Emily Frye Homeopathy
Using homeopathy to create a healing home
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A cold rarely waits for a convenient moment. It shows up before co-op day, during soccer practice, or at 9 p.m. before a packed workday. Suddenly, somebody has the sniffles, sneezes on the dog, and announces, “My throat feels weird.” This is when your homeopathy kit earns its shelf space. The first day often gives …
One child sniffles at breakfast. By dinner, everyone has a cough. Then someone finds the thermometer and starts counting tissues. This is when many homeopathic families reach for Influenzinum. It has a long place in homeopathic practice during influenza seasons. However, a remedy name never replaces careful observation. Watch the whole person. Notice their fever, …
Backpacks are packed. Lunchboxes are ready. Then school begins, and so does the parade of sniffles, coughs, and missed days. Back-to-school immune support starts before the first germ reaches your kitchen table. Terrain theory reminds us to consider the child, not only the germ. Sleep, nourishing food, stress levels, movement, and emotional wellbeing can affect …
You breastfeed your baby, then everything comes right back up. This isn’t normal spit-up. The vomit looks like large, sour milk curds. Your child seems hungry again. Then their energy disappears. They may look pale, weak, sleepy, and completely spent. This is where Aethusa cynapium often gets a homeopath’s attention. It has a strong reputation …
Some children cry when life feels hard. Others go quiet, smile politely, and carry every disappointment alone. Some become “the easy child” who never complains, never asks for help, and seems perfectly fine until their stomach hurts, their head aches, or they’re suddenly sick. When a child holds everything in, their behavior often offers important …
Some remedies shout. Aluminum met whispers. It moves slowly, and so do the people who need it. Their skin cracks. Their bowels stall. Their thoughts wander off mid-sentence. Meanwhile, the clock seems to crawl. This remedy once cost more than gold, and kings ate dinner with it. Now it sits quietly in your kit, waiting …
It is 2 a.m. Your child coughs. Then coughs again. Then coughs eleven more times. You lie there doing math on how many hours of sleep remain. The dog gives up and leaves the room. Meanwhile, the cough syrup bottle sits in the cabinet, promising drowsiness and not much else. I have been in that …
Gunpowder explodes. It also fights infections, at least according to two centuries of homeopaths. Sounds strange, right? Stay with me. This same black powder, found in fireworks and old muskets, became a trusted remedy for wounds, boils, and blood poisoning. Shepherds sprinkled it on their lunch. Soldiers carried it in their pockets. Somehow, it worked. …
August rolls around, and your calm summer kid turns into a bundle of nerves. Backpacks pile up by the door. Lunch boxes multiply overnight. Bedtime turns into a full negotiation. First-day jitters hit hard, and so do the tears at drop-off. You want to help without reaching for a pill bottle. Good news: homeopathic remedies …
Socrates drank a cup of poison hemlock and calmly discussed philosophy as it killed him. That poison became one of homeopathy’s most fascinating remedies. Meet Conium, the remedy for hardness, slowness, and stubborn vertigo. It sounds dramatic. It is dramatic. Yet in homeopathic potency, this same plant helps people heal instead of harming them. Curious …
