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Part 2 Homeopathy Basics with ACHS faculty Dr. Noska
Intrigued by homeopathy and want to learn more? Get your feet wet learning about the benefits of this holistic health modality and how it works. In this free Master Lecture Webinar with ACHS faculty member Dr. Nolan Noska
You will learn…
– About biotherapeutic drainage and how it's different from homeopathy
– How natural therapeutics come into play
– How the toxic environment responds to homeopathic remedies
the first and probably in many ways the most important is the law of similars which is better you know boiled down to like cures like you know there's a lot of stories about how Hana men used cinchona bark and you know treating malaria and all these sorts of things and certainly that's true but hanuman didn't invent that idea right um he discovered it on a more foundational basis with the herbs and remedies and things he was using but the idea of like cures like has been around for a very long time in fact the you know the two countries currently to have the most homeopathic doctors per capita I guess our India and Brazil and long before Hanuman ever discovered the law of similars for himself and for the medicine you know people in the country of India we're using the idea of like cures like for lots of things and it's often used in eclectic herbalism as well you know the Native American Indians had herbs that did a very similar thing so essentially what it means is that you are taking a small small small dose of the thing that has caused the condition right so you know belladonna is a very good example or easy example in this instance and some of you may know this remedy it's a huge remedy in the materia medica for homeopathy if all of us um you know were to sit down and chew a bunch of belladonna we would be poisoning ourselves and all of the symptoms for someone who needs belladonna would be present in us from having taken a large dose of Bell so symptoms like perhaps a high fever um perhaps a very flushed red face a very acute quick acting type of symptom ology these would all be symptoms that we would see you know very anything with a sympathetic nervous system is ramped up ramped up very high so called vega lytic symptoms that was that would be what we would see if we took bella donna at a very high dose we see these symptoms in a patient not someone who took bella donna but we see these types of symptoms and a patient's say someone who's suffering from acute pharyngitis we give them belladonna in homeopathic form very very small and it sort of resets the organism it actually allows them to let go of all that symptom ology they're no longer stagnant and stuck with that symptom ology so I hope that that clears have a little bit of law of similars I'm sure people have a lot more questions about that and you know if there's some afterwards we'll talk about it it's the most confusing but also the most important law if you will the law of the single remedy you know when hanuman first started this was a more clear cut thing and the idea of what does one at a time mean how far apart doesn't want at a time me does that mean one per day or one per hour or what does that mean well essentially what it means from for our purposes is I see the patient they come in to see me and they need belladonna they don't need any other remedies I don't give them five remedies to take home and say hey take all five of these and see hope that something happens right I give them belladonna because that's the exact remedy that they need the most right that they're the most like and so certainly later in his life towards the end of his career as a physician hanuman used you know you take one remedy in the morning and then a remedy in the afternoon and a riveting in the evening so this got a little bit more loosey-goosey if you will as time went on and the idea of when that one at a time where do we make that that break is not as clear but true constitutional homeopathy states that you give the one remedy that's the remedy the patient needs right maybe they come back a month later and they need a new remedy but you gave them that one remedy to sort of shift them and move them to the next place they needed to go um lot of em potential dose you you have to use the smallest dose amount for cure right you don't give the patient a whole spoonful of it when a tiny little drop will do right you give them the potency and the amount that's needed for them to achieve cure I'm not really going to go into potencies in this talk it could be a whole talk in and of itself there's there's entire volumes written about the difference between potencies and there's a lot of competing philosophies about you know which potent potencies we should use in which we shouldn't and these types of things so I don't want there to be too much confusion other than to say that really what we should be doing as practitioners is giving our patients just what they need to get better no more no less and um and that's kind of what that law means to me the most um the final law the law of direction of cure and you know to be honest I'm not totally sure um I don't really think that Hanuman Hanuman certainly abided by this law but I'm not sure he actually wrote it down he may have but my history may be a little off there but I typically refer to this law as herrings law Constantine herring was another famous homeopath and has done a lot of work and in in the field this law is typically attributed him to him certainly what it means is as the patient's curing from their symptom ology they're going to cure from superior to inferior up to down there going to cure from the inside to the out right so things are going to come from their digestive system