What is a healing crisis and a homeopathic aggravation?
A healing crisis and a homoepathic aggravation is an initial increase in symptoms. Whereas in a healing crises an increase in current or new symptoms may last approximately 3-4days (similar to a cold and flu), a homeopathic aggravation is an increase in your current symptoms for a brief period of time. Both are a good signs to a homeopathic doctor as the they indicate the initiation of the healing process. Both can be applied to the analogy of a splinter: You are able to get along reasonably well with the splinter for quite sometime. Even if it hurts, you can still function. Pulling the splinter out will hurt a little more for a short moment but the short-term discomfort is well worth not having the chronic pain. Healing Crisis: Over a lifetime of treatment with antibiotics and other medications as well as environmental pollutants, residual toxins can be stored within the body and interfere with the function of particular organ systems. Cells cannot get the nutrition they need or rid t