Please admire my photo, this is a cross stitch that I started the first time I lived in Kerikeri, and I have just completed it. It only took me 16 years 😂 So because this took such a long time, I want to discuss persevering. Maybe it says something about my quiet obstinacy or stubbornness, which refused to let me let go of this and decided to pick it up again after years sitting in a bag untouched. But the …
This page has been slowly growing, and it’s a long time since I have done an introduction post. You’ve probably gleaned the details- Homeopath, originally a Pharmacist (now non-practicing), live in Kerikeri, with my husband, 3 children and 2 cats. Here are some things you probably don’t know. It took me six years to complete my four year Homeopathy diploma. I attended in person for my first year until November, then had my first baby and moved to distance learning …
This limit, which is related to Avogadro’s number (6.0221 x 10 *23), corresponds to homeopathic potencies of 12C or 24X (1 part in 10 to the power of 24) The Therapeutic Products Bill is at select committee now – submissions close on March 5th, so if you have not already made a submission (here: https://www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/53SCHE_SCF_BILL_130084/CreateSubmission) please PLEASE do so. If you would like to read more about it you can see my last post here: https://www.facebook.com/100063496093427/posts/634592718667259/ and you can get …
Artemisia Annua This is one more post about the Therapeutics Products Bill. THANK YOU to those of you who have already made a submission. If you have not yet done so I urge you to have your say – it can be as brief or as long as you like. It doesn’t have to be the best grammar and spelling, and please don’t copy a generic post, but write from your heart what you feel this bill will mean to …
At the end of 2022, this Bill was introduced to Parliament and had its first reading. It is not the first time that there has been proposed legislation for Natural Health Products, and the current legislation it proposed to replace – the Medicines Act and the Dietary Supplements Regulations – arguably need updating. But there are a large number of areas that are problematic for users and practitioners of a wide range of complementary health modalities. Even medicines and medical …
Happy New Year! This is a time when people make resolutions for the coming year – a tradition that has been happening in various cultures around the world for 4000 years. Of course the major problem with New Years Resolutions is many of them do not last for more than a few weeks. Personally I feel like making resolutions or goals is important – but there needs to be some foundation for them. Goals should be SMART. If you have …
I trained as a Classical Homeopath, which is working using the principals that Hahnemann set out, including a single remedy, at the lowest appropriate potency for the minimum length of time. Great in theory, much harder in practice. For the many home users of homeopathy it can be hard to find the right remedy for an acute, and then it can be a problem if you don’t have that one right remedy. Any parent of a young child will also …
I recently heard a new acronym, which I absolutely love (credit to Luke Norland on Eugenie Kruger’s Homeopathy Hangouts podcast, episode 25). The acronym is TEETH- Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy. It is such an accurate term, and I am sure any Homeopath will have experiences in this. Do we get results for these people? Absolutely. Is it a quick process? Often it is not. Usually the longer you have had a condition, the longer it takes to return to …
In Homeopathy we look at symptoms and sensations, at how you specifically are experiencing something. For most people who grew up in a conventional medical way, or even using supplements and herbs in a naturopathic holistic manner, this is quite a different way of working. The Allopathic method has you with a diagnosis, and then there are a number of treatments used for that condition. Algorithms are common in medical practice, and allow for quick decisions on pharmaceutical treatment – …
Today marks the beginning of World Homeopathy Awareness week, and is also the birthday of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. Hahnemann was a doctor with integrity, giving up the medicine of the day due to the harm it was causing. Instead he took to translating medical texts, until he disagreed with one part of the book he was translating. He had a breadth of knowledge, but was the ultimate scientist- when he disagreed with someone else’s theory, he came …