out through their skin right more important to less important and in that sense it means organ systems right so if the problem is in their brain it's going to go from the brain to you know perhaps the stomach right um if it's in the move to you know the spleen or something like that right a more important organ to a less important and certainly all the organs are important I don't mean to to debase the stomach or the spleen and say they're less important organs I'm sure the stomach and spleen would be very upset with me if that were the case but um meaning we can't really live without our brain having you know good blood flow and oxygen and glucose and you can't live without your liver right and the symptoms are going to go reverse order of appearance right so maybe the first symptom the patient experienced was um you know some skin trouble right but five years down the line now they have severe gastrointestinal problems and as they get cured the the GI problems will go away and that skin step will return as they're curing um and and we do see that you know it's very common in things like asthma eczema the sort of a topic triad for for children we see that that reverse order quite frequently and typically children are easier to treat anyway and you see the symptoms more pronounced and you see the changes more pronounced just simply because they have less junk in the way um treating children and treating pets are often great ways to see homeopathy in action because as adults you know we have a lot of garbage right we got a lot of stuff in the way for us we have a whole life's worth of emotional baggage and physical baggage and all these things and sometimes it's hard to sort of poke through all that and get to the thing that's most important right so in short constitutional homeopathy is hard right that's the that's the the dirty truth and the most difficult thing to discuss about it is that it's very very difficult to become a skilled practitioner in excuse me it is very effective I've seen it and used it in action you know hundreds and hundreds of times and it's amazing and it's you know effectiveness but it's limited somehow right one way it's limited is that you only get the one remedy so what if you mess up right what if what if you are a good doc but you just you know you just choose the wrong one I mean I don't want to make maybe darting playing dart not darting but playing darts is the best you know is the best reference here but you don't always hit a bull's-eye every time right maybe you hit right around the bullseye or you hit a little further out you still score points right but you didn't get exactly right on the nose and that's the problem with one remedy at a time is that it leaves very little room for error right and and to get to a place where you have little error as a practitioner takes years and years and years and years of practice right so that's that's difficult um you know many many doctors that trained me when I was a student um basically told me it's gonna take you 10 to 15 years which is a long time frame it's a long time to be practicing and it's a long time to make a bunch of mistakes with homeopathy and you know I don't know what sorts of um you know offices any of the people listening plan on having but um you know my patients are not going to stick around with me for 15 years while I make mistakes they want to get better pretty quickly and and I want them to get better pretty quickly so I'm trying to do whatever I can to help them get better fast right in the most um you know not necessarily fast but the the best speed at which they can effectively do it I um like anything else that's been written down um you know religion would be a good example or you know even some scientific thought there's a there's tons of competing philosophies right you're going to hear people who say no hana minh said this and he meant this and the same person will take that same quote from Hana min and say no he meant this by that that quote right um you know things are translated and retranslated and so that they're there a lot of philosophies are born out of that sort of competition for what is right but ultimately um you know they're there you have to find what's right for you as a practitioner and that also takes practice you know so what defines as true constitutional homeopathy or what defines the true constitutional remedies you're going to see tons of competing philosophies about that so don't get confused just try to use them as a guide to find your way through the medicine um you know I say over 3,000 potential remedies well that could mean 10,000 or 100,000 it doesn't really matter the point is there's lots of choices right so if a patient comes in sits down across from you you have an hour and a half visit with them you ask them all weeks these questions they tell you all these things and you're narrowing down from you know 3,000 or 3,500 or whatever it is to try and get to one that's a pretty tough job right that's a pretty tough thing to do because you have so many choices so it can be very daunting as a practitioner well maybe it's this one or this one I don't know well it's got to be one of these five and I really want to know which one of the five it is and you're trying to narrow it down well there's lots of choice there and there's lots of confusion and that's another thing that makes constitutional homeopathy very difficult to be skilled at doing so let's talk about a different philosophy that is in the homeopathic realm right but not necessarily are certainly not considered constitutional in fact some people don't even consider homeopathy either to be disparaging of it or not it it doesn't really matter what you call it it is a therapy right it's a form of