Did you know that Bee Keepers often develop allergies to their own bees, to their stings, and to the pollen that they carry? This can happen after many, many years of working as a bee-keeper. Suddenly, one day, an allergic reaction can be experienced from a sting, when it has never happened before. This usually results in the bee-keeper, who has suddenly become allergic to his own bees, having to give up being a bee-keeper.
The same type of sensitivity can develop in people who are constantly handling Homeopathic remedies, or Herbal medicines. It is an occupational hazard, that Homeopaths and Herbalists can become sensitive to their own remedies. People who make these things at home need to be cautious.
The thing is that when you put herbs or spices of any kind into a medium such as water, or alcohol, vinegar, or oil, their potency is increased by a phenomenal amount. A handful, or even a basketful of fresh herbs, may not present too much of a problem to most people. But the minute that you put these herbs into alcohol, or any other medium, then the strength of the potion will become far greater than the original sum of the parts. This means that you should avoid storing, or making and leaving these herbal potions to ferment, or to infuse, in places such as on the kitchen table, or in your bedroom, or any place where you spend several hours a day. Even storing them in a room near your bedroom will cause your health to be affected, for better or for worse, especially if you are keeping a quantity of different remedies. The more remedies that you store, and the greater the quantities, the more intense will their effect be. An enormous range of unexpected symptoms could result from the synergistic effect of combining these energies.
Unfortunately, although I still use Homeopathy occasionally, or help people to find an appropriate remedy for their complaints, I cannot work as a professional Homeopath, because of the sensitivity I have to these remedies. I feel the specific effect of many remedies without even having to touch them, or swallow them. Just having a bottle of a preparation nearby is enough for many sensitive people, to experience the desired effect from either a Homeopathic or a Herbal remedy. The converse applies – that you could experience an UNdesired effect from keeping a remedy nearby.
I could never be a professional herbalist who makes up specific remedies for people, as part of the daily routine, for this reason, because I would be dosing myself with many different herbs or remedies, without having a need for them. The same sensitivity is evident when I am exposed to chemicals such as toxic herbacides, or pesticides, and various household chemicals which most people spray around with gay abandon. A whiff of these type of chemicals brings about definite changes in my emotional and physical state which can often be very distressing.
Blow those Doctors and critics of Homeopathy, who say that Homeopathic remedies are useless, because there is nothing in them. These people believe that ‘there is nothing in Homeopathic Medicines’ which can do anything at all to help in an illness. My own experience has proven, apart from the fact that Homeopathy has often cured illnesses in our family, as has Herbal medicine, that Herbal or Homeopathic remedies which are stored, or prepared, in our much used spaces, such as kitchens, can actually CAUSE sickness. Homeopathic preparations, or herbal ones, have an incredible power to cause physiological changes in the body, for better of worse. And this is why you need to be cautious about making or storing these remedies.
Of course, there is nothing wrong in keeping a few of the Homeopathic First Aid Remedies, such as Arnica, Thuja, Aconite, Belladonna, Ledum, or Pulsatilla. But it is best to keep this small collection together, away in the bath-rom cupboard, and not in your bedroom. And it is best not to have large quantities of any one remedy, or too many different ones kept together.
The same goes, of course, to pharmaceutical preparations. Your health could be affected by pharmaceutical drugs, or household chemicals such as insect killers and weedkillers which are stored anywhere in your house. Even if you are not sensitive, these things will affect your metabolism and your emotions. Of course, using these chemicals is not good for your health or the environmnent. But even storing these things in your house is not a good practice, because you will be affected by the vibration of the chemical. Ill health could be caused by keeping these things in your laundry, kitchen or bathroom, even if you don’t use them.