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How To Find a Qualified Homeopath

Posted on July 20, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

If you are seeking respite from endless visits for a health complaint. You may want to consider homeopathy. The focus of homeopathic care is “the restoration of health” – these are words from the originator of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann. Classical Homeopathy focuses on whole person healing. Your practitioner typically allows 1-2 hours with you as part of the process of finding the appropriate homeopathic remedy.

First you have to locate a trained, qualified homeopath. Homeopathic care is not licensed in the US and most states do not oversee the practice. Search national organizations such as the North American Society of Homeopaths or the Council for Homeopathic Certification. Both are sources of qualified homeopaths. A certification is not a license or a recommendation. What it demonstrates is a certain amount of education, training and the ability to meet certain requirements. However, there are excellent homeopaths who may choose not to be included in a directory. Ask family and friends if they know of someone. Check for local workshops given by a practitioner.

At the minimum you want a homeopath who has undertaken training at a school run by homeopaths. It is even better if the school had a training clinic whereby there was mentoring. In the final selection, just like any health practitioner make sure there is appropriate rapport between you. Ask questions. Check to see if they have training in other therapies. What kind of success have they experienced?

Healing is a process and it happens on many levels. You have to allow yourself time for it to develop and manifest. It can be rapid or it may take more time, especially if someone is beset with deep seated or multiple ailments. Homeopathy has been helping people for centuries.

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When perspiration smells like cheese

Posted on April 28, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

OK I made up the question.  Still let’s have a look at it from a homeopathic perspective.

Question:

Lately, my husband has started sweating profusely when he is asleep.  His sweat has a strong cheesy smell. He is showers regularly so that is not the problem.  Is this serious?

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A Homeopathic Look

I’m not speaking to the, is this serious question, as I am not an medical doctor.  Let’s take a peek at this situation from a homeopathic perspective.

I decided to repertorize these few symptoms and see what comes up.  Look below.  Of course, other factors have to be taken into consideration to make a remedy decision.
Cheesy perspiration, could also be close to “fetid” and “offensive”, but I like this rubric since it quite distinct and in the person’s own language.

Perspiration
ODOR, cheesy, (8)

Perspiration
PROFUSE (224)
night (97)

Based on this limited information what homeopathic remedy might you suggest for this individual?

For a doctor’s perspective on the question read here.

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Fish in U.S. Rivers Tainted With Common Medications

Posted on March 31, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

Do you eat fish as a means to a healthy diet? Well, er before you take out that fishing rod, or purchase that package of fish you may want to check out where that fish swam. Turns out waste from the many medications in use by the American populace is ending up as effluent in the river. Does any one feel for the fish?

Federal standards for treating waste water do not govern pharmaceutical by products. Read the article here.

The medications and chemicals found from among the 36 tested for were, aside from diphenhydramine:

* the cholesterol drug gemfibrozil (Lopid), which researchers say had never before been found in wild fish;
* diltiazem (Cardizem), a medication that helps control high blood pressure;
* carbamazepine (Tegretol), a drug used for epilepsy and bipolar disorder;
* norfluoxetine, an active ingredient in the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac);
* the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft);
* galaxolide and tonalide, common odor-enhancing ingredients in soap and other hygiene products.
Years ago, actually decades, the problem was mercury in the water…and I don’t think that ever went away, now add this.

Another reason to heal thyself.

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Enter the “Polypill” to reduce heart problems, hbp and stroke

Posted on March 30, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

The “miracle” of modern medicine has led to bizarre side effects such as a treatment for restless legs, that has caused compulsive gambling. A medicine for Parkinson’s has a similar problem for some. Sleep drugs that cause people to stumble out of their home and drive. Fertility drugs that lead to multiple births. Hallucinations are a “rare” side effect of some ADHD medications. These are the considered a-typical, but the typical side effects are no fun either.

Help for High Blood Pressure

Enter the Polypill.  Researchers want to create a pill a 3 in one that can reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and high blood pressure in one.  article here
Truth is it has been created or should I say they have been. When we eat whole foods, contained therein is a synergistic blend of vitamins, proteins, amino acids, flavonoids, solar and lunar energy and maybe even (hopefully) love from the gardener. We cannot get this from a pill.

Run This Way

Instead of running from nature, run to nature. Nurture yourself with learning how to live in balance. It’s free. It’s the healthiest choice for yourself and the planet. Give it a try. Polypill? Try basking in the sun, or hugging a dear friend, cook yourself a meal with a big dose of love in it…you’ll be glad you did, for benefits no Polypill could ever provide.

