What the Heck is Homeopathy?

The wild history and strange science of homeopathy and why the FDA and Big Pharma are trying to kill it

We recently observed World Homeopathy Awareness Week.

What the bleep is homeopathy, you ask? Good question.

It’s a wild, wonderful world of medicine that you’ve probably heard of, but never quite known what it is.

But before we get into what it is, let’s set the stage a bit.

Conventional medicine is based on the premise that our bodies respond best to biochemical inputs - drugs, food, mechanical intervention like surgery.

But you already know that there’s more to the story than that.

Conventional medicine sometimes admits it too - MRIs are based on identifying resonance patterns using big magnets on the body, for example.

Women’s menstrual cycles seem to sync up in ways that science hasn’t figured out.

Tuning forks interact with each other - strike one and an un-struck fork across the room will start to vibrate. Move the fork into the 6-foot energy field that surrounds a human, and the sound will actually change.

Water is one of the most responsive substances on earth to resonance and frequency. Play a tone next to water, and then examine it microscopically - the molecules have arranged themselves into amazing patterns.

One of the most radical sciences being conducted today is the work of water researcher (and whisperer) Veda Austin.

She places petri dishes with thin layers of water on top of photographs or paper with words on them, or plays music for them, or even directs thoughts at them. And then she throws the petri dishes in the freezer “with the peas and carrots,” as she puts it. The water flash-freezes into designs that actually reflect - sometimes in creative and wild ways - the influence that was given. Sometimes the frozen design mimics the picture it was in contact with. Sometimes it answers a question. It’s wild. And thousands of people have been taught Veda’s technique and are replicating it around the world.

What does all this have to do with homeopathy?

To many people, the word “homeopathic” is simply a synonym for “holistic” or “natural” or “alternative,” as in - pursuing homeopathic care instead of or in addition to taking prescription drugs or getting surgery.

But homeopathy has a very specific meaning relating to a very specific scientific framework.

Homeopathy is the science of how the frequency, resonance, and energy of a thing interact with water, how the water takes on that energetic footprint and carries it into our bodies to address symptoms or conditions that are also caused by the thing.

More than two centuries ago, a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann (n. 1755) had grown increasingly unimpressed with the bloodletting and mercury poisoning that his profession called “treatment.” (Raise your hand if you can relate.) He began paying the bills by translating medical texts.

He was translating a book by William Cullen about cinchona bark (the source of quinine) and its usefulness for malaria. Cullen speculated its effectiveness was due to its bitterness and tonic effects on the stomach. Hahnemann didn’t buy it and decided to perform an experiment.

He took cinchona bark himself as a tincture - not in the form it was used as a medicine, but in high doses heated in alcohol the way tinctures are made. After a few days, he developed symptoms that were a lot like malaria: fever, chills, weakness, palpitations, throbbing headache. The symptoms came on in waves - similar to the cyclical waves of a malaria episode.

His imagination was sparked.

Hahnemann’s hypothesis was that “like cures like.” He speculated that substances that cause certain symptoms in large doses in healthy people are actually nature’s perfect remedy (in very small doses) for healing those symptoms in sick people.

He went on a frenzied bender to “prove” a bunch of remedies - systematically dosing himself and other healthy volunteers with every substance he could find. The volunteers would dose themselves with a form of the substance - powders, infusions (like tea), extracts and tinctures - and record exactly which symptoms developed. These detailed “symptom profiles” included not only physical ailments of the body, but emotional, psychological, and personality changes.

Once the symptom profile was developed, Hahnemann and his disciples started treating patients with similar profiles. The problem was that the patients’ symptoms often temporarily intensified. He took that to mean that the remedy was working, but too aggressively.

So he began diluting the substances in water and alcohol. He wasn’t trying to make the medicine weaker; he was trying to make it gentler. But he discovered something amazing - the medicines actually worked more effectively and more quickly - the more diluted they became, but without any of the harsher effects.

Each dilution was accompanied by vigorously shaking the container, or striking it, so as to get the substance’s essence into the water. Over time, this process rendered less and less of the measurable substance and more of the frequency or resonance of the substance in the water.

Hahnemann called this process “potentiation” - the idea that a substance’s energy or essence became more powerful the more it was diluted.

Carrying these liquid remedies had some practical distribution problems. The liquids were hard to dose properly, and each remedy had a bunch of different dilutions to be used based on the specifics of the patient’s case. Since each remedy had such a unique symptom profile, and there were hundreds of remedies, Hahnemann realized that carrying around a bunch of liquid jars didn’t make sense. They could easily degrade or break, and it just wasn’t practical.

