Mental and Emotional Treatment

Homeopathy excels in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders and is able to help a wide spectrum of psychological problems and illness. In combination with naturopathic principles and dietary and lifestyle changes, the indicated homeopathic remedy brings about profound changes in the well-being of the person on all levels of their being: mental, emotional and physical.

The holistic principle - treatment of the patient as a whole - has always been the guiding tenet of naturopathic and homeopathic philosophy. In homeopathy, the mental and emotional health of the patient, their psychology, contains the most important set of symptoms that guide the choice of medicine for that patient, even if their main complaint is physical.

In homeopathic understanding, all the symptoms reflect the whole. The symptoms of the mind reveal the core of that person; and when there is any disturbance to health, the life force always attempts to protect the mental and emotional level of that person by throwing out symptoms, like eczema, on the physical plane - in itself a healthy response. The things that disturb health are firstly our inherited weaknesses, secondly our life experiences, thirdly our indiscretions in diet and lifestyle, and lastly any attempt to suppress the body's response with drugs.

If symptoms remain on the physical level, that is the best scenario, short of absence of all symptoms. However, sometimes the trauma of life, whether it is physical trauma or emotional shock, is too great for the life force to limit to the physical, and illness manifests primarily on the mental and emotional plane.

Homeopathy recognises that grief, shock, financial pressures, humiliation, relationship and family conflicts, loss of a job or a relationship can have a profound effect on the health of the individual. Even the emotional wound of a difficult birth is responsible for many mental and behavioural problems, particularly in children. There are homeopathic medicines for complaints that result from each of these stressful life experiences.

Where the life force is not able to recover, the symptoms may then remain stuck on the mental and emotional plane. Homeopathic treatment is able to remove these traumas and heal these wounds, and in this way, true health is restored to the person, on the most important level of all: the mind.

Memory Disorders

Homeopathy treats a range of memory problems ranging from simple forgetfulness to dementia and Alzheimer's syndrome. In cases of simple forgetfulness, a constitutional medicine based on the patients basic temperament and range of symptoms is enough. Added assistance is often given by Kali phosphoricum or by Rosmarinus in low potency. ("There's rosemary; thats for remembrance," says the mad Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet).

In more severe cases of dementia and Alzheimer's, other pathological remedies like Alumina, Platina, Hyoscyamus and Helleborus become indicated.