Just few weeks ago I had a cough and cold. Over the course of a few days it became more serious and turned out to be bronchitis. So I decided to visit my homeopath because I didn’t want to take antibiotics — I just wanted to use something natural and safe for my body.

She gave me a homeopathic medicine and, in one day, my coughing reduced by 70 per cent and wasn’t as painful! Previously, I was also suffering from rosacea and twitching on falling asleep. The homeopathic medicine my homeopath gave me significantly reduced the symptoms within a few days! This was amazing because I had tried a lot of creams for my rosacea and nothing had really helped. The twitching has also become less frequent.

I am very grateful and I really recommend my homeopath as she is a truly kind and professional lady.

Mariola Wrona about ANIA DLUGOLECKA, professional homeopath, NSW

Antibiotic resistance

The discovery of antibiotics was heralded, quite rightly, as a major medical discovery. Many lives have been saved through the prudent application and use of antibiotics. The current identified problem of antibiotic resistance has occurred due to the use, over many decades, of antibiotics as the first treatment option in many minor and self-limiting illnesses where our natural self-healing ability would take care of recovery quite efficiently by itself.

Acute bacterial infections are usually self-limiting. In other words, if there are no complicating factors, you recover through your own healing  response, supported by sanitary conditions and healthy nutrition. Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), the founder of the science of cellular pathology and a contemporary of chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, did not agree with Pasteur’s germ theory. His research convinced him that diseased tissue is caused by a breakdown of order within cells and not from an invasion of foreign organisms. This breakdown of order may be due to one or more of the following factors: genetic predisposition, malnutrition, environmental influences, traumas and life stresses. These can cause a stagnant internal environment which is conducive to the development of illness and an inability of your organism to self-heal successfully. Our innate self-healing response needs to be supported. Some drugs suppress this response, weakening our natural resistance to illness.