Rule #10 in Dr. Ritchason’s Golden Rules of Health
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The last Golden Rule from Dr. Ritchason — Hering’s Law of Cure — is a tricky one to understand, but one that is fundamental to how healing naturally occurs.
Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880), the father of American homeopathy, lived in a time before the drugs of modern medicine. He observed several patterns of healing:
• Natural healing occurs from the inside out, meaning that the body works on healing the important internal organs first, pushing the dis-ease to the less critical external parts of the body (the skin and extremeties).
• Healing progresses from the top down. For example, a person with a skin rash over the whole body would more likely see relief in the upper torso first before the lower part.
• As a person becomes well through herbs/supplements/homeopathic remedies, symptoms appear and disappear in the reverse order that the person originally experienced them. In other words, as a person’s health declined, he or she might have experienced a sequence of symptoms that came and went. Then as the person gets better, he or she might experience those same symptoms, but in the reverse order.
As an herbalist, I always had a difficult time explaining these patterns to my clients, but when they “got it”, they really understood their natural healing process.
Wendy
