EXPLAINED:CHRONIC & ACUTE PRESCRIBING
Every health challenge—whether sudden or long-standing—holds the potential for growth, healing, and deeper self-awareness. Acute conditions remind us of the body’s incredible ability to respond and recover - often responding in the most ingenious ways to illness or injury - look at the way the skin repairs itself after a cut or a graze for example!
Chronic conditions invite us to listen more deeply to what the body, mind, and spirit truly need.
From a holistic perspective, both are opportunities to reconnect with the innate intelligence of the body ~ When we use homeopathy in acute situations we are simply stimulating the healing response in the body - not merely suppressing symptoms to ease our discomfort or pain. In homeopathic treatment for chronic conditions we stimulate the bodies healing response over time - allowing real and lasting improvements in health and immunity.
Here’s how acute and chronic illness differs:
An ACUTE ILLNESS
is a condition that develops suddenly and lasts for a relatively short period of time. It often has a rapid onset of symptoms that can be intense but are typically short-lived. From a holistic perspective, acute illnesses are seen as the body's natural, dynamic response to restore balance, often triggered by an external factor such as infection, injury, or environmental stress. With the right support, acute conditions usually resolve fully. However repeatedly using suppressive treatments like anti-biotics or anti histamines for example (while sometimes necessary)will weaken the overall health over time.
A CHRONIC ILLNESS
is a condition that develops gradually or persists over a long period of time, often reflecting deeper patterns of imbalance within the body, mind, or lifestyle. From a holistic perspective, chronic illness is seen not just as a set of symptoms to manage, but as a meaningful signal calling for deeper healing, greater self-awareness, and lifestyle changes. With the right support, chronic conditions can become catalysts for profound transformation and long-term wellbeing.
Treating yourself and your family to home with homeopathy can be simple and have so many benefits - including; reducing the need for medications, supporting the iinate helaing response of the body and therefore building better health and immunity long term.
Treating yourself of family members for chronic conditions however, is really hard.
In the case of a chronic condition as homeopaths we take a thorough loook at the specific symptoms as well as considering;
Inherited sensitivities & disposition
Physical attributes
Personal medical history
Mums pregnancy and birth
Emotions and behaviours
Personality & characteristics
Digestion, sleep & hormonal health
Lifestyle
Family & relationship dynamics
alongside anything else important that comes up..
You can see why this becomes hard to do for yourself and those very close to you, and then choose a remedy from the thousands we have in our homeopathic toolkit? not to mention how to follow up once a remedy has acted.
Once we select a homeopathic remedy, then comes the potency and a treatment plan to best suit the individual energy.
There are many examples of chronic conditions which we can brush off as something we just have - headaches, heavy and painful menstrual bleeding, bedwetting, hayfever to name a few. When these are recurring our body is speaking to us and in homeopathy we understand that when we repeatedly produce symptoms there is ALWAYS an underlying cause.
While you might find a remedy that really helps your hay fever when you have a flare up, to treat the disposition to hay fever that some people have, requires a much deeper process and a trained eye to guide long lasting improvements.
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