Do you know someone with chronic illness? Do you know someone who takes antibiotics, antimycotics, antidepressants or antihistamines etc. etc.? We’re doing everything anti we can and yet it seems that our society gets sicker by the minute, we have more chronic diseases than ever and the superbugs are taking over the world. Our first-world society that has access to pretty much any medication suffers more than ever.

We’re taking all these medications that were developed with great expenditure of money, cruelly tested on millions of animals to help us get rid of our pains and rashes and ailments. We suppress our bodies desperate cries for help and shut them up quickly and comfortably. We don’t have time to be sick. We want solutions fast and Western medicine does the trick. And although most of us have heard by now that traditional medicine usually just gets rid of the symptoms and does not treat (or is unable to identify and treat) the underlying problem, we still believe and trust in it.

While we’re at home, popping our pills believing in our doctor’s best intentions, somewhere on Wallstreet the pharmaceutical companies are high-fiving and clinking glasses to ignorance health. What are their intentions and interests? If all those pills and powders actually worked and we got all better, they would stop making money. I doubt they’re such philanthropists. Even if the market stagnated it would be bad for them. They need us to get sick and stay sick.

My intentions are not to diss doctors or Western medicine completely. They have accomplished a lot that I’m grateful for like emergency and trauma surgery, intensive care and the such. I’m just suspicious when the matter of healing is one of economical interest. How can that still put the patient and his wellbeing into focus when one eye always wanders to the stock market. Hospitals are run as a business, they primarily need to make a profit.

Homeopathy has a completely different philosophy and mechanism that is difficult to explain by means of science because it doesn’t expect one remedy to cure exactly the same illness in any patient. It doesn’t follow scientific patterns because it acknowledges the individuality of each patient and the individuality of his illness. It doesn’t just treat the headache. It asks why the headache occurs, and when and if the patient noticed any other symptoms or changes, even if they seem disconnected at first glance. And similarly important, it acknowledges that out psychological history and our emotions also play a huge role. Traditional medicine has started to accept this fact as well, yet it doesn’t change the way patients are medicated.

That’s why an initial examination with a homoeopath takes two hours and not ten minutes because he wants to know all of your medical history, your mental history, any life-changing or traumatic experiences, injuries, your family constellation and much more. He will get an impression of your personality and your body all aspects of life included. He will then study his books to find that one remedy that fits your symptoms allowing your body and your mind to regain its inner balance and healing power.

A lot of people nowadays do turn to homeopathic treatment for colds or other minor ailments but when it comes to cancer we can’t seem to believe that these non-invasive little globules can help. Something scary and aggressive like cancer needs (and deserves) an equally aggressive counterstrike.

Doctors have been saying for decades that they are this close to defeating cancer and finding a cure. And yet, conventional medicine still only has three treatment options: surgery, radiotherapy, cytostatics (= chemotherapy) – depending on the case either one or a combination of any. Still, 30% of our population will develop cancer during the course of their lifetime, which makes it the number two cause of death after cardiovascular disease but soon to be number one as doctors predict. A meta-study supports strong doubt that chemotherapy increases chances of survival in cancer patients at all. At worst, chemotherapy can actually lead to mutation of cancer cells, “reorganizing“ a new and aggressive formation.

Homeopathy has found certain patterns and grounds for diseases, so-called miasms specify the possible history and root of a disease.

My homoeopath specified “my” miasm as the carcinogenic one: cancer has been in the family (yes, grandma and dad), almost no childhood diseases (except for chickenpox, none), patient was an overly virtuous child and never rebelled against the parents (true, even as a teenager), inner anxiety and uncertainty despite adaptation to parents expectations(yep…), strive for perfection from young age, often no room for free individual development.

The remedy I received (carcinosinum) describes symptoms in patients as follows: fear of cancer (YES!), fear of failure/fear of examinations (yes!), fear of high places, weak ego and compensation mechanisms (and yes again).

For the first time in my life I felt that someone had actually seen through me and knew who I really was. I had always dealt with a lot of anxiety and insecurities and thought they were just part of life. I tried to ignore it and get on anyway, which led to severe depression and leaving university without a degree (“fear of not meeting parent’s expectations“…). On top of that I had struggled with weight issues due to an unhealthy and diet-driven lifestyle. To say I didn’t feel comfortable in my skin is an understatement. Enter melanoma.

The carcinosinum helps my body to fight any left-over cancer cells – if there are any. How will I know if it helps or whether I wasn’t “clean“ after the surgery anyway? I don’t. But I’m still here. And I have never felt so much faith in a doctor and his way practice ever before. One might argue that any success will therefore be attributed to the placebo effect. Well, yes and no. On the one hand, the placebo effect is just as apparent in homeopathic practices as in allopathic ones. But homeopathy has also been proven to work in animals and babies which can not be due to the placebo effect.

Even the president (2009-2011) of the German Medical Association, Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe, said that medicine is not a natural science but a science that is based on empirical knowledge which uses scientific methods. In this respect Western medicine and homeopathy are not that different. Just because homeopathy (and its treatment) is not explainable and measurable with the same tools and methods as regular medicine (yet), it doesn‘t mean it‘s less effective or less true.

In know that I’m on the right path. I am taking care of my whole body and my mind. I didn’t even know that much about homeopathy when I first saw my homeopath. I had had a great experience with one many years ago who cured me from neurodermatitis (not too bad either), but I honestly also thought that cancer was a different league. After my initial examination and conversation with him I was walking on clouds because I felt like I had been given a royal treatment. That’s when I asked my doc for book recommendations and started studying.

For anyone who is further interested in it, I can strongly recommend this book: George Vithoulkas: The Science of Homeopathy

All the good books on homeopathy and cancer I know are only published in German. A great cancer expert is the Swiss homeopath Dr. Dario Spinedi.

My intention is to give homeopathy one more voice and to show that you have choices beyond what your general practitioner tells you (unless you have a great one! 🙂 )

Have a happy and healthy Sunday!

~ Mandy