Speaker A describes using homeopathic remedies like oophorinum, folliculinum, Sepia, and Pulsatilla as an alternative to conventional hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms. The speaker's mother experienced fewer hot flushes after treatment. Homeopathic medicines work as signposts that nudge the body toward balance rather than replacing hormones directly.
I have put many patients and even my mother using either oestrogen or progesterone or oophorinum, which comes from an ovary, or folliculinum, comes from an ovary, which has follicles, in order to do, if you like, a homeopathic HRT. Okay, I use the word HRT very lightly. With the homeopathics, it's a much more gentle way of doing something similar. The way to approach that would be to talk to a homeopathic vet, or if you're looking at it for yourself, you need to talk to a homeopath to think about that. And you can also add in non-hormone, as Brent says, the sepias, the pulsatillas. Very, very useful. My mum benefited. She was menopausal towards the end of her life, and she had— we were able to reduce her hot hot flushes and what have you. So I think it's definitely worth—
how do they— how does Sepia and Pulsatilla work? What is the thinking behind those?
It's to do with basically your body is trying to move towards homeostasis. Bad word, stasis, because it means things are static and nothing in nature is static, but it's moving towards a point of equilibrium. And the homeopathy is basically signposts saying, that's not equilibrium. This is equilibrium, move more towards that, that kind of normal physiological functioning.
