How to Treat Sunburn and Prevent the Flu
Thought of the Week
Dealing with Delusions
Artist Creates Horses From Driftwood
It’s Hard to See the Obvious
This week’s topic covers two homeopathic areas. One for us southern hemisphere people going into summer. And one for the northern hemisphere people going into winter.
Summer is a time when you can get dehydrated and sunburnt. Please don’t avoid the sun, though or use sun block. You need the sun to manufacture vitamin D (which also lowers cholesterol in the process). Just don’t frazzle in the midday sun, unless you’re used to it and it doesn’t bother you.
Whilst I’m no fan of this idea of drinking 2 - 3 litres of water a day, I am a great believer in drinking when you’re thirsty. That may mean carrying a drink around with you at all times, if you’re out and about.
Your own filtered water is best. And a glass or stainless flask is best. Plastic releases BPA into the water as soon as it warms up.
Sunburn is best treated like any other burn. The top remedy for burns is Cantharis. Cantharis works much deeper than the milder Urtica urens which is often suggested for burns. Both will help a mild burn such as sunburn. But Cantharis can also resolve serious burns.
One homeopath suggested that the best good you can do is to put a high potency of Cantharis in the drinking water of all burns victims in hospitals.
Please be aware that sunstroke is very different from sunburn, and much more serious.
One of the best homeopathic medicines you can take to prevent colds and flus, is Oscillococcinum, Oscillo for short. It’s also called Anas barb, as French homeopaths developed it.
If you take that regularly (once a week or fortnight) throughout the flu season, it’s unlikely you’ll get any flu. And it doesn’t have any side effects.
It can also be used at the very start of flu for most people, and will prevent it going further. But, unless the symptoms of your flu are the same as those of this remedy, it’s unlikely to heal your flu.
If you would like to know how to prevent and treat colds and flus homeopathically, please see my home study course at ‘Treat Flu at Home”. http://treatfluathome.com
Animals can benefit in the same way, with the use of these remedies. They can get sunburnt on the exposed parts such as nose and ear tips. And they can be prone to winter ailments as much as we can.
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Thought of the Week
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel.
Boris Pasternak
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Dealing with Delusions
Homeopaths use the term ‘delusions’ a lot. Please understand that this is not in a derogatory sense or being superior in any way. But, it is a fact that we are ALL in some delusion or other. Probably multiple delusions.
Let me explain a bit better.
It wasn’t that long ago that people thought the Earth was flat, and if you went too near the edge, you’d fall off. When it was suggested that, in fact the Earth is round, the author was thrown in gaol.
Thinking has now changed on that score, in most parts of the world.
But look around you. There are some people who are suspicious of everything. I’m not talking about a general and sensible awareness of being on alert. I’m talking about a deep suspicion of everything, that takes over their lives. And yet, their partner may have a deep trust of everything.
Who’s right?
In homeopathy, nothing is right or wrong. It just is.
So for the suspicious person, we’re looking for a suspicious medicine, which will bring the person back into balance. Perhaps to have a healthy suspicious nature, but not to have it ruling their life.
And for the totally trusting person, we may look for trusting medicines, to bring the person back into balance so they are more grounded and don’t trust everyone.
How do we know if this is the right approach?
Because the person gets more energy, is happier and the ‘delusion’ is no longer holding them in a vice.
Extreme delusions are those people who think they are a famous person. But everyone has delusions, just most of us don’t experience them to that degree.
This is one reason homeopaths shouldn’t treat themselves. We may not be aware of our own delusions.
Another well known delusion is poverty. If you grew up in a poor family, it’s likely that you will remain poor, ‘stuck’ in the delusion that you can’t get out. Yet there are plenty of examples of people who did get out and make a fortune.
There are also mass delusions, or mass consciousness. If people are repeatedly told something, they will come to believe it is true, whether or not it actually is.
Why else would there be so much media hype about a topic? It keeps you focussed and afraid, on something that someone wants to profit from.
Most people are too busy to think about things. It’s only when something goes wrong that you might stop and search. Which is what happened to Meryl Dorey and Dr Isaac Golden. Both had children who reacted badly to a vaccine. So they went searching and were deeply troubled by what they found.
Both took it further, to help make it easier for you. Meryl provides accurate information on vaccines, so you can make a balanced decision. Isaac created an oral and natural alternative to vaccines, which holds up in the 90% for efficiency WITHOUT any side effects.
And if you are concerned about animal welfare, don’t forget that the businesses that profit from vaccination use animals indiscriminately in their testing. You’re contributing to that.
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This Amazing Artist Creates Horses from Driftwood
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This Short Story (unknown author) Shows How Hard it Can be to See the Obvious
When I was a little girl, my mother worked and my brother and I would go to a neighbour's house after school. Since this woman also had two children close to our ages, there was ample opportunity for us to all play together.
One of my favourite games was “Hiding in Plain Sight.” The mother would show us all a small object, then we would all leave the room and she would hide the object in plain sight. Yes, right where everyone could see it. We would all come back into the room, and the first person to see the object won the game. But it was actually incredibly difficult to find the object! Sometimes it took five or ten minutes to find it…even though we knew what it looked like and it was in the room in plain sight.
