Ep. 105-The Byte: Dr. Doug Brown
Doug is a homeopath. Well-known in the Pacific Northwest, he cures ills, at times, that people aren't even aware of. His practice is full of miracles, every day and it is his understanding of what plants and the natural world have to offer us, that is the real miracle.
Transcript
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So now to this week's podcast episode 105.
This week I interviewed Dr.
Douglas Brown and one of the things I wanted to do on this podcast was introduce people to each other.
To introduce people that you the listener might not otherwise have the privilege of meeting.
And this week my guest is a doctor of homeopathy.
Dr.
Brown has such an interesting life trajectory.
On his website which I will provide a link for under the episode show notes he says,
If anybody had suggested 25 years ago that I would become a full-time practicing homeopath I would have been mystified and astonished.
He was a graduate of Yale University's family nurse practitioner program in 1987 and at that time was fully committed to the medical model of health and disease upon which his training was based.
And so as many of you listeners are familiar with by listening to this podcast life has surprises for us and sometimes we end up in these really strange places.
These really unique places that we just could never imagine.
And that is exactly what happened to Dr.
Brown.
So now episode 105 of Bite-sized Blessings.
I recently had a case where someone was deeply deeply distressed about the loss of their cat.
But what was interesting about this particular case is that the as the cat was getting sicker and sicker with a kidney infection the patient herself developed a kidney infection.
Her identification with the cat was so strong and you know her grief was overwhelming.
It was like losing a child and she identified with the cat in so many ways.
How would you explain homeopathy to someone who's never heard of it before?
A newbie.
How would you explain it to a newbie?
You know Kirsten it depends a lot on how much time we would have.
You know because there's there's the 15-second elevator talk.
There is more the three-minute very casual conversation talk and then there is the more the more detailed talk.
You know so I can kind of go through those if you'd like.
You know so the 15-second elevator talk is well it's it's a system of medicine that is very individualized and aims to heal people from the inside out by stimulating people's own capacities for healing.
Period.
Yeah that's that's what it is.
Right.
If I had a little bit more time say I had five to ten minutes talk I would say I would you know start with that but I would go on to say that one of the great insights of homeopathy and which which everything around it is built is that everyone is everyone is an individual and people's symptoms originate from something that is traumatized or or distorted within that needs to become into alignment that needs to come into balance and every symptom that we have whether it's mind or body actually is a result a consequence of that disturbance in our own ability to self-regulate.
We call that the vital force.
That's a kind of an old-fashioned term but it it's from my point of view it's an aspect of the soul.
It's something that's non-material.
It's energetic.
It's it's connected to our energy field and the most important thing to consider about it is that it recognizes that the symptoms we have in our mind and in our body are connected.
That everything comes from one single bit disturbance.
That is we are one whole unit.
One unitary whole and that's you know as it's been pointed out so often the word health comes from an old English word meaning whole and so homeopathy's great gift is that it recognized the holistic nature of our our being.
So that's you know that's the five minute or ten minute version.
You know around homeopathy I've heard it said multiple times by like many different people that one of the ideas or concepts is that like cures like.
Do you find that to be true?
Yes that is that's a very important principle.
Like cures like and it seems so counterintuitive to us right because from our earliest ages we've been inculcated with the idea that if you have a fever you take an antipyretic right to bring the fever down.
Right if you have pain you take an analgesic to take away the pain.
If you have an infection you take an antibiotic right or an antiviral.
So we have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the idea that if you are sick the important thing is to oppose it with something that will do the opposite of what the sickness does right.
So to hear that like cures like even though we're told it comes from Hippocrates it doesn't seem it seems very counterintuitive right.
And it took me and that was very hard for me to swallow before I just can continually expose to the fact that it works.
The experience that it works.
I find by the way that I never try to persuade people that homeopathy works because I know it never would have persuaded me until I witnessed it until I experienced it.
But it is based on this principle that like cures like.
It turns out that if we expose if we introduce to a person the substance that has an informational map and energy that is similar to what the patient is experiencing that exposure will help release it from the patient and bring that person back into a state of equilibrium.
It's not it's not a static equilibrium it's a dynamic equilibrium all of life really is movement and change but it's a kind of energy that is resonating with the with the energy of the of the remedy.
Just as an aside but like can you give an example of of where that would work?
Yeah sure I mean what came to mind just now again is belladonna since I happen to mention it as an acute remedy for my son 27 years ago.
So belladonna deadly nightshade is it is in the family of nightshade plants or what we call the solanaceae plants.
It turns out that if you were to eat the raw eat the plant eat the alkaloid or get poisoned by deadly nightshade you would develop a kind of delirium.
You would get a lot of blood rushing to the head that be a lot of cerebral congestion and to the organs of the head like the ear.
There'd be a lot of redness or red face.
There could be hallucinations.
There could be a lot of pain.
Could be a lot of headache.
Could be a fever.
So these are the the symptoms of intoxication.
Well if you give someone with those symptoms that are arising not from belladonna intoxication but they have those symptoms if you give that person the remedy belladonna the potentized belladonna the spirit of belladonna then the vital force in that patient will recognize the disturbance and be able to counteract it by and you know will navigate its way through it and come into a place of healing where those symptoms resolve.
I recently had a case where someone was deeply deeply distressed about the loss of their cat and you know many people are deeply grieved by the loss of a pet a cat.
You can have a great attachment to a cat but but what was interesting about about this particular case is that the pay as the cat was was getting sicker and sicker with a kidney infection the patient herself developed a kidney infection.
Her identification with the cat was so strong and you know her grief was overwhelming.
It was like losing a child and she identified with the cat in so many ways.
So the remedy that I gave her was it's called lac felinum it's made from a drop of cat's milk potentized and it cured her kidney infection and cured her back pain and it allowed her to go through the grief process of losing her cat in a much more painless much much less painful way.
Thank you for listening to episode 105 of Bite-sized Blessings and my conversation with Dr.
Douglas Brown,
Intrepid adventurer as he is,
Following his path no matter where it led.
I need to thank the creators of the music used for this episode.
Music Elle Files,
Otis Galloway,
Alexander Nakarada,
Frank Schroeder and Edvardas Sen.
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Musicians,
Creators and of course links to Dr.
Brown's website as well as to articles that he's written that I think you'll find interesting.
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Thank you for listening and here's my one request be like Dr.
Doug be open to the mystery and the path be open to new ideas be open to the universe and what it wants to show you what path it wants you to follow and then then you just sit back and enjoy the ride.
