Homeopathy Is For Me, Is It For You?

By Tareq Abedin, MD

Ashburn Sterling Internal Medicine & Pediatrics

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Homeopathy Is For Me, Is It For You?

Homeopathy is considered by many educated medical professionals to be a useless pseudoscience. Some experts have gone so far as stating that using homeopathy is unethical as it would prevent or delay treatment for conditions for which there is effective therapies in the standard realm.

I would agree with part of this critique. There are many life threatening conditions for which standard therapy should never be delayed. However, those same experts have never been able to find that homeopathy does any harm. In the worst case scenario the patient has spent a few minimal dollars on sugar pills. In the best case, as was ours, homeopathy played a large part in significant treatment for my allergies and asthma as well as those of my children.

At the time, we were using absolutely every medication used for the treatment of allergies. Although our symptoms were somewhat relieved, we were hardly comfortable. As I had exhausted all of the medical options for treatment of my family I had the choice of either immunotherapy or homeopathy. For my family, we chose homeopathy. I did not feel like it could cause any harm and if it did not work, we could always try immunotherapy in the future.

My children and I started taking our homeopathy regularly. It became a habit, sort of like brushing our teeth. At the same time we also started making more sensible choices in our general health. We started eating more salads instead of the processed foods that had dominated our diet at the time. It was actually four to five months later at a party of a good friend when I realized how much we had improved. Two of my good friends were commiserating about how horrible the allergy season had been that year. As I was overhearing the conversation I realized that I could breathe fully, even better than the year before when I was taking allergy medications.I am not saying that my allergies are cleared. My sense of smell is still dull and there are definitely days that I will need to take more standard allergy prescriptions. But I no longer need multiple prescriptions daily to be able to breathe. I am very grateful to homeopathy for my current state of health.