Appetite & Weight Control with Homeopathy

A lmost everyone, dur­ing the course of his/ her life has experienced frus­tration and disappointment in dealing with weight man­agement. Commonly, within a few weeks of the New Year's resolution, most people have fallen victim to their appetites and given up the good cause. Neither patient nor doctor is immune to the battle of the bulge. The enormity of this problem has mani­fested a potpourri of products in the mar­ket place. These products, whether drug or natural, can cither carry serious side effects, not address the underlying prob­lems, or just plain not work well. After 25 years of doctoring patients with weiaht uain, I have discov- cred some key core answers to this perplexing problem. Homeopathy & Chiropractic Homeopathy has provided me with a number of answers to weight gain that have proven quite corrective. Like chiroprac­tic, homeopathy works to activate our body's natural innate ability to express optimal health. Home- opathy, with its serial dilutions and suc­cessions beyond the molecular levels, works—not bio-chemically, but bio-ener-getically—upon the nervous system, to activate proper healthy functions of the body. Like chiropractic, homeopathy ac-tually corrects nerve interferences throughout our bodies. More impor­tantly, homeopathy corrects aberrant nerve reflex anomalies throughout the whole nervous system, in places the hands of the chiropractor cannot reach. There are many underlying causes of excess weight residing in both body and soul. Homeopathy has proven itself to effectively address these underlying is­sues. Throughout homcopathy's 200 years of clinical use, numerous controlled studies, called "provings", have been per­formed on each of its over 1300 ingredi­ents. These studies have been performed on healthy groups of humans, by giving them a substance, and ob­serving whether it creates any abnormal responses. Any abnormal responses, whether in the body, mind, will or emotions, was, then, accurately recorded in de­tailed reference books, called materiu medicos and repertories. Then, these substances were given to sick people demonstrating similar symptomatic pat- terns, and observations made concern­ing any cure that clinically confirmed the efficacy of the homeopathic remedy. At first glance, homeopathy may seem to treat symptomatically. However, quite the opposite is true. The human body is intimately connected with its environ- ment. Substances that can cause a pat­tern of symptoms in a healthy person can activate a cure of that pattern of symp­toms, in a sick person, when those sub­stances arc homcopathically potentiated. This is done, not by suppressing symp­toms like an allopathic drug, but by ex­pressing the healing powers resident within us to heal. Listen to Your Symptoms Symptoms arc simply the body's innate communicating to us in a detailed and specific language. Homeopathy has un­locked the code to the body's innate lan­guage of symptoms, so that we can bet­ter help enhance our health, rather than suppress its expression. Symptoms are simply the messengers, not the disease. Suppressing the symptom is like shoot­ing the messenger because we didn't like the message. Now, with this basic understanding of homeopathy, we can better understand how homeopathy can work, deeper within, to correct the deeper issues be­hind weight gain. Homeopathic ingredi­ents and their recorded actions upon the human being can empower us, as Doc­tors of Chiropractic, to better address the nerve interferences throughout the whole person, including body, mind, will and emotions. Homeopathy works to bring balance to the appetite centers of the brain. This action prevents overeating, both at meal times and during unnecessary cravings between meals. Homeopathy also works to enhance slow metabolisms that can cause weight gain, along with those in­herited constitutional or metabolic ten­dencies to gain weight. Another bcauti- fill thing about homeopathy is its safety, with no side effects and no known negative drug in­teractions. Not only can people on multiple drugs safely take ho-meopathies, but, also, children who are overweight can benefit. Being overweight not only af­fects the physical health of chil­dren, it also affects the self-es­teem that can hold a child back from ever reaching his/her po- tential in life. Ingredients and Indications for Using Homeopathic Remedies Abies Canadensis: Peculiar cravings, canine-like hunger, with sluggish liver, burning and distention of stomach and abdomen. For tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion. Ammonium Bromatum: For obesity, lack of self-confidence, timidity, discour­agement and fear. Ammonium Mun'aticum: Relieves gnawing in stomach, excessive fatty de­posit around abdomen. For obese and sluggish patients. A nac a i d in in Orientate: Relieves empty feeling in the stomach and nervous stomachs which are relieved by food. For people when eating temporarily relieves , all discomforts. For depression and irri-Continued