How to use Homeopathy at Home

Prescribing Homeopathic Remedies for First Aid and minor acute illnesses

While it takes time and experience to fine tune Homeopathic prescribing, the truth is, we can all do it at home! It is so very empowering to be able to help family and friends in acute illnesses or as a first course of action before seeking medical advice.

I encourage you to give it a try...

Long before I found Homeopathy, I was the first to reach for cal pol or to be so worried about an infection that I would give in to the antibiotics prescribed by the GP. Learning how to home prescribe was an absolute game changer!

How to become a Homeopathic Superhero:

1. Get yourself a Remedy Kit: Helios do a great 36 remedy one here. Or you can go with Ainsworth's version here.

   
   

2. Familiarise yourselves with the booklet that comes with the kit which categorises remedies and outlines their most common uses. Online copy here! The booklet also gives us an overview of the most prominent 'keynotes' of each remedy.

   Keynotes are the most common symptoms of a remedy picture and will help us determine which one to pick.

   
   

3. Get your detective hat on....time to find the main symptoms to use in our remedy selection process! Ask many more questions if you need to, but focus on the below:

   
   

4. Where does it hurt? ie Head, but where? Temples? Above the eyes? Round the back of the head?

   
   

5. When/How did it start? ie After walking out in the rain? After receiving bad news? After being in the sun too long?

   
   

6. What does it feel like? ie Stinging? Hammering? Throbbing? Dull?

   
   

7. What does it look like? Swollen? Pink? Red? Oozing pus (!!) and if so, what colour or smell?

   
   

8. What makes it better? ie Warmth? Cold? Sitting up? Laying down? Movement? Stillness? Night or Day?

   
   

9. What makes it worse? same as above and more!

   
   

10. List out all your keynotes, read through your booklet or another Materia Medica of choice or even look up some remedy pictures online. Your aim is to pick a remedy that has as many keynotes as possible in it's picture! Use your superhero powers to differentiate ....Just like House!

    
    

    

    
    

    ...Keep Practicing...

    
    

    The more you prescribe the more confident you get!

    And the more familiar you become with our amazing bodies and their ability to self heal...

    
    

    with the help of some potent little pills!