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Adapted from The Complete Homoeopathy Handbook by Miranda Castro. A fever can be a helpful and necessary healing stage of an acute disease, during a cold perhaps, or a ‘childhood illness’, something positive, to be encouraged rather than suppressed. By understanding that fever is a symptom and not a disease in itself, you can come…

Whooping Cough – Epidemiology and Treatment What is Whooping Cough? Whooping cough, also known as Pertussis, is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease, caused by a bacteria called Bordetella pertussis. Whooping cough tends to be more prevalent in children towards late primary school. However, younger children and adults can also be susceptible. The disease is…

Homeopathy as Preventative Medicine You may all have an awareness of how homœopathy can be used to treat acute illness (coughs, colds, stomach bugs, bites and stings) and chronic illness (eczema, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome etc). But did you know that homœopathy has a history of being used to prevent illness? Samual Hahnemann, the…

In Part 1, I talked about Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now, the basic concepts of his philosophy and how it relates to homœopathy. In Part 2, I will focus more on how his work provides a wonderful insight into what creates, sustains and can cure dis-ease in the physical body. He defines Chi as the…