Doctor: How is your sleep?
Patient: The allergy medication makes me sleepy and I fall sleep but if don’t take it one night I hardly sleep.
Doctor: How is your significant other handling this?
Patient: Doctor, this is putting pressure on my marriage. I am irritable and tired all day. I don't want to go out. And I am having trouble with intimacy with my wife as heat and sweating make the itching and redness worse.
Doctor: What makes the itching better?
Patient: Sometimes cold makes it better.
Doctor: Does it feel better if you scratch it?
Patient: It feels better if I scratch it until it bleeds.
Doctor: Interesting! It reminds me of a Homeopathic medication which has that set of symptomatology in its Materia Medica.
Patient: What is Materia Medica?
Doctor: The collection of the Homeopathic medications and the symptoms they cover. Have you tried Homeopathy before?
Doctor: The collection of the Homeopathic medications and the symptoms they cover. Have you tried Homeopathy before?
Patient: Yes, I have taken some Turmeric and Boswallia to help. But they didn’t do anything.
Doctor: Those are considered herbs and supplements, not Homeopathy! Homeopathy uses the very diluted version of natural substances. You might take milligrams or grams of Turmeric but Homeopathic medication are so diluted there is very minimal amount of the original substance is left in the actual remedy.
Patient: Oh, I thought herbs were considered Homeopathic medication. So, how does Homeopathy work?
Doctor: Do you know how vaccines work? A small amount of a substance is administered to the body that makes the body react and create a change. Let me ask you some questions to see if I can figure out your Homeopathic type. How is your energy during the day?
Patient: It is good until it drops around 4-5pm and then I get a second wind after 8pm.
Doctor: You mentioned your rash is worse with heat and better with cold. Do you generally feel better with cold weather or hot weather?
Patient: I can’t stand heat.
Doctor: How is your appetite?
Patient: My appetite is good, but as soon as I start eating it goes away.
Doctor: Does any food give you gas or bloating?
Patient: Doctor, I am always bloated and gassy. I have always been like that.
Doctor: Do you have to eat everyday at the same time?
Patient: Yes, I have to eat every day at noon, if I miss that even by 5 minutes I start getting a migraine headache above my eye and become very irritable.
Doctor: How do people around you describe you?
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