a form of helping patients with energetic medicine so biotherapeutic drainage or drainage began in the early 1900s it's sprung out of Belgium and the doctors who put it together or started sort of combining these things you know really combined a lot of philosophies here they used the sort of Wesen Western eclectic herbalism that they were well steeped in being in Western Europe they used homeopathy which pre well because they you know we're in Western Europe and they also blended some Eastern modalities some ideas from you know Chinese medicine even a little bit of Aria bedok medicine and these types of things excuse me which makes um makes for an interesting sort of a philosophical soup if you will or melting pot kind of idea so you have blended homeopathics in these remedies which consists of different herbs different metals different different minerals blended in specific recipes and they have different you know potencies in there sometimes 6x or 12 X or 10 C the the recipes were sort of devised as they were putting this together which things worked best with each other and they have specific recipes and specific delusions and these remedies focus on systems right they don't focus on symptoms there's no symptomatic approach you don't say well my patient has headaches so you give them the remedy that's for headaches it doesn't work like that um you take a step back from the patient you look at them holistically and you say what is out of balance here and then you try to treat that imbalance right so the homeopathic SAR given to try and bring balance back to the organism and in doing so you really you know help can the symptoms go away right you're looking at the systems you bring the systems into balance and the symptoms aren't there anymore because now you have balance and the thing that was causing this the symptoms are not for present right one good thing about it and one difference is at least with the type of drainage therapy that I use there's only 76 remedies right so you only have 76 to choose from so instead of three thousand or 3500 or 10,000 or a hundred thousand whatever it may be with constitutional homeopathy you've got 76 which still is kind of daunting right you've got to know those 76 remedies pretty well but it's a lot better than 3,000 right so it's a little bit easier of course are those 76 you can still make almost infinite combinations so you can really treat anything and help with anything so um I I want to be clear I don't have any stake with unda sir royal or genestra it's not a company I own stock in I don't get paid by them I'm not employed by them I use their products um the this is the comp that I use there are other companies that that make drainage therapies but when i learned a drainage and in my practice of using drainage this is the system that i use and often remedies are chosen in groups of three or groups of four so i'm using those three or four remedies to dictate or tell me what the systems need the most support with the body right so that's what I'm using those those remedies to show often this is biotherapeutic drainage is often called using unda numbers so you can see on there that you in da company that's the company in Belgium that you know was created to create all of these drainage therapies so sometimes we just collectively call them unda numbers because instead of giving the remedies a name like belladonna or caustic home or whatever remedy constitutional remedies you may know the specific blends that they made they just just call them by number not very creative but it's how they did it right so those numbers have stuck around and you use the numbers in groups of three or groups of four and they spoke they focus on the specific body systems so again unda is owned by indus a royal ginestra which is a that bot unda and now owns them and distributes them worldwide we're going to look at a couple diagrams and I think some of this will make a little bit more sense to you and when we look at the organ systems but again I just want to be clear I use this specific system because this is this is how it was trained and this is what I would I gravitated towards working with my patients because it works the best for me okay so if you look here this is a a body system I'll go back one page really quickly so we've looked at the diagram let's go back one page a lot of what the diagram is based on is from anthroposophy which is a you know medical philosophical system really brought in to vote by dr. Rudolf Steiner and so some of his anthroposophy some of his thought about how the body develops is also imbued into how drainage therapies are used so you can see the ages based around what organ systems and how they're developing and the ages are basically saying oh this is how inner this is win energetically this organ system is developing right so it's when the energy of the body is focusing most of its energy on making this happen right so for instance if a trauma takes place at age five right well it may affect the GI system because that's the time when it's developing but it may also affect the lung the cardiovascular of the endocrine the nervous is it may affect every every system that is developing after that time right so a lot of a lot of times with patients I end up going backwards right we start taking care of of balancing systems where they're at today right now and then we walk backwards in time to get to a place where we can really look at these systems specifically and say hey that's where the real trauma of the real damage or the real instigating event took place and now we can start working on that so the body can remould itself in this new this new light right so nothing to get super worked up about but um it's a it's a way of looking at