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 11^th 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

 

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Naomi Campbell, Black is Beautiful

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Naomi Campbell is a model, singer, journalist, writer and an activist.

She is of Caribbean and Chinese mix ethnicity although she considers herself black. 

She is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, and her exotic looks have won her modeling contracts with the biggest names of the fashion and cosmetic industry.

Hers is glamorous and charmed life, but it wasn’t always like that.

  

She comes from a modest background; she was raised by her grandmother in Streatham, South London.

Her dad left her mum while she was pregnant with Naomi and at her mother’s request she has never made contact with him.

Her mum left her when she was very young whilst pursuing a career in dance across Europe:  this is something time hasn’t healed. Recently Naomi broke down in tears at the Ophra Show when her mum acknowledged that she should not have left her.

  

Naomi attributes her past drug addiction and her mood swings to the fact that her mother abandoned her as a child.

She has been often shrouded in controversy: her behavior has even been considered outrageous, her political and activist stances incomprehensible.

There is however something about Campbell that it is a constant: her quick changes.  Changes in her mood from apparently calm and controlled into a raging and abusive, object throwing individual, kicking, punching, insulting, scratching and spitting.  She has done it all, and not only to those who depend on her like her secretary, but to two security guards at an airport…  

Her moral convictions change quickly too: after posing naked for a high profile campaign against the fur trade, she was soon on the catwalk covered in…furs!

While at an event as an ambassador for Nelson Mandela’s AIDS charity, she became involved in one of the ugliest “blood diamonds” violations when she accepted rough diamonds from a known criminal, and later denied it.  The case ended up in court, causing embarrassment to charity, and some damage to Naomi’s personal image.

She is arrogant too; she told the South African court in no uncertain terms that it was a great inconvenience for her to be there. 

But perhaps the most outrageous of comments was when she claimed that she didn’t get out of bed for less than 10,000.

Naomi Campbell homeopathic remedy is Belladonna:

The Belladonna plant also known as Deadly Nightshade, its poisonous and its toxins act upon the nervous system causing hallucinations.

Its berries are linked to tales of witches rituals and sexual excesses.  The plant has been well kwon since ancient times for causing sleepwalking, and night terrors, visions of the sufferer changing

Into all sorts of fantastic creatures half human half animal.

Some believe that the myth of werewolf comes from the abuse of this and other plants from the Solanacea family.

Despite the risk of intoxication, the juice of the plant was used as a cosmetic in medieval Italy, where women applied a few drops to their eyes, causing the pupils to dilate, and to make the eyes look shiner, this look was considered very beautiful hence the name of the plant – Belladonna means beautiful woman in Italian. 

The patient who benefits from the use of homeopathic Belladonna is prone to high fevers, suffers from strong headaches due to sun exposure, photophobia, dislikes bright lights and shiny objects.

Their mood changes very quickly, their body temperature rises, their face becomes red with anger, their pupils dilate, their behavior becomes animalistic, some even report feeling like they have turn into a big cat like a jaguar or a panther. In their uncontrollable rage, they attack their opponents by any means they can:  spitting, scratching and punching; causing as much destruction as they can in very little time.   

  

After these attacks they can go into a state of torpor, where they lack energy and they cannot justify their behavior.  A lot of these patients have a firm believe they are somewhat entity possessed and not responsible for their acts.  They also tend to believe they possess paranormal powers of some sort.

Naomi has been nicknamed “Black Panther” for her nasty temper, and she clearly displays many symptoms consistent with this remedy. 

Naomi has many jewelry Wedjats and she wears them often.

Her house in the shape of a wedjat the Arab protective eye amulet said to protect wearers from psychic attack or “evil eye” is also symptomatic of a believe in the supernatural and the need for magic protection.  

 By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Demi Moore, sour milk

Demi Moore, Culver City, California, 1991. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Demi Moore's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.



Husky voice, dark long locks, a melancholic expression, beautiful expressive eyes between green and hazel, and I mean literally: her left eye is green and the right hazel. 

