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: Adele, we could have had it all...

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

Adele, the soul singer and song writer: her success can only be compared to that of the Beatles; she is the first living artist since them to have two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously.


Most of her songs have been dedicated to her ex-boyfriend, or to the relationship they once had.

She has said on an interview” It's hard singing all these songs because it makes me remember how brilliant we were when we were good... and how tragic it was when we were bad.”

We have heard of her heartache of the past relationship in many of her songs, perhaps the most poignant is “Someone like you”.

She sings with tears in her voice

we can sense how heartfelt it was for her to lose that love, and how she still feels that loss: even her body language with a pained expression on her face and the hand pressing on her chest tell a tale of regret and sadness.

Earlier this year, we’ve heard of her successive voice problems, culminating with the cancellation of a series of concerts and having surgery treat a hemorrhaged vocal cord.

We know of her smoking habit and her taste for beer and red wine. We’ve learnt that the singer likes sweets, such as chocolate bars, honey and muesli energy bars. She also likes fruit, bananas, apples and grapes but avoids acidic foods, such as citrus fruits, tomatoes, and vinegar.

We also know that she supports “Sands” a stillbirth and neonatal death charity, and she insists that her fans make a compulsory donation to the charity in order to gain access to her.

Adele’s homeopathic remedy at this moment in time is Antimonium Crudum

At a physical level this remedy addresses complaints of the digestive system as well as skin. Bloating of this remedy is aggravated by acidic foods and drinks such as vinegar, tomatoes and sour wine, although paradoxically some patients do crave these. They have strong beer cravings.

They can have eating disorders, with periods of overeating that can in extremes lead to bulimia, and periods where they have no appetite which in extreme situations can lead to anorexia. The main differentiation between this and other remedies for eating disorders is that these are triggered by unrequited love: either because their relationship broke down, or because there was never a relationship.

Antimonium Crudum treats obesity in young people, laryngitis with loss of voice and skin complaints with indurations.

We can see some of the physical indications of this remedy in Adele, but the real indication for the remedy, is found in the psychological sphere.

Antimonium Crudum is the remedy for people who cannot move on after falling in love with someone. Even when the relationship is decidedly over and there are no prospects of rekindle, they are unable to move on to the next relationship.

They are deeply marked by that love experience, real or imaginary – often the way they perceive the relationship has little bearing to what it really was, in some cases there was not even a relationship – they might have fallen in love with someone who didn’t love them. They cannot find anyone else who compares favorably to that special person… they go on through life bleeding emotionally, deeply wounded but reveling in their emotional suffering in a masochistic way – believing the only cure is for their love to be reciprocated.

They are in love with the being in love experience...
Their body language expresses their immense sadness to their love loss, they sigh often, they hold their chest as if the emotional pain transcended into the physical…they are incurable romantics, but in their heart they’ve already made their choice…even those who seem to move on and settle on a relationship with someone else, often secretly dream of what it might have been if only they were able to have a second chance with the only one they ever loved!

By The Undercover Homeopath