Ask Dr. Ikenze: How to Find a Local Homeopathic Doctor?

January 9th, 2010 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Homeopathy

Q. My daughter is 15 years old and suffers from trichotillomania.  I have heard wonderful things about your practice and your treatment for this disease. Can you recommend a doctor closer to my home in WV?

A. The best way to locate a good homeopathic practitioner in your area is to visit the website of the National Center for Homeopathy which is located in Alexandria VA. The web address is www.homeopathic.org. The National Center for Homeopathy is an excellent resource for any kind of information about homeopathy. The website has an extensive directory of all levels of practitioners in the various states, with their qualifications and any additional information about their areas of specialty. In general for the treatment of trichotillomania, you do not necessarily need an MD. You just need a good and experienced homeopathic practitioner. You will find many such practitioners in the National Center directory. 

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Listen to The Animals

January 8th, 2010 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Food for Thought

I recently read a newspaper article about the sea lions at the piers in San Francisco. Around Thanksgiving the sea lions started leaving the pier in droves and by Christmas all 1500 sea lions that normally lived in the waters of pier 39 were no where to be seen. The sea lions have been San Francisco fixtures for the 20 years that I have lived in the Bay Area, and probably for long before. They are probably the pier’s biggest tourist attraction and are fed by the tourists in spite of signs asking them not to feed the sea lions. According to the article and interviews with marine mammal scientists in the area, such an exodus has never happened before. At least, not in living memory. The scientist who was being interviewed suggested that the sea lions must have left in search of food, and that this was not an unusual phenomenon that all 1500 sea lions would vacate their territory all at once in search of food. But it appears that no one knows where they went. But then the reporter reminded the scientist that the sea lions were constantly and well fed by all the tourists. So why would they need to go anywhere else in search of food?

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Ask Dr. Ikenze: Help for Teething Woes

January 6th, 2010 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Homeopathy

Q. My baby seems to be teething. He is so restless, won’t sleep at night, crying more than usual, and wanting to be held or to nurse all the time. I find myself giving him a lot of Tylenol and I would rather not. Is there anything natural that can help?

A. Yes, there is help besides Tylenol. You can get a homeopathic remedy from the health food store: Chamomilia 30c in little pellets or in liquid form. You administer it by placing 3 pellets or three drops in your baby’s mouth. Chamomilia can be given up to 4 times a day as needed. It helps calm a restless baby and induce sleep. In general a single dose at night is sufficient to relieve teething pain and help your baby go to sleep. The remedy Chamomilia is much more convenient and acts much faster to relieve your baby’s discomfort than trying to get your baby to drink Chamomile tea.

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Help Your Neighbor, Help Yourself

November 21st, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Food for Thought

As the year 2009 draws to a close and we approach the threshold of a new year, we can take a moment to look back over the year. It has been a very difficult year for almost everyone. Many are out of work or saddled with debt, schools are overcrowded and understaffed, the number of homeless persons is alarmingly high and charities are receiving fewer donations to care for an increasing number of people. There is hardly anyone who has not been affected in one way or another by the economic crisis.

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Food For Thought

November 21st, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Favorite Posts, Food for Thought

Take all your love that you are so eager to shower upon yourselves

And give it to your fellow man

So that a spark of longing will glow within him.

Then, you will easily make hundreds, nay, thousands happy.

And they will in turn, make you happy,

In the eternal reciprocity of the Laws of Creation.

For then, you will receive your love many times in return

From HIM, from God, and He blesses this love

With a thousand crystals from Heaven’s fountain!

~ Excerpted from A Glimpse into the Other World by Herbert Vollmann
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Vaccinations – To Give Or Not To Give?

November 20th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Homeopathy

Should I vaccinate my child or not?  Is there mercury in the vaccine? Does my child really need all those vaccines? Do vaccines cause autism? What is the risk to my child if I don’t vaccinate him? These and other questions are raised by parents faced with having to navigate the increasingly complex array of vaccines recommended for their children, starting right at birth. Many families feel coerced by their pediatricians to vaccinate their children. They feel powerless to argue against the campaign for universal vaccination for as many diseases as possible.

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Micronutrients: What are they and what can they do for you?

November 14th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Nutrition

If you are struggling to return to your youthful pre-pregnancy weight and figure and are having a difficult time with it, you are not alone. For many women this is one of the most confounding problems. On the one hand you want to lose weight, but on the other hand you are hungry all the time because you are breastfeeding a growing baby who depends on you to manufacture a wholesome milk containing all the nutrients essential for his or her physical and mental development. So, how can you get the best of both worlds and lose some of the pregnancy weight and regain lean body mass, while at the same time ensuring that your milk has an optimal nutritional content?

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Why the Pain? Why the Suffering?

November 3rd, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Spirituality

Everyone has at one time or other experienced suffering or the suffering of a loved one through illness or an accident. Each of us has probably asked the question “Why?” Why is this happening?  And when it comes to our children, the “Why” is even greater.

We may do everything we can to safeguard our health; eat right, exercise, immunize our children, drive safe cars, enforce safety rules. And yet – one falls sick, a child has a hereditary disease, another is plagued with a lifelong depression or anxiety disorder. I appears that in spite of all out efforts there is more disease and distress today than ever before. Cancer strikes both young and old in alarming incidence. There is more pain medication and psychiatric medication prescribed than ever before, even in young children! Why??

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Ask Dr. Ikenze: High Cholesterol

October 24th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Nutrition

Q. I have been diagnosed with high cholesterol and I find that the medications disagree with me. Are there any natural ways to reduce my cholesterol?

A. Keeping your total cholesterol and your good/bad cholesterol ratio down requires a 3-pronged approach:

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Get a Plant and Take a Breath

October 24th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Health

Have you noticed lately how rapidly the air quality in our towns and cities is deteriorating? When I first moved to the Bay Areas from New York State I was struck by the clarity and cleanliness of the air in Marin County. But in the past 19 years it has become terrible. Going for a morning walk is no longer as refreshing as it used to be, with all the exhaust fumes one has to breathe. And if in our paradise of an enclave we are beginning to feel the choke, imagine what it is like in other industrial cities and other parts of the world.

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