She was at one time voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

Demi has always played sexy roles, perhaps the most memorable were in “Indecent proposal”, “Ghost”, and “Striptease”.

She seems to have an exhibitionist personality both on and off the screen.

She has posed nude many times before her career took off, also after, even striping at a talk show. The most famous of her nude poses is the photo above when she was heavily pregnant.

At the moment she is painfully thin, and was recently admitted to A&E suffering from the effects of drug abuse, malnourishment and quite possibly a broken heart. According to her spokesperson she‘s suffering from “exhaustion”.

She’s reported to have several addictions:

Adderrall, an amphetamine available on prescription in US and Canada but illegal anywhere else, used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.

Red Bull, an energy drink loaded with sugar (28 spoons per can) and caffeine, plus a few other strong stimulants in small quantities considered not sufficient to affect a healthy individual - Demi is not a healthy individual thought, she is malnourished and under a cocktail of drugs.

Her other known addictions include alcohol, cocaine and nitrous oxide better known as laughing gas: an anaesthetic.

Without going into too much detail on the possible side effects of Red Bull: there’s a lot more to worry about as far as Demi’s regular drug intake is concerned, let’s just look at the side effects of Adderrall and Nitrous Oxide.  

Adderrall side effects include fast, pounding, or uneven heartbeats; feeling light-headed, fainting; increased blood pressure with severe headache, blurred vision, trouble concentrating, chest pain, numbness, seizure; tremor, restlessness, hallucinations, unusual behaviour, or muscle twitches, headache or dizziness; insomnia; dry mouth or an unpleasant taste in your mouth; diarrhoea, constipation; loss of appetite, weight loss; low libido.

Severe allergic reactions with rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; blurred vision or other vision problems; change in sexual ability or desire; chest pain; confusion; fainting; fast or irregular heartbeat; fever, chills, or sore throat; new or worsening mental or mood problems such as aggression, agitation, anxiety, delusions, depression, hallucination, hostility; numbness or tingling of an arm or leg; one-sided weakness; painful or frequent urination; red, swollen, peeling, or blistered skin; seizures; severe or persistent headache; severe stomach pain; severe weight loss; shortness of breath; sudden, severe dizziness or vomiting; slurred speech; uncontrolled muscle movement; unusual weakness or tiredness.

Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is an anaesthetic that is increasingly being used as a recreational drug; also known as Whip-its, it can cause anaemia in prolonged use. It also causes acidosis which is a disturbance in the acid-base balance in the lowering the blood serum PH, and leading to accumulation of lactic acid in the tissues, among other things.

At the emotional level, Moore expresses her feelings beautifully revealing a candid picture of herself:

She’s emotionally immature, part of her psyche has remained undeveloped, frozen in childhood.

She’s gone through life just like a child, feeling lonely when she is not in a relationship, trying to fit in when she is, afraid of being rejected, yet demanding and needy, wanting to be the centre of attention at all cost. Insecure about her looks, in her mind the only reason for her dejection is her physical body not being perfect, betraying her.

As a child she learnt what was like to be different, to have a deformity.

It can blight a child’s life to feel rejected for the way she looks, and having to wear an eye patch to correct a lazy eye must have been traumatic for Demi.

As a teenager she learnt to use her looks to manipulate those around her and to get what she wanted – undoubtedly pretty she started her career as a Pin-Up. And what she wanted was drugs – she spent most her first wages in drugs and partying showing a complete escapist attitude.

Some of her quotes:

She shows concern with being rejected or criticised: “I'm sure there are a lot of people who think I'm a bitch.”

Needy: fear of being abandoned, fear of feeling unloved. Needs to be in relationship in order to feel loved: "What scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me...and that I wasn't wanted here in the first place."

She’s is trying to come to terms with it, by repeating the advice she's been given, but for now those are just hollow words that she repeats without really grasping their full meaning: "I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can’t be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don’t have a choice,”

Fear of failure, fear that her body will let her down: "When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.”

