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Why Do We Have Symptoms?

30/9/2019

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Hi I'm Alastair Hay and I help people get well and help people stay well using homeopathic medicines and I'm a home visiting homeopath, mainly, working in… Er, where do I work… I work in Kent, Surrey, London, Hampshire and Sussex and of course I use things like Skype and FaceTime to do consultations with people who are further away… than you know, for about an hour or so away from me and you can find me at, I’m just trying to pick up this mug, at homeopathical.com.
 
In my last video I made, I talked about, well I posed the question really I suppose, ‘what are symptoms?’ In this video I'd like to talk about why do we have them, why do we have symptoms? That's gonna be different for everyone so I… years ago I got hold of this copy of a book called Homeopathy and Human Evolution by a chap called Martin Miles… fantastic book, I got it in 1996 towards the end of my years studying as a full-time homeopath, full-time course, and every time I read it I learn something new from it and it's quite a heady book and a heavy book in terms of, well, think about human evolution in terms of a homeopathic perspective… but there's one… if there’s one conclusion I can draw from that book of what that sowed the seeds of an idea for me, was actually a conclusion of one chapter about what disease is and it says ‘disease is the unwillingness to fulfill the will of your own spirit’. Well, I said it was heady!
 
Now, those aren't necessarily the sort of things you can bring up during a consultation with someone because people can come from all sorts of walks of life, for some people that's not really their thing but there are questions that you can ask that do give you an insight into why someone has symptoms or what they're worried about that their symptoms are going to become. There's always a point where someone decides they're going to have a consultation with you that they hadn't decided before they have a consultation with you. They've left it to the point where I need to do something about this, so one question can be that I ask people, and you could even ask yourself, is actually ‘what's gonna happen to my symptoms if I do nothing?’ because the thing is, quite often, if we do nothing, symptoms get better anyway, or they get worse and there comes a point where you want to do something about it so what's gonna happen to your symptoms if you do nothing or I suppose to one extent, ignore them? Think about that. But perhaps a more revealing question is ‘what is it that you need to do that you're not doing?’ For me, at the moment, probably, would be, go to bed earlier… and record more videos!
 
But I'd like to leave you with something else with respect to symptoms and how I believes that we need to work on our symptoms to change them because, as I said in my last video, symptoms aren't things that happen to us, they're things our body made.
 
So imagine you're standing in front of a mirror looking at yourself and you're seeing a reflection. You might have an opinion about yourself when you see your reflection, you might have an opinion that there's something about that that you want to change. I think that when you want to change your symptoms, what we tend to do is try and change the reflection but hopefully, understand if you need to do that, you've actually got to change you. Does that make sense?
 
So, if you see ill people today, think of Alastair Hay… Thank you!

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What Are Symptoms?

23/9/2019

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Hi, I'm Alastair Hay and I help people get well and I help people stay well using homeopathic medicines and I'm a home visiting homeopath for Kent, Surrey, London, Hampshire and West Sussex and you can find me at homeopathical.com.

What I'd like to talk with you today about is whether you've ever considered ‘what are symptoms?’ We tend to think of symptoms as stuff that happens to us rather than in any other way so for instance we talk about ‘I've caught a cold’ or ‘I'm allergic to…’ such and such or even if you've got a bruise it's as if that is the thing that happened to you but let's use those as examples.

So for instance, if you've caught a cold, what's actually happened is, your symptoms that you have, are your body's reaction to the virus. Viruses are all around us and you're not gonna catch every cold that's around. Some people in exactly the same environment as the next person, for instance kids at home, will be exposed to virus and not get the cold despite the fact they have definitely been exposed to it. Your body produces those symptoms as a response to that, to fight back. Better still, you can be exposed to something and not have to produce a reaction… to not have the cold, yet you've been exposed to it. That's impressive!

The next thing is an allergy, so for instance if you were allergic to pollen in the hay fever season, we tend to think of taking medications like antihistamines to reduce the immune response so you're no longer allergic to pollen, rather than saying, well you know, this is my body's reaction to pollen. How about rather than getting rid of the histamine response, to get rid of the allergy, you strengthen the person, so that your body just goes ‘this is pollen’! …And finally a bruise… I know some people for whom you could squeeze their arm, not that I suggest you go around doing this, but you could squeeze their arm and it will bruise and other people, other people, a bit like myself, I can… bash myself around but you can get a bash and actually I very rarely bruise. That doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt but I rarely bruise and by the time you've got a bruise that is your body working to heal itself, to repair the tissue that has been damaged. So for instance if you were to take a painkiller, the pain is still there but you can't feel it. For some that has its place, ideally don't get bruised in the first place but do think of symptoms as actually our body's way of telling us that something isn't right.

Our symptoms are ambassadors from within, our symptoms stop us from doing things and ultimately our body made them and if you truly want to get someone better, then I feel it's better to work with the body to strengthen it, to get rid of symptoms, rather than against it.

So if you see ill people today think of Alastair Hay!

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Action vs. Reaction - Which is more important?

16/9/2019

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Hi, I'm Alastair Hay of homeopathical and you can find me at homeopathical.com. I help people get well and I help people stay well using homeopathic medicines. Most of what I do is home visits in Kent, Surrey, London, Hampshire or on Skype, Facetime, that sort of thing.
 
Now I'd like to talk to you about the difference between looking at the action and the reaction of any medicine or interaction that has an effect on our physiological systems. When we look at conventional medicines they have to have an action on physiological systems. In order to become medicines they have to affect their physiological system to be shown to have something in it, to make a difference. That's also why things like homeopathy get poo-pooed shall we say, because you look inside the tablet, at least from a biochemical perspective and you find there's nothing in it. However, what you need to do, is rather than look at what's in the tablet, you look at the reaction.
 
