Naturopathy and herbal medicine

We all have our unhealthy habbits, it is about balancing the demages we do to ourselves rather than ignoring it.

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Regardless of whether you come to me for physical or psychological symptoms, it is important for me to think outside the box and look at you as a person holistically, energetically and individually.

The most common triggers of illnesses can be found in the gut and the mind.
Intestinal disorders for example, can have a variety of triggers: Physical causes, psychological reasons, psychosomatic problems, genetic predisposition, poor diet, medication, infections and so on. The list can go on and on, but it is important to take both components into consideration.

Gastrointestinal diseases
The function of the intestine is of central importance for human health. Allergies, rheumatism, gout, migraines, immune disorders, skin diseases: The diseases of civilisation in particular are primarily caused by impaired intestinal function and intestinal flora.
Our eating and lifestyle habits, the common misuse of antibiotics, pathogens and psychological stress (the gut is in direct contact with our emotional centre in the brain) damage the gut, which is more decisive for our well-being or our illness than any other organ. And if the gut does not function optimally, the body's waste disposal mechanisms no longer work. The result is a backlog of waste and chronic internal poisoning.

Hormonal disorders / neurotransmitter disorders
Hormones (and neurotransmitters = messenger substances) control all of our body's systems. They are therefore extremely important for health and well-being. In addition, all hormone systems are interlinked and influence each other through feedback.
So if one cog no longer works properly, other bodily malfunctions occur!
I treat illnesses based on hormonal and neurotransmitter disorders such as
hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism
Adrenal insufficiency, exhaustion, burnout
Libido disorders, potency disorders

Menopausal symptoms
Menstrual problems
Unfulfilled desire to have children
Sleep disorders
Depression
Obesity
osteoporosis
Fibromyalgia
Cryptopyrroluria/KPU
The hormone status and neurotransmitter status can be precisely diagnosed and subsequently treated using special saliva and urine tests.

Neurodermatitis and other skin diseases
Atopic dermatitis belongs to the so-called ‘atopic form group’ and is therefore closely linked to allergies, asthma and hay fever. The sharp rise in such diseases in recent years suggests that this is linked to our lifestyle and increased exposure to toxins. There is also evidence that social factors and a disturbed intestinal flora are the cause. Furthermore, neurodermatitis patients are characterised by a predominance of the nervous-sensory system, and it is precisely this overemphasis that is constantly being promoted by our society. Trigger factors for inflammatory episodes are stress, mechanical irritation, poor diet, dry air and sunlight.
The treatment must therefore be just as complex as the causes: General intestinal cleansing, elimination of toxins and restoration of a healthy acid-base balance, proper skin care, reduction of the nervous-sensory load and homeopathic medication are all part of the treatment, which of course must always be customised. In addition, a change in diet is essential; I can give you detailed advice here.

Functional heart complaints
(= nervous heart complaints, cardiac neurosis)
Increased stress, anger, unconscious fears or disappointments (including lovesickness) can lead to complaints in the heart region for which no organic cause can be found.
These include
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiac stabs
heart pain

Extrasystoles
palpitations
Tightness in the chest
shortness of breath
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I treat these psychosomatic complaints with classical homeopathy and special heart hypnoses.
As a holistic alternative practitioner, the basis of my therapy is to fully understand each patient's overall constitution, previous illnesses, mental state, way of thinking, habits and life circumstances and then to treat them individually. This is because many illnesses have their causes in underlying physical, mental and emotional clinical pictures that are not immediately recognisable. Furthermore, there are different dispositions and constitutions for which certain illnesses are predestined.

Plants have been used as remedies by mankind for thousands of years: by shamans as well as Indians, in Indian Ayurveda and also in traditional Chinese medicine.
In Europe, it was first the Celtic sages who used plants as medicine. Later, ‘herbal witches’ as well as nuns and monks produced teas, tablets, ointments, tinctures, oils, syrups, suppositories and medicinal wines from medicinal plants. The knowledge of the effects and use of medicinal plants in our traditional European naturopathy is therefore based on ancient traditions. In Germany, these herbal remedies and recipes are still used today by alternative practitioners and herbalists, because the medicines from nature's garden have one major advantage over pharmaceutically produced medicines: they have far fewer side effects!

However, the healing effect of selected plants is not only explained by the ingredients such as essential oils, alkaloids, tannins, bitter substances, etc., but is also related to the energetic characteristics, location/cultivation and production process of the respective plants (in contrast to laboratory-produced medicines, where it is only a matter of active ingredients).
Traditional European herbal medicine was characterised by many great minds, most of whose names have not been passed down. The following two personalities, about whom much has been written, deserve special mention because we owe them an extraordinary debt of gratitude:

Hildegard von Bingen

The most famous nun who greatly enriched traditional Western herbal medicine was the abbess Hildegard von Bingen, who lived in the Middle Ages. In a vision, she was instructed by God to write down everything she had experienced in her visions so that it could be used for the benefit of mankind in the future. On God's instructions and with the Pope's blessing, Hildegard began to write down her visions. This resulted in numerous writings on medicinal plants, herbal recipes and herbal treatments. I also prescribe herbal remedies in my naturopathic practices in Munich-Schwabing and Passau, which are still prepared according to the original recipes of this great woman.

Paracelsus
Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician and alchemist († 24 September 1541 in Salzburg) who shaped the Western art of healing for all time. Although he died 500 years ago, he still fascinates people today and his knowledge is more relevant than ever. Homeopathy, spagyric and anthroposophic medicine would be unthinkable without him, but modern pharmacy and chemistry also owe a great deal to him.
Paracelsus' herbal medicine encompassed not only the traditional medical knowledge of the herbalist women and peasant doctors of the time, but also the knowledge of the monastic medicine of the time, magical herbal knowledge, alchemical knowledge, hermetic knowledge and astrology. As a mystic, he wanted to understand the true nature of man and his relationship to the cosmos. On the other hand, as a naturalist, he was searching for ways to produce truly healing remedies, with the help of which he wanted to create harmony with the cosmic forces in man.
Paracelsus still proves to be an inexhaustible source of knowledge and his messages are by no means outdated even after 500 years.
I would like to make special mention of the two additional areas of phytotherapy because they are highly valued:

Spagyric
Spagyric is derived from the Greek ‘spao’ = to separate and ‘ageiro’ = to combine, to fuse.
Paracelsus was the first to use the term ‘spagyric’ for a specific method of producing remedies. This manufacturing process is based on alchemical methods. In alchemical science, all material things consist of
the four elements (fire, earth, water, air) and
the three philosophical principles (Sal = the body principle, Sulphur = the soul principle, Mercury = the spirit principle)
Separating and combining, the spagyric processing of medicinal plants, minerals and metals, relate to the philosophical principles of Sal, Sulphur and Mercury. This means that during processing, substances that are assigned to the respective principles are extracted and then, freed from ‘perishable’ parts, reunited. Through rhythmisation, the purified substances are elevated, i.e. brought into a dynamic state by changing their molecular structure.
According to the ancient spagyricists and alchemists, the prepared tincture is freed from all earthly impurities and is a carrier of pure healing power.