is that you just want to get a degree and homeopathy looks interesting then maybe a degree based academic course would be suitable for you. If you:

• are under 21, a University degree is probably a better bet as you can get a student loan, it will give you time to mature and explore a range of alternative and complementary medicines (but do not expect that there will be a job waiting for you on graduation – something to bear in mind when you have a loan to repay)

or

• have any severe learning difficulties or physical disabilities you should definitely consider a degree course as they have much better support systems in place than the small private providers who will not be able to match the extra support systems the Universities have access to. (Not being a confident learner is not a severe learning disability and a good course will help learn in a way that suits you best).

At this stage it is probably better to choose a course that covers a range of complementary approaches rather than specializes too early on just one area.

Also be warned some colleges are telling prospective students that a degree will be compulsory in a few years time but this is manifestly not true. (If a college tells you this – be aware – their other promises are as likely to be of the same value!).There is no intention to make a degree a requirement for entry onto a Professional Register. Indeed the sector is more concerned with whether degree based courses are capable of producing successful working homeopaths. A Degree will not lead to employment as a homeopath as there are almost no job opportunities as such for graduates in homeopathy. This is because the profession is 98% self employment – there are a few jobs in the NHS and these are normally reserved for medically qualified Doctor and Nurses with homeopathic training. Academic courses tend to focus on what is necessary to pass exams and this detracts from really understanding the underlying principles of homeopathy and how to apply them. Often leads to a very fearful student who is too frightened to practice.

At CPH our experience of current degree level courses is that they do not give the skills necessary to set up and maintain a practice. (Increasingly we are finding students who want to practice give up those courses and apply to join our courses but are at least a year behind our students).

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The NHS has become a tool of the pharmaceuticals - creating a market is what modern drug research is all about. What better way to increase profits than to corner a market where no individual has to pay but The Government (i.e the taxpayer) has to keep digging deeper to support a National Sickness Service.

Many people still believe that medicine (and hence the NHS) is a noble pursuit, dedicated to curing humankind’s ills. But the reality is that ‘cure’ is passé. According to expert ‘We sometimes joke that when you’re doing a clinical trial, there are two possible disasters. The first disaster is if you kill people. The second disaster is if you cure them. The truly good drugs are the ones you can use chronically for a long, long time.’

Over the past decade we’ve seen the pharmacologizing of everyday life sometimes slyly, sometimes overtly, reshaping the normal ups and downs of everyday life and turning them into market opportunities.

The safer, less costly and more healthy ways of treating ordinary ailments are ignored or marginalized when pharmaceutical manufacturers start to colonize an area of human health. In order to build demand for their products and services they will sponsor awareness-raising campaigns to make common conditions look as severe and widespread as possible.

No longer do we seek to understand whole persons in their social contexts – rather we are there to realign our patients’ neurotransmitters.’

When the World Health Organization hold meetings Big Pharma makes sure their interests are well represented. The results are recommendations not based on the best evidence, but based on the best support for pharmaceutical treatments.

Patient groups or medical foundations – so-called ‘third-party’ organizations – are funded to participate in these campaigns, silently orchestrated by drug company marketing departments and their PR houses e.g the Herceptin pressure groups (see The Guardian articles) or the dodgy ‘Sense about Science’ run by Taverne and co.

Are we now seeing the pre-launch marketing strategy for the disease of ‘gambling’ which will include company-funded education of doctors and consumers long before a drug is launched? The job of the PR company, is to ‘beat the drum’, to use newspapers, conferences and journals to get doctors and consumers buzzing about a new ‘problem’ e.g gambling coming down the pipe and the need for more funding (sic ‘profits’) to be pumped into the social purse to meet this demand. (As Big Pharma also probably controls the assets of most of the gambling industry they can create profits from both ends!

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Gambling can be seen as harmless fun, an interesting leisure pursuit, morally reprehensible or a serious mental health issue depending on the actions of the individual and the effects those actions have on that person and those around them.

Addiction is defined as the disruptive behaviour or activity associated with something that that a person is dependent on – gambling, alcohol, drugs, eating disorders etc Addiction generally interferes with the ability to work, study, or interact normally with family and friends.

However the first question before we explore gambling and the NHS is to why ask this is suddenly becoming big news. (For a fuller account checkout an interesting article by Alan Cassels ‘Drug Companies Peddling Paranoia’ in New Internationalist Publications) but briefly the following is relevant for readers to get an overview of how the current debate has been started).
About thirty years ago the British physician, Julian Tudor-Hart published his famous ‘inverse care law’: ‘those who most need medical care are the least likely to get it.’ Modern pharmaceutical research is playing Dr Hart’s law out on a macabre global scale. While the debilitating diseases of the poor – such as malaria, tuberculosis and sleeping sickness – have few or no treatments, the drug companies are busy working on cures for a ballooning set of ‘made-up’ diseases of the rich and privileged. There are now drugs for toenail fungus, ‘pre-hypertension’ and bedwetting; for compulsive shopping and gambling ‘addiction’.

How do drug companies create ‘markets’ for new drugs – they create ‘new’ diseases by hiring public relations agencies and work with academics. ‘You find a professor working in a university and fund that professor to write a book, or to do a media tour around the country. Or you find a public figure, a sports figure or an actor, to go around and meet and work with journalists, and to do work with public forums, so you literally create this need.’

Looking at the latest ‘gambling’ disease we can see all the hallmarks of the creation of an investment led ‘social disease’ – the drug companies are fully aware of the market potential and how well a disease area ‘performs’. The rising rates of gambling addiction or obesity and the dark clouds of potentially dire public health consequences are seen in terms of their silver linings – generating legions of new customers. Drug companies claim they need a large market to recoup their research and development costs. But the top drug companies throw nearly three times more money at marketing and promotion than they do at basic R&D. And their initial research is often already ‘funded’ by the taxpayer.

So who actually runs the NHS? More in our next blog…..

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