The bowel nosodes in homeopathic practice

Abstract

Serious homeopathic practitioners have all had to face the fact that sometimes their most carefully chosen prescriptions mysteriously fail to improve their patient. When this happens it is all too easy for practitioners to assume that they are simply failing to identify the best remedy for the case. Often this is not the case however and for the sake of patient and practitioner alike, it is vital that homeopaths have a detailed knowledge concerning acquired intrinsic blocks to cure. One major intrinsic source of illness (and prescribing failure) is bowel dysbiosis. Patients who have acquired a deranged bacterial flora (either in their bowel or their airways) will often fail to respond fully to standard homeopathic prescribing. This paper is largely concerned with the often insidious and diffuse clinical presentation of bowel dysbiosis. It is hoped that this account will raise awareness of the problem and help practitioners identify which patients require to be unblocked with a bowel nosode at an early stage in their treatment process.