Why am I not responding to my remedy? Could it be that homeopathy just won’t work for me?
I recently held my first Ask-the-Homeopath session, and this question came up during the hour. It’s an important one with many possible answers, so I wanted to share my thoughts on what might be happening when you don’t get the response you expect or desire following a homeopathic remedy.
You need a different remedy.
If you take a remedy that is not your simillimum (i.e. the remedy whose essence and symptom picture is most similar to yours), you mayn’t respond because you don’t resonate with the energy of that remedy. Also, if it’s a partial remedy (i.e. it is similar to only parts of you), you may notice that some symptoms get weaker while others get stronger. The good news is that those symptoms that get stronger often guide you to the simillimum.
You need a different potency or dose.
The chosen potency and dose of a remedy is a large part of what determines how you respond to homeopathy. The combinations of potencies and doses are too many to count. It’s one reason to work with a qualified homeopath for chronic concerns: too high a potency, too often can nudge your vital force more than it needs, resulting in an intensification of symptoms. Too low a potency mayn’t nudge the vital force enough to catalyze a shift.
There are obstacles to cure.
An undesirable to you response to a remedy may mean that something is blocking the way. It could be a miasmatic (inherited) layer of dis-ease that needs to be addressed with your homeopath. It could be a lifestyle factor that needs to change (a remedy can’t cure a “smoker’s cough” if you keep smoking…but the remedy can help you quit smoking). Or something in your environment may need to change (if you’re sensitive to mold, living in a moldy home may impact your response).
The remedy is stimulating your vital force to express what has been suppressed.
Homeopathy is medicine that catalyzes expression. Healing isn’t always easy in this way…if rashes, emotions, stool, sweat, fevers, or snot have been suppressed, it’s likely that you’ll see those symptoms arise at some point in your healing. While it may not be what you desire or expect from your healing, it is often what you need in order to heal.
Your response to the remedy was antidoted.
If you’re regularly consuming alcohol, cannabis, steroids, or immune-suppressing medications, you may be interrupting your response to the energetic nudge of the remedy.
Know this: There is a homeopathic remedy, potency, and dose that will support you. It may take some time for you and your homeopath to perceive the exact combination that your vital force needs, but know that nature offers thousands of remedies to choose from, and homeopathy offers infinite ways to adjust the potency and dose to work for you.
If you’d like to learn more about topics like this, drop into my Zoom room for an Ask-the-Homeopath Q&A session.
