Dosing directions:
- Without touching the pellets, drop 2-3 pellets under your tongue.
- Allow the pellets to dissolve completely without chewing.
- Do not eat or drink for 15 minutes before or after taking the remedy.
- Take the remedy ONLY ONCE (not once daily) unless instructed otherwise. The remedy will continue working gently for weeks or months.
What to avoid during remedy use:
Food and Drink:
- No coffee, energy drinks, or anything with caffeine. Decaf is permitted. (Tip: try teecino as a coffee replacement.)
- Avoid mint (especially artificial mint, like in gum, candy and mouthwash), menthol, eucalyptus, or any strong-smelling substances, including essential oils.
Medications & Supplements:
- Avoid advil and tylenol, as they can interfere with the remedy. Aspirin in small amounts is okay if absolutely needed.
- Consult before taking other medications, especially if they are conventional, over-the-counter, or even natural remedies like herbs and supplements.
- Note: if antibiotics or vaccines are absolutely necessary during the course of your treatment, please advise the homeopath, as these will certainly interfere with the remedy.
Healing Modalities:
- Avoid acupuncture, energy work, or other healing methods like magnet therapy, cranio sacral and emotion code as these may interfere with the remedy’s action.
Remedy Care:
- Keep remedies away from electronics, including phones, microwaves, xrays and away from strong smelling substances like coffee, perfumes, essential oils and spices.
- Wrap remedies in foil when traveling and avoid exposing them to X-rays.
- Keep out of reach from small children.
What to Expect:
- You may experience an aggravation—this is a normal and positive sign that the remedy is working. Symptoms may intensify temporarily. Sometimes an aggravation can last a few minutes or an hour in an acute (like the flu) or a few days or sometimes weeks in a chronic condition.
- Fatigue or feeling tired is common after taking the remedy. The body requires enormous strength to shift and heal after the remedy and this is generally a sign of healing.
- After the initial aggravation, the remedy’s effects can take days, weeks or months to unfold, depending on your vitality and response. Each person’s level of health and medical history is different and all factors impact the speed at which the body can respond to the remedy and achieve balance. In an acute illness like croup, healing is generally seen within mere minutes or less; in strep or the flu it can take 12-24 hours, vs in chronic issues it will take longer.
- Healing requires time: Chronic issues did not appear overnight and won’t disappear overnight – patience is key as the remedy triggers your body to begin healing.
- Symptoms that were previously suppressed with pharmaceuticals or even natural remedies may resurface. This is a part of the healing process, and it’s important to treat these homeopathically rather than suppressing them again with medications. Be in touch with me when old symptoms return.
- Keep in mind the remedy will continue working for weeks or months, sometimes even years. So it’s important to avoid antidotal influences listed above so long as you’d like the remedy to continue working.
- After the remedy clears the initial layer of pathology, you will likely need another remedy to reach deeper layers of healing. Follow up is recommended after 4-8 weeks.
- Suggestion: Keep track of your remedies. Please note the name of the remedy, potency, and dose you received, and dates taken (a google doc is recommended with separate tabs for each member of your family under homeopathic care). If multiple doses are prescribed, I’ll provide clear instructions.
When to contact the homeopath:
- Aggravation: keep note of any aggravations and reach out to me if it’s severe and needs treatment.
- Relapse: If you felt well for a while and then experienced a relapse, we will investigate any possible antidotal factors that may have interfered with the remedy and explore other possibilities. You may need to repeat the remedy, please reach out.
- Acute Illness: Getting sick after taking your chronic remedy means something important to the homeopath and may require homeopathic treatment. Reach out if you get sick.
- Follow up: An initial follow up is recommended after 4-8 weeks. Subsequent follow ups are recommended every few months as only 4% of the population is healed within just one remedy. Most are not on a strong level of health due to previous suppression of symptoms with pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, steroids etc. and each remedy will peel back some layers until complete healing is achieved.
Where to source remedies:
- Most remedies contain lactose and are not cholov yisroel. The companies that make lactose-free remedies are Helios, Ollois and Urenus. While Helios is in the UK, the shipping fee is low and remedies generally arrive in about a week. For Helios remedies I generally select Form: “Pills (No 6) (sucrose)” and Size: “4g dispenser”.
- In Crown Heights, Mrs. Bongart sells lactose-free remedies and has most remedies and potencies available. Call 718-756-4389 or Whatsapp 347-765-5882
- If you need a custom potency that is not standard, such as 14c, 16, 18c, Helios can create it for you via this order form.
- Ferrum Phos cell salt is important to have on hand during chronic treatment as it may be needed should you get sick. Ferrum Phos cell salt does not interfere with the remedy and can be taken to reduce inflammation during treatment of chronic issues. It’s best to keep this on hand so it’s available quickly when you need it.
- NOTE: Follow prescription potencies very very carefully! 6x and 6c are not the same, 1m and LM are entirely different – when in doubt, reach out.
How to succuss a remedy:
Remedies should be repeated only on instruction from the homeopath. When a remedy needs to be repeated, it will need to be strengthened via the following succussion process:
- Place 3 pellets in 5ml of water (1 tsp) inside a small glass jar about 15ml
- Wait until pellets dissolve entirely.
- Hold the jar firmly in your hand and bang your hand firmly on a book, 10 times, pausing a few seconds between each succussion to allow the water to settle before banging again. (See tutorial here)
- Stir the remedy gently with a metal spoon and drink the water solution of the remedy, holding it under your tongue for a few seconds before swallowing.
This information is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Please consult with a licensed healthcare professional before making any decisions regarding your health