Answering your patients’ questions about homeopathy
By Frank J. King Jr., ND, DC

Has your practice reached a plateau? If you are looking for a way to inject it with new vitality, consider adding homeopathy.

Homeopathy can revive you and your practice with a newfound fulfillment. Some chiropractors in the past have been skeptical of homeopathy because of its complexity. However, today’s contemporary methods of homeopathy can be quickly and easily incorporated into your practice, with a vast therapeutic armamentarium to broaden your scope of practice safely and maintain a high volume clientele.

You can learn contemporary homeopathic procedural systems in an evening or during a leisurely weekend and successfully apply them in practice the following day. These systems complement every style of practice, including straight HIP (hole in one), musculoskeletal, pediatric, sports, nutritional, and holistic.

Homeopathy provides a powerful arsenal to equip you with the ability to safely and successfully address the common chronic and recurring health problems that perplex our present healthcare system. From allergies to warts and from headaches to hemorrhoids, homeopathy offers the chiropractor simple and safe solutions for a plethora of healthcare issues.

Solid results always prove to be more effective than even the best advertising and marketing plans. Everyone wants to visit the doctor who has helped those that others could not.

Critical to implementing homeopathy into your practice is communication. Educated patients share their excitement for homeopathy with heir families, friends, and acquaintances. Patients became your personal agents, who work for free to teach potential patients and lead them to your valuable services.

The key to communicating homeopathy successfully is to adhere to the KISS Principle or “Keep It Simple ______.” Patients respond with a level of confidence proportional to your own.

Because homeopathy is so different from traditional allopathic medicine, your patients almost certainly will have questions. Here are some questions you might anticipate, as well as answers you can provide.

Q. What is homeopathic medicine?
A. Homeopathic medicine is an all-natural, FDA-registered medicine with no side effects and no known negative drug interactions. Homeopathic remedies are non-habit-forming. This statement alone cannot be made of any other form of medicine, nutrition, or herb.

This makes homeopathics the safest products on the planet. They are safe for every member of the family including adults, seniors on multiple medications, children, infants, and pregnant women.

Homeopathic formulas, based on 200 years of use, do not inflict injury or harm in any form. Homeopathic formulas are compatible with nutrition, herbs, and other medicines. They are the safest preparations known to medical science.

Q. How does homeopathy work?
A. Homeopathy works very differently from nutrition, herbs, and drugs that function on a biochemical level to change body chemistry. Homeopathy works on a bioenergetic level to bring balance to our higher communication networks.

All the functions of our bodies are controlled and coordinated through energetic communication networks, such as our nervous system. Nerve interference of any type can cause an endless array of maladies in our bodies. Homeopathy works by correcting and tuning our bioenergetic control system to activate the healthy functioning of our bodies.

Q. I thought chiropractic deals with the spine. Why would a chiropractor recommend homeopathy?
A. Two of the most effective ways to correct nerve interference are homeopathy and chiropractic. Homeopathy empowers the chiropractor to correct nerve interferences throughout the entire body beyond the capability of chiropractic adjustments alone. By using homeopathy, the chiropractor is equipped to help correct many unresolved health problems.

Q. How soon should I expect results after starting a homeopathic treatment?
A. In acute illnesses, the appropriate formula can act within minutes. It is common to see a child screaming in pain with an earache drop off to sleep within one or two minutes after taking a dose of the appropriate formula.

Though remarkable improvements often take place, do not be discouraged if these instant improvements do not occur in chronic or long-term conditions. As vitality is strengthened, there may even be a temporary worsening before improvement. Chronic conditions commonly require multiple remedies over time to correct the various underlying causes behind long-standing health problems.

Q. How do I take homeopathics?
A. For internal use, homeopathic remedies are traditionally taken orally. The frequency of dosages varies according to the acuteness of the condition. Optimal dosages change as your healing progresses.

In addition to internal (oral) use, homeopathic formulas can be applied externally by spraying on affected areas four to eight times daily, or can be nebulized for an additional therapeutic effect.

For example, you can take a stress product orally or topically. Or, you can spray the product in the air and breathe it in to create a response in the olfactory areas of the brain. Each of these delivery approaches offers a therapeutic effect the others may not. Using all of the methods optimizes results.

Q. How about antidotes with homeopathy?
A. Many people familiar with homeopathy have been told that aromatic substances such as mints, perfumes, oils, garlic, onions, and coffee will antidote homeopathic remedies.
Research has shown that this is more myth than fact. If people believe this myth, then it may have an antidoting effect.

Q. How long do I take homeopathics?
A. Homeopathic remedies work very quickly. In acute cases, results can be noticed from within a few minutes to a few hours. Chronic cases can experience results within a few minutes to a few weeks. The formula(s) should be applied in descending dosages over a few months and may need to be periodically reapplied, according to the condition, over a period of years to fully correct the case.

Doctors usually begin with homeopathic remedies to address the primary complaint and then move on to other complaints. As these conditions are corrected, doctors go further into correcting genetic predispositions to disease and proactively build the quality of health to higher levels.

Frank J. King Jr., ND, DC, is a nationally recognized researcher, author, and lecturer on homeopathy. In addition, Dr. King is the founder and director of King Bio, an FDA registered homeopathic manufacturing company dedicated to completing chiropractic destiny with homeopathy. He can be contacted at 800-543-3245 or by email at drfking@kingbio.com.