The Hypersensitive Individual: Hope & Understanding Thro' Homeopathy

There is so much hoopla for hypersensitivity as a new condition. It has always existed. It was, in fact, Dr Samuel Hahnemann, MD, the father of homeopathy, who first formulated the concept and estimated that 10 per cent of his patients were hypersensitive. Well, the fact also is homeopathy, as always, looks out for the initial sensitive cause and treats the whole person. In so doing, it helps to resolve their sensitive disorder and establishes balance to their sensitivity so that the world becomes a friendlier place to live in.

- Dr Luc De Schepper

As a physician, I first started to notice significant numbers of hypersensitive patients in the early 1980s, when a cluster of special people descended on my office. They claimed that they reacted vehemently to the slightest dose of medication — even with alternative modalities like herbs and vitamins, oxygen therapy, colonics, or parasite therapy. Conventional and alternative practitioners alike refused to believe them, saying “My other patients all react well to this treatment.” The hypersensitive patient almost felt accused of torturing the physician with this inexplicable behaviour. “I really can’t do anything for you,” these doctors would say, recommending a psychiatrist instead.

The alternative practitioners were worse, if anything, believing that the benevolent action of their gentle vitamins could not possibly harm a patient. Newspaper articles quoting leading professionals were no help; one headline read, “Hypersensitivity to the environment and many other factors, medications included, are the result of a psychosomatic attitude.” Or, in other words, “It’s all in your mind.” The word ‘psychosomatic’ is a great invention for getting doctors off the hook. Of course, it really stands for the true mind-body connection — but not in this context. Instead, physicians use ‘psychosomatic’ to dismiss the patient as a “nut case” or as someone “on the verge of a nervous breakdown.” The patient feels rejected and insulted. What’s even worse, s/ he often loses family support, is abandoned by friends and starts questioning him/herself: “Am I really going crazy?”

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