Diet and Regimen in Homeopathy

and ices.
It is best to avoid excessively spiced food, liquors, candies, ice creams, and the like. The chronic miasms cause many false cravings that make a person desire things that are the very worst for them. In this way the miasms feed themselves rather then the person. Moderate spicing usually is fine unless the individual is idiosyncratic to them.

3. “odorous waters and perfumes of many kinds; strong-scented flowers in the apartment; tooth powders and essences and perfumed sachets compounded of drugs”.

Strong perfumes and oils are a sometimes act as antidoting agent canceling agents. They are best avoided. As the case stabilizes and the health improves on can remove the restrictions one by one. The if something happens the homoeopath knows exactly what caused it. As a person gets healthier these things often don’t matter as much as well they are ill.

4. “crude medicinal vegetables for soups; dishes of herbs, roots and stalks of plants possessing medicinal qualities; asparagus with long green tips, hops, and all vegetables possessing medicinal properties, celery, onions; old cheese, and meats that are in a state of decomposition, or that possess medicinal properties (as the flesh and fat of port, ducks and geese, or veal that is too young and sour viands), ought just as certainly to be kept from patients”.

In presnt days diets don’t really use such crude herbs, roots and stalks, nor the various meats mentioned. Our diets are more refined which can be good or bed for health. Raw onions and garlic are more of a problem than those that are cooked in food. Heavy meats and fats are very hard on psorics and sycotics. Such things should be kept at a minimum.

6. “as they should avoid all excesses in food, and in the use of sugar and salt”
Too much fat, sugar and salt potentates the chronic miasms and speeds the development of degenerative diseases. A healthy balanced diet is essential to the health.

7. “Also, they should avoid spirituous drinks, undiluted with water”
Drug abuse may also includes substances like cocaine, opiates, speed, and marijuana. If drugs and alcohol are maintaining causes which keep up the disease the indiviudal will not get well until they are reduce or stopped.

8. “Heated rooms, woolen clothing next the skin, a sedentary life in close apartments, or the frequent indulgence in mere passive exercise (such as riding, driving or swinging), taking a long siesta in a recumbent posture in bed, sitting up long at night, reading while lying down.”
Living in unventilated rooms which are over heated is unhealthy as is living in a unhealthy building. Those who wish to heal must avoid unhealthy surroundings, sedentary habits, sleeping too much in the day, and staying up all night. Fresh air, sunlight and exercise are very important.

9. ” Prolonged suckling ”
Too many babies and too much suckling is very hard on a women. This speeds the aging process and is very stressful. We see this much in third world where young mothers have too many children too quickly.
10. Sexual energy either brings one health or destroys one’s life. The venereal miasms pervert the sexual instinct and try to produce states that maintain themselves and spread themselves. Moderation in all things is the best advice when it comes to sexual matters. Dr Hahnemann emphasized on stimulation or suppression of sexual energy is not healthy. Too much masturbation is also not good.

11. “subjects of anger, grief or vexation, a passion for play, over-exertion of mind or body, especially after meals.”
Emotional stress is the greatest aggravator of the chronic miasms and degenerative diseases. If a person’s emotional life is in turmoil it is hard for even the best remedies to act. For the best results the client should be working on their own emotional and spiritual well being as the treatment goes on.

13. “dwelling in marshy districts, damp rooms, penurious living, etc.”
Working and living conditions have a great effect on health. Some people live in areas where negative telluric influences maintain disease others live in substandard housing. Living in crowded cities human beings are exposed to over population, stressful environments and bombarded pollution. Fresh air, sunlight, and pure water are very important and all too rare in some cities and towns. More light, air, plants, color, music makes life in our modern world less stressful. If such conditions can not be change for the better homoepahtic remedies may do little over all good in the long run.

Dr Hahnemann sums up this long list by saying:
” All these things must be as *far as possible avoided or removed*, in order that the cure may not be obstructed or rendered impossible. Some of my disciples seem needlessly to increase the difficulties

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