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Excited for spring but looking for effective solutions to manage seasonal allergies? Listen in to learn the benefits of homeopathy and how to choose remedies for quick relief.
Dr. Wendy Pollock is a Certified Classical Homeopath and chiropractor practicing in Mill Valley, CA.
More than 20% of the US population is affected by allergies:
- Allergies are a histamine response of the body to an irritant that a person becomes sensitized to such as dust, pollen, mold, smoke, pollution, etc.
- This results in symptoms of runny nose, sneezing and congestion that can range from mild to severe.
- Allergies can develop from overexposure sensitivity or be triggered by high stress.
Homeopathy offers effective, natural solutions for allergy sufferers:
- Homeopathic remedies are non-toxic, have no side effects and can be effective for acute situations. They also offer long-term health enhancing benefits.
- If an acute remedy is not effective, Dr. Pollock recommends seeing a licensed, constitutional homeopathy practitioner who will consider the whole person rather than just their symptoms.
There are approximately 800 homeopathic remedies listed as helpful for allergies:
- Homeopathic remedies are chosen through an exacting process based on the specific symptoms of the whole person.
- Because the correctly chosen medicine is an exact match to the symptoms that would cause illness in a healthy person, the medicine acts energetically to negate those same symptoms in a sick person.
- In general, remedies are placed under the tongue and allowed to dissolve.
Dr. Pollock recommends starting with a single, well chosen homeopathic remedy:
- Allium cepa is a homeopathic remedy helpful for burning eyes, itchy nose and irritation associated with hay fever and colds.
- Sabadilla is a homeopathic remedy helpful for repetitive sneezing not accompanied by burning discharge.
- The book Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines is a great resource for self help.
- If allergies are severe or self-care is not effective, seek the advice of a certified clinical homeopath.
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15 Comments
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It's too bad that my local Whole Food Stores have stopped carrying Natrum Muriaticum 30c, which is an amazing remedy for allergies. I have referred so many friends to this effective remedy and now none of can get it without a special order. I don't know if Whole Foods across the country have stopped carrying it, but I do know that where I live Whole Foods is the only local store that carries homeopathic remedies and this has made life just a little harder right at the onset of allergy season.
04/08/2012 7:07:45 PM CDT
Homeopathy has repeatedly been clinically proven to not work. I am not sure how Whole Foods can sell this with a clean conscience. The James Randi Educational Foundation (jref.org) has a good breakdown of the tests done that disprove this quackery. A lot of people don't understand the difference between homeopathy (magic and disproven biology) and holistic (nutrition) based remedies. Please be clear about the facts regarding these differences.
Thank you.
04/10/2012 7:44:20 AM CDT
My apologies, the website is Randi.org
not jref.org
04/10/2012 7:46:12 AM CDT
It is unfortunate that the above writer and perhaps others are so misinformed about homeopathy. There is quite a bit of good research that shows measurable positive effects of homeopathy. It is too bad that the "quackbuster" web sites don't approach this area of research with a scientific mindset of looking for real evidence. The research is there and more is being conducted all the time.
04/18/2012 6:04:56 PM CDT
I agree with Nick Mclogic. Why should I believe any health claims you make about your products after seeing this nonsense? Other web sites that do a good job of debunking homeopathy are Quackwatch, http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html, and Science-Based Medicine, http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/category/homeopathy.
04/19/2012 1:33:12 AM CDT
@J Messer
Would you like to provide references for the "good research" on homeopathy? Which articles in respected, peer-reviewed journals are you talking about?
The "quackbuster" web sites that I'm familiar with actually do use "a scientific mindset of looking for real evidence". That's their whole purpose. And when you use the scientific method to examine evidence, you often find that things that you thought were true don't stand up to scrutiny.
04/19/2012 3:31:47 PM CDT
No, homeopathy has not been disproven. It has sucessfully ben used since the 1800s, and it's success has only been
squelched by big pharm and the AMA, would rather kill us with
the side effects of their drugs for profit. They have always felt a real threat. If one finds the right rememdy one can see amazing success in babies, animals and plants as well (so much for the placebo effect they like to shove down your throat.) All remedies are proven. Now you mean science is so great, the one where each research tells you one thing, and then a couple of years later retracts the whole thing, and then a few years down the road retracts that? People always put down something they don't understand. Every successful
homeopath has a client base of many cured cases, tradiational medicine couldn't cure. Who would go to Whole Foods if they didn't sell natural healing products. You can start here to learn more: http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/
04/19/2012 3:59:08 PM CDT
@HomeoJan
You claim that there is a conspiracy by "big pharm" and the AMA against homeopathy. Would you like to present the scientific, reproducible evidence that is being covered up?
Scientific journals retract papers because they actually stand behind what they publish. Rather than just saying, "Our doctors have cured people; trust us," which is basically what you're saying about homeopaths, they present papers containing hard evidence and scientific reasoning. This allows other scientists and medical professionals to scrutinize the work and try to reproduce it. When a paper is shown to be invalid, it's withdrawn. This inspires confidence in the papers that have withstood the test of time.
Since a homeopathic dilution is just water, I don't have to go to Whole Foods to buy this "natural healing product". I can just open my faucet.
04/19/2012 5:41:33 PM CDT
It's not just water. And life isn't only about having 100% physical evidence at every moment. Even in rigid science minds, who think science as presently practiced is the end all. If you really would like to learn more, there are plenty of places for you to check it out more thoroughly yourself. There is plenty of evidence out there and success stories. It doesn't folllow the same principals as conventional medicine so maybe you need to understand that first but you are on your own. I have work to do. Quackwatch, right? (-: Now that's a good source. And you want the truth, and not bias?
04/20/2012 9:57:08 AM CDT
@HomeoJan
Yes, it is basically just water. Homeopathic dilutions have so little, if anything, left of the substances being diluted that it might as well just be tap water. In fact, critics of homeopathy have staged "die-ins", where they overdose on homeopathic medicines, to show that there's nothing in them. Of course, scientists would change their minds if just one homeopath bothered to give good evidence for homeopathy, but for some strange reason, they - and you - don't. I guess that like you, they all have work to do ;-)
"And life isn’t only about having 100% physical evidence at every moment." No, but when I'm sick, I'd rather go with people who give plausible explanations for what they do and use the scientific method. As opposed to people who would charge me money to give me placebos, when I might be in desperate need of real help.
And yes, Quackwatch :-)
04/20/2012 10:53:08 PM CDT
Regarding the homeopathic "die in", don't try this at home, as they say. The people in the "die in" first verify that no real, non-diluted substances are in the solutions. One way that some quacks make their products seem to work is to slip in something that will have a noticeable effect, such as, for example, a conventional allergy medicine.
04/20/2012 11:48:50 PM CDT
Love this, man; anything holistic, in my mind, makes more sense than anything else.
04/23/2012 2:54:03 PM CDT
On spring I'm always searching for information about how to get rid of allergies. It was somewhat helpful, thank you.
05/16/2012 9:47:37 AM CDT
Highly diluted homeopathic remedies are water. There are no side effects because it's water. Whole Foods supports fraudulent fake medicine.
12/08/2012 6:52:35 PM CST
I have the worst allergies at times and allergy relief I use to dream for. I was glad I had access to a doctor when I needed it. Last fall I was on vacation, out in the middle of nowhere camping. My allergies were really bad. Eyes watery, sneezing and itchy throat. My vacation was over. But I was glad I could talk to a doctor right over they phone. MD247 called me in a prescription to a local pharmacy with in no time I was feeling great and could continue enjoying myself. www.md247.com
01/24/2013 2:21:10 PM CST