So he took the technique that was commonly used to deliver medicine at the time - sugar pills doused in a liquid medicine - and he used them for his own remedies.

He doused each pellet with the diluted remedy and, voila, he had little vials of dozens of doses that were much easier to schlep around.

The pellets were also much easier for the patients to take. They could put a few under the tongue until they dissolved, or crush them in a glass of water and drink a few sips.

Babies and toddlers, and even pets and livestock, could get the doses in their water or crushed over their food. Even crops riddled with pests or fungus could be treated by crushing the pellets into the water sprayed on them.

The name of Hahnemann’s framework was Greek for “similar” (homoios) and “suffering” (pathos) - based on the “like cures like” foundation. His disciples grew as the remedies’ undeniable success became more and more recognized. He published his first paper in 1796, and homeopathy spread to the elites of Europe at first, much preferred by patients to the brutal techniques of conventional medicine of their day (and our day too). Hahnemann eventually moved to Paris and gained broad acclaim in the early 19th century.

In the U.S., homeopathy was widely adopted during the same period, with the American Institute of Homeopathy - one of the first medical societies - founded in 1844. By the late 1800s, there were more than 20 homeopathic medical schools, over 100 homeopathic hospitals, and thousands of homeopathic practitioners.

Embraced by European royal families and the wealthiest American families, homeopathy enjoyed legitimacy and scientific credibility and, in many areas, the use of homeopathic medicine rivaled or even exceeded conventional medicine. Homeopaths were reported to have lowered mortality rates during outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever and typhus.

In other words, homeopathy wasn’t fringe, and it wasn’t “woo.” It was mainstream - a parallel medical system.

Until, of course, the same villain that went after naturopathy - the medicine of using natural methods (such as nutrition and herbs) to restore health - turned its sights on homeopathy: Big Oil.

The Rockefellers and Carnegies got together to fund medicines derived from petroleum byproducts, in league with Big Chemical, led by Bayer. Bayer was gearing up to marry the conglomerate that manufactured the gas for the Holocaust’s slaughter, but they also led the way at turning petroleum-based products into standardized “medicines” that could be patented.

(When I say “patent,” you say “profit.” Patent! PROFIT!)

Many of these medicines were merely snake oil, and a good number of people were used to the more affordable homeopathic remedies and herbal naturopathic remedies, but nature can’t be patented as easily. So the Bigs put out the Flexner Report in 1910, which got wide acclaim for trashing all the medical schools where the curricula and treatments being taught weren’t “standardized” according to pharmaceutical and biomedical laboratory-grade standards endorsed by the Carnegie Foundation and funded by the Rockefellers.

They also funded what was then a small organization called the American Medical Association, and helped it grow and discredit all types of medical doctors and schools that didn’t follow the pharmaceutical model.

Within a few decades, most of the homeopathic and naturopathic medical schools had closed. Medical licensure boards emerged in states, using their power to discredit and muzzle these practitioners in favor of their white-coated, pharmaceutical-prescribing version of medicine that we all know so well today.

And yet. Even as homeopathy was pushed out of medical schools and hospitals, it never disappeared from law.

In 1938, the FDA’s founding legislation explicitly recognized the U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia - giving homeopathic remedies formal recognition in the U.S. regulatory system that still exists today.

(This is thanks to Senator Royal Copeland, a homeopathic physician, who fought to protect homeopathy from the pharma mafia. Wish he were still around today).

Thanks, Sen. Copeland!

Around the world, homeopathy is the second largest medical system after conventional medicine. Countries such as India formally recognize homeopathy, and there are hundreds of homeopathic medical schools there and hundreds of thousands of practitioners. In the UK, homeopathy has been used by the royal family for generations, and it is still respected there, as well as in France and Germany.

If homeopathy were as irrelevant as its critics claim, it wouldn’t have survived for more than 200 years, spread across continents and embedded itself in national health care systems.

Homeopathy isn’t fringe - it’s global, and in some countries, it’s just called medicine.

So How Does It Work?

Typically, homeopathy is not looking to suppress symptoms. It views symptoms as your body’s effort to do something important. Fever is the body’s attempt to speed something up - metabolism, circulation, immune activity - and to restructure water molecules in your system. Inflammation is designed to create a watery environment - since healing often occurs in fluid environments - to summon the body’s tools of healing to the scene of the crime, and also to create an internal cast that cushions the injured tissue while it recovers. Pain protects that cast - by keeping you from moving it while it’s doing its job of healing.

