To make a Homeobotanical remedy is to appreciate the energetic potential embedded within the natural world and the body’s intrinsic ability to heal itself. Through a simple process of refinement, the plant and mineral substances used to make homeobotanical remedies are diluted and potentised beyond the point of crude chemistry. This naturopathic process is where homeopathy and herbal medicine meet, and stand apart from conventional allopathic medicine.

In order to make a homeobotanical remedy, a chosen herb is mixed with alcohol – let’s take the plant Arnica as an example. The Arnica and alcohol solution or “mother tincture” represents the starting point from which the crude form of Arnica is transformed in to a homeobotanical remedy, a process known as dilution and potentisation. Water is used to dilute the mother tincture in a sequence that is carried out with mathematical precision, each stage of this sequencing accompanied by a vigorous shaking of the solution – potentisation. The resulting effect is an imprinting of the Arnica’s vital energy onto the matrix of the water solution. The higher the dilution, the less material particles remain. The further away from its original Arnica plant state, the more the release of energy and the greater the depth at which the medicine will act. In order to stimulate the body’s vital system we need to work on this dynamic plane – in homeobotanical therapy we are dealing with physics; energy, frequency and vibration.

Dilution and Potentisation renders the toxic components of the Arnica inert, transforming a would-be poison, into a medicine capable of initiating a ‘healing response’ on the dynamic level. Where Arnica is in material form, it becomes a herbal medicine with an expansive field of action. Working directly with the body’s vital force, Arnica has the capacity to not only heal bruising, but to address the shock, trauma and a bruised psyche. This is why homeobotanical remedies work so harmoniously with mental and emotional talking therapies such as counselling and psychotherapy.

Conventional allopathic medicine is materialistic and primarily seeks to understand the body’s complexities, through analysing its chemical components. In this way, understanding disease is a process of reduction, in which a solution can be found, by breaking the issue down in to its smallest components – disease here being essentially ‘biochemical‘ in nature requiring chemical interventions as solutions. 

The accomplishments in pursuit of this level of biochemical detail are extraordinary and have been sort after to almost a singular degree. An antibiotic will ‘kill‘ the bacteria present during infection, but it will not address the underlying susceptibility that has resulted in the infection to begin with. This is commonly seen in any recurrent infection. Think of urinary tract, ear or throat infections. Although the so-called “offending bug” is considered as having been killed, the underlying susceptibility and weak immune system remains unaddressed. 

Conventional medicine’s emphasis on what is physical and what can be seen, herald Chemistry as King, yet without the cohesive force of Physics that initiates the interactions that bonds chemical to chemical, we would remain a collection of disconnected elements, a loose pile of lego bricks. Consider you have the perfect collection of chemical elements needed to make a grape, such as phosphorus, magnesium, iron, sodium and manganese. These ingredients in themselves will not result in grapes creation. It is the energetic life force that animates these chemical components into bonding with intention and purpose, that creates grapes. This intelligent and self-determining dynamic is the vital force and it is this force of nature and life force that integrates our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of our Self and is the energy that enables one to heal.

Homeopathy and Homeobotanical Therapy endeavour to address the root cause of dis-ease, which for the most part, bar most accidents or injuries, is an internal state and energetic in nature. Working at this energetic level is to heal at great depths. Energetic medicine changes the nature of the soil that predisposes us to developing specific types of disease. 

Fundamentally electromagnetic in nature, in homeopathy and homeobotanical therapy we are working with energy and frequency. Once placed under the tongue the signal of a homeobotanical remedy stimulates the self-healing mechanism in to action. For example, in an Arnica homeobotancial remedy, we observe the mitigation of internal bleeding, a calming of the inflammatory response, a rebalancing action on the blood and space for emotions and state of shock to be processed and resolved.

With an understanding that the body’s innate intelligence will manifest symptoms in its attempts to heal itself, rather than suppress these attempts, homeopathy and homeobotanical therapy work with the body in order to provide it with more of the energy it is needing in order to heal. Their action is akin to the turning of the key in the ignition of the car in order to start the engine. It is your body that will decide how it uses this energy, a decision which will always be aligned towards self-healing. As Albert Einstein surmised, we are energy solidified and it is at this energetic and atomic level that homeobotanical therapy works.