Showing posts with label star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star. Show all posts

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




 









Saturday, 4 February 2012

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Demi Moore, sour milk


Demi Moore

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:









Saturday, 28 January 2012

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Gerard Butler, the beauty and the beast

pathyGerard Butler
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