Saturday 24 March 2012

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Whitney Houston, the devil under the skin

Whitney Houston on a concert in 2011, by vainstyle, Flickr.com 

Whitney Houston has been the soul of pop music for over two decades. She died tragically on February 11th 2012, drowned in the bath in her hotel suite, her system was filled with several recreational drugs such as cocaine and marijuana as well as pharmaceutical drugs.

The coroner’s inquests deliberated that she died by accidental drowning, due to cocaine intake and heart disease.
Whitney had a long history of drug and alcohol addiction and as with many stars fame and addictions seem to go hand in hand.

Without going through her life history and her emotional ups and downs, we can still draw a broad sketch of her personality in order to try to understand the degenerative process that eventually led her demise.

It is somewhat ironic that as a seven years old child she used to hold “secret concerts” in the family’s empty swimming pool and she ended up drowning. 

Whitney Houston homeopathic remedy is Coca:

It was a sacred plant for the Incas but nicknamed by the Spanish priests who evangelized them as a “Devil’s illusion”, it is therefore interesting to note how Houston when asked on an interview by Diane Sawyers to pick "the devil"  from a list of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and prescription drugs, replied: “the devil is me”!

Coca, the plant from which Cocaine is extracted was widely used in South America to enable workers to climb up the Andes without feeling the characteristic weakness, dizziness that altitude sickness can bring.  While masking Coca leaves their performance improved, and they were able to go on for days with very little water, no food, and impervious to physical pain.

Just as Coca has a tradition of being used by climbers in the physical sense, it is also known for being used by high achievers in our society: the so called high flyers – people who go through an enormous amount of psychological pressure in their professional lives and who are expected to endure long hours of work with very little rest or sleep.    

In homeopathy Coca remedy is used to treat ailments such as weak vocal cords: a tired voice from overuse – which was a recurrent problem in Houston’s career probably due to her cocaine abuse. 


Dizziness, fainting, desire for isolation, insomnia, heart failure, blood clots, and a characteristic skin itch where the suffer has a feeling that there is something crawling under their skin are also well known ailments for this homeopathic remedy.  

It can also include loss of libido and kidney weakness, a prickly sensation in the mouth, and a desire for alcohol.  
We know that Whitney Houston suffered from stage fright to some extent – she talks briefly about it on her interview with Diane Sawyers – there is a link to the video at the end of this post.

The coroner’s inquest also mentions heart illness possibly due to the use of Cocaine: although this might have been the physical trigger, her death was probably due to a destructive lifestyle that led Whitney to abuse herself in many different ways.

 
Incidentally Cannabis Indica is the homeopathic remedy used to treat the phobia of drowning: Houston was a frequent Marijuana smoker but she surely didn’t have this phobia or she might have been more cautions of drowning.  
Link to 2002 interview with Diane Sawyers where Whitney admits to a drug addiction, and talks about where she imagined herself to be in 2012 The biggest devil is me...

By the Undercover Homeopath