Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a 200 year old holistic approach to healing that stimulates the body’s own ability to restore health. It acts on the energetic level, healing from the inside out. Homeopathy affects every level of being: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It is used extensively worldwide, and has been shown effective by hundreds of high quality, peer reviewed studies.
What can it help?
Acute ailments such as viral and bacterial infections, especially recurrent ones, as well as injuries respond well to homeopathy. Chronic disease, however, is where homeopathy truly shines, often stimulating healing in cases that have not responded to more conventional approaches.
What is holistic?
Most conventional medical techniques of dealing with symptoms are aimed at getting rid of an individual symptom. The most obvious way to do this is to give a drug that has the opposite action on the body. The person has a fever, give a fever reducing drug; the person has constipation, give something that causes loose stools; the person’s heart rate is too fast, give something that causes a lowering of the heart rate. You can treat every case of these symptoms with just a couple of drugs and the symptoms seem to go away, voila, cured. Or are they? If you look at the person’s whole system, often you find they are not better overall, something else is worse within a short period of time. New symptoms may seem unrelated to the original symptom, however many cultures throughout the world and throughout time have held an understanding of the body as completely interconnected. Whatever we do affects the whole being.
This approach differs from conventional medicine because it takes your entire life into account. Physical, mental and emotional symptoms and the individual nature of the person are all considered as part of this holistic process. It is not just your headache that stands to improve, but your attitude, your mental clarity, your immunity, your ability to flow through your life instead of struggling with it.
What is homeopathic?
To heal using a homeopathic approach, three key principles must be observed: the totality of the person, the law of similars and the minimum dose. All of the factors of an individual symptom from how the sensation feels, to what time of day it occurs, or what emotional trigger sets it off, to all the things that make it feel better and worse and then some (totality of the individual) are considered, the more unique or curious the better. A substance is selected to support the body in what it is trying to accomplish from it’s symptoms, a substance that is similar in its action on a human body (law of similars). The remedy is taken in very dilute amounts (the minimum dose). Taking a similar substance in minute amounts stimulates the system. Your own body does the healing. The remedy is a red flag saying "hey, you are out of balance here," the system listens and adjusts.
Mary Jo Aloi, CCH
Mary Jo
Mary Jo Aloi is certified as a classical homeopath by the Council for Homeopathic Certification and is a registered member of The Society of Homeopaths, North America. She holds practitioner diplomas from The School of Homeopathy, Devon and from The Dynamis School for Advanced Homeopathic Studies. She continues to study with internationally recognized masters of homeopathy.
She is focused on constitutional homeopathic care, working with people to reduce their overall level of susceptibility and increase their health over the long term through her extensive training and committed competent care.
Mary Jo brings a strong intellectual background in science, as well as a deeply spiritual and connected presence into her practice of the art and science of homeopathy. Because of her sincere desire to use her knowledge and skills to make a positive difference in her community, she left her career as a chemist and embraced homeopathy. She feels a deeply rewarding satisfaction in being able to support others in healing and growing.
