Sleeping pills will basically suppress your mental activity and put you into a sleep that is not at all refreshing. All allopathic (traditional) form of medicine is based on suppressing your symptoms, but suppression never cures anything. It actually makes the symptoms worse in the long run. This is one reason why people tend to get addicted to sleeping pills, because as soon as they stop taking the pills, the sleeplessness is worse than ever. All that suppressed mind activity will come back with a vengeance. Remember, anything that is pushed down, must come back up. This is a simple law of nature.

So, how would homeopathy deal with a problem like this? Well, the homeopath could take your case, of course, and give you a remedy. But what if you didn’t have a remedy, and just needed to use something that you have in the house – what would you use? How about coffee?

Before you think I am insane again, let me explain. Think of what happens if you drink too much coffee – you get nervous, jittery, restless, your mind is buzzing, you can’t relax and you certainly can’t sleep. So, if you think that coffee creates sleeplessness, you are absolutely right. But remember the principle of homeopathy, that like cures like. Basically, what that means is that if a substance create certain symptoms in your body, the same substance can also cure those symptoms.

This is how it works: If your body is already showing all these “coffee” symptoms because you have had a day that was too full of events, and you are so excited you simply can’t relax, coffee will cure because coffee can create similar symptoms. Therefore, in this situation, a cup of coffee will actually relax both the body and mind instead of stimulating it. Try it, and you’ll see for yourself what happens. The coffee will actually help you go to sleep if you are already excited when you drink it.

If, however, you are calm when you drink the coffee, it will have a stimulating effect instead, like when you drink coffee in the morning to help you wake up. So the funny thing is that you can use coffee to wake you up, or put you to sleep, as long as you use it the right way. Very interesting, isn’t it? So, if you want the coffee to put you to sleep, you must already be over-excited when you drink it. If you want it to wake you up, you must be tired when you drink it. That’s it! Very simple!
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What is Retin-A?
Retin-A is a medication used to treat acne and unwanted lines and wrinkles on the skin. It is supposed to be one of the only products that can effectively make a difference when it comes to removal of wrinkles, but the question is, at what price?

How does it work?
It actually does a few nasty things to your skin – like suppress your sebum production (oil production) as well as the production of keratin cells (surface cells on the skin), and this is why it is a very popular method for treating acne.

Acne is caused by the effect of hormones on the hair follicles and sebaceous glands (oil producing glands). When the glands produce too much oil, the follicles can be plugged through a combination of sticky oil and lose skincells, and if you add bacterias to that, you end up with acne. So the idea is to use Retin-A to suppress the production of sebum as well as the production of keratin cells, because that will solve two of the problems that cause acne in one go. In addition, it was also found that Retin-A stimulates the cell turnover in the walls of the hair follicles, which will basically push out the sebum and skincells that are clogging the opening, and when that happens, your acne will magically disappear.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? But something is very wrong with this kind of thinking – this is what I call allopathic thinking. For anyone who doesn’t know, I am a homeopathic practitioner by trade, so tomorrow, I will share with you the homeopathic view on the problem of acne.
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