After defining health and disease (read here), I’d like to explain the importance of symptoms.
When our body gets dis-eased, out of balance, it needs to make us aware of it. Symptoms are the language of disease, they are WARNING SIGNS.
Our life force, ruling our body, mind and soul, will always try to keep everything in balance. Sometimes this is not possible and it sends out a warning sign so that we can make changes.
One example of how our body will always try to bring back balance is the athlete, when running, his body starts sweating. This happens to prevent overheating of the body, the sweat cools down the body. So the body is regulating its own temperature. We see this kind of reaction very often and our life force will always try to protect us as much as possible.
HOW?
When our body gets out of balance, it will PRODUCE SYMPTOMS IN AREAS THAT ARE LEAST IMPORTANT to us. Skin rashes or other eruptions are often the first signs that something is out of balance. These symptoms are warning signs just like when you get a flashing light in your car warning you that something is wrong with the engine or with another part of the car.
If we do not listen to the warning signs and we just try to get rid of the rash, it would be the same as disconnecting the flashing light and not caring about why it was flashing in the first place.
This is why a homeopath is interested in your symptoms. They are indications for your state of health and are used to find the appropriate remedy.
Treating ONLY THE LOCAL SYMPTOMS would be the same as cutting out the flashing light.
THE RESULTS? Problems might get worse internally without you knowing it, just like your engine might “unexpectedly” break down some time after you disconnected the flashing light.
A well chosen homeopathic remedy does NOT just remove symptoms but REMOVES THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF THE DIS-EASE, so that these symptoms are not needed anymore. Symptoms are used as a guideline to find out more about the person, so that the most similar remedy can be found.
