FAMILY HEALTH
Health can be a controversial subject when it comes to parenting. Do you rely on conventional medicine and follow all your doctor’s advice, or do you read the debates on every vaccination, childhood illness and symptom and try to find your own way? Recent concern over antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria and general over-use of antibiotics has sent many people looking for alternative ways to keep their families healthy.
There are a huge number of alternative approaches to health, from homeopathy to cranial osteopathy and acupuncture, all of which can play an effective role in treating illness and maintaining health in children and adults alike. To start with we’ll focus on homeopathy.
Homeopathy is gaining in popularity and becoming widely available Homeopathy focuses on supporting and stimulating the immune system so that the body can overcome infection more easily. Here’s what one mother told us about her experience with homeopathy: “As a first time mother I had never heard of homeopathy, so I followed the only path I knew, when it came to my son’s health – conventional medicine. When the third bout of tonsillitis, in his first year, failed to respond to two courses of antibiotics and was progressing into an ear infection a friend sent us to a homeopath. He improved rapidly with homeopathic medicine and after two weeks was completely clear of the infection. What is more he has never had tonsillitis or an ear infection since.”
One middle of the road approach for parents that like to keep all options open, is to keep conventional medicine in reserve for any serious illnesses, go to an experienced homeopath for constitutional treatment if your children have ongoing conditions such as allergies, eczema and asthma and then use a range of homeopathic and herbal remedies at home for all the small hurts and minor ailments that inevitably afflict families with children.
Here is a starter selection of homeopathic remedies to cover a wide range of minor ailments for your medicine cabinet at home. Tissue salts or cell salts are another very effective way for maintaining health and treating minor ailments at home.
Natural Health Books
Homeopathy Handbook For Parents
Natural Healing With Tissue Salts
