The Effect of Suppression on Health

To understand the effect of suppressive medication on a person's health consider the follow story.

A young child at the age of 5 had serious social problems with classmates bullying him in school.  During this same time, he developed a skin rash or eczema behind his ears and knee caps.  His mother took him to the dermatologist, who prescribed a treatment of hydro-cortisone cream to aid healing and an antihistamine to reduce the itching.  Within 2 weeks, the condition disappeared; mother was pleased that her son was "healthier" and the child felt physically more comfortable.

Two months later, the child had another skin rash.  This time it appeared again behind his ears and knee caps but also behind the elbows and on the creases in his neck.  Once again, the dermatologist prescribed cortisone creams only this time the prescription was much stronger.  The skin condition never really disappeared after that but the treatment prescribed continued off and on for several months.

Six months later, the same child developed asthma.  Now his mother took him to the pediatrician who prescribed an inhaler to assist breathing and a steroid to reduce the inflammation in the respiratory system.  At the recommendation of the pedestrian, she also had the child examined by an allergist who recommended a series of allergy shots because he was apparently allergic to dust, dust mites and the like.

What happened to the child?  The story really began with an emotional experience.  The child's reaction to that experience created a physical symptom that manifested itself on the exterior of the body in the form of a skin rash.  The skin is our first line of defense when combating the ills of the world; it is also an exit for foreign energy to leave the body.  Any change in the normal condition of the skin is usually the first message that the body gives us that something is disturbing our vital force.  The most effective approach in dealing with theses symptoms is to question what's happening on a deeper level that's causing this dis-ease (disturbance).

The initial treatment of hydro-cortisone and antihistamine essentially suppressed the skin rash and the itching sensation.  The body naturally and instinctively tried again to release the negative or foreign energy from the body through the skin, but this time the symptoms reappeared stronger and in more places (behind the elbows and neck).

The second conventional treatment continued to suppress the physical symptoms, only this time the energy which produced the original exterior skin rash found another place to express itself: on the inner organs of the respiratory system in the form of asthma and in a series of allergic conditions.  

We know that energy can not be destroyed; it can only change.   Therefore, the energy that produced the skin rash is the same energy that caused the asthma.  And if we trace the cause we understand that the emotional effect of the bullies in the class room caused the entire condition.  Had this child been treated with homeopathy at the onset of the skin disorder, the emotional discomfort of dealing with the bullies could have been removed, allowing the child to develop healthier social skills and avoiding the discomfort of eczema and asthma.

Much of conventional medicine suppresses or manages physical symptoms without healing or curing the inner dis-ease.  We forget that the "thing" that gives us life also gives us health or sickness. Homeopathy focuses treatment on the energy that creates the symptoms to eradicate the inner dis-ease or discomfort.

The more symptoms are suppressed, the more complicated the journey to cure and health in any mode of health care.  Let us not forget the list of contra-indications that accompanies every prescription of conventional medication.  Perhaps the conventional method of suppressing symptoms is causing these medically induced contra-indications.