At Continuum Wellness we offer homeopathic care and wellness coaching to promote wholeness, health and well-being.

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Researchers Use a Small Amount of the Same Substance to Heal Food Allergies

Posted on March 17, 2009 by continuum wellness| 3 Comments

Researchers Use a Small Amount of the Same Substance to Cure Food Allergies

There truly is nothing new under the sun.  At times when I read “medical research,” it is often only resurfaced wisdom.  I tend to think it is ‘ego’ at work, to claim your work as “new”.  When it is not new.  The idea of small doses has been in use that we know of for hundreds of years, it is a cornerstone of homeopathic treatment, homeopathy uses infinitesimally small doses.

Isopathy prescribes a remedy made from the causative agent or products of a disease from the same disease or substance. In this research, to treat the food allergies small substances were used of the allergen are used.  Hahnemann spoke of the isopathic method and credits any success due to the simillum, but argues against this approach for various reasons.

Eliminating the Aggravation

This is a brief excerpt as to how tolerance to the allergen is ameliorated.

The starting doses were very small, as little as 1/1000th of a peanut. The doses increased until the children ate the equivalent of up to 15 peanuts a day about 10 months later, and then they stayed on the daily therapy while they were monitored.

The researchers of course suggest that this is a highly refined approach, left to trained professionals.  Read the article below and check out the link to learn more about their work.
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Exposure to Peanuts May Build Tolerance to Allergy

The therapy is still experimental, and more research is needed, study says

Doctors may have found an unlikely remedy for some peanut allergies.

Teams at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital gave nearly microscopic pieces of peanut to a group of about 30 children with non-life-threatening peanut allergies daily.

After two years, nine kids were still able to tolerate the treatment, and four appeared to be completely allergy-free.

The researchers say this is the first study to show limited exposure can help someone with a food allergy become tolerant of that food. Read more at arkansasmatters.com.

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Children seriously affected when a parent suffers from depression

Posted on March 9, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

The article below outlines some of the challenges that are thrust on a child when a parent is sad or depressed. Homeopathic care (with a qualified homeopath) can offer solutions to those seeking an alternative to allopathic care. Homeopathy is of help for the entire family and as the article below suggests, health services must help the whole family. Visit our site, continuumwellness.org and contact us for more information.

Children seriously affected when a parent suffers from depression

Life is hard for the children of a parent suffering from depression. Children take on an enormous amount of responsibility for the ill parent and for other family members. It is therefore important for the health services to be aware of this and have support functions in place for the whole family, and not just for the person who is ill. This is the conclusion of a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Registered Nurse Britt Hedman Ahlström has examined the way in which family life is affected when a parent is suffering from depression. Nine families, including ten children and young adults between the ages of 5 and 26, and eleven parents were included in the study.

The results show how the family’s daily life changes and becomes more complicated when a parent is suffering from depression. Uncertainty about what is happening has an effect on the daily life of the entire family. Depression also means that the parent becomes tired and exhausted, which then affects and weighs heavily on the children’s daily life. Depression changes the relationship between a parent and his/her children, since they no longer communicate with each other as they used to. Family interplay and reciprocity decrease. The depressed parent withdraws from the family, and the children feel that they have been left to themselves.

Daily family life becomes unfamiliar to the children

The family members try their utmost, both as individuals and together, to cope with the situation, so that daily life can be restored to a more manageable level. The children take responsibility for both the depressed parent, siblings and themselves, when they notice that the parent cannot cope.

“The toughest burden of responsibility that children take on is ensuring that the depressed parent doesn’t commit suicide. So children take on an extremely heavy responsibility by monitoring and keeping an eye on the depressed parent,” says Britt Hedman Ahlström.

For children, the parent’s depression means both a sense of responsibility and a feeling of loneliness The feelings of responsibility and loneliness include a striving and yearning for reciprocity with the parent, and for things to return to a state of normality.

“Even if the depression goes away for a time, the family is never entirely free from anxiety over it coming back. This means that there is a prolonged period of suffering associated with depression,” says Britt Hedman Ahlström.

Health services must help the whole family

Involving the entire family when a parent becomes ill is important, both for the children and the parents. It is essential to have a well-defined level of guaranteed care on how, when and from whom the families will get support. Psychiatric healthcare personnel meet people suffering from depression at an early stage, and therefore have the opportunity to focus the care on the family, in order to together identify ways of helping the family get through the depression.

