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PEPTIC DISORDERS
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-Gastritis, Duodenum Ulcer
-Colitis
-Constipation, Diarrhea
Those who suffer from peptic disorders are in a very bad condition because their symptoms tend to appear every time they eat; nowadays this is done many times a day! Some of the symptoms are: stomachache, distention, retching, burning, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation and gases. Often these local symptoms produce also general symptoms like: debility, annoying cold sweat, irritability, bad mood, restlessness, no desire for work, melancholy etc.
This happens because peptic system and especially stomach and intestines are closely related to nervous system. It is not accidental that when facing troubles or worries or sad events we often say: “I felt a punch in the stomach” or “he turned my stomach upside down”.
Isolated local treatments lead to a dead end
The most common illnesses of Peptic System are: gastritis, colitis, gastric ulcer, duodenum ulcer, constipation and diarrhea. Allopathic Medicine recommends certain non-irritating diets. This, of course, doesn’t cure peptic predisposition but it aims to relieve symptoms. Often these diets don’t help much because of psychological factors that greatly affect peptic function.
Another treatment used is long-course antibiotic treatment aiming to kill helicobacter pylori which is considered to be the cause of peptic ulcer. First of all, this microorganism is not even traced in the majority of patients with gastritis or gastric ulcer. Second, whenever traced, this does not mean that it is the cause of the problem. Fungi, viruses and bacteria present an uncontrolled growth only when local conditions are favorable for them and only if defense mechanisms of the organism are disordered.
So, the mere presence or even uncontrolled growth of helicobacter pylori is not the cause but only one of the results of disease. Bacteria are but scavengers, trash eaters where abnormal conditions develop. If it were the cause then after antibiotic treatment there would be full success and no relapses. But this is not the case. Many times there is no therapeutic result or other times there are frequent relapses.
Homeopathy treads Man as a psychosomatic whole
Diet, antibiotics, pain killers, sedatives, anti-acids and any local or isolated drugs act superficially and temporarily. The patient may take them for years and years gaining only relief, if any. As a rule he is not permanently cured. This is the case because Man is a psychosomatic whole and thus he is affected by a series of causes from up to down, from psychic level to physical level.
We should never forget that because Man is a multi-level creature, his disorders, his illnesses are almost always multi-factor illnesses. In accordance, cure, in order to be permanent and effective should be multi-level. Furthermore, since his levels are placed with a certain hierarchy, then our treatment should also be hierarchical. “Fish sting from the head downwards”! Illnesses should be treated from the “head”(psyche) downwards(body).
Allopathy treads illnesses locally. Homeopathy treads Man as a whole. Whenever we tread a patient with gastric ulcer we know that it is not only stomach that suffers but the patient, the man himself as a whole. The first therapeutic changes during first month of homeopathic treatment are relief of stomach symptoms. During the next months, these symptoms become more rare and milder and at the end of treatment he is ok.
Later on, when medicines are stopped, he rarely has relapses. But even then symptoms are milder and for shorter periods. This is due to the fact that systematic treatment did not cure only acute illness but also cured or at least lessened peptic predisposition. So the patient must face severe external factors and adopt very bad nutrition so as to have symptoms again, yet milder.
Homeopathic treatment, acting on the whole, will also cure symptoms of other co-existing local illnesses like for instance eczema, goiter, arthritis, depression etc. We don’t administer one separate homeopathic drug for each one of these local illnesses because we don’t act locally. We give only the Simillimum, that is, the one and only homeopathic medicine which best suits every time not local illnesses but patient’s idiosyncrasy, that is, his character, his type. Not only symptoms will be cured but also predispositions that are beneath them.
The same treatment will improve general condition of the patient’s organism: his physical strength, his quality of sleep and the bowels function. His appetite if less than normal will increase and if more than normal will tend to be regulated more easily. That is the meaning of regulation. If the patient is a woman her menstrual cycle will be regulated and fertility will be enhanced.
The same improvement happens also to his general psychological condition. His mental capacities will be enhanced and thus his professional productivity. He will become less anxious and more calm.
As treatment progresses his main idiosyncratic characteristics will also be regulated. A very irritable person will become less irritable while at the same time a person who suppresses his irritability will become more expressive. A very risky person will become less risky and a coward person will become bolder in his actions. A very hot, sweating and greasy person will become cooler, less sweating and less greasy.
After all, idiosyncratic characteristics are but imbalances at the range of normal, but still imbalances that can be regulated by homeopathic treatment. This multilevel action of homeopathic treatment is due to the holistic action of Homeopathy.