Homeoprophylaxis and Supporting My Family’s Immunity Naturally
Homeoprophylaxis is a form of homeopathy that uses select remedies to support the body should it come into contact with specific viruses and bacterias.
When my first son was born, I didn’t know anything about Homeoprophylaxis. When I found out it existed a few years later, I was very excited! Here was what I had been looking for – a way to support my children’s immune system over their childhood.
Personally, I think that the original Louis Pasteur theory – using a part of the virus to stimulate an immune response against that virus – makes sense. But what worried me most was how many diseases children were given at their six-week-old appointments.
When my youngest son was born, the 6-week immunisation schedule contained eight different diseases. Most of these he would never come across in his entire lifetime, let alone all at once. If I had followed the full schedule, at four-years-old he will have received 17 shots containing 14 different diseases, some of which are repeated 2-4 times during the schedule. Since my eldest son’s schedule twelve years earlier, there have been three new diseases added. Chicken Pox is now included, and Gardasil has been introduced. In comparison, when I was a child vaccinations started at 3-months-old. Our first vaccination was for three diseases.
On the other hand, the Dr Isaac Golden Homeoprophylaxis Program (HP) begins the schedule at 4-weeks-old. HP begins earlier than the traditional schedule, offering immune support early even if parents choose to immunise. One remedy is given at a time under the HP program – allowing the system to adjust and strengthen between each monthly dosage.
Who is Isaac Golden? He is an Australian homeopath who began implementing and researching his HP program in the 1980s. For 35 years he has detailed the results of his program, giving us verifiable statistics in support of his work. Homeoprophylaxis has been used since the founder of homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann first noticed that a patient who had been given Belladonna was the only member of her family who did not contract Scarlet Fever. He began using HP in 1798. Interestingly, inoculation was first used in 1796.
Although there is a standard schedule to follow with the HP program, this can be adapted to include whatever the parents feel their children will be at risk for. The remedies included in the program have been carefully selected to acknowledge those illnesses that are still present in the community today and of the most concern.
Some question the need for any kind of prophylactic at all because the young immune system is designed to develop during childhood disease. Often we will see a developmental leap in a child after a high temperature. For example, at 18-months-old, my eldest boy came down with Swine Flu. After he recovered I noticed how much his vocabulary had increased, and that he was far more interested in drawing with crayons and looking at books. What Dr Golden has found is that children using the HP schedule not only have been shown to be more robust in health, but that they appear to show development leaps after the remedies too.
I have used the program exclusively for my youngest son. I use the remedies in the kit if I know there are diseases present in the area. We use the kit if we cut ourselves with rusty metal, and in flu-season.
Most people have never heard about homeoprophylaxis, even if they’ve used homeopathy for years, but it has long been a part of our family life. Interestingly, Homeoprophylaxis has been used by governments in response to epidemics. The Cuban Government used homeoprophylaxis to manage annual Leptospirosis rates in 2007 to great success.²
Whether you to choose to vaccinate or not there are homeopathic support options for you and your family. There are specific protocols to support your child through their vaccinations. If you’d like more information, please contact me.
¹ "Large-scale application of highly-diluted bacteria for Leptospirosis epidemic control" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20674839/