Homeopathic Antidotes..
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free skin care · Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:12 pm

I can't imagine this is gonna get alot of responses but is anyone out there using a homeopathic remedy and are you concerned with antidotes? If so, what are you avoiding, and what have you found that actually antidotes? I've recently found the antidote list overwhelming and don't know if the homeopathic route would work at ALL for me. I mean, coffee instantly antidotes and so does anything mint? How true is all this? Does anyone have any experience with this?

free skin care · Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:37 pm

I wanted to be helpful since I use homeopathy fairly regularly but I'm honestly confused

by your question so I'm not sure how to answer Embarassed

--- sorry maybe I just need some sleep.

free skin care · Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:59 pm

Sara, HI!!! Good to see you're still around... I've thought about you often, wondering how you're doing..

As for your question..Huh? I'm not understanding your question either.. Can you be more specific?

free skin care · Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:50 pm

I'm confused as well. Think

I do use homeopathic remedies for some ailments. Currently I am using (as needed) Bach's Flower Essense "Rescue Remedy Spray." It helps to alleviate nervous tension and anxiety. I dont' think it would help someone who is having a full blown panic attack though. You just spray it twice on your tongue. Very Happy

My 15 yo son loves it because of the name (yes he loves the composer Bach.) With 27% alcohol content you could say you've got yourself some cheap liquor!! Go figure it helps with nervousness. Laughing

I also have used arnica gel for sore muscles but have found essentials oils more beneficial for alleviating muscle discomfort.

HTH

free skin care · Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:59 am

Actually you can use topical homeopathic remedies (such as Arnica cream etc.) and flower essences without worrying about antidoting. Some flower essence authorities claim that they can be antidoted, some do not. In my experience, their efficacy is not affected as long as they are taken in a clean mouth, at least an hour before eating, drinking or brushing teeth. Also, it's preferable to wait a while after taking the remedy before eating or drinking.
Homeopathic remedies that are taken internally however (those little white pellets you allow to dissolve under your tongue) can be antidoted with coffee and mint. Some individuals are more sensitive to this than others. HTH Smile

free skin care · Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:22 pm

Generally, as Mimsy mentioned, keep mouth clean before and after taking. My homeopath (and they are all different-not right or wrong-just different) only requires a twenty minute window on either side of taking the remedy. He didn't restrict me from coffee or mint or anything else as long as I gave myself forty minutes total for the remedy to take hold. His philosophy is that if it's the right remedy it will work. Plain and simple.
In fact, mint only really antidotes certain remedies, natrum muriaticum, for example. My guess is that homeopaths just give blanket guidelines so that the patient has an easy time complying with directions. Everyone's different though, so if you find yourself antidoting by eating or drinking something, avoid it if repeating the remedy.

I do self-treat, unless I find myself in a real pickle, and so find the web sites that list remedies to andidote other remedies the most helpful. Here's one: http://www.homeoint.org/books/boericmm/index.htm

HTH! Smile

free skin care · Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:15 pm

hey, thanks for the replys.. I definitely have more research to do on this... I know its confusing, I didn't even know what antidoting for homeopathic treatments was until a few days ago... an antidote is something that cures a poison and since homeopathy is "like cures like".. you're actually giving yourself a small amount of something that brings ON the symptoms you're trying to get rid of. Its similiar to an immunization shot... so if you take a homeopathic tablet and drink coffee for example, the coffee is actually canceling out (if it actually IS an antidote) the tablet by "curing" it so to speak... So basically I've been taking some homeopathic tablets, but I had a cup of coffee, swished with mint mouthwash, brushed with mint tea, AND used tea tree oil (another supposed antidote) on a scratch. Oh, and I have an electric blanket too (some homeopaths believe an electric blanket is an antidote because it changes something to do with your body's energy aura or something)... but I'm still hoping my tablets will work... like I said I JUST found out about all this a couple days ago so I'm curious about anyone else's experience with this. I would still like to give homeopathy a shot but I'm not giving up mint, coffee, my blanket, tea tree, etc...

free skin care · Sat Feb 07, 2015 3:02 pm

I am taking homeophatic treatment and as well a bit worry about the antidotes.

