Vibration Magazine Blog

By Peggy Malnati, Donna Cunningham, MSW and Deborah Bier, PhD

Editors’ Note: As part of our theme “The Wide, Weird, Wonderful Web,” we offer a second and final part of this three-way email conversation below (see the first part here). The authors were in Massachusetts, Oregon and Minnesotta and communicated entirely by email within a day’s time.

In our last episode, Deborah was saying…

Deborah Bier: Oh, I hadn’t heard about garlic being a problem!  And here I practically am married to it, and getting benefit from homeopathy for decades. Damn. There must be something wrong with me!

Much of the homeopathic antidoting terror is just silliness in my book.  In Samuel Hahnemann’s day, they used to say that strong libidinous thoughts and feelings could antidote a remedy. You don’t hear about that anymore, do you? Some of these things have fallen out of fashion, so they can’t really be true, can they?

That said, my experience is that flower essences and hands-on energy work can indeed affect homeopathy: they can make a homeopathic remedy work more vibrantly, comfortably and rapidly.  So let’s not worry about keeping them apart, but figure out how to use them to best effect!

I find that homeopathy patients are made to feel so anxious about this that the topic can actually create new symptoms for them, and for others it can become a general quality of life issue.  Especially for folks who are already experiencing anxiety as part of their presenting symptoms!

I think that some things that truly can interfere with vibrational medicine are not widely mentioned, because they didn’t exist back when. And those are disorganized, strong electromagnetic fields and some radio frequencies.  Anyone living in a city or suburb is exposed to these all the time — they simply cannot be avoided.

Part of the problem is this whole “give one dose and wait 6 weeks” style of constitutional prescribing. If you are going to be exposed to so many potential antidotes over 6 weeks, why set yourself up for all that worry? Why not repeat the remedy weekly or every other week? If we are dealing with the intelligence of the vital force, then it will know when enough is enough of even the right remedy.

Here’s my approach to this hornet’s nest. Don’t start a new homeopathic remedy and a new flower essence at the same time. Give a new homeopathic remedy 1-2 weeks, and then introduce the flower essence. Or visa versa.  I do this for an even better reason than possible antidote — so that we can all the better see what the addition of each thing does/doesn’t do, and what they achieve in combo!

The problem is supposed to be coffee (not caffeine), and I find it either does or doesn’t antidote. Go figure.

That said, antidoting DOES occur. Many years ago, I once experienced a truly horrible episode of it and the renewed symptoms I experienced from it were far worse than before I took the remedy. I don’t recall what might of antidoted it, but I was in fragile health at the time and that may have well had something to do with it. That, and I was seeing a homeopath that had me take a single dose every 6 weeks, which I don’t think even then was necessarily the best practice.

This often creates a terrible imbalance in the relationship between the patient and practitioner: the practitioner’s rules are controlling the patient’s behavior and activities every day, all the time.  This is not right. Particularly if antidoting isn’t a huge problem for everyone, or if it is a problem for only a minority of people.

It also makes homeopathy more inaccessible, and we dont’ want that, do we?

This need for control is not, of course, restricted to homeopaths – all types of practitioners can make their field more self-important by inserting lots of rules and complications that in the end give them more control over the patient and feeds their egos. (I know, I know: there’s both homeopathic AND flower remedies to help with these kinds of issues!)

Peggy: I do agree a lot of this stuff is anectotal and probably less a real issue than we are warned.  How funny that this thread has turned up “warnings” that each of us has never heard.

Yet another symptom of our movement from the Age of Pisces (big hierarchical institutions and the need to be certified/approved by The Man) to the Age of Aquarius (where we’re going to all end up doing things our own way…if we survive).

Articles previously published on this topic by Vibration Magazine:

• Homeopathy and Essences: http://www.essences.com/vibration/june98/hom.html
• Do Essences Work With or Against Homeopathy?:  http://www.floweressencemagazine.com/nov03/homeopathyessences.html
• How Flower Essences and Homeopathy Differ According to Dr. Edward Bach: http://www.essences.com/vibration/dec00/vitalism.html

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Peggy Malnati is a writer, healer, lightworker, ceremonialist, and minister in the Church of Tzaddi. She regularly performs sacerdotal services for her community,  has led several spiritual circles, works in many energy-based healing modalities, teaches classes about metaphysical topics, provides spiritual counseling, and offers ceremonies to heal individuals, communities, and the planet. Find her blog at http://walksoftly2.wordpress.com/

Donna Cunningham, MSW, is the co-editor of Vibration, ands an internationally-respected author of books, articles, and columns about astrology, flower essences and other metaphysical topics. Her insights reflect her dual background in astrology and psychotherapy. She has a Master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University and over 40 years of experience. Her ebooks can be found at Moon Maven Publications. Visit her blog at http://www.skywriter.wordpress.com.

Deborah Bier, PhD, is also the co-editor of Vibration Magazine, and  a holistic healthcare practitioner in private practice in Concord, MA. This is an excerpt from her newly published book/ebook Flower Essence Practice: For Students, Essence Practitioners & Other Healing Professionals (Windfall, 2008). She is also the author of Healthy Connections: Flower Essences for Better Family, Friend and Work Relationships; The Encyclopedia of Vibrational Essences, and Learning About Vibrational Essences (find all these titles here). She is the maker of Whole Energy Essences. She is available for private consultations.