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Homeopathy Journal

HOMEOPATHY FOR CANCER ANXIETY
By Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom (NA)

These Christopher likes to keep active and stretch themselves in his mind not merely on a regular
threatening his creative muscle. He’s a landscape architect basis, but they became a species of morbid back-
with a business that’s vital, like him. Today, in ground song. They pursued him like noxious
feelings began fact, he completed the design work on what he elevator music in a discordant nightmare. Each
to arrange considered the flagship of his career: a city court new blemish was agonizing. Every unusual ache
themselves in building in the upside of town. He felt swollen brought certainty that death was near. Chris
with pride; satisfied and light-hearted.
was aware of a mind-body connection and that
his mind not But it wasn’t long ago that Chris wasn’t so made him feel even worse, for he knew he could
merely on a hearty. Instead, he was burdened with fears and potentially bring his fears to fruition. Or at least

regular basis, anxieties. It was a maddening way to live. . . that’s what he’d read. His livelihood was put on
those nights of anguish and terror. Chris suffered hold for awhile—no, actually for months on end
but they a weighty fear of cancer that panicked him right while he pursued a new vocation: doctor hopping.
became a out of bed nearly every midnight. He submitted to prostate exams, colonoscopies,
It’s not as though he didn’t have reason to x-rays, sonograms, CAT scans and biopsies.
species of fret. Both of his parents had been stricken with Ouch! Burp! Ick! But nothing appeased the
morbid cancer and his father had succumbed to it only torture of his angst. “It’s only a matter of time,”
back- one year earlier. But you’ll understand why he’d agonize.
Then one day Chris was reading a magazine
ground song. these thoughts were so plaguing to Chris when in a waiting room while waiting to meet with
a deeper glimpse of his family tree is revealed.
Three first cousins died of cancer; one of a psychiatrist for his disturbing attacks. There
breast, one of lung, and another of leukemia. It was an article about how it was possible to be-
was also revealed that his maternal grandmother come pro-active in disallowing chronic illness
had died of breast cancer, and her paternal to occur, particularly cancer. Chris’s meeting
grandfather’s fatal cancer was of the throat. with the psychiatrist was nothing more than a
“Yikes!” Chris first thought. “What’s wrong with legalized drug arrangement, but it didn’t really
my family?” Then, “What’s wrong with me?” matter because it was the article in the waiting
These threatening feelings began to arrange room that turned his head. And it was with only

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS

Homeopathy has a worldwide reputation for working deeply to aid against chronic illness by righting imbalances in
the body as well as the mind. In tandem with sound nutritional practices, chiropractic and other quality healing modalities,
homeopathy rights the wrongs and minimizes the chances for chronic illness to develop.
The English Royal Family has used homeopathic physicians (as well as drunk raw milk!) for generations. This is per-
chance why Chris’s English family could readily benefit from the fruits of both surgery and homeopathy. Perhaps more
interestingly, the Vatican has also considered homeopathy the choice of care for the Popes. Indeed, several homeopathic
physicians to the Popes have been awarded the Papal Cross of Distinction, one of the most honored awards bestowed by
the Vatican. So Europe has known for centuries what Americans are rediscovering. . . homeopathy is a medical discipline
worthy of our attention.
The remedies Chris’s homeopath suggested weren’t specifically for cancer or even anxiety, but expressly for Chris.
The same would hold true for Prince Charles or Pope Benedict because that’s the way homeopathy works. It treats the
person, not the disease. Is it no wonder that Chris can find comfort in his revitalized state? No longer does he needlessly
worry about life because he now has a reliable and individualized life-long health strategy.
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