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Not only does homeopathy help your sick child feel better quickly, but you avoid the viscous circle of antibiotics, followed by resolution of symptoms, followed by another infection. Homeopathy doesn’t kill bacteria; rather it increases your child’s ability to kill bacteria on her own, so that when the next infection comes around, she’ll be stronger and ready to fight it quickly. Getting sick is a normal, even healthy part of childhood, and homeopathy can make it as painless as possible.

Homeopathic remedies help you child feel better quickly. In fact, if your child is on the correct remedy for his or her symptoms, you should notice changes within a few hours, or even sooner, as the child begins to heal. It is important to be in contact with your Naturopath or Homeopath to ensure that your child’s condition is progressing well. If not, a different remedy will be recommended. Fortunately, children’s symptom pictures tend to be straightforward, and children tend to recover rapidly.

Childhood illnesses like colds, flus, ear infections, and stomaches are all common reasons parents call their child’s doctor. Fortunately, they all respond well to gentle therapies like homeopathy and botanical medicine. A qualified practitioner will evaluate your child to see if any laboratory studies or imaging studies (such as xrays) may be needed to diagnose your child’s condition. For common conditions, this is generally not necessary unless they fail to resolve in a reasonable time frame. Homeopathic remedies not only help your child recover from the illnesses above, but they also prevent side effects from drugs like antibiotics, which can include diarrhea, yeast infection, bladder issues, and bacterial resistance.

Parkinson’s disease is a devastating disease affecting both men and women. The involuntary movements make even the smallest daily activities tough for these patients. The medications can work wonders to help patients gain control of their movements. However, these same medications actually decrease the body’s ability to make dopamine, the chemical that Parkinson’s patients are lacking. Patients, over time, will need increasing doses of their medications. Not only do the medications do nothing to stop the progress of the disease, they actually make the disease progress more quickly. The medications also deplete glutathione in the brain, which is a chemical responsible for antioxidant power, or anti-aging.

Many patients with depression are on medications called SSRIs, selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors. They increase the amount of available serotonin, which is a hormone that helps keep us in a good mood. Some SSRIs help many people, while others have been shown to be no more effective than placebo. Still SSRIs are not the whole picture. For example, we need certain vitamins to help make serotonin. Deficiencies of these, not surprisingly, can lead to depression. One vitamin involved in this cascade is the B vitamin B-6, found in fish, seeds, bananas and nuts. Oral contraceptives decrease the available amount of this vitamin so be sure to keep it maintained with these foods or a supplement. Correcting the imbalances in our diet can go a long way to correcting imbalances in our brain.