on Page 41 ....from page 36 tability, aversion to work, lack-of-self- confidence. Antimonium Cruilum: For constitu­tional tendency to grow fat, and for di­gestive disturbances. Helpful when what­ever you do fails to give satisfaction. Argentina Metullicum: Helps satisfy appetite after eating. Relieves gnawing hunger that cannot be appeased by food. Calms restlessness. Calcarea Carbonica: An excellent constitutional remedy for tendency to grow fat. For large bellies, flabby fat me­tabolisms. Craves eggs, salt, sweets, eats dirt, chalk, coal, pencils and other indi­gestible things. For aversions to work or exertion. Capsicum Annum: Suitable for per­sons of lax fiber, who are weak, with di­minished vital heat. Such persons are fat, inactive and opposed to physical exer­tion. For relief of intense craving for stimulants. Relieves sink­ing feeling at pit of stomach. Cin fit on a Ofjlcinulls: Hungry longing for food that lies undigested. Liver and spleen swollen and en­larged. Ferrum Metalicum: Pro­vides relief of voracious ap­petite. Fucus Vesiculosus: For obesity and non-toxic goi­ter, thyroid enlargement in obese subjects. Aids digestion. Ignatia Amara: Relieves craving for acid things, an "empty all-gone feeling" in stomach, cramps in stomach, rumbling in abdomen, colic, and an aversion to or­dinary diet and longing for great variety of indigestible articles. Relieves change­able mood; introspective, silent brood­ing; melancholic, sad, tearful, non-com­municative, sighing and sobbing. Kali Bichroinicum: For the fleshy and overweight. Lycopoilhim Clavatum: Relieves ex­cessive hunger and bloating immediately after eating. Mercurius Solubilis: For relief of ca­nine-like hunger, even after eating, and weak digestion with continuous hunger. Natrum Siilplitiricum: For melancho­lia and feelings that require restraint. Oleander. Relieves canine-like hunger, hurried eating without appetite, and mel­ancholia. Phosphorus: For relief of hunger soon after eating. For very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Phytolacca Decandra: For bottling indifferences to life, commonly associated with hopelessness and overweight. Sabadillu: For relief of canine-like ap­petite for sweets and starches. Staphysagria: Decreases desire for stimulants. Relieves canine-like hunger, even when stomach is full. Sulphur. Balances extremes in eating from complete loss of appetite or exces­sive appetite. Relieves great desire for sweets. Thyroidinum: Safely strengthens thy­roid and diminishes craving for large amount of sweets. Relieves great weak­ness and hunger. Veratrum Album: For out-of-control appetite. Now you can see how homeopathy ad­dresses the many inner reasons for weight gain. You can try to match a spe­cific ingredient to your patient's needs or use a formula with some of these ingredi­ents in it. Finding the Right Remedies The sublingual reflex response test is a great way to discover which remedies your patients need and don't need. Within about 5 seconds of placing the expected remedy under your patient's tongue, you will see a reflex response causing a significant change in your pa­tient's leg length, as well as arm strength. This simple procedure is a quick and ef­fective feedback tool. Before Meals Taking the homeopathic approximately 10 minutes before a meal will decrease the desire or habit of overeating. Many will notice the immediate response of natu­rally eating what is healthy or sufficient, without having to lick their plates clean or go back for seconds. For Cravings When cravings between meals arise and the Hiiagen-Dazs is speaking to you dur­ing your favorite TV show, immediately take an appropriate dose of homeopathic. Usually, within l-to-4 minutes from tak­ing a dose, the unnecessary cravings or hunger feelings are gone. Your patients will appreciate you for helping them with the perplexities of their weight problems. Homeopathy can open the door to correcting many of the under­lying causes to this problem, with very simple and easy-to-use solutions. Suc­cess in this arena will open the door to helping your patients with so many of the common chronic recurring health problems that arc plaguing our society. Enjoy the inner rewards of your practice, by simply and safely helping a greater diversity of patients. Frank J.King Jr.. N.D., D.C.. is a nationally recognized researcher, author and lecturer on homeopathy In addition. Dr. King is the founder and director of King Bio Pharmaceuticals, a reg­istered homeopathic manufacturing company dedicated to completing chiropractic destiny with the marriage of homeopathy. Dr. King offers a free copy of his turnkey procedural manual, called The Chiro­practic Enhancer System (CESA This complete manual empowers the chiropractor to create a high-volume, broad-spectrum practice. These proce­dures can be used with any homeopathic company s product line, and are so easy vou can apply them in one day. Call King Bio Pharmaceuticals, Asheville, N.C., 1-800-543-3245 or email drkin a(d kin xbiochiro. com.