When we test a homeopathic medicine on healthy people and it produces a response, we look at the response and what that does to those people, in the same way as you could go and see a counsellor and it can have a profound effect on your health and well-being. It would seem ridiculous to analyse the vibration in the air that's making a difference to someone… or someone's voice that's making a difference to someone.
 
I read books, not very often to be honest but I do read books and some of those have made a profound difference to my outlook, my well-being, on my life. That would also seem absurd to look in a book and analyse that from a biochemical perspective and see what action that can have on physiological systems when basically it's wood pulp and ink but nonetheless we can be recommended to read a book and we can respect and understand that that may or may not influence us or even change our lives.
 
It's the same thing with music. You can hear a particular sort of music, it makes you want to get up and dance maybe makes you want to turn the radio off… but to analyze your hard drive or a CD or a record from that physical perspective would also seem nonsense wouldn't it? So, I think it's more important to look at how someone or something responds. We can have a conversation with someone and it can inflame or incite. The same thing being said to a different person produces a different response… or even the same thing said to the same person at a different time can produce a different response. It was this individuality that we need to take into consideration as well. We don't always respond in the same way at the same time with even the same person.
 
Those are some of the reasons why I was drawn to being a homeopath. It takes into consideration susceptibility, individuality and you look at how someone responds to something. So that's what I understand the difference between looking at the action and reaction of something is.
 
…and if you see ill people today, think of Alastair Hay.
 
Thank you.
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Who Makes Homeopathic Medicines in UK?

11/9/2019

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Hi I'm Alastair Hay, home-visiting homeopath for Kent, Surrey, London and Hampshire. Currently I'm sitting in Sainsbury's car park in Cobham and I can see the A3 just over there. I’m between appointments and if you want to find me online you can find me at homeopathical.com and my name is Alastair Hay.

The other reason for this shooting this video is actually I’ve just come from a client where they were quite surprised that homeopaths don't actually make medicines themselves. They're actually made for us by pharmacists and there are six homeopathic pharmacies in the UK. Those are, in alphabetical order, rather than my preferential order, Ainsworth’s Homeopathic Pharmacy, Freeman's Homeopathic Pharmacy, Gould’s Homeopathic, Helios Homeopathic Pharmacy, Nelson's Homeopathic Pharmacy and Weleda UK Limited.

Those are the six places we get homeopathic remedies from in the UK. All of those places are run by pharmacists, they're regulated by…what's it called?... The General Pharmaceutical Council and regulated by the MHRA which stands for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. So rather than being made in a field in Hampshire, they are… or even a shed up in Heathrow… they're actually made by pharmacists. How about that? They were surprised, are you?

If you see ill people today, think of Alastair Hay.

Thank you.

PS please excuse my obscure lyrical references to:

Pulp - Sorted For E's & Wizz and Squeeze - Cool For Cats - I'm also a DJ :p
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Homeopathy - Exploiting the Placebo Response

11/9/2019

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Hi I'm Alastair Hay and I help people get well and I help people stay well using homeopathic medicines and you can find me at ‘homeopathical.com’.
 
My name is ‘Alastair Hay’ and that’s how you spell it. I mainly do home visits in Kent, Surrey, London, Hampshire or use Skype or FaceTime consultations for people a little bit further away from me.
 
What I’d like to talk to you about today is the placebo response. It is a response nonetheless but a lot of people believe that homeopathy or the response to homeopathy is purely because of a placebo response. There are certain things you can do to exploit that placebo response that we just don't do in homeopathy. I've listed them and I've got a list down here otherwise I'll forget…
 
What are those things that you can do to maximize a placebo response? See if you can recognise the ones we do and don't do as homeopaths.
 
First - large tablets.
The second – coloured tablets.
The third - multiple tablets, taking more than one tablet at a time.
The next, frequency of dose, taking tablets 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 times a day.
The next one, expensive tablets: When you pay a lot of money for a tablet you believe it's more likely to work.
An elaborate procedure in taking that tablet. A ritual in taking those tablets.
Injecting.
Surgery, so the method of how that procedure is carried out will also influence whether there is a greater sense of a placebo response or being able to influence that placebo response.
Using exotic machines.
Wearing white coats…
 
Which of those do you think we do as homeopaths?
 
I think to some extent there is a ritual in taking homeopathic medicines. You tip a tablet into the lid, you tip that tablet underneath your tongue, you leave it to dissolve and if it’s not dissolved in five minutes, you chew it and it'll dissolve more easily. But we do encourage people to avoid food, drink, brushing their teeth and taking other medication or supplements for 15 minutes either side of taking that, so to some extent that is a ritual. But homeopathic tablets are really small, they're nearly always white, we may even… and you take one tablet at a time, and a typical prescription for me would be one tablet that someone takes and they might not repeat it for another week, another month, maybe not at all. It's encouraging, it's strengthening the body and the mind, to heal itself. You're encouraging a process. You're encouraging a reaction, so you don't need to keep taking tablets.
 
I have to confess there are certain circumstances where someone may be taking a tablet two or three times a day for a month but it's not typical of a homeopathic prescription, from me, at least. The tablets are taken orally, we don't inject them, we're not using elaborate surgery or exotic machines, so either we're missing a trick or homeopathy isn't really just a placebo response.
 
I have to confess someone coming to you having a chat and being able to offload is gonna be helpful for them but some people have got extremely physical, debilitating symptoms but a chat or just a chat isn't gonna cut it, so I think homeopathy is more than just a placebo response.
 
What do you think?
 
But if you see ill people today, think of Alastair Hay.

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