these body systems and how they're connected to each other right oftentimes I'll look at things across the the diagram so for instance nervous system and kidney have a correlation to each other one being the first one being the last system and sometimes things that affect the kidney also affect the nervous system heavily right so I may be trying to treat the nervous system by using kidney stabilizing remedies right again I don't want to be too out of left field or confusing but it's one way to use this diagram to help support body systems by looking at a competing system and saying oh that's the thing that really needs the most support okay so pros and cons I mean I've talked a little bit about the two from where I stand you know neither of these philosophies is better than the other right they're just different certainly my goal in teaching students is to always help people find the thing that makes the most sense to them I have many colleagues who don't do don't practice like me at all but the patients still get help their patients still get cure their patients don't get wellness so it doesn't mean that i'm right near wrong it means that there's a lot of ways that we can help patients get better and you've got to find the philosophy and the treatment modalities that make the most sense to you so i use both of these in treating patients I definitely use a little bit of constitutional I definitely use a lot of drainage and I feel like I need both of them because that's the philosophy that makes the most sense to me when a patient really needs a single remedy I know they need that single remedy and I give them the remedy if I feel like they need more of the drainage therapies then we go in that direction okay so drainage and natural therapies together um yeah maybe um kind of silly but as I say in the first bullet there in short it's a good idea to use them together I use some nutraceuticals I use herbal medicine i use drainage therapies i use cell salts i use you name it right i use whatever's at my disposal to help patients achieve wellness right whatever the patient mean that's what the most important piece is here right not i'm so married to my philosophy that I refuse to UM try anything different or do anything else for the patient I just want to give patients constitutional homeopathy because that's how I do I'm not really into dogmatic thought like that so I think it's a good idea to use all of these together in the way that feels most natural for you I think that one of the reasons that we need probably a combination of these things is we don't live in Hana men's time anymore right it's not the late seventeen hundreds the world is much more toxic much more polluted much more damage than it was you know really since it's a stark difference today in 2014 than it was even in 1914 right it's only only a hundred years and the world is a very very different place with the amount of technology that has allowed us to you know change our food supply so heavily and pollute the water so heavily and all these sorts of things so you know hanuman was a really um he was very ahead of his time in saying that there should be you know you should have clean air and you should have clean food and you shouldn't otter the idea of germ theory and those types of things they did not exist in Hana Bin's time he was one of the first physicians that suggested that people should wash their hands which was really unheard of at that time bloodletting and other sorts of therapies sort of brutal therapies were the the name of the game and in the medical field and he was sort of a contrarian and saying maybe that maybe we should think about this in a different way maybe we should look at this from a different point of view and um truly we need those things even more today right we need to clean food and clean air and clean water we need all of those things but I definitely use all of these together and have done correctly they don't really interfere with the action of homeopathy or drainage remedies um i definitely have people take them apart from each other i don't have them all throw everything into a glass and drink it all but they don't compete for wellness in fact they can really really advocate for each other if you will in the body sometimes it's good to throw the body a little bit off balance so it can bring itself back um another diagram that's really important i often show this to my patients so one of the things that makes and if you've had a class of me i'm sure you're familiar with this term and we talked about it one of the things that makes drainage therapies so powerful is the fact that they work on our among trees and the among trees are what we see here right our lungs are kidney our GI our liver our skin the among trees are the organs of elimination in the body right and we've got to we've got to improve the ability of those organs to let go of the toxicity that they accumulate on a daily basis right so you can see sort of the spigot on the lower left side of the bucket right we've got to open up that spigot and allow things to drain out right or we've got our really work on making sure that not you know let's toxic stuff is being shoved into the top of the bucket there right otherwise it's going to spill over and when it spills over that's when symptoms are present right that's when symptoms show up when it's spilling over with toxicity that's when the body can't handle it anymore and now you have all these these symptoms and the symptoms may it be as simple as oh I have some eczema or it may be oh now I have seizures all the time right we don't know what those symptoms are going to be because it's very unpredictable once the bucket starts spilling over right we don't know which direction the