Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Demi Moore, sour milk

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

LOZZY photos, flickr.com

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: Gerard Butler, the beauty and the beast

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Gerard Butler

"300" Los Angeles Premiere, By Barbara.Doduk, Flickr.com

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


Gerard Butler is a successful Hollywood actor.

He’s been in a few romantic comedies like P.S. I love you, and Bounty Hunter but he is at his best in roles with a very dark side such as Attila, Leonidas, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, Childers in the Machine Gun Preacher, and his latest: Tullus  Aufidius in Coriolanus.

His life has not always been a success, as he puts it: “At 24, I thought dying might be a relief.”

Originally from Scotland, he comes from an educated but modest background. His father abandoned the family when Gerard was 2yrs old, but returned when the actor was 16yrs.

Father and son didn’t have much time to get to know each other as he left the family again when Gerard was 22yrs, this time for good, due to terminal cancer.

His mother according to Gerard is a “lioness”, referring to her courage in bringing up three children single handed, her bravery protecting the family and their home against the neighbourhood thugs, her dignity, and her loyalty towards him even when he was in trouble with the police as a youngster.

A gifted student with a good intellect he went on the study law, but in the end his heart won and he became an actor.

He came into acting later than most actors and without the usual drama school background, but with armed with determination to succeed and the emotional depth that only real life experience can bring…

His characters are strong, powerful, raw, and intense. Their energy is like a radioactive force that emanates from the deepest collective unconscious where it has laid dormant, rising up to permeate our reality.

To watch one of his movies is to be pulled right into the eye of an emotional storm:

Where we can no longer ignore the ugly side of human kind but we must outweigh the reasons for the character's behaviour – we are forced into making our own moral judgement.

Stormy is also the character of this actor – we can sense that his friendly charm has the shadow of a potential storm brewing… referring to his make-up disfigurement in the Phantom of the Opera he says: “It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us”.

Gerard is now a long way from his wildest younger days: he practises meditation to help him curb his compulsions and to seek his spiritual dimension.

We can sense that he has done a lot of soul searching, and it has paid off:

He has managed to keep his alcohol and smoking addictions under control, and has become a more balanced individual.

He was recently involved in a near death experience: while filming a surf scene he was dragged underwater by powerful waves, in the ambulance on the way to hospital, he had a strong urge to go back and try again…

That's who he is: someone who doesn't give up, someone who thrives on a challenge!

Gerard Butler’s homeopathic remedy is Plutonium Nitricum:

Plutonium is part of the radioactive group of the periodic table: the actinides.
It is a remedy of deep action unto the subconscious, it has a strong desire to dwell into the darkest aspects of the soul as well as a great sense of lightness and exhilaration.

It's a seeker of spirituality, but with a vertical polarity: just as it can reach great enlightenment it can also reach the greatest depths of darkness.

It is well indicated where the patient oscillates between conflicting emotions, in manic depressive states. It's also a remedy for addictions, alcoholism, and strong sexual compulsions.

This remedy carries the primeval archetype of the cave man: they fantasise being powerful warriors, they need an outlay for all that excess testosterone, male sexual energy that is so typical of this remedy. Sexual addiction can also run high in these patients.

Patients desire red meat, they can even suffer delusions of being a vampire craving fresh blood, or dreaming of being bats hanging upside down in the Underworld.


They have a great charisma, even an aura of magic about them.

And Just like Plutonium is a powerful source of energy but can also cause terrible destruction and devastation far reaching both in time and space, so can the Plutonium patient – they can be a great source of inspiration to a vast number of people, they are dynamic and motivating when they are emotionally balanced, but can become unstable easily, they then become needy and energy draining even at a psychic level – from a distance.

Plutonium Nitricum has all of these characteristics but tries to repress them:

The destructive power of Plutonium is now contained by the Nitricum aspect. On doing so, this patient type tends to suffer bouts of depression, with occasional rages of devastating proportions if they are thrown off balance.

