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Bone Diseases
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-Back pain, Sciatica
-Dorsal Syndrome
-Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
-Osteoporosis
-Periarthritis, Tendonitis, Myalgia
It is often the case that even those that have been benefited by Homeopathy in several illnesses, find it difficult to understand how it can also help in bone problems. They tend to believe that we deal exclusively with structural and mechanical problems, with injuries and degenerative diseases that often demand surgical treatment. They find it hard to believe that we have to do with functional disorders that can be treated with drugs. They have this opinion because of the massive use in such problems of surgery, bandages, plaster casts and physiotherapy.
Man is not a machine but a wise, flexible and complex living being
First of all we have to get rid of our mechanical and materialistic point of view about Man and his skeleton. Bones are not dead or rigid pillars from which the skeleton is made of. They are living tissues and organs joint together by flexible joints. These joints are maintained and are kept functional not only because of bones but mainly due to muscles, nerves, blood vessels, connective tissue, tendons, cartilages, synovia and ligaments.
Bones and joints, being living tissue, in order to be maintained functional are affected by complex biochemical, neural, hormonal, circulatory and defense mechanisms. They are in contact with the rest of the body by nerves and blood vessels. They grow up to a certain age and even after their complete formation they do change shape gradually from several reasons and from age degeneration. They are injured from several causes and are self-repaired. They have their own complete metabolism so as to be fed and so as to get rid of non useful or harmful substances. They can be injured, inflamed and cured.
If we take in consideration all the above we will come to the conclusion that bones and joints are like any other tissue and organ, that they are connected to the whole of the body and even connected to our psychic level. For example bad nutrition or lack of exercise can definitely affect our bones and joints. An anxious person may have backache or dorsal pain or arthritis of the jaw joint due to muscle tension.
Homeopathy can and does help in bone and joint problems
Since bones and joints are like any other tissues and organs of the body there is no reason not to have therapeutic results by a homeopathic treatment that mobilizes and balances organism as a whole. In fact, clinical experience shows that there are very good therapeutic results in backache, dorsal syndrome, sciatica, arthritis of any kind, rheumatoid arthritis, periarthritis, tendonitis, osteoporosis and curvature of the spine.
In fractures and dislocations it is of course necessary to act either by surgery, reposition, plaster casts or bandages. Furthermore, by applying homeopathic treatment we can enhance the healing procedure, the repairing of the bones and joints, reduce the pain, reduce swelling and inflammation and minimize complications.
In acute arthritis like for example backache, chemical drugs given tend to suppress the organism’s natural healing procedures like inflammation, hyperemia, swelling and pain. Pain, as strange as it may seem, is useful in such conditions because it forces us to stay still so as to help repairing of the tissues. Suppression by chemical drugs may give immediate relief but is often responsible for incomplete healing and repairing and bones or joints are never the same. An amount of “sensitivity” is present for many years or for the rest of our lives or a malfunction of the joint, a lack of flexibility, a restrain in motion.
Homeopathic medicines instead, act in a natural way, don’t suppress but enhance natural healing mechanisms of the organism so the healing procedure is fast, complete and without any complications. But the most important thing in homeopathic treatment is not just to deal with acute arthritis. Homeopathy can also act on predispositions. It cannot only cure acute backache but it can also cure or lessen inherited predisposition of the patient for relapsing backache or relapsing arthritis of any joint.
Today, osteoporosis is thought by many people to be a problem coming from the lack of calcium in our nutrition. But this is wrong! Nowadays, the majority of elderly women, drink a lot of milk and eat milk products, merely for fear of osteoporosis. But this did not change anything apart from side effects from such exaggerations in nutrition. Metabolism of bones and joints is so complex and must be seen as a whole and in relation to the general organism and to the patient’s mode of life. Allopathic medicine tries to cure osteoporosis by local treatment and isolated chemical actions so results are not always successful and often side effects are present.
Homeopathic treatment does not aim to cure locally osteoporosis but it treats the patient as a psychosomatic whole. If you bring to order and balance the whole then it is unavoidable that parts will follow. Holistic treatment is deeper, more permanent and faster than any local treatment and it also has the advantage of lack of side effects.