Allergy treatment has been a major part of my practice. Not only has it been most rewarding to wean patients off of dangerous pharmaceuticals but to help return back the joy of living is most precious to any homeopath.
Zahra
Zahra came to see me in 2015 for a persistent runny nose, ear infections, chest tightness, asthma attacks when near her horse and a myriad of other symptoms.
Zahra is by far one of the most severe adult allergy sufferer I have seen to date. It took me a good part of the consultation just to write down the plethora of pharmaceutical drugs the 35 year-old was ingesting; not all at the same time but mostly so.
These included but not limited to:
Nasonex, Aerius, Tizanidine, Clomipramine, Celebrex, Gabapentin, Betahistine, Prednisolone, Ventolin and buckets of Antibiotics.
I had nothing to lose but to prescribe to the best of my abilities despite Zahra’s pharma habit that had left her deaf in one ear, sick, tired and frankly quite depressed.
In the coming months she was prescribed mainly Carcinosin, Narayani allergy mix and Natrum-Muriaticum due to a long history of grief in her life: abandonment by her father, two failed marriages and persistent bad health.
Three months into her prescription Zahra stopped 90% of the pharmaceuticals. Three years on she remains allergy-free and consults me biannually for general check-ups and remedy top-ups.
Adam
Adam is actually Zahra’s nephew; he too has been atopic all his life. At the point of first consult his lung was functioning at 60% capacity; and this is no doubt in part as a result of the heavy handed life-long steroid abuse. He too consulted me in 2015 due to frequent hospitalisation despite ingesting daily Seretide and Symbicort. He suffered asthma attacks which would not respond to the emergency steroidal medications at home. He was finding weekends particularly difficult due to his animal dander allergy whilst attending outings to the family farm. He would only have to walk nearby to feel unwell.
He was prescribed a host of remedies including Carcinosin, Allergy balance, Lobelia, lung sarcodes and Medorrhinum to name a few.
Since taking the homeopathic remedies Adam has regained 10% of his lung function and has avoided hospitalisation for the duration of the three years.
Adam uses Medorrhinum 10M at the first sign of chest tightness, and continues to go to the family farm with no further incidents. Auntie Zahra keeps me in the loop and the remedies are topped up regularly.
Dr S
Dr S was in fact one of the participants in the Allergy trials which I set up in 2015 as the first student clinic of its kind in the GCC. Students gained the opportunity to take cases and prescribe whilst participants achieved health at fraction of the cost of seeing a qualified homeopath.
Dr S, a medical doctor was prescribed Lycopodium and Medorrhinum for frequent tightness of the chest and viral ‘bronchitis’. Three years on she remains allergy-free and has now trained to practice as a homeopath herself!
Valerie
Valerie consulted me in 2015 for according to herself a ‘permanently’ blocked nose and the feeling of grains of sand in her eyes. For 20 years she abused antihistamine daily together with corticosteroid nasal sprays. She was prescribed Calcarea Carbonica and Natrum Muraticum, after which she stopped using all pharmaceuticals. She uses remedies if symptoms come up in the sand storms, however for the mainstay she remains symptom-free.
Florence
For 15 years Florence suffered from a sore blocked nose and nosebleeds. ‘It is like I live in a permanent fog’, which prevented her from thriving. Deep dark bags under the eyes were a testament to the lack of nutrients, oxygen and vitality in general. She was prescribed Calcarea Phosphorica. Florence sent a card to me some months laterto thank me for removing the ‘fog’. Florence now uses her Calcarea Phosphorica on a when needed basis which is not too frequent.