Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
OMG, Dede! You turned around sciatica in less than 6 days?? With a simple remedy anyone could buy at most any grocery store? A condition that normally takes long, agonizing weeks to get well, with lots of treatment?
That's nothing short of amazing! No wonder you love homeopathy, and I'd guess your family loves you!
Just a caveat for readers: Dede got this result by carefully studying her relatives symptoms (at least in the sciatica case) and then reading up on remedies that could produce symptoms very similar (like I spoke about this week on Vital Animal News). Giving that similar remedy then helped the sufferer to respond quickly and appropriately to get over their own disease.
So, will all sciatica cases get well with rhus tox? NO. The patient who's in a "rhus tox sort of sciatica," with symptoms similar to what rhus tox produces, will. Others' sciatica might have quite different symptoms and need a different remedy to get well.
Will you hurt anything by trying rhus tox on a sciatica sufferer? No, at least if you're careful. If you haven't gotten a significant betterment after 2-3 doses, you'd better stop giving it and search your materia medica for a better fitting remedy. Continuing to use a remedy that's not curing could cause problems.
Okay, teaching over. Hats off to Dede and her use of homeopathy to help sufferers get quickly over their suffering!