I have a few stories to share with you.

My sister is law has been a firm believer in homeopathic remedies for the past ten years or more. She has suffered the giggles and rolling eyes and sighs of her family, including my husband for this time. She doesn’t push the remedies on anyone but offers them if the opportunity presents itself. One such opportunity presented itself one autumn afternoon almost two years ago when I was visiting her with my three children. My then 6 year old son was climbing a tree and a piece of bark dropped into his eye causing him a great deal of pain which was evident from the screaming and his lack of willingness to open his eye. When he finally did open his eye it was bright red, weepy and was obviously irritated. She gave him two tablets of arnica montana, but I was sure I would be taking him to the doctors office later that day. However, within a half hour the redness and weepinees were gone, his eye was crystal clear and he was climbing the tree again. Honestly, I was really surprised. It was that day I began to think perhaps there is something to all this homeopathy.

My youngest son is now almost 2. He tends to get sniffles that quickly develop into chest congetion that have him on a nubulizer for a week or so. He hasn’t actually been diagnosed with asthma as my daugther has but I suspect it is the same thing as his colds follow her pattern. Back in April 2007 our family went on an international trip for three weeks. As the date approached I was worried about them developing a cold while we were away. About a month before we were to go wouldn’t you know it, they both began to sniffle. If it was to follow the usual course I had grown to know well, within three days they would both be on the nubulizer three times a day for at least seven days. I would also have to take them into the doctors office every other day for observation, a daunting task in itself without the children being sick. I called my sister in law and asked her what I could do that would ward off a cold and chest congestion. She asked me about their personality at the time and how they were feeling right then and suggested Apis and Kail Muri for both of them. I administered the remedies as she suggested and within three days the sniffles were gone. I was so thankful and less amazed this time. I was a believer. The same thing happened one week before we left. Sniffles, this time a frantic call to my sister in law. Again she suggested Apis and Kali Muri, agian, no surprise, it worked.

That same week about half the children in my older sons second grade class were out of school due to strep throat. It seemed to be going around and around and around the school all winter long. I was worried we would have it but not develop symptoms until we were overseas. I called my sister in law again, ( she is now my family’s doctor ) and she suggested I get some Belladonna, for the headaches and Apis for the sore throats. One of the last errands I did was to run out the day before we left and get the Belladonna 30C and Apis 30C ! Luckily my sister in law advised me that altitude, jet lag, fatigue, hunger, thirst and dehydration, the dry air of the cabin ( all those lovely symptoms that can affect you while flying ) can affect your symptoms so remedies may have to be given more frequently if you are flying or jet lagged. As fate would have it, about two hours into our flight I woke up because I could hardly breath. My throat was on fire! I couldn’t swallow it was so painful. I sat there in the dark thinking what on earth am I to do. Then I remembered I had packed the remedies in my carry on bags! I got hold of the Apis and Belladonna. I did have to administer them every half hour for about four hours then it was about every two hours. By the time we landed ( it was a 12 hour flight ) I was down to one every four hours. By the third day my symptom were gone but my husband was complaining of a scracthy throat. His throat was very red and looked irritated. I suggested he try the remedies and he scoffed and said he didn’t want to take “snake oil “. I reminded him we were 10,000 miles from home and it was the best we had. He grudgingly took the remedies three times a day and by the third day all symptoms were gone. He still won’t admit that the remedies work but he is less resistant to taking them when they are offered these days. My children haven’t been on the nubulizer since I started using the remedies with them last winter and I think arnica is in production for my sons alone! I like to call my sister in law every so often a tell her another story about how the remedies have helped my family. She patiently helps me with whatever questions I have and encourages me to call her for any help. I owe my children’s good health to her knowledge and generosity. – Paul and Andree

I had just begun teaching 1st grade. You can imagine all the germs I was coming in contact with daily! One day I came down with a high fever and very sore throat, the classic case of strep. I called my homeopath, who I thought was too far of a drive to actually visit. She told me to go to the doctor to get a strep test, just to be sure, but don’t take the antibiotic. Strep was confirmed, and my homeopath said to take Apis and Belladonna. I was a new to homeopathy and did not have them on hand. I sent a friend out to find them, but he could not find them in a pure form. After 3 days of a high fever, my homeopath said I had better just get the antibiotic, so I did. I recovered, but a few weeks later came down with the same symptoms (the antibiotic sure didn’t help my body to know how to fight it!). This time I was able to have someone drive me out to my homeopath. She gave me a high dose of belladonna at her office and I immediately felt the fever dissipate. I took the Apis and Belladonna for a few days and recovered. After about a month the symptoms mildly came back and I took the same remedies. I recovered and have not had strep since! That was 11 years ago. I haven’t been on antibiotics since then either. Now I know what really works! – ME

I have one other story involving my brother. He lives out of town and had called one day to say that he had an eye infection that he was having a lot of trouble getting rid of. He had been taking antibiotics for nearly a month to no avail. I sent him a tube of Silicea 30c and instructed him on how to use it. Much to my surprise, he actually tried it. The very next morning his eye infection was almost totally gone and by the end of the day there was no sign of it. This was just from one dose. He was extremely impressed and mentions that story to this day.

Hip, Hip, Hooray for Homeopathics!! They have saved me many, many times from expensive doctor visits and the inconvenience and misery of having to get ressed and drive into an office when I didn’t feel like moving at all.

submitted by KW in Vicksurg, MS