A rave for homeopathics, and a question

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On late Sunday night, RJ came down, quite suddenly, with the same

awful, summer cold that my dh has been fighting for about two weeks

now. RJ had a horrible runny nose, was terribly congested, eyes were

watery, his throat obviously was hurting, was sneezing constantly,

was sleeping restlessly, and didn't want to nurse much. Every time

he tried to nurse, he would end up gagging, I am sure from all the

mucous. This all began, literally suddenly, on Sunday night, around

midnight. (Okay, technically Monday morning, but having not been to

bed yet, it was still Sunday to me! (o= ) Anyhow, I had dh stop

and pick up a homeopathic remedy from my local health food store, a

combined remedy. (No local access to a classic homeopath here, are

even a lay homeopath.) DH was incredibly skeptical, even implying

homeopathy was quackery, and that it was all the power of suggestion,

etc. DH came home at 5 pm on Monday, all the while, RJ was still

miserable. As soon as dh got home, I started giving RJ the remedy.

Literally, within minutes, RJ started perking up. Playing, nursing,

acting more like himself. That evening, altho he had been

symptomless for a number of hours, he began becoming symptomatic

again. I gave RJ ONE more dose, and we went to bed. RJ did not

sleep much that night, was terribly restless, whiney, etc. I think

he had a healing crisis, as all things point to it. It was as if all

his symptoms were multiplied ten fold. Anyhow, by Tuesday morning,

when we woke up, a LITTLE OVER 24 HOURS AFTER ONSET OF COLD, he was

back to himself! No symptoms, or anything, and has remained clear

since Tuesday morning. Monday afternoon, he took a three hour nap,

but I am sure that is just from the exhaustion of not sleeping. So,

that is MY rave about homeopathics. WAAAAAAAAY better than

allopathic medicine, for sure! Another good thing, is dh now

believes in homeopathy! Wooohooo!

K...on to my question...

I recall at one point, Phyllis (I believe it was you) saying that

when the remedy is gone, you can add more distilled water to the

bottle holding the remedy, and it will still work. However, you need

to make certain that the water doesn't overflow. Having really read

alot about homeopathy in the past few days, I understand that.

However, I am wondering, how many times can you refill the bottle,

before you should get a new, fresh remedy? After some time, won't

the remedies get kind of stagnant and funky? Also, I have read that

some homeopathics have 20% alcohol in them as a preservative, and

some do not. Is the alcohol neccessary? BTW, I am refering to

liquid form of homeopathics. Any help on those questions, will be

greatly appreciated! TIA!

~Donna...aspiring homeopath ;o)