Homeopathy in the Age of Covid-19
Updated: Apr 16, 2020
March 28th, 2020
These last few weeks, for the world at large, and also for our
homeopathic community, have been a time of exasperation, urgency,
confusion, conflict, grief, all together mixed with clarity, cooperation,
introspection, and most of all, a desire to “fulfill our high and only mission,”
as homeopaths, “to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.”
Homeopathic teachers and leaders from around the world have generously
dedicated their time and energy to share their ideas and experience of what
is working and what they think might work. Conversations abound of Genus
Epidemicus, the constitutional approach, the nosode, all with the ardent
passion that one would surely expect from our tribe.
I must admit, alongside the concern, exhaustion, and gravity, there is
new energy stirring for us as homeopaths. We prepare our whole career for
something like this. With the world facing an infectious illness without a
vaccine nor barely any effective allopathic medicine, we are experiencing a
rare window of opportunity in our modern times to show the world what
homeopathy can do. Many people are waking up to the hard fact that not
their doctor, their medical system, nor their government may be able to
come to their rescue with their health. The convenient illusion of placing our
health in someone else's hands has shattered, and the fact that each person
must ultimately be responsible for their own health has become crystal clear.
With this realization, people are realizing they need to take better care of
themselves - improving their nutrition, resting, spending time outdoors,
looking to herbs and other natural supplements to boost their immune
system. And, people are reaching out for homeopathy in unprecedented
numbers, as homeopathy is a medicine of self-empowerment. I’m sure that I
speak for most homeopaths when I say that I have been working round the
clock these days, and not just on the epidemic - people are clamoring for
homeopathy. Many homeopathic pharmacies are so backlogged that they
have stopped taking orders until they catch up. Remedies that have been
broadly recommended (like Arsenicum album ) are out of stock completely
throughout India and Europe. I remember I used to hear this line a lot when
I first started practicing over 25 years ago - homeopathy is the medicine of
the future. It seems that finally, our time has come.
As homeopaths, we are doing our best to rise to the occasion. We
have been tuning in to webinar after webinar, all of our homeopathic stars
giving it their very best. And we are all incredibly grateful for the guidance.
Yet, each of us homeopaths, at the end of the day, must ultimately decide
for ourselves how to approach this challenge in front of us - philosophically,
theoretically, and practically. It is ultimately our own wisdom that paves the
way for the remedy needed to come alive, as Hahnemann says, in the
Organon, Aphorism 102. The following is a snippet of my own process from
the last few weeks, and I share with the hope that it may inspire you to
have confidence in your own inner wisdom.
The most fundamental question in homeopathy… What needs to be
cured? In analyzing a case, it is the first place we start. In all the webinars
and remedy suggestions, I am not hearing this question being asked very
much. Many of our remedies seem to be working for this virus - Camphora
officinarum , Squilla maritima , Arsenicum alb, etc - yet the acute states that
these remedies are addressing, respectively - shock, excluded/pushed out,
anxiety, etc. are acute manifestations of the deeper, chronic disease state of
our human collective. So, again I ask, What needs to be cured?
Personally, I believe that the most fundamental derangement of our
collective vital force is our skewed relationship to the Divine Feminine. In
ancient times, the Sacred Feminine was honored as the mother of life,
growth, decline, death, and rebirth , intricately woven into life and the
mystery of life itself. Human beings were deeply in synchronicity with the
rhythm of the planet. We knew that the feminine aspect of life was
necessary for our ability to live in harmony with the world, the key to our
very survival. What needs to be remedied, for both males and females, is
our collective remembrance