Barbara Sakota, Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine {UK}

Homeopathic Consultation Service

13052 Signature Point #50

San Diego, CA 92130

Phone: 858.509.0890

E-mail address: bsuenatdoc@aol.com

Conventional Medical Treatment:

If you are currently under the care of a medical doctor, I would ask you to keep in close touch with him/her during your homeopathic treatment. Homeopathic treatment moves very slowly as it stimulates the body to heal itself, usually a slow process. You did not become ill overnight, and there are no magic cures implied, or to be expected from homeopathy.

You will never be asked to do without your allopathic prescription medicine. If you're medical doctor has prescribed medicine for you and you feel you no longer need to it the decision, of course, is yours. I strongly suggest you revisit your medical doctor if you wish to go off his medicines.

Using homeopathic medicines:

While using Homeopathic Medicines, please avoid strong odors and solvents. Usually it is best to avoid all stimulants, coffee etc. and stay away from camphor, cleaning solvent, artificial sweeteners and even the mint family. Use baking soda toothpaste without flavoring. Be sure to get plenty of sleep, and rest when needed. Carry a diary to note your symptoms, state of mind, and the times of day when your condition is worse or better.

When starting Homeopathic treatments occasionally there is a slight worsening of the physical symptoms [for a few hours] this will pass. Hahnemann's LM potency method can be smooth and free from symptoms worsening. You should feel better overall. If you feel a lot worse call me immediately no matter what time of the day or night.

If homeopathy has helped you, please spread the word so others may also get the help if they so choose. I have also included an information sheet on homeopathy; feel free to ask any question you want.

The British Institute of Homeopathy,

Cygnet House, Market Square,

Staines, Middlesex

TW18 4RH

England

Telephone: 011-441784-440467

Fax: 011-441-784-449887

About Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a medical philosophy that has been practiced for over 200 years, developed by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann as an approach to healing that worked with the person's body to encourage the body to heal itself. Homeopathic Medicine is based on the laws of cure; likes cures likes; The minimum and infinitesimal dose; and Healing takes place from within to without, from top to bottom and last symptoms are cured first, and finally, but also important “The Totality of Symptoms”.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann lived over 200 years ago, and was a trained medical of his time. He got discouraged with the medical practices of the period. Blood letting, purging, blistering were not only brutal and invasive but he believed it further weakened the human body and in fact made healing less likely. Early in his career he switched his field into chemistry, and then back to medicine. To support his large family he took to translating the medical books of the era into different languages.

In nature, two similar diseases cannot co-exist within the human body. People who had scurvy or kidney failure when the Bubonic Plague hit Europe did not catch the plague. Milkmaids with active Cowpox did not get Smallpox and people with Malaria did not contract Syphilis, In fact a trip to the tropics was often suggested for people with active Syphilis in hopes they would contract Malaria that would displace the disease they had.

With this knowledge, Samuel Hahnemann set out “proving” the known medical substances for their effects on the healthy human body. He administered to himself Chincona {Quinine} and noted the results, he developed most of the symptoms of Malaria, and indeed Chincona was the medicine used to ‘cure' Malaria. With the help of healthy volunteers, Samuel Hahnemann tested his medical substances and recorded the symptoms exhibited. He concluded that medical substances would “cure” in a sick person those same symptoms that the medicine caused in a healthy person. Thus the principal that Likes cure Likes. This is still a major part of our philosophy today.

The drawback to this law was that the medicinal substances even though curing the natural disease, often had terrible side effects and often even caused disease themselves, thus the patient trades a natural disease for a medicinal disease. So, Samuel Hahnemann started diluting his medicines to see how little of a medicinal substance he could give, and still effect a cure without the debilitating side effects. This led to

the principal of the smallest possible dose or the ‘infinitesimal dose'. Much to Hahnemann's surprise and to our benefit medicines actually became more efficient and more effective when they were diluted and energized, side effects decreased dramatically and no lasting “medicinal disease” ensued.

Today the principals Samuel Hahnemann formulated still hold true and have been successfully used by homeopaths for almost 200 years. Unlike allopathic medicines, homeopathic principals are unchanged. So homeopathy is a fixed medicinal science. Any deficiency lays in the prescriber, not in the science or the medicine.

All homeopathic medicines are ‘tested' or ‘proved' on healthy volunteers [men, women, and children], who faithfully record all the symptoms the medicines produce. These medicines can then “cure” those same symptoms in an ill person, without dangerous side effects.

Today homeopathy is well accepted throughout most of the world as a safe and effective alternative form of medical treatment. Homoios means like or similar. Homeopathic medicines are chosen only for the symptoms the body exhibits and not for the disease diagnosis. Since it is the body's reaction to an illness that creates the symptoms, in homeopathic medicine it is only those symptoms or bodily reactions that are considered. Medicines are chosen which match the proving symptoms exhibited by healthy persons, when taking that medicine under strict guidelines.

For example, six people may have a Strep Throat, with of course, the high fever that accompanies it. One of those six may have covers piled on him up to his chin, and. not want to see or speak to anyone. Another may drive his nurse or mother crazy with whining and fussing and not wanting to be left alone. Another may be totally thirst less despite the fever, and still another maybe sitting up on the couch watching television and will tell you the throat is not bothering him and he feels fine, while the other two sleep all day. The diagnosis is the same; in allopathic medicine an antibiotic would be prescribed possibly the same one if their medical history did not contraindicate it. In homeopathic medicine, however, the guiding symptoms would be the patient's reaction to the illness and all would probably be given different medicines as their symptoms were different.

Antibiotics in effect engage in hand to hand combat with the disease pathogen. The principal being that once the disease is at a manageable level the body's own defense system takes over to restore health. Homeopathic medicines however stimulate the body's immune system to help the body fortify against the disease producing' mechanisms and thus affect a cure. Today, homeopathy is well accepted throughout most of the world as a safe, effective alternative medical treatment.

Homeopathic medicine is not meant to be used ‘instead of' your regular doctor, it in fact works well with today's medicines and in cases of violent infectious diseases, or pathological deficiencies {coronary insufficiency or diabetes} it is essential that a licensed medical doctor monitor progress if you wish to attempt to address these problems homeopathically. Hopefully, we will see both schools of thought working together for the common good.

Homeopathic medicine when compared to Allopathic can be slow and even frustrating. People did not become sick over night and a cure should not be expected overnight. Homeopathic medicines contain very, very small quantities of the substances we call “Potencies” that are prepared under strict pharmaceutical guidelines. We believe that these high dilutions not only prevent side effects but also enhance the activity of the medicine, Homeopathic medicines are perfectly safe, are non addictive, and can be used by babies, the elderly, children and even animals and plants.

Homeopathy is a medicine of the “totality of your symptoms”. Homeopathic practice considers illness invisible, and only your symptoms reflect the nature of your illness. So homeopathic doctors will want to know everything about you, what hurts, how it hurts, what direction the pain is traveling and what kind of pain it is. They take into account your likes and dislikes, along with crazy seemingly unrelated symptoms like a shooting pain in your toe after eating, excessive hunger and waking up every night at a certain time.

Since homeopathy is a holistic science, people undergoing treatment should maintain a proper diet and vitamins, we will go over this during our consultation, regular exercise and get plenty of rest. Your spiritual life must be attended to; healing must take place in three areas, your spirit, your mind and your body. Walk with me on this path of your new life and welcome to the world of Homeopathy!