Homeopaths will tell you that their job is to help your body move through that healing process, including any symptoms with more ease and speed than it otherwise would.

The remedies interact with what Hahnemann called the “vital force” - the dynamic intelligence that animates the body and coordinates its response to stress, injury, degradation, and threats. In today’s modern assault on all things human - our indoor, fluorescent-lit existence, low-grade (or not-so-low-grade) fight-or-flight, poisoned food and water, and disconnection from the sun, from the earth, from God and from our tribe - our vital force is often anemic at best.

Homeopathic remedies are designed to engage the vital force by exposing it to the energy or resonance of some unexpected substance that stirs it up and recruits it back into action of healing and maintaining homeostasis - the perfect balance of health.

Testimonies abound of patients struggling with infertility, autism, eczema, snake bites, sprained ankles - and every other possible malady that nature contrives - being improved or mitigated under the influence of a homeopathic regimen. (NOTE: this is not medical advice, and the wonderful thing about homeopathy is that it doesn’t interfere with conventional medical care that you can obviously and many times should obviously seek as well).

The wild thing is that when a homeopath is called to the scene, very often, the remedy chosen first heals things that the body/soul/vital force actually considers more important than the symptoms that are annoying the patient.

My own story is similar - I engaged a homeopath to help with some minor but persistent symptoms, and it turned into a months-long series of remedies that unlocked massive healing of my wounded femininity (which I’ve written about quite a bit here and here), before ever getting around to the symptoms that started the process. My body-mind intelligence knew that was a far bigger priority, and it was right.

So Naturally, The FDA is Trying to Cancel Homeopathy

As I described above, homeopathy has technically been recognized in U.S. law since 1938, but in recent years, that protection has started to erode.

In 1988, FDA laid out a framework whereby it recognized homeopathic remedies as drugs that technically should go through the regular drug process (involving expensive safety and effectiveness trials and extensive FDA review and oversight), BUT that the agency would choose to exercise its enforcement discretion instead, and embrace a posture of non-enforcement. The guidance stated that the remedies could avoid enforcement if certain criteria were met - namely that they were listed in the U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, they weren’t mislabeled, contaminated, and didn’t claim to heal serious conditions if sold over-the-counter.

This wasn’t perfect, but it was a reasonable stand-off. But then the Obama FDA, starting in 2015, held hearings about whether homeopathic remedies were “safe,” had sufficient “evidence,” and were labeled properly. By December of 2017, the Trump FDA - right under my nose as the White House policy lead for FDA - replaced the 1988 framework with a new regime.

I note for the record that I did not receive this guidance in draft form as part of a formal review process, and I damned well should have for such a significant policy change. More deep state shenanigans.

In any case, the 2017 draft guidance declared the remedies unapproved drugs, with a priority to go after and shut down those remedies that were targeted for serious conditions (like cancer), vulnerable populations like the elderly or infants (the ones most likely to benefit). In other words - the priority was the remedies that are most likely to interrupt Big Pharma’s profit drivers: blockbuster cancer drugs and the Medicare patient pool.

FDA finalized this guidance and withdrew the 1988 “safe harbor” policy in 2019 - after I had left the White House.

Advocacy groups like Americans for Homeopathy Choice argue that this new framework isn’t outright criminalization, but more of a slow squeeze. Because once you declare homeopathic remedies to be unapproved drugs requiring approval, then you’re forcing billion-dollar clinical trials for remedies that can’t be patented and barely make a profit.

I would argue that homeopathic remedies are still legal, ever since 1938. But now the FDA is going to decide if they’re “risky” and come after the ones they feel like coming after.

But let me point out the absolute farce:

There is no active ingredient left in most homeopathic remedies.

(Remember the dilution, and the shaking, and the dilution some more, and then more shaking, on and on until there’s only the “essence” of the thing and not the actual thing left in the water?)

So how can water with no active ingredient, dropped onto a sugar pill, be dangerous?

It can’t. This is why homeopathy is so safe for use. Pregnant women can use homeopathy. Newborn babies. People taking a bunch of prescription meds - water and sugar don’t interact with other drugs.

This has been the basis of FDA’s whining about labeling - they argue that any claim that there’s actually a substance in there is a lie. And that any claim that it treats a disease is therefore also a lie. Because it’s sugar and water.

So they can hardly then complain that these products are somehow “risky” at the same time.