Now she gets the reverse of the coin – her body has become too thin but she’s still doesn’t understand that it’s not all about her body: "I think I sit today in a place of greater acceptance of my body, and that includes not just my weight but all of the things that come with your changing body as you age to now experiencing my body as extremely thin - thin in a way that I never imagined somebody would be saying to me, "You're too thin, and you don't look good."

Self-doubt, and lack of confidence. Self-centred perspective of the world: thinking that everyone wants the same thing: “I think we all want the same things. We all want to feel loved, and feel a part of something, but we all have self-doubt no matter where we came from.”

Greedy: her nickname in Hollywood circles used to be "Gimme more" such were her demands for extra fringe benefits and perks.

Fear of losing it all: “Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. So the better place to keep yourself in is out of your comfort zone, willing to try even at the risk of failing. And that's not natural to me at all. In fact, it's completely unnatural.

And perhaps the most revealing: her lack of trust in others and in the universe, the need to control in order to feel safe: “What scares me the most is not knowing and accepting that just about everything is not in my control,” she said. “That makes me feel unsafe.”

Demi's homeopathic prescription:

Demi Moore needs a Milk remedy for the lack of nurturing she’s suffered in her childhood and which left her with a poor image of her body, eating disorders, lack of self-love and a permanent fear of being abandoned. But she also needs an Acid remedy to address her exhaustion.

Milk remedies in general:

Address emotional imbalances, depression, feelings of abandonment, eating disorders, and sexual dysfunctions that originated during the 1st seven years of a child.

When the emotional body is deprived of a normal development and unable to move on from the physical needs expressed during the first seven year period From this situation many psychological issues arise of abusing or being abused by others, at a physical level, there is a common tendency for lactose intolerance, skin diseases such as eczema which denote a lack of proper boundaries and an avoidance to being touched or held, general assimilation and digestive problems, poor self-image perception often with the idea that the person is impure, unattractive, inferior to their peers, etc., giving rise to issues about being bullied, and generally abused by others.

Acid remedies in general:

There are several homeopathic acid remedies they all treat exhaustion at one level or another, some are more suitable for addressing physical exhaustion others mental exhaustion and so on. I’ve already given you the picture of one of them, Phosphoric Acid when I presented the psychological profile of Lady Gaga.

Lactic Acid has exhaustion like all the acids but with the peculiar symptom of being restless.  It combines both the qualities of the Lac remedies and those of the acids. It also covers most of the side effects that can result from the abuse of both Adderrall and laughing gas!

Lactic acid is present in foods, primarily in sour milk products, such as koumiss, laban, yogurt, kefir, and some cottage cheeses. The casein in fermented milk is coagulated, curdled, by lactic acid.

Lactic acid has been blamed for the muscular pain we feel after exercising, although this long standing theory is now being disproved, and research has now concluded that the presence of lactic acid after exercising is actually part of the cell metabolism necessary for muscle development and its recovery.

Lactic acid is also essential for the brain metabolism, particularly but not only during pregnancy for foetal development: it's the “brain’s food” – it's used by our neurons when glucose is converted into Lactate.

In the homeopathic proving Lactic Acid is an important remedy for the treatment of diabetes, rheumatism and digestive symptoms such as alternating constipation and diarrhoea, as well as nausea: being one of the most effective remedies for morning sickness during pregnancy.

Lactic acid is now being proved vital for the development of the nervous system of a baby during pregnancy. As a homeopathic remedy it can correct the hormonal imbalance that causes morning sickness, with or without vomiting, and excessive salivation -

Pregnancy is a big issue for Demi:

Her father abandoned her teenage mum before she was born.

Demi herself is a fertility goddess of our time. She has become the embodiment of the sacred feminine at its most beautiful and powerful – the pregnant form, a symbol of nurturing and unconditional love when she had that famous photo taken, while seven months pregnant.

Incidentally Demi is short for Demeter her real name, and the namesake of the Greek Goddess of Fertility!

Patients who require this remedy may also suffer from dryness and rawness of mouth and throat, causing hoarseness – or in the case of Demi, a permanent husky voice.

