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Originally Posted by MamaRabbit  BV: When I said Pulsatilla relaxes the uterus, I took that directly from the Midwifery Today Winter 2006 issue. Very interesting!
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Well, there you go. Another wrong "fact" about homeopathy stated by a non-homeopathic professional.
Truth be told there are enough people running around saying and doing stupid things while marketing themselves as "homeopaths" because they attended some weekend seminar, that we have too many <ahem> homeopaths spewing idiocy that it's enough to make a girl want to push for state licensing.
Actually, to be more generous toward an article I never read, Pulsatilla *can* relax the uterus of a woman in a Pulsatilla state *if* part of the problem is that the uterus is overly or disfunctionally tensed. It could also be part of an osteopathic or chiropractic imbalance that cause strain on the broad ligaments which causes and overly taut or unevenly toned uterus. The remedy or adjustments, none of which directly address uterine tone, could relieve the underlying issue so the uterus is allowed to once again function effectively.
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| (oh, and my Pulsatilla probably went through the xray at the airport at least once... maybe it's just not gonna work at all anyway!) |
If you bought your remedy commercially from the US, Europe, Australia, or India, it should be just fine. (Remedies prepared commericially in other countries might be fine too; I just don't know their production standards.) The bottles sold in the US and Europe are prepared mechanically and are very resilient. The bottles I've bought from India are hand made according to HPUS standards, just as resilient as mechanically machine made remedies, and work fine after x-ray exposure. While my European made remedies haven't been x-rayed (purchased before 9/11) but know homeopaths who've had some remedies x-rayed over 20 times traveling through airports and still have them work beautifully. I also know of remedies "grafted" from remedies prepared according to these standards that travel fine through e-ray machines. "Grafted" remedies aren't made according to HPUS standards and so cannot be sold legally in the U.S. IME they work the same none the less.
The only remedies I've know to get depotentized easily are those made "electronically" on radionic machines. Often you'll see them advertised on eBay saying "Make lots of money making homeopathics at home." In those one puts an HPUS remedy in one cup, a blank remedy in another, and then sets the machine to "transfer" or "imprint" the electro-magnetic signature of the original remedy to the blank remedy. It's not legal to sell remedies so prepared in the U.S. Another way they prepare the remedies is to analzye the remedies' vibrational frequencies into a mathematical formula, enter the code into the radionics machine, and have the machine imbue the blank remedy with the healing power associated with the remedy.
I'm not trying to offend any radionics users. My beef with using it for homeopathic remedies is that 1) remedies so made haven't been tested in homeopathic provings, 2) objectively they "wear out" far more quickly than those prepared according to traditional homeopathic/HPUS standards, and 3) as people seem to need higher potencies of radionically prepared remedies, I question what other subtle differences we're not noticing and what impact this could have in clinical settings.
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| On RRL tea. I went to a LLL type meeting here and an Aussie midwife was giving a talk (very rare and lucky for me!). She spent about 5min talking about RRL and said that if a woman is at risk for PTL, she shouldn't start RRL until around the 3rd trimester or just do one cup at a time to see how it goes... if notice more contrax, stop; if no extra contrax, can up the dosage. |
It's know in homeopathic circles that the substance that can cause a disease can cure it. That's how we "prove" the action of a remedy. We use the remedy to purposefully induce a mild disease state in health individuals and then use that remedy in clinic when patients present with the same symptoms.
I've talked to a homeopathic MW who had repeatedly notice RRL *inducing* uterine atony and contributing to hemorrhaging in patients particularly susceptible to the herb. As she had no way of predicting who was particularly sensitive to the remedy beforehand, she'd only recommend it to women who seemed to need a uterine tonic.
Just so this doesn't seem so weird it happens with other herb as well. Digestive spices and cause digestive upset in sufficient quantity and chamomile, peppermint, and fresh camile tea will cause wakefulness and stomach upset when taken in sufficient quantity or in small quantities frequently in particularly sensitive individuals.
~BV, who's quick to hijack a thread with homeopathy rambles
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: ). I was going to start taking RRL tea today.
: Can you tell us how they work together so they aren't cancelling each other out? I want to give my clients good information and am always open to learning!
