Homeopathic pharmacies make up remedies from scratch. They take a substance and dilute it to the correct potency for a particular use. In an emergency, however, you can make your own remedy. This might be when you have taken a medication but can’t seem to get rid of the side effects. This is not meant to treat serious or life-threatening side effects or proven allergies to drugs.

The method is to take one unit of the substance, a pill or a teaspoon of liquid; crush the pill to a fine powder. Then dissolve it in 3 ounces of pure distilled water in a small bottle with a cap. Pound the bottle hard against the palm of your hand or on a hard pillow fifty times. Take 1 teaspoon of the liquid from that bottle and put it into a second bottle with 3 ounces of water and pound that bottle fifty times. Rinse out the first bottle well and put 1 teaspoon of the new mixture into 3 ounces of water and pound it fifty times. Do this procedure six times and you will have diluted the drug so that it has no chemical action but you have imprinted the remedy into the water. This imprinted water can have the effect of removing any residual drug from the body. The last 3 ounces can be kept in the fridge and used, 1 teaspoon two to three times a day, until the symptoms are gone or for a few weeks. To preserve the remedy, use 1 part vodka and 4 parts water. The alcohol prevents bacteria from growing in the water. However, if you are sensitive to alcohol, you don’t have to use it –but just be careful not to contaminate the remedy.

To illustrate the effectiveness of this treatment, consider a study done with rats that were given arsenic. After the rats stopped excreting arsenic in their urine, one-half of the rats were given homeopathic arsenic. Those rats started excreting arsenic into the urine again. So there was arsenic still in the body; it is stored in the fat cells and the remedy helped their bodies get rid of it.