It is also the indicated remedy when there is profuse sweating especially of the feet, excessive urination, great thirst, lack of appetite occasionally alternating with voracious appetite, burning and weight in the stomach, nausea first thing in the morning, vertigo. – These are all symptoms that can be present in diabetes, but they are also consistent with dehydration. And dehydration is one of the side effects of caffeine, in Demi’s case through the excessive intake of Red Bull.

All Lactic Acid symptoms are better for staying still yet the patient is restless - Demi takes Adderall a prescription drug to control ADHD.

Lactic Acid is the combination of both – a milk and an acid, and it could be the one to help Demi Moore to reach her full potential!

It’s a great remedy, well proved in its physical application but almost unknown for its mental picture. To paraphrase my friend Francis Treuherz an amazing homeopath and a most inspiring teacher: In every small remedy there is a pollycrest wanting to come out!

In my opinion Lacticum Acidum deserves further proving into its mental and emotional reach.

Particularly pertinent at this stage when science is just starting to understand the role of Lactate in the development and maintenance of our nervous system, and we are seeing a great incidence of neurological diseases both of formative and degenerative nature: the increase of ADHD and autistic spectrum disorders in children, as well as dementia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s in the elderly.

The original proving also seems promising in treating the characteristic symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: CFS.

By the Undercover Homeopath

Further reading:

Milk homeopathic remedies: a spiritual perspective: http://urbanhealing.hubpages.com/hub/Milk-in-homeopathy-a-spiritual-perspective

Lady Gaga, the homeopathic profile: Phosphoric Acid:

http://undercover-homeopath.blogspot.com/2011/12/celebrities-on-couch-lady-gaga.html

Homeopathy Celebrities on the Couch: Rihanna, it's a lonely place down there...

Rihanna, By SandyRiri18
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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Rhianna's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

That awkward moment when chat show host Ellen DeGeneres realises she is interviewing one of RiRi's body parts...





Rihanna has been voted the sexiest woman alive

She is also one of the most successful singers, and since her career took off at the age of sixteen she’s been constantly in public view.


She had a traumatic upbringing, her parents separated when she was young. Her dad has a long history of addiction to both alcohol and cocaine. As a child she was a bit of tomboy, prefer to play amongst the boys then to be with girls. She suffered from debilitating headaches as a child.

She admits that her ideal man has to be aggressive, mysterious and very self-assured…

She’s been abused by the men in her life, and suffered a very public attack by former partner Chris Brown who left her excoriated, bruised and battered for all of us to see, after one of the couple rows went out of control.

On Twitter she is constantly talking about sex, and retweeting her fans lewd comments about her.

In her song Disturbia which was curiously written by Chris Brown for himself but later decided that the song didn’t suit him as it had a very feminine vibe and was more suited to Rihanna.  It speaks of mental confusion and identity crisis  of someone beeing intruded and invaded by someone or something stronger than them. The song is very suggestive of rape and of the mental confusion rape victims can go through afterwards.

There are also other interesting songs that replay this theme, not necessarily of actual rape, but of abusive sexual relationships.

Her album “Good girl gone bad” also plays up to the theme of someone who was innocent but has been corrupted.

In homeopathy the best known remedy for rape victims, and females who have been victims of sexual abuse is Staphysagria. It is also a main remedy for cystitis after intercourse: what it is sometimes called “Honeymoon cystitis”. It is also a remedy for head and eye injuries with severe headaches.

A patient needing Staphysagria, is excessively sexual, even lewd, and given to masturbate frequently. They become sex obsessed after the abuse they have sustained.

There is a guilty complex about the abuse itself, with the patient suffering from indignation about the way they have been treated by their abuser. However this anger is turn towards them for having allowed the attack to happen.

Their psychological coping mechanism is to become sexually corrupt, playing the initial traumatic sexual event, and re-inventing it by creating situations, or getting involved in relationships, that have the potential for further physical and sexual abuse.

In a way they feel this as a way of gaining control over of themselves: if they are the ones creating the opportunity for their own abuse to take place, at least they have some control over the situation.

By the Undercover Homeopath