I have read too electric blankets can antidote and i was wondering if using safetox will antidote as well, i dont want to stop using my safetox.
Does anyone know if safetox and other gadget can be antidote?

free skin care · Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:43 pm

I have personally experienced micro current (and it was low frequency micro current used for physical healing purposes) greatly interfere with my chronic (constitutional) remedy.

My homeopath who is also a naturopath uses both modalities but has related to me incidences in her practice where patients was healed of some complaint, i.e. some injury, with the micro current, but lost some important constitutional healing that had already taken place from their chronic homeopathic remedy.

She no longer uses both modalities simultaneously.

I have a pico toner that i have had great success with (although i only have used it 4 times) but am hesitant to use it just now because i am beginning a new chronic remedy.

After I have a more grounded sense of what the remedy is doing for me, I will try it again. And I will try it the first time right before the time to take my remedy again, so if there it is antedated it won't have such a drastic effect. Generally with my homeopath a remedy is taken only once every 3 weeks or so, (and is often taken for several years continually going up in potency as needed)

If you taking your remedy every day or several times a day, I would suggest stopping the Stop for a while and really get to 'know' your remedy and how you respond to it before resuming the device. (Difficult I know)

Honestly each homeopath may look at the situation differently, but mine would not want me to use the micro current (I know Stop isn't micro current) at all because even if it didn't directly antedate the remedy the 'energy' of it might distort the effect of the homeopath and it would be more difficult to figure out if the remedy continued to be the right remedy and if it was right when a higher potency would be needed.

free skin care · Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:47 pm

Sorry, you are talking about Safetox not the Stop, but i think the general principle applies.

free skin care · Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:46 pm

Thanks for the information.

I have to take my medicine just 2 doses one day and a single dose the next day, then wait 15 days and report back to doctor.

We dont even know for sure if i can be cured,i have a little bit swollen the part above my upper lip ( where men have the moustache), i got silicon injection on lips many years ago and have had lots of problems with it, i have had few surgeries to take out the silicone but not all could be taken out and some of it must be left that make inflamacion on that area that only goes down with corticoids inyections but later comeback, and the homephatic doctor is trying to find the right remedy for me to go down the inflamacion of that área.
I will stop usinng safetox as i want to test if the treatment will work and dont want to risk antidoting in case there is an homeophatic cure for me.

free skin care · Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:26 pm

Pablita
What does your doctor say about using Safetox with the homeopathy?

I am wishing you much speedy healing with homeopathy for your inflammation issue.

free skin care · Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:52 pm

Thank you.
The doctor says not everyone antidote with the same things, he told me to avoid coffe, mint and canfor and raw onion and garlic. He sayd i can use safetox till we see if ot is antidoting me, becuase many people dont antidote with microcurrent even do some do. But as it is my first time trying homeophaty i dont know how would i know if i have antidoted or the remedy os not working, so i guess i will stop safetox this months and see how it goes.

free skin care · Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:02 pm

I'm sorry, but there is no evidence that homeopathy does anything. What people experience is essentially a placebo effect. The "active" ingredient is watered down to such an extent that there is hardly any herb or anything in it except water. What people are spending money on is......water.

The supposed idea behind homeopathy is "like cures like" and the remedies are diluted to the point of having only the "memory" of the molecule in it. Except when examined it doesn't even have that.

Think about it logically. If this type of idea worked then fertility clinics would use this method to get a women pregnant. They would simply take the sperm, water it down, water it down some more, water it down five hundred times more, then another five hundred times after that and then place it in the female and wait for pregnancy to occur. The chances of it working is almost zero.

Some homeopathy medicines use herbs which then isn't considered homeopathy, it's herbal medicine. But if you check the side of the box and you see lots of numbers with X's, then the ingredient has been watered down to nothing and what you will experience is a placebo effect. What you're buying is water.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/homeopathy-won-t-cure-you-researchers-conclude-1.2276666

Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:52 pm

I am a born skeptic, but I started using homeopathy for my allergies because I don't like the way I feel when using OTC medications. They really do work, but I'm not needing them lately and I think it may be because of the anti-inflammatory supplements I've been taking. I guess between the homeopathy and some of the other things I've done, I may be reversing the worst of my symptoms.

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