This is the story of Roz, a psychologist who suffered from watery eyes, allergies, asthma, and constipation. She tried conventional medicines, herbs and vitamin supplements. Nothing worked until she found quick, gentle relief with homeopathy.
Roz had a dream to practice Equine Therapy on a horse ranch in the Arizona desert. She started riding horses as a teenager shortly after her brother died. Horseback riding gave her a sense of control, freedom and power during a time of emotional turmoil in her family.
As I guided her through the session, she related this sense of turmoil to the stress she felt living near the ocean. She feared dying in tsunami and wanted to live where she felt more in control. For her, the desert was peaceful, scared and spiritual - a place with streams, wild animals and plant life, another one of her passions.
Roz’s energy pointed me in the direction of desert plants, but the appropriate homeopathic remedy had to match her physical ailments. She felt tightness in her chest and a narrow air passage into her lungs. Using a hand gesture, she said it’s like “making things smaller – my throat and lungs squeeze to prevent air to come in. ” Her eyes teared, her throat closed when she ate oranges and strawberries caused her to swell. She loved hot climates and hated the cold.
The basic themes of desert remedies matched her issues with water, squeezing, survival and spirituality. But what made this case unique was her love of horses. A search for desert plants with a connection to horses lead me to Anhalonium, a remedy prepared from a cactus found in Texas.
Roz took one dose. Within weeks her allergies, asthma, watery eyes, constipation and stress were gone. She briefly developed a high fever and the reoccurance of an old symptom which were excellent signs that the treatment was working and diseased energy was leaving her body.
A few months later, Roz sold her house by the ocean and moved to a horse ranch in the Texas desert where she practices Equine Therapy.
