Did you know that in homeopathy, your symptoms really matter? Your homeopath sees your symptoms a little differently than most, and looks to learn more about you, and your vital force, from the way your symptoms are showing up for you.
It’s easy to feel negatively about symptoms, especially if there is pain or discomfort involved. The typical understanding is that a symptom occurs to indicate to us that we are in a disease state, or have a condition. So we often want to get away from our symptoms, or not experience them at all.
With homeopathy, not only are your symptoms important, but the unusual ones, even more so. So watch the video below, or keep reading, to find out all about strange, rare and peculiar symptoms, and why they might be meaningful to your homeopath. I hope it gives you a good idea of why all symptoms might be relevant, and helps to deepen your understanding of homeopathy.
Explaining strange, rare and peculiar symptoms
In homeopathy, we love symptoms. They are our messengers and they are the prime communication between the person, the whole person, the vital force and the homeopath.
We use the symptoms to find our way into the case sometimes where you’ll be able to diagnose based on them, but we’re more interested in how we can read the symptoms to find out what’s really going on for the body and help it to resolve those issues.
So what we love more than anything in homeopathy are those strange, rare and peculiar symptoms.
Those weird things that don’t seem to fit with anything else are often the ones that lead us to the best remedies.
When we look for strange or rare or peculiar symptoms, they can be anything – physical symptoms, or mental or emotional symptoms.
Let’s look at a few examples, to help give you an idea of what these symptom types are and how they might be able to open up the story of you.
Strange symptoms
Recently in the clinic, we had a gentleman with a very chronic cough that would be triggered when he brushed his teeth, but not when he would be eating. That is an unusual or strange symptom, because it was outside the typical symptom picture for a chronic cough. and seemed to only happen through a single activity.
While it may have been a strange symptom that could often be overlooked as unrelated, we found that digging deeper into the symptoms was helpful.
The symptom had the specifics of being triggered by tooth brushing, and so, we worked on a remedy that looked at the vibration caused by the toothbrush. In treating the gentleman’s strange symptom, we were able to find the right remedy, and he had a lot of relief.
Rare symptoms
One of the rarest symptoms we’ve seen in the clinic, was a blood test result showing tungsten metal, which I had never seen in a test result before.
Just getting that rare symptom as part of the overall symptom picture for the case really made a difference in the treatment course we took, and the outcome.
Peculiar symptoms
Another, was a client with a very unusual, very peculiar symptom of a severe, debilitating reflux, but only when he bent his body in a specific motion and into a specific shape.
Once again, that gave us just the right remedy to prescribe, and he’s never had reflux since. What’s more, it also helped unlock some of the other symptoms that he was struggling with.
Have a strange, rare or peculiar symptom you want to ask us about?
We love these symptoms and would be happy to discuss them with you as part of homeopathic care. Reach out to chat about how we can support you.
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