Homoeopathic Solutions for Travel

In recent years, travellers have been alerted to the fact that malaria prevention drugs produce unwanted side effects. Besides a few African countries, where a Yellow Fever certificate is mandatory to gain entry, it is entirely a matter of choice whether travellers use immunisations. The best choice is an informed one, and if you decide that you do not wish to take immunisations, the best protection is good, robust constitutional health. This of course, must be worked on, and can't be bought as a commodity from a drug company. But it can be achieved through undergoing homoeopathic treatment, and is especially important if you are suffering from any persistent problem, or where you know your energy is lacking, either physically, emotionally, or mentally.

The debate about vaccination is complex, and very emotive. In essence, the model of health and disease intrinsic to homoeopathy is different from the one that underpins western medicine. The assumption in western medicine is that the immune system must be stimulated into producing antibodies to specific disease organisms in order to gain protection against contagion. In the early stages of immunodefence research, this seemed quite a balanced and reasonable proposition. But now that the number of immunisations on offer is increasing apparently without limit, and includes materials which are not fully trialed, there is a growing disquiet even amongst the uninformed public. Very often, the information given is inadequate, contradictory, or confusing. There is a blanket refusal to accept that heavy metals in the carrier media of some vaccines may be influencing the chronic health of generations. Yet the effects of these metals are known to include functional disturbances that are increasingly commonplace.

To many, this seems like an alarming tendency to only believe what fits your view, and to discredit or ignore what does not. But even if we disregard the potentially harmful effects of the vaccination carriers, what about the effect of immunisation itself? Does it confer immunity against diseases? Is there a price to pay in other areas of your health?

Homoeopathic medicine is based upon simple, yet time-honoured principles. The human organism is not a collection of chemical processes, but an intelligent self-regulating system. The immune system is only part of this whole. It also includes the endochrine (hormonal) system, the nervous system, the mind and emotions. Any stimulus to the organism requires adaptation on all these levels. The human body has evolved over millions of years to resolve disturbances to healthy functioning in a particular way. The healthy organism is capable of quickly dispatching a problem through the immune defence system, by creating symptoms of acute disease. Fever, chill, sweat, vomiting and other forms of discharge are natural methods for re-stabilising the healthy function. Doctors have known this for millenia, and much of the therapeutics were chosen to trigger these processes. In the case of childhood illnesses, doctors only a generation ago advised parents to expose their children to these infections. They understood that such experiences strengthened the childs immunity, and stimulated positive developmental changes. What has happened to this type of wisdom in the current practice of medicine?

As a society, we are increasingly scared of all the so-called super-bugs and adapted forms of infectious diseases that seem to be looming around every corner. The pharmaceutical corporations are now designing vaccines outside the remit of infectious conditions, to include cervical cancer. This lack of confidence in our own ability to remain healthy is the true epidemic of our times. And sadly, it is not entirely without foundation. We are disrupting the health maintaining capacity within us, through poor diet, social trauma, and aggressive medicines, targetted at younger and younger patients. The more we forget how to remain healthy, the more we panic, and the more we seek quick fix solutions.

Where will this end? Ultimately, we have to pay the price of our ignorance, and return to a more conscious way of living. Many are already awakening, and no longer believe the hype which drives this consumer world, including pharmaceutical medicine. Then we have to remember how to be healthy, and to live in accordance with the natural order. Homoeopathy is a gentle but powerful form of non-chemical medicine, which - when applied correctly - can stimulate a return to health by supporting the vital force towards it's own self-regulating ability. If you plan to travel abroad, and you have decided you don't wish to be immunised, you may wish to speak to a homoeopath at The Remedy Centre.We will give you some common-sense pointers about diet, and we can supply you with a Traveller's Remedy Kit, with information about how to use it.

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tony@remedycentre.org

Nux-Vomica

 

Homoeopathic Remedikits for Travellers.

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Remedies to aid your body's recovery in first-aid and acute conditions.

 

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"The best form of protection is good constitutional health."