Everyday Miracles: Homeopathy in Action

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Symptoms: The Keys to Cure

Symptoms are the key to Homeopathic medicine. In chapter three we said that disease is the cause of all symptoms and therefore, all symptoms are the result of disease. Let's expand on these ideas to see what symptoms really are and how they can be used in the diagnosis and selection of the specific Homeopathic remedy that will cure the patient.

A symptom is any characteristic from any aspect of the whole human being. This includes all the complaints, problems or limitations from the emotions and mind as well as the body.

Thoughts, reactions to stress or weather conditions, sleep patterns, temperament, food preferences, effects of childhood experiences, family, social and work experiences, emotional traumas or upsets and physical complaints are all examples of symptoms.

Other symptoms might be a strong liking for salty foods, a preference for sleeping on your left side or waking up at three in the morning and falling back to sleep at four.

These may all seem common place, but they provide very valuable information about each person as a unique individual. We call many things "normal" because we have never experienced life without them. They are actually symptoms representing our overall state of health.

There are thousands of these pieces of information about us. Many are used to determine our correct Homeopathic remedy.

Not all of these, however, are symptoms of disease. Many are simply characteristics of us as unique individuals.

To decide which of these are symptoms and which are personal characteristics we must again look at our new definition of health.

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Author

Linda Johnston MD, DHt

Linda Johnston is a native of Seattle, Washington who graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1979. She moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and since that time has had a private practice in general medicine.

Her practice of Homeopathy began in 1986. She is distinguished by being one of the few medical doctors in the United States who is board certified in Homeopathy by the American Board of Homeotherapeutics.

Dr. Johnston has studied intensively with many of the most highly respected classical Homeopaths in the world, including George Vithoulkas and Alfons Geukens, MD.

She began her training with the International Foundation for Homeopathy and Hahnemann College courses and went on to study by attending many training courses and seminars in Europe over the last four years.

This wide exposure has allowed Dr. Johnston to develop a deep understanding that integrates the best elements of high quality Classical Homeopathy. Her unique scholarship has lead to a remarkable book for professionals: Repertory Additions from Kent's Lecturers on Homeopathic Materia Medica.

To promote Homeopathy and to train professional Homeopaths, she founded the Academy for Classical Homeopathy.Currently she teaches and lectures in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Dr. Johnston is an excellent public speaker, appearing in over a hundred television, radio and print interviews. These presentations have generated an enormous amount of public interest in Homeopathy.

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Reviews

"I want to express my enthusiasm for this book. It is the most comprehensive account of Homeopathy I have seen anywhere. It is extremely well written and organized. This book will blaze

"This book is full of wisdom, and it is obviously written by a sensitive healer. It could change forever your ideas of health and illness."
— Larry Dossey, MD

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Contents

1 What is Homeopathy? -- 1
2 What is Health? -- 15
3 Disease Redefined -- 19
4 Symptoms: The Keys to Cure -- 45
5 The Body's Best Effort -- 53
6 The Defense Mechanism -- 67
7 Being an Individual -- 75
8 Changing Symptoms -- 89
9 It's Not Out There, It's in Here -- 113
10 Law of Similars -- 123
11 Layers of Disease -- 141
12 Why not get Symptomatic Relief ? -- 149
13 The Homeopathic Remedy -- 169
14 What Does Galileo Have To DoWith It? -- 183
15 The Complementary Perspective -- 191
16 Self Cure and the Placebo -- 207
17 Science, Medicine and Money -- 215
18 Your Homeopathic Treatment -- 237
Appendix -- 259

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