Homeopathy in a Chiropractic Practice

Like treats like. Above down, inside out. The body heals itself when interference is removed.

The Shared Philosophy

Chiropractic, homeopathy, and Applied Kinesiology are built on the same foundational principle: your body has innate intelligence capable of healing itself when you remove interference and provide the right support.

Chiropractic principle: Remove structural interference (subluxation) to restore nerve function. The power that made the body heals the body. Above down, inside out.

Homeopathic principle: Like treats like (Law of Similars). A substance that creates symptoms in a healthy person can cure those same symptoms when properly diluted. Support the body's vital force to stimulate healing.

Applied Kinesiology principle: Use muscle testing to identify what strengthens or weakens the body. The nervous system knows what it needs. Ask the body, and it will tell you.

All three recognize that symptoms are the body's attempt to heal, not the problem itself. All three work with the body's intelligence rather than suppressing its responses.

How These Principles Work Together

When you come in with shoulder pain, I'm not just adjusting where it hurts. I'm identifying the pattern causing your body to compensate and create that pain.

The chiropractic assessment finds the structural interference: which joint is subluxated, which muscles are inhibited, which compensation patterns have developed.

Applied Kinesiology muscle testing reveals what strengthens or weakens your nervous system's response. Is the problem purely structural? Or is there organ stress, nutritional deficiency, or meridian imbalance maintaining the pattern?

Homeopathy supports your body's ability to correct those patterns. When muscle testing reveals inflammation, tissue damage, or organ stress contributing to your dysfunction, we can test homeopathic remedies to see which ones support your healing response.

The adjustment removes structural interference. The homeopathy supports your body's effort to heal. Applied Kinesiology ensures we're addressing the right pattern.

Like Treats Like: The Law of Similars

Homeopathy's core principle is "like treats like." A substance that produces symptoms in large doses can stimulate healing of those same symptoms when highly diluted.

Arnica montana is the classic example. In crude doses, arnica creates bruising, swelling, and tissue trauma. In homeopathic dilution, arnica stimulates your body to resolve bruising, swelling, and tissue trauma.

This isn't suppression. It's stimulation of your body's healing mechanisms.

When you fall and bruise your shoulder, your body immediately starts the inflammatory healing process. Arnica doesn't stop inflammation. It supports your body's ability to complete the healing process efficiently without excessive swelling or prolonged recovery.

Other common homeopathic remedies in practice:

Rhus toxicodendron (poison ivy): Supports healing of joint stiffness, ligament strain, repetitive motion injuries
Bryonia (wild hops): Supports healing when movement worsens pain, inflammation of serous membranes
Hypericum (St. John's wort): Supports nerve injury healing, shooting pains along nerve pathways
Ruta graveolens (rue): Supports tendon and periosteum injuries, overuse patterns

The principle is consistent: the substance that would create the symptom in large doses supports your body's ability to heal that symptom when properly diluted.

Above Down, Inside Out

B.J. Palmer, the developer of chiropractic, taught "above down, inside out." Intelligence flows from the brain down the spinal cord and out to the body through the nervous system. Health comes from inside the body, not from outside interventions.

Homeopathy operates on the same principle. The remedy doesn't cure you. It stimulates your vital force (your innate intelligence) to heal you from the inside out.

Applied Kinesiology recognizes this: muscle testing reveals what your nervous system responds to. When the correct homeopathic remedy is introduced, muscles that tested weak will lock. Your body recognizes what it needs to support healing.

You can't trick the body. You can't force healing from outside. You can only remove interference and support the intelligence already present.

The Vitalistic Philosophy

Chiropractic and homeopathy are both vitalistic systems. They recognize that life is more than biochemistry. There's an organizing intelligence (innate intelligence, vital force, chi) that coordinates healing when interference is removed.

Conventional medicine is mechanistic: the body is a machine, disease is malfunction, treatment is fixing broken parts with drugs or surgery.

Vitalistic medicine recognizes the body as a self-organizing, self-healing system. Disease is loss of organization. Treatment is removing interference and supporting the intelligence that maintains health.

This is why chiropractic adjustments work: you're not forcing the joint to move correctly, you're removing interference so the nervous system can coordinate movement correctly.

This is why homeopathy works: you're not suppressing symptoms, you're stimulating the vital force to complete the healing process.

This is why Applied Kinesiology works: you're asking the body what it needs rather than imposing a treatment protocol.

Muscle Testing Homeopathic Remedies

Traditional homeopathy selects remedies through extensive interviewing: matching the patient's symptoms, personality, and constitution to a remedy picture documented in the Materia Medica.

Applied Kinesiology eliminates the guesswork. We test remedies directly with muscle testing to see which ones strengthen your nervous system's response.

Place arnica in your hand or on your body. Test a muscle. If your body recognizes arnica as supportive for your current healing needs, the muscle locks. If arnica isn't relevant, the muscle stays weak or doesn't change.

This allows precise remedy selection based on what your body needs right now, not what theoretical symptom pictures suggest.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Example: Shoulder injury from a fall

Examination reveals:

Anterior shoulder subluxation (structural interference)
Deltoid muscle inhibition (compensation pattern)
Bruising and inflammation (tissue trauma)

Treatment:

Adjust the shoulder to remove structural interference (chiropractic)
Correct the deltoid inhibition pattern (Applied Kinesiology)
Test homeopathic remedies: Arnica tests strong (supports bruising/trauma healing)

You take arnica at home between visits. Your bruising resolves faster, inflammation decreases, and the adjustment holds better because your body is efficiently completing the healing process.

The adjustment removed interference. The homeopathy supported your body's healing response. Applied Kinesiology ensured we addressed the right pattern.

Common Homeopathic Remedies We Use

For acute injuries:

Arnica (bruising, trauma, shock)
Hypericum (nerve injuries, shooting pains)
Ruta (tendon/ligament strain)

For chronic musculoskeletal patterns:

Rhus tox (stiffness worse on initial movement, better with continued motion)
Bryonia (pain worse with any movement, better with rest)
Calcarea carbonica (chronic weakness, slow healing)

For inflammation and drainage:

Lymphomyosot (lymphatic drainage)
Traumeel (general anti-inflammatory support)
Zeel (joint inflammation, arthritis patterns)

For organ support:

Chelidonium (gallbladder/liver support)
Nux vomica (digestive stress, overwork patterns)
Kali carbonicum (kidney/adrenal support)

These aren't prescribed based on diagnosis. They're tested with muscle testing to determine which ones support your specific healing pattern.

The Bottom Line

Chiropractic removes structural interference. Homeopathy supports your body's healing response. Applied Kinesiology identifies which interventions your nervous system recognizes as beneficial.

All three operate from the same philosophy: the body heals itself when interference is removed and proper support is provided.

Like treats like. Above down, inside out. The innate intelligence that made your body knows how to heal your body.

We just remove the obstacles and support the process.

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