toxicity is going to spill out of so wounded numbers and drainage therapies and homeopathy and herbs and aromatherapy all these things are focused on trying to help the body get rid of these things better but I haven't found anything that works as exquisitely well as drainage therapies and helping the among trees open up and drain right so um this sort of diagram wasn't needed back in the late 1700s right you it wasn't as toxic of a world you could give someone a homeopathic remedy and they will respond pretty dramatically nowadays people don't respond that way unless they're really their bodies really ready for it at least not in my experience um so again like I said um I want to do two things when it comes to among trees I want to improve the body's ability to get rid of toxicity right and i also want to eliminate the extra toxicity that there that's coming into the body so we've got to talk about diet we've got to talk about nutrition we've got to talk about their water quality and the air quality and all these sorts of things right I want less toxicity coming in and more toxicity leaving and if we can do that then i have found in a vast number of patients symptoms just start going away um so most natural therapeutics focus on improving a mantri function somehow on some level where whether its metabolic or it's you know true physical more organic changes the natural therapeutics tend to focus on this right so my main focus is helping patients improve with lungs skin GI kidney body systems with their daily activities so part of my treatment plans involve some of these things right what we call the btg s and B P G stands for basic treatment guidelines so everybody gets a basic treatment writing their basic treatment starts with things that I would give every single patient for the most part regardless of what their condition is from deep breathing exercises and castor oil packs which I'm not going to go into making sure they're drinking the right amount of water they have a good diet that they're taking the right amount of fish oil a good dose of probiotics you know maybe some vitamins and minerals if they need that something they're doing on a daily basis to help improve the basic ability of these among trees to function in general all of the drainage therapies improve some among tree function it's not true across the board of the 76 remedies but most of them focus on the detoxification of certain of the cells in whatever system that you're focused on right and these other these other tactics help that too um a lot of people think oh well supplements are not bad for you i'll just take as many as i want well really in my practice I see patients take way too many supplements as well and you take 15 supplement today it's not that much different than taking you know eight drugs a day the side effects may be may not be as bad but it's just as clogging and toxic for your body so I'm trying to get my patients to take less and less stuff not more and more stuff so I've touched on all these things a little bit but to sort of bring it back home we have a much more polluted world now with a much more toxic world and we need a more effective solution to help that less toxic you know let the person rise out of the toxicity a little bit more and so drainage is the thing that I've used to help patients get to that place we improve among tree function we eliminate cellular waste right and once we do that right once we clear the cobwebs I can see more the true patient right I can see them for who they really are i can see their constitution better i can see how they respond to things better I can see the true person and when I can see the true person homeopathy becomes a lot easier right I'm not chasing symptoms around a tree I can look at them and I can talk to them and I can see how they respond and I can really see what remedy they are right I know they need cost to come or I know they need silica because there's no more of this garbage in the way of seeing the true patient right so we can get rid of all those sort of consequential pathological states and we can see what the true pathology if any exists underneath and that's why I feel like drainage is so much more functional in the toxic world that we live in so thinking that we don't have a polluted internal world because the external world is polluted is kind of silly we are breathing this air we are drinking this water right we are in an environment where media and consumption of media is rampant right so we have all of these things sort of spinning around us and we've got to do something to protect the internal environment from the external world somehow right so many practitioners I know used other things besides drainage therapies to achieve this protection I know many very very skilled herbalists that only use herbs and they go about achieving this end in by using herbal medicine right some people use combination homeopathic some people use you know cell salts for instance there's many many roads rome here so i don't mean to imply that the way I do it is better than anybody else but nothing i have used in my practice helps do i see such an improvement in among tree function in patients other than drainage therapies it's the thing that I've seen be the most effective but that's you know that's just me so I think that we can use homeopathy if we can find a way to find the true patient right I think we can use homeopathy very effectively if we can get rid of this toxicity and that's the that tends to be the thing that's sort of in the way right it's the it's the barrier to good health okay so I am at the point where I think it's probably a good idea to leave the floor open for some question
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