homeopathy

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Dear Jerry,

 

Thank you for your insight...

 

I do disagree that homeopathy does more than abort symptoms. It is

about bringing the body back into balance through understanding the

unified and unique symptom picture of the individual.

 

While no doubt I am sure you worked with very good homeopaths,

unfortunately/or fortunately, there can be great variety in how

homeopaths work or even understand the nature of health and even

homeopathy.

 

Some health professionals when they see fever (or abcesses),

immediately take steps to lower it, suppress it, believing the fever

(or abcess)is the sickness, while others understand the fever (or

abcess) is the body's way of healing, and under a watchful eye will

support it. From the school of thought I was trained from, any

expulsion of morbid matter, such as pus, is an expression of

healing. Remedies are not used to stop that expression, but instead

to allow it to express safely, less painfully, but ultimately more

fully.

 

So as you compare antibiotics to homeopathy both may appear

to " abort symptoms " , but there is a huge difference between the two

systems.

 

I admit up front that you know volumes more about dental health than

I do. I just know what I have experienced, and from the trust of

years of working with my homeopathic teacher, and the incredible

cases that I have been privy to learn from, that dental abcesses are

not beyond the restorative reach of homeopathy.

 

Best Wishes,

Misty

http://www..com

 

 

, " Jerry Mittelman "

<jmittelman@n...> wrote:

> Misty,

> We have a confusion in terms.

> Homeopathy certainly helps clear up the abscess situation - but

only

> in the root canal situation for a while.

> The body responds to the challenge of the infection with

inflammation -

> we find swelling and pain - and homeopathy stimulates the body to

> fix the situation - abort the symptoms - so the individual

feels 'cured.'

> Antibiotics can be used when we see a swollen face caused by an

> infected root canal. The patient looks and feels better.

> But in both cases, the germs remain protected by

> the anatomy of the tooth's root -

> and down the line, later on, the situation will blow up again.

>

> Misty, one should use homeopathy in these cases to help reinforce

> the body's resistive capacity. But the cause of the problem must

> be attended to also. Homeopathy stimulates, energizes the healing

> ability of the body, but the protected bacteria must be killed off

if

> we don't want return of the problem.

> I'm retired, but in our practice, we used homeopathy extensively.

> I was president of The International Academy of Preventive

> Medicine in '76 - rubbed elbows with the best homeopaths in our

> country. Heimlich and Panos quoted me in their best-seller book -

> I believe it was on using homeopathy in children's teething.

Believe

> me when I say that I was not one of those 'establishment'

mechanical

> dentists.

> Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM