Homeopathy, The Ecological Choice

​Homeopath Edel Bolger O’Hora
 
Carolyn Raffensperger, SEHN’s(Science and Environmental Health Network) Executive Director coined the phrase in 2001 ‘Earth’s Ecosystem’. It means that the health of Earth’s Ecosystem is the foundation of all health and the prevention of  human and ecosystem poverty and disease.

It is about people’s:

• Interpendence: Each of us deeply connected to the earth’s ecosystem and can’t live healthy and happy lives in poisoned ecosystems and unhealthy communities.
• Resilience: Health is dynamic and marked with resilience. The Inate ability of biological systems to protect themselves and restore themselves and heal is present sice the universe began.
• ‘First do no harm’: Health care should not undermine public health or the environment.
• Appropiateness: Medicine in its Greek origins means appropriate measures. Maximum health with minimal intervention, promoting good health without overburdening the earth.
• Diversity: Many traditional healing systems, local adaptations and indigenous science around the world all serve to deliver health. Ecological Medicine encourages freedom of medical choice, guided by informed consent and compassionate practice.
• Cooperation: Patients should be partners with practitioners and medical professional should cooperate with ecologists and other students of the natural world.
• Reconciliation: Individual health care services should be ecologically sustainable, equitable, modest in scale, of high quality, noncommercial and readily available to all.

 
Ecological Choice and Homeopathy

The Theme for World Homeopathy Week (4th until 10th April 2021) is Homeopathy being an ecological health choice. So how does this look? Well, Dr Silvestri explains it well in Hpathy November 2019. As he says  ‘It is now recognized… in the USA… that all chronic illnesses originate from over-stressing our nervous system. Using an ecological perspective such as homeopathy that emphasizes context over content can make us less stressful, more comfortable, and apt to flow with the natural patterns that our remedies possess.’
 
‘This is what ecology and nature are about. In this framework, imposed fragmentation, dichotomies, or narrow myopic views have little meaning without understanding how actions and behavior are interconnected. It is clear to me that we have two basic choices about how to view and act in our lives.’


‘One way is to work primarily from a predominantly linear western cultural framework​ based on cause and effect learning or reductionist reasoning. This framework, when solely used, has proven to be narrow and mostly ineffective in its application to health, education, environment, foreign affairs, politics and the economy. Each solution comes with the need to further resolve another resulting problem, and so on (i.e. a pharmaceutical pill that requires another to deal with its side effects).  This view has unfortunately been assimilated by many of our decision makers.’


‘However, an alternative framework, inherent in a homeopathic assessment, is to navigate life as one of being ecological and holistic. This is based on being mindful, respectful of relationships, and conscious of the importance of interrelationships, as part of a whole process that takes into consideration all of nature’s anomalies and differences.’


‘It is by applying this framework that we can use our perceptual lens to zoom in and out, simultaneously seeing the present (which can include patterns of everyday language and cultural constraints) and a wider perspective at the same time. With this lens, we can much more easily navigate and learn from the inevitable paradoxes​ we encounter every day as well as see and avoid injurious double binds, all leading to the unique and extraordinary symptoms which determine appropriate remedies which in turn balance our immune system.’


‘Embodying an ecological, holistic or systemic framework (seen in art and poetry which are the human metaphors for nature) is lifesaving, less competitive, and more collaborative. This way of perceiving and behaving is based on our learning from each other in a mutual manner’. as Nora Bateson advocates. This framework emphasizes trans-contextual respect; meaning that – like a hologram – each part and every action we take or perceive is connected to our total existence. It does not depend on content alone but on our contextual environments’.
‘It is here, in the relationships of our many evolving contexts / situations, that we evolve and create meaning through the subtle warm differences within those present moments. This provides a refreshing description and pathway as a basis of homeopathy to heal ourselves and our environment. 
 
‘The Greek word ‘Gaia’ refers to our planet as having an existence that is more than the sum of its parts; in other words, each action we as individuals take is connected to larger contexts of even larger contexts and so on. This is the essence of seeing and being systemic the basis of how Hahnemann describes homeopathy. The point being, is to stay mindful, be in the present, create supportive environments, celebrate the aesthetic, make necessary adjustments and respect nature.’
 
If we take this view, then, in the week Dr. Hahnemann was born(10th April) ‘The Organon of the Medical Art ‘ of Homeopathy is in tune with Earth’s Ecosystem and is a sustainable and dynamic health choice in today’s modern world.
 
Happy World Homeopathy Week!
 
Reference 
https://www.sehn.org/ecological-medicine/
​https://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/a-systemic-and-ecological-basis-for-homeopathy/
http://www.homeopathyawarenessweek.co.uk
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