They are the type of patient you wouldn’t like to get on the wrong side, and I wouldn’t like to get on Gerard’s wrong side either if you ask me…

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: George Clooney, the power of a king!

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses George Clooney's psychological profile according to homoeopathy principles and prescribes a homoeopathic remedy.

George Clooney needs no introduction!

Or does he? We are so used to seeing successful actors in the media that their faces, emotions and expressions become more familiar to us than our own.



We forget that what we are looking at is a character they’ve lend themselves to in order to tell us a story.


Unlike musicians who put themselves forward for all to see, and often even add on to this by writing their own lyrics, so that we get to know them really well, or artists who convey their thinking and feeling processes through their medium; actors create an illusion of total and unconditional surrender to their audience by lending their bodies, their emotions, their personal experiences to their character but without really compromising their privacy nor revealing who they are. The more an actor is typecast the more our illusion of knowing them really well is perpetuated.


George Clooney has a particularly multifaceted character. He is a scriptwriter, movie director, producer and actor.

He plays basketball regularly. Although he doesn’t appear particularly reclusive nor secretive he has made it clear that his private life is his own and not to be shared by the media.

We have known of his slightly troubled romantic life with a failed marriage and a succession of girlfriends.

We know of his past jobs before he went into acting: several low profile sale jobs and even work in a tobacco plantation cutting leaves.

We also know of some of his serious illnesses: while still at school he suffered from Bell’s palsy which caused him to be bullied by the other kids. He had a serious back and brain injury while filming Syriana - he was driven to contemplate suicide while in hospital, by the severe pain and the extent of the injury he suffered, at one point he was losing CFS fluid through his nose. He still suffers from occasional migraines as a result of the accident.

Perhaps most touching, we've known of his pets, the most famous of all: Max the enormous potbelly pig with whom he had a special bond, crediting the pet with saving his life when the pig woke him up just before an Earthquake.

He was twice nominated the “Sexiest Man Alive” by the People magazine

He has received two Golden Globe awards and an Academy Award, and many other nominations and awards for acting, but perhaps the most prestigious awards have been those pertaining to his political stance in defence of those who don‘t have a voice - He was presented with the Summit Peace Award, and he’s also been nominated a UN messenger of peace.


He has used his success and connections in the movie industry for social activism

He's been instrumental in raising awareness to the Darfur conflict, which has seen thousands and thousands of people being prosecuted and killed in one of the longer lasting conflicts in history.

George has also spoken against the Iraq war, alerting political leaders to the fact that we cannot fight a war with war, and that every war we fight we are creating a new generation of people seeking revenge.

George’s homoeopathic profile is Bismuth

This mineral is part of the gold series of the periodic table: the entire series carries an aura of power and kingship to some extent. Aurum being the recognised supreme king. Bismuth, which is stage 15 typifies the aftermath. One has been king, but has lost his kingdom, there is a choice of either trying to cling on to power in a vain attempt to resist the unavoidable or surrender gracefully.

Bismuth is also one of the remedies where suicide is most prevalent. All the gold series has a theme of depression relating to power- desire to attain it, abuse of power, or loss of power depending which stage in the periodic table they appear. All of these can be motivations for suicide.

In Bismuth, there is the realisation that power without strong social and moral values is hollow.


In Bismuth there is a strong dichotomy between idealism and cynicism: the person knows that if power is used to oppress others will not last, and true strength comes from empowering others and giving them a voice. They can sometimes feel powerless towards social injustice and even resort to suicide as a last resort to keep some control over their existence and the way they chose to live or die.

There is also humour expressed as irony in Bismuth, with subjects seeing themselves with enough detachment to be able to laugh.

Clooney has displayed this quirky side in many occasions both by making ironic comments about his political opponents, and also when lampooned in several programmes including South Park series - even saying he would have been offended if the program didn't make fun of him!


At a physical level, Bismuth is one of the remedies for facial paralysis and Bell’s palsy.

