Consultations
Initially, a free, brief introductory call is taken from the Client to determine if the condition to be treated is Acute or Chronic. Then the Intake process is scheduled. The Intake can take from 1.5 to 2 hours for a Chronic condition or 30 to 45 minutes for an Acute case.
If the main complaint of the Client is a Chronic issue, a broad discussion about personal and family health, about life style and living conditions, about past and present emotional and mental stresses follows, to reveal significant, unique, characteristic symptoms of the Client.
The Homeopath is interested in getting to know the Client with his/her totality of symptoms in order to enhance the remedy selection. The remedy is selected for the Client not the disease. There are many remedies to choose from. The Homeopath will repertorize symptoms, analyze and differentiate remedies based on materia medica and will select and recommend a remedy.
Once the remedy is selected the Client is informed on what, how and from where to procure the remedy. The Client is advised to carefully observe any changes in energy level, mental, emotional and physical symptoms. These observations will be important for the follow-up meeting.
The follow-up meeting is usually scheduled 4-6 weeks later.
A Chronic condition, depending on its nature and length of existence, will need to be treated faithfully and carefully by both Client and Homeopath. Its clearing may take shorter or longer time as the healing process is different from one person to another even for the same affliction.
Candid communication and patience are essential. Several factors, known as “barriers to cure” could exist and need to be identified: current allopathic medications, living conditions, occupational hazards, exposure to toxicity, etc.
The Client is advised that at all times any and all medical conditions/treatments to be followed according to the indications of his/her medical/allopathic doctor. Homeopathic remedies do not impact the action of the allopathic treatments or drugs.
The Homeopath’s sole role is, to ensure the highest ideal of cure, which as quoted by Hahnemann: “is the rapid, gentle, and permanent restoration of health; that is the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entirety extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles”.
