Episode 221: Maintaining Causes: Looking Beyond the Remedy

What happens when you have found a well-indicated homeopathic remedy, but progress still seems slower than expected?

In this episode of the Homeopathy 247 Podcast, Mary Greensmith speaks with homeopath, iridologist and nutrition practitioner Alice Glendinning about maintaining causes and why looking beyond the remedy can sometimes provide important clues.

Alice explores how stress, nutrition, environment, relationships and lifestyle may all form part of the bigger picture when considering a person's health.

What Is a Maintaining Cause? Alice describes a maintaining cause as something ongoing in a person's life that may continue to affect their wellbeing.

This could include a stressful job, a difficult relationship, environmental factors in the home, poor nutrition, or other circumstances that cannot always be changed immediately.

Understanding these influences forms part of the wider homeopathy methodology discussed in this episode.

Rather than focusing on one symptom alone, Mary and Alice explore the importance of looking at what is happening around the individual as well.

Bringing Iridology Into Homeopathic Practice Alice also introduces iridology, which she uses alongside homeopathy and nutrition in her practice.

She explains that iridology involves studying patterns, fibres and markings in the coloured part of the eye. Alice uses these observations as another source of information when considering a client's overall constitution and what areas may deserve further discussion.

For Alice, it is another tool that can help her ask questions and build a more complete picture of the individual.

Nutrition, Gut Health and Everyday Habits Nutrition is another important part of the conversation.

Mary and Alice discuss the relationship between diet, nutrients, the gut and general wellbeing. They also explore how gastrointestinal issues may sometimes encourage someone to look more closely at what they are eating and how their body is responding.