“We need a new approach within the health services, in which the focus is on the family’s own perspective when a parent is suffering from depression. It’s vital to be aware of the whole family’s needs in terms of help and support, and not just those of the person who is ill. It’s particularly important to be aware of the children’s situation. Research can therefore focus on how to develop various ways of providing families with care and support, and introduce them into the existing organisation, as well as evaluating the consequences for the whole family, the parents and the children,” says Britt Hedman Ahlström.

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Living Well Holistic Health Fair update (Feb 2009)

Posted on March 4, 2009 by continuum wellness| 2 Comments

Yea!!!!!! Continuum Wellness with the help of angels and dear friends held her first Holistic Health Fair. The turnout was good and when you consider the short time frame we had, it was g-r-e-a-t. I appreciate all the wonderful practitioners who participated.

Some of the comments that I received is that it was a quality event, that the vibe was very soothing, nourishing and uplifting. Attendees said how so many others could benefit from the information provided at the program. And then a lot of folks wanted to know when will we have the next one.

Ahem, cough, cough… let me just say that while I thoroughly enjoyed pulling this together it is a major to do, so, you can mark your calendars now, we will have it again next February 2010.

Last but not least (forgive the cliche) were the wonderful vendors, who came out to share their products.
And thanks to all who came out to participate in the 1st Annual Living Well Holistic Health Fair.
*each one, teach one*

stay tuned, some pic’s will be posted

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Reflexology Feels Good

Posted on February 10, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

I thought I’d share just how wonderful my feet feel! Yes, I give reflexology sessions, and I appreciate that people enjoy our sessions together and experience relief and healing. Well, I love when I can get a session in too. Many of the areas of the foot you can reach on your own foot, but it is not the same as you relaxing…and receiving. Also doing your own foot still leaves much to be desired regarding technique.

Benefits of Reflexology
Have you tried reflexology? I’m fortunate to trade sessions with another reflexologist, yea! But who is rubbing your feet? Foot reflexology offers an easy way to treat the whole body/mind. It is relaxing, boosts your circulation, immunity, helps you to detox and get in touch with your own body.

It is amazing how easy it is to ignore one’s own body. The standard protocol of if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it, doesn’t tell the whole story when applied to the body. For example many deep seated illnesses have very few symptoms, there are symptoms, but they are subtle. If we ignore our internal energy systems, we increase the chance for a more serious breakdown to occur. To make a difference take a break, listen to your body. Learn the art of wise self-care. Prevention is worth a pound of cure…and then some.

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Hi Tech Blood Pressure Measurement

Posted on January 26, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

Is this enough to motivate one to take care and to work toward healing? You can heal yourself. One can have normal blood pressure.
What is your view of health? Has it come to this where you have to implant a device into your tissues to monitor your blood pressure? Instead of chipping people isn’t the purpose of medicine to foster and promote healing? Read the article below.

Sensor in artery measures blood pressure

A 1 millimeter-wide blood-pressure sensor inserted directly into the femoral artery in the groin has been developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems.

It provides remote monitoring by a doctor, replacing a burdensome inflatable sleeve on the patient’s arm.
“The sensor, which has a diameter of about one millimeter including its casing, measures the patient’s blood pressure 30 times per second. It is connected via a flexible micro-cable to a transponder unit, which is likewise implanted in the groin under the skin. This unit digitizes and encodes the data coming from the micro-sensor and transmits them to an external reading device that patients can wear like a cell phone on their belt. From there, the readings can be forwarded to a monitoring station and analyzed by the doctor.” Because the researchers use special components in CMOS technology, the system requires little energy. The micro-implants can be supplied with electricity wirelessly via coils.

Implantable pressure sensors are also suitable for other applications, such as monitoring patients suffering from cardiac insufficiency. The researchers are currently performing the first clinical trials.”

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Research: Homeopathic Medical Care Produces Increase in Quality of Life

Posted on January 8, 2009 by continuum wellness| Leave a comment

A recent study of classical homeopathic treatment in Germany and Switzerland, showed that the majority of patients who used homeopathy suffer from long standing chronic disease. The findings indicated that the patients as a result of homeopathic care enjoyed an increase in the quality of their life.
Read the research here.


Study: Homeopathy Can Yield Long Lasting Improvement

January 6, 2009 (WLS) — Patients who practice homeopathy often say the health improvements are long lasting, according to a study in the journal BMC Public Health.

Patients reported long term improvement in chronic conditions such as headaches, allergies and sleep problems.

However, the findings do not necessarily mean the controversial alternative therapy is responsible for the benefits according to researchers. They say many of the other patients also used other types of alternative care as well as conventional medicine.

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