With Bismuth everything happens suddenly, life and death have a blurred boundary: Clooney has had a few near miss death experiences and sudden accidents

The one most publicised was the motorcycle accident in 2007. His stay in hospital attracted enormous publicity when dozens of hospital staff abused their position of trust by looking at his medical records.


Bismuth people are private, they don’t like to have their personal details exposed, and yet in a genuine display of sympathy to the hospital personnel, Clooney requested that no one should be punished over the incident: that is the whole mark of a true king - the power to be magnanimous!

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Lady Gaga, disappointed love

Lady Gaga is a singer with millions of adoring fans whom she calls “her little monsters”.

She seems to be on a category of her own, both her musical style and her fashion sense are quite unique.

During her still short but meteoric career we have been treated to a kaleidoscope of ever changing successions of Gagas

We could be forgiven for thinking that we are in the face of several different women impersonating this eccentric character rather than just one re-inventing herself at a fulminating rate.

There have been rumours of mental illness, rumours of an auto-immune disease, namely Lupus.

Lady Gaga herself has done little to dispel any of these rumours: she’s not confirmed them nor dismissed them, she much rather ignore any critical voices and concentrate or her artistic career and her fan base.

To her fans, and her friends she has plenty of time. She replies personally to some; there was recently a poignant message of support to a fan being bullied… yes Lady Gaga knows what that feels like. She has been there herself, but overcome this to rise to success!

On a song that made her famous, “Bad Romance” she talks about unconditional love.

She expresses very intense feelings, and not wanting to be just friends but wanting a relationship with all that involves: the good, the bad, and the uggly!

She is definitely intense… on an a recent interview she opened up about the string of unfulfilled romantic relationships she has had – she hasn’t been accepted for who she is, some lovers have been envious of her creativity and her success… love has been disappointing!

Her homeopathic profile is Phosphoric Acid.

This remedy combines a certain freshness and creativity of the group of Acid remedies with the characteristics of Phosphorus.

Phosphorus is about all or nothing as far as love is concerned. It is about communication with fellow humans at all levels.

A typical phosphoric personality has many social connections. Easy to relate to others, they have close friends, and acquaintances with whose they also enjoy keeping in touch.

They have many virtual friends on Facebook, Twitter, and any other social network they decide to join… in fact social networking sites owe their success to Phosphoric people who require constant communication with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and the marketing people, who take advantage of this lively interactive group of people, in order to promote their products.

Phosphorus people are also the Goths, and the vampire movie lovers.

Physically they tend to be very pale, to have a weak spleen, and a tendency to bleed easily.

Psychologically they have great empathy, and they can easily feel the emotional suffering of others and take it as their own. They are idealists, and they can easily get confused in between a friendship and love relationship.

They assume that the other person is on the same wave length and that there is no need to talk – communication happens at an emotional level rather than at the intellectual level. They can then be greatly disappointed once they realise that their partner doesn’t share their views and ideals, leaving them feeling misunderstood and betrayed at a very deep and emotional level.

On the other hand If they feel they have much in common with the other person and there is an easy communication going on between them, they are very willing to take the relationship into the sexual level. For this reason it is easy for them to be bi-sexual, as often there is a closer bond and empathy between people of the same sex.

The Phosphoric Acid state is the result with the Phosphorus patient being brought to this state of emotional exhaustion by disappointed love.

People in this remedy profile become exhausted from giving themselves to others and they are no longer able to communicate. As they get more tired they shut down physically and emotionally.

If Phosphorus is the “party” state, Phosphoric Acid is the “after-party”, it is the match that has fizzled out, the sparkling drink that has lost its bubbles.

But just like other the remedies in the acid group, it does it with style… it has a dry sense humour, it has enough creativity to fascinate others, it has a different take and a new perspective on life, that others cannot easily grasp…

Phosphoric Acid like Phosphorus still has a lot to give, but needs to communicate from a safe distance, without too much pressure and demand from too close a circle of either family relations or friends…  sometimes it is easier to be friendly in the digital world!

By the Undercover Homeopath