FDA needs to pick a side - either these products have some active ingredient in them with a risk profile, which requires safety studies, or they don’t, which requires caution about marketing claims. But you can’t demand BOTH safety studies to prove the effectiveness of some active ingredient AND caution about marketing claims because there’s no active ingredient.

The truth is, at most potencies that are used, such as 12C, 30C or 100C, the dilution is past what’s known as Avogadro’s number, 6 x 10²³, which is the threshold dilution of a substance after which there is considered to be unmeasurable/untraceable substance left. For lower-level potencies such as 1X (where the substance is 1/10th of the liquid) or perhaps even 10X (where it’s 1 part per ten billion), I might understand a risk-based approach. But most homeopaths are using the C remedies or even greater dilutions, and the over-the-counter, first-aid type remedies are almost always those levels. So maybe FDA just needs to wake up and put the kibosh on the deep state.

Now that these guys run the joint, they’re gonna fix it, right? RIGHT?

If you’ve made it this far, you might see that homeopathy is not what most people think it is. And you might be asking yourself: why have I never heard any of this before?

Because once you start to understand how homeopathy works - and even more importantly, how to use it - it’s glaringly obvious how incomplete our current model of health really is.

And more than that, you step into a completely different relationship with your body, your health, and your family’s care. One that is less dependent, less reactive, and far more intuitive and self-directed.

Behind this paywall, I’m going to show you what that looks like in practice - how to find a homeopath, what happens in a session, how remedies are chosen, what the course of treatment generally involves, and how to begin using homeopathy yourself for first aid and everyday situations. I’ll also walk you through how to get involved in protecting access to this kind of care, starting with supporting Americans for Homeopathy Choice.

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Let’s get down to brass tacks.

When Should I Use Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is for everything that’s not an emergency (like a heart attack) and doesn’t require surgery (like a bone sticking out of you).

Any acute or chronic illness is a good reason to call the homeopath. That goes for colds and rashes, and other minor issues, as well as more serious stuff like cardiovascular disease, pneumonia, psoriasis, or infertility.

Homeopathy is also wonderful for emotional or psychological issues - with or without formal recognition as mental health conditions. It can be as minor as you’re feeling weird, or off, or not yourself, creepy dreams, or more irritable or weepy, or it can be major depressive disorder, suicidal thoughts, OCD, autism, or schizophrenia.

Which brings me to…

Can I Do Both Homeopathic and Conventional Treatment?

Some of our white coat friends are probably freaking out at the last section where it sounds like I’m sending cancer patients to a homeopath - which I am, in fact.

But the wonderful thing about homeopathy is that it can be used in addition to and alongside conventional medical care. Your homeopathic remedy is not going to interfere with chemo or statins or lithium. Except that it might reduce your need for them as your condition improves.

Remember that homeopathic remedies are, biochemically, sugar pellets. So going to a homeopath for cancer will not hurt you or interfere with anything your oncologist recommends.

Where Do I Find a Homeopath?

This is one of those areas where the “system” won’t help you much. There’s no Yelp for great homeopaths. No hospital rankings or insurance network provider directory.

So here’s how to actually do it.

Start with training: Look for someone who has completed a serious, multi-year training program, not a weekend course. Well-known programs include:

• Academy of Homeopathy Education

• Centre for Homeopathic Education

• School of Homeopathy

Individual certification: In the U.S., the main one is the Council for Homeopathic Certification. If you see “CCH” after their name, it means they’ve passed a national exam, completed clinical hours, and maintained continuing education. It’s not everything, but it’s a good baseline filter.

Medical doctors are homeopaths too: If an MD or DO has additional board certification from the American Board of Homeopathic Medicine, that can be helpful if you’re looking for a practitioner who can navigate both systems. But most excellent homeopaths are not physicians.

Do people get better? Credentials are nice, but what actually matters is whether they have real case experience, whether they work with conditions like yours, and whether people refer others to them. This is a referral-driven field for a reason. (By the way, my homeopath hero is Molly Erlinger. Don’t all y’all book up her entire calendar though. I still need her!)

Here’s a great homeopath search feature at the National Center for Homeopathy.

What Is a Session with a Homeopath Like?

Most people are seeing homeopaths virtually, which is particularly great when you’re sick or in pain, so you can do it in your jammies.

Your first visit will be long - like two hours. It will feel like a biographical anal probe. The homeopath will want to know everything about your history, your childhood, your emotions, your relationships, your dreams, and your entire health history. You’ll be wondering, “but what does any of that have to do with these red bumps on my arm?” Remember how I said there’s a unique symptom profile for every remedy? Those profiles are detailed, and you’ll be surprised at how obscure details can change the remedy that is selected for you.

