Three weeks later K.S. came into the office complaining of forgetfulness and fuzziness of mind. She had taken a cashiering job but quit after a day because her concentration was scattered. She complained again at this time of having difficulty distinguishing reality and felt that everything was too much for her. She was more loquacious than usual, complained of her moods being up and down, and had "lost track of time". She was even more impressionable than usual and would follow through on whatever anyone told her to do. She even had a hard time catching the right bus. She misread or mistaked what she heard and complained of a constantly vacillating mind. Her judgement was quite impaired, and her behavior erratic. At this point we changed her homeopathic prescription, feeling that the C. indica had helped but she had reached a plateau. Because of her loquacity, poor concentration, misjudgement, and inappropriate actions, we gave her Hyoscyamus, again daily.

By the time of her next visit, two weeks later, she was dramatically better. Her concentration and memory were significantly improved, her behavior was more discreet, and she was starting to read again. She had secured unemployment compensation and felt she was taking more control over her life again.

That was nine months ago and K.S. has been steadily progressing ever since, despite some fairly stressful events in her life. She has not taken any homeopathic remedies for her mental functioning for six months, but was treated successfully with homeopathic Silica acutely for a dental abscess . She is working part-time, thinking of going back to her previous full-time pharmaceutical sales work, and goes to folk dancing regularly. She reports that she feels herself again and, during the last visit, said she is involved sexually with a men for the first time in fourteen years. We will continue to follow K.S. closely over time, and she will likely need more constitutional prescriptions. Allopathic medicine would have treated this patient with psychiatric hospitalization and psychotropic medication, perhaps for the rest of her life. It is very exciting for us, as avid and serious believers in homeopathy, to see that homeopathic medicine can be an effective, powerful, yet non-toxic alternative in at least some cases of schizophrenia.

Dr. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Dr. Robert Ullman are licensed naturopathic physicians and are board certified in homeopathy. They are President and Vice-President of the International Foundation for Homeopathy where they teach homeopathy to licensed health care professionals. They practice in Edmonds, WA at 131 3rd Ave., N., Edmonds, WA 98020 and can be reached at (206) 774-5599.