In my opinion the most interesting facet about practicing homeopathy is the first hand experience the practitioner gets by achieving the positive results after the right remedy is prescribed. And the satisfaction a homeopath receives after such repeated experiences is phenomenal!
My increasing experience with getting the expected results simply by prescribing the right remedy at the right time, reinforces not only my faith in my career choice but also the ability to remain hopeful for humanity that there are solutions to problems that are otherwise unsolvable.

Let’s look at this great remedy, Gelsemium, in a very brief manner. It is a remedy that is derived from the plant which is poisonous in its crude form yet when we take it homeopathically in its potentized form, it has the transformative power of replacing disease with health.

In a gelsemium case, it is amazing to observe its profound effect on the mind which then allows the body to relax and recuperate itself. Because the gelsemium individual suffers at the mental/emotional level from a great lack of courage hence he/she may have the peculiar tendency to get extremely nervous and excited over bad news concerning their loved ones, which sets off a diarrhea on the physical level. Now the interesting thing is that this may not be the chief complaint a patient comes in with but this is some thing that they will disclose as the patient opens up because in normal practice of medicine this may be considered a non issue that does not need to be mentioned and the patient shall not bring this up to the homeopath too but the weight this point carries for a homeopath surmounts to making or breaking the case. Because through this physical symptom of a diarrhea setting off upon hearing bad news, the homeopath gets a glimpse at the mind of the individual, and as more questions are asked we shall reveal a person who is a coward by nature and in normal circumstances this is not even considered a dis-ease let alone prescribe anything for it. Yet in homeopathy it is definitely taken under consideration as the result of the imbalance created in an individual due to his conditioning and miasmatic inheritance of nature. His physical problems may hence be a result of this fragile mental state too.

And this is only reconfirmed by administering Gelsemium upon this very important physical complaint, one may first see an improvement in the mental fragility so that the patient will start feeling less disturbed by bad news and the excitability it causes in his system. After continued observation there will be a continuous sense of overall improvement in the individual creating a sense of well being on all levels. Which also proves how the body is acting as a one unit, all parts are connected and are affected in the order of hierarchy, the mind being the highest in that order.

Cure the mind and you shall cure the individual!