Homeopaths follow a very formulaic “case-taking” process whereby they have specific categories of questions they’ll ask. But they’ll also meander a bit and pick up threads of what you’ve said and ask you to drill down on your third-grade best friend. Trust the process.

When they get to your actual symptoms of interest, they’ll ask what kinds of things make it better or worse, hotter or colder, drier or wetter, and all kinds of details that your family med doc never asks. It feels good to be actually listened to.

At the end, the homeopath may have a remedy already chosen for you, especially if you are acutely sick with something simple. But not always, in which case, she’ll probably say “give me a day or two to research and I’ll email you the remedy and protocol.” You’ll get the remedy by email, as well as instructions about where to buy it if she is persnickety about sourcing, and how to take it. Sometimes you’ll start with a “dry” dose where you put the pellets under your tongue; other times you’ll start with a wet dose where you crush the pellets in water and take a sip. Beginners will have lots of questions - don’t be afraid to ask!

You will likely be asked to check back in after a certain period of time, or to email progress, and to schedule a follow-up session if appropriate. Understand that if you’re dealing with some deep-seated issues or chronic conditions, you may start with one remedy, and then change the dose, or switch remedies as things evolve and change in response to the first course of treatment.

In homeopathy, there is a concept called the “direction of cure,” which holds that healing follows a predictable pattern rather than happening randomly. When the body is truly moving toward health, symptoms tend to resolve from more vital organs to less vital ones, from the inside of the body to the outside, from the top down, and often in the reverse order that they originally appeared. In practice, this can look counterintuitive at first. Someone whose asthma improves may briefly see an old skin rash return. A long-standing emotional struggle may lift, only to be followed by the temporary reappearance of a past physical symptom. From a conventional perspective, this can look like backsliding. But within the homeopathic framework, it’s interpreted as the body unwinding in the right direction - prioritizing deeper, more critical systems first and gradually pushing disturbances outward. The key idea is that healing is not just about making symptoms disappear as quickly as possible, but about restoring order in a way that reflects the body’s own hierarchy of importance.

All that is to say, be patient.

Homeopaths typically will work with you for a while on your more complex issues, but will see their existing clients for quicker, acute issues if you get the sniffles or an injury or some other acute issue you want to address.

Where Do You Buy Homeopathic Remedies?

Most people either order online or go through dedicated homeopathic pharmacies. Common retail options still include places like Amazon (just put the name of the remedy in the search bar) and widely available brands like Boiron or Hyland’s. But if you want more traditional, practitioner-grade remedies, many homeopaths prefer sources like Hahnemann Labs, a mail-order pharmacy that produces tens of thousands of single remedies using classical methods.

Here’s a tip it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out: the little tubes of pellets look like a chapstick, and the “cap” looks like you pull it off just like the chapstick top. But that’s not how to get the pellets out. The cap actually has a twisting mechanism. So you turn the tube upside down, and then twist the cap until the number of pellets you want comes out, then pull the cap off with the small number of pellets that you need.

By the way, remedies are crazy cheap - usually between $7-10. Take THAT, Big Pharma!

Homeopathy as Family First Aid

Most families who use homeopathy regularly end up keeping a small kit of common remedies at home for first aid and everyday issues, and then sourcing more specific remedies online or directly through their practitioner as needed. I like the Helios kits - they come with a nice little booklet that helps you figure out which remedy to use for what purpose.

When you use a remedy for acute first aid (homeopaths call these types of illnesses “acutes”), for adults, I like to do a few (3-5) pellets under the tongue every half hour or hour (depending on intensity of the symptom) until something about the symptom changes - it starts to feel better or different.

Once you see the change, stop the remedy. More is not better here.

For kids, I crush a few pellets in 8-oz of water and then a dose = one sip. Leave the glass in the fridge until the next dose. You can also use a liquid medicine dropper for babies, just squeeze it in the side of their mouth like you would other liquid medicines.

You don’t need a three-year program to start using homeopathy. A short, practical first-aid course — just a few hours of focused learning — can give you enough to start treating fevers, injuries, and everyday issues at home.

Here are a few:

Homeopathy for Acutes with Peter Matu

Acute Care Homeopathy Course by Kate Birch

Introduction to Homeopathy: Home Prescribing for Beginners by Anne Marie O’Bradaigh

If You Want to Go Deeper

If you want to dig in more, or beyond just basic acute issues, you might want to buy a Materia Medica - this is like an Encyclopedia Britannica for homeopathic remedies. Materia Medica is a genre of book, not a specific title. There are in-depth, professional-grade ones that are like 3-inch thick books. And then there are slim, handy versions. There are online versions, both in-depth and simple.

