Belén Plaza Higueras is offering homeopathy treatments alone or integrated with psychotherapy.
«Aude sapere», «Dare to know»
My commitment to helping people has led me to the study of this alternative therapy, which naturally and without side effects, serves to heal body, mind and spirit.
What is homeopathy?
The concept of homeopathy was developed by Samuel Christian Hahnemann in 1808, a German physician, chemist and toxicologist. The term homeopathy comes from the Greek hómeos (similar) and páthos (disease).
Homeopathy is a substance that is capable of producing a certain group of effects or symptoms in a healthy person; when properly prepared by homeopathic means, it has the property of curing the same group of symptoms in a sick patient. (Hahnemann).
Hahnemann carried out experiments on himself with various substances (following a rigorous and scientific method as he was a doctor). He called them provings or proofs. Other medical colleagues of the time helped him and participated in the trials and verification of his hypothesis. “The same, cure the same.”
Hahnemann worked as a translator for years while searching for a healing method that did not produce side effects, since the medical methods of the time did not satisfy him. The first experiment which he carried on, consisted of ingesting bark from the cinchona tree (Cinchona officinalis). While translating a “Treatise of Materia Medica” by Dr. Cullen, he drew his attention to the treatment with quinine that the author proposed to cure malaria and which was attributed to the bitter effect on the stomach.
Hahnemann decided to test the effect himself. The German doctor suffered the same symptoms of the disease for which it was usually prescribed: intermittent fevers. The explanation for this phenomenon, according to him, was that the similarity of the symptoms caused by the medication and those of the disease “competed” in the generation of the symptoms until the cure arrived. Hahnemann generalized this finding to other medicinal substances.
“similia similibus curantur”/ “Like, cure like.”
His hypothesis stated that any substance that caused a specific symptomatic condition in a healthy subject, could make similar symptoms disappear in a sick subject, as long as it was used in small doses. Paying attention to the nature of these symptoms mentally-emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Therefore Hahnemann proposed a holistic healing system, which differentiated it from the traditional medicine of the time, whose philosophy understood diseases as entities susceptible to diagnosis and standardized therapy. Hahnemann, on the other hand, considered human persons as indivisible entities who reacted through the total of signs and symptoms; The disease being considered as this particular set of symptoms (taking into account the Mental-emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the symptomatological picture). Thus he formulated a new way of seeing diseases, not as rigid labels with general symptoms; but rather as particular, individual, peculiar and curious to each individual.
For homeopathic treatment, we take into account the holistic aspects of the person, the symptomatic mental-emotional, physical and spiritual character. Based on the specific qualities that the person presents, a homeopathic remedy is sought, which produces in the healthy person the same or more similar characteristics on the mental-emotional, physical and spiritual levels; generating levels of healing with the appropriate time and dose of the remedy.
What homeopathy can do for you?
Homeopathy can help with any symptoms coming from any illness. (its use does not replace the treatments and recommendations of a specialist doctor).
Some of the most (but not all) common conditions that people seek homeopathic treatment for are:
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Asthma.
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Depression.
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Anxiety.
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Ear infections.
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Colds.
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Hay fever.
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Mental health conditions, such as depression, stress and anxiety.
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Allergies, such as food allergies.
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Dermatitis (an allergic skin condition)
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Arthritis.
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High blood pressure.
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Premenstrual Syndrome.
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Sexual disorders.
Some of the homeopathy principles or laws are (Hahnemann):
PRIMUM NON NOCERE: “ABOVE ALL, DO NOT HARM”.
“It is always a question of avoiding the consequences of any therapy, of any drug that has no basis in the laws of nature”.
“The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed”.
“The highest ideal of homeopathy is to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently, to remove and destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly comprehensible principles”.
MEDICINAL FLOWERS PROPERTIES
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Apis mellifica.
Will help to relieve eye infections such as conjunctivitis and styes, sore throats, hives, stings from insects, and urinary tract infections, minor burns with an excessive amount of erythema, swelling, and pain.
(This treatment doesn’t replace the previous advice of a Doctor).
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Calendula officinalis.
Indicated for Minor cuts and scrapes; the relief of minor skin irritations due to cuts, abrasions or skin conditions.
(This treatment doesn’t replace the previous advice of a Doctor).
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Aconitum napellus
It is used to help the relief of effects of shock, fear, anxiety, panic attacks that come on suddenly with very strong fear, (even fear of death) and restlessness; acute sudden fever; symptoms from exposure to dry, cold weather or very hot weather; tingling, coldness, and numbness; influenza or colds with congestion; and heavy, pulsating headaches.
(This treatment doesn’t replace the previous advice of a Doctor).
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Arnica Montana.
It is used for the consequences of various types of trauma and muscular strain, bruises, sprains, hepatoma, minor bleeding from an injury, for a blow that doesn’t cause an open wound, contusions without cuts.
(This treatment doesn’t replace the previous advice of a Doctor).