Client Spotlight: Homeopathy Healed My Daughter

By Birgit Kleinfeld at bkhomeopathy.com

I often see surprised faces when asked what I am doing professionally. When I say, "I practice homeopathy," or “I am helping patients as a homeopath," many people think homeopathy is treating people with herbs or something like Ayurveda.

I am ready to start my elevator speech and explain that homeopathy is an art of healing. Yes, some remedies originate from plants, minerals, and sometimes animals. Samuel Hahnemann, a German Physician and the founder of homeopathy at the beginning of the 19th century, developed a method to dilute and succus the substances to the point that in the tiny sugar pills, the remedies come in just the energy of a source is contained not any molecule from the original substance.

Homeopathy heals on the energy level, not on the chemical. That is why homeopathic remedies don't have side effects, as we know them from allopathic medications. Children like to take homeopathic medicines because these pellets taste yummy, which is a significant advantage when treating children.

What brought me to know about homeopathy, this old method of healing?

My husband and I started to look into alternative treatments when our younger daughter was very young, eight months old, and she began to develop eczema on her hands, arms, behind her knees, and on her feet, the neck, and throat and the face were affected too. It was terrible.

My older daughter often came running into the kitchen to tell me that her little sister was scratching herself bloody. How was this possible? What triggered eczema?
It all started when I slowly introduced regular food into her diet after breastfeeding. But what should you do if potatoes, carrots, apples, and bananas bring up skin reactions?

And the pediatricians at that time informed me I should observe which food brings a skin aggravation, and then I should not give it to her and try the next food item. If this does not help, there would be cortisone creams and other, stronger allopathic medications.

I felt very helpless and sad with this advice. How could these everyday food items bring up these strong skin reactions? But my husband supported me in finding alternative ways of healing, not just alleviating. A good friend of ours, having herself five kids and all looked like healthy children stepping out of one of the Bullerby children books of Astrid Lindgren, told me about homeopathy and recommended a homeopath.

Now my journey in homeopathy began. First, as Mom, nurturing my children with acute homeopathic remedies under a homeopath's treatment, my whole family was treated, and then many friends. I felt terrific recognizing how homeopathy works and helps.

My younger daughter got a constitutional remedy that calmed the skin down. Then with the help of a kinesiological muscle test, we got to know which food items were terrible for her, which neutral, and which excellent. It took some time to learn how to cook differently and get used to sheep milk or goat milk, no gluten, no dairy, and no soy for a couple of weeks.

But after this relatively short period, my child was healthy. Each acute disease in my children was treated with homeopathy from then on. We went through whooping cough, chickenpox, bronchitis, allergic coughs, pollen allergies, dust allergies, mite bites, allergic reactions to insect bites just with homeopathy. That gave me inner peace; natural healing was done, not just amelioration. The immune system from all of us got much, much more robust.

After many years of using homeopathic remedies and learning when to take what in acutes, I was ready to study homeopathy. My studies opened a whole new chapter because I recognized how powerful a well-selected constitutional remedy is in chronic diseases and how fast-acting acute remedies help in suddenly appearing acute illnesses.

I am looking forward to talking about chronic and acute diseases and how homeopathy helps heal in both situations in my next blog.

Do you have any feedback or questions?

If so, I am at birgit@bkhomeopathy.com