All of them are organized in two sections:

1. health conditions or symptoms, alphabetized, and the remedies associated with them (often called the Repertory), and

2. remedies, alphabetized, and the symptom profiles associated with them.

Some big, professional-grade versions include those by Boericke or Allen. And there are a bunch of little handy versions. I like Miranda Castro’s Complete Homeopathy Handbook and Lisa Strbac’s The Homeopath in Your Hand.

Once you’ve taken a course or two on homeopathy and you have some knowledge of case-taking, you can start to take your own case and experiment with your own more complex symptoms by drilling down on the checklist of your case, your symptom profile, and use the Materia Medica and Repertory to match a remedy to your profile. Then dose yourself with a few pellets under the tongue or in water. For chronic, non-acute symptoms, you might try dosing once at night, and again in the morning, and then waiting a week or two to see if your vital force responds. Most people start with a 12C or 30C dose. If you don’t get a response but you’re pretty sure about the remedy match, you can bump the potency up to 100C, 200C, or even 1M.

How Do I Save Homeopathy From the FDA?

If you care about making sure that homeopathy continues to be an unfettered option for American families like yours, there’s good news - Congress has taken a step in the right direction with a bipartisan bill called the Homeopathic Drug Product Safety, Quality, and Transparency Act (H.R. 7050). This bill was introduced in early 2026 by Rep. Pete Sessions and is designed to create a clear legal status for homeopathic medicines, instead of leaving them in regulatory limbo where the Food and Drug Administration can go after them at any time under its current “unapproved drug” framework.

Without Congress’ boot on the FDA’s neck, it’s possible that homeopathic products will continue to disappear from the market due to uncertainty and enforcement pressure. Whole Foods used to carry a bunch of remedies, but they stopped a few years ago, no doubt worried about FDA enforcers invading and scaring their peacenik consumer base.

Practically speaking, there are a few things you can do. You can contact your members of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor HR 7050. You should also pester the Committee that oversees FDA - the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and (politely but firmly) insist that they move the bill. Call the Chairman’s office first, and then the other members of the Committee, especially if your congressman is a member. Also give your Senators a buzz and ask them to introduce the bill on the Senate side. The Committee Chairman in the Senate is Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, and he leans hard into that MD to try to mock and berate those in favor of medical freedom, so don’t expect much there.

If you sign up with Americans for Homeopathy Choice (these guys are fantastic and well-organized), they’ll give you scripts for those conversations, action alerts, and coordinated campaigns to help people connect directly with lawmakers and push for passage. Their argument is straightforward: legislation is the only way to override the FDA’s current policy direction and secure long-term access. At this point, consumer pressure is the entire strategy.

Why Homeopathy Is So Empowering

We’ve been conditioned to turn to white coats in offices to treat our symptoms. Take a half-day off work, fill out a bunch of paperwork you already filled out before, answer when your name is barked out from behind the bulletproof glass. Put on the paper napkin with your butt hanging out. Freeze on a cold exam table waiting half an hour for the white coat to show up. Vomit out as much information in six minutes as possible. Get the prescription or the referral to a high-priced specialist who is booked for the next six months.

Rinse. Repeat.

What I love about homeopathy is that it gives me options that are time-tested, easy to use and super cheap. I get to stick it to Big Pharma and Big Hospital and Big Insurance by bypassing all of them.

I can do it solo, I can do it with OTC meds, I can use it with prescription meds too. I can add in acupuncture or chiro adjustments or supplements.

It also resonates with me as Matriarch, because I’m the one that has the remedy when someone in the family is sick. It feels good to have more than just advice and a referral to a white-coat. We all know that women are the health care decision makers in every family. But what if Mom can actually deliver the health care herself?

I love being able to take care of my family in a tangible way, and there’s something primal and right about looking up the right remedy, mixing it up in some water, and letting a toddler take a sip and waiting for him to feel better quicker.

Your humble correspondent, with mom, daughter and granddaughter. Three generations of Matriarchs, with the fourth as Matriarch-in-waiting.

Homeopathy helps beat back the white-coat conditioning of outsourced authority. You don’t panic as much. You don’t run to the doctor for every little thing. You don’t feel as dependent on a system that is designed to profit the most when you’re a patient for life.

You start to trust your body again.

And once that happens - for you, and for your family - you don’t go back.

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