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Dr. Ann Lee, ND, L.Ac is now recommending and selling BONNIE’S BALMS PAIN ERASER and HEALING SALVE to her patients in Pennsylvainia.
She is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor (VT) and a Licensed Acupuncturist (PA)
Ann has fashioned the perfect start to a perfect career. She followed her proclivities towards physics and chemistry as a chemical engineering undergraduate, and then went off to work for a pharmaceutical company. Sourcing raw materials for black widow antivenin and mad cow disease projects was fascinating, but she sought a more natural way of healing human beings, and decided to go back to graduate school and get a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and master in acupuncture. She now has a private practice in Lancaster, PA, changing healthcare one patient at a time.

The term homeopathy comes from the Greek words homeo, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning suffering or disease. Homeopathy seeks to stimulate the body’s ability to heal itself by giving very small doses of highly diluted substances. This therapeutic method was developed by German physician Samuel Christian Hahnemann at the end of the 18th century. Hahnemann articulated two main principles:
The principle of similars (or “like cures like”) states that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people. This idea, which can be traced back to Hippocrates, was further developed by Hahnemann after he repeatedly ingested cinchona bark, a popular treatment for malaria, and found that he developed the symptoms of the disease. Hahnemann theorized that if a substance could cause disease symptoms in a healthy person, small amounts could cure a sick person who had similar symptoms.
The principle of dilutions (or “law of minimum dose”) states that the lower the dose of the medication, the greater its effectiveness. In homeopathy, substances are diluted in a stepwise fashion and shaken vigorously between each dilution. This process, referred to as “potentization,” is believed to transmit some form of information or energy from the original substance to the final diluted remedy. Most homeopathic remedies are so dilute that no molecules of the healing substance remain; however, in homeopathy, it is believed that the substance has left its imprint or “essence,” which stimulates the body to heal itself (this theory is called the “memory of water”).
Homeopaths take a look at people based on genetic and personal health history, body type, and current physical, emotional, and mental symptoms. Remedies are “individualized” or tailored to each person—it is not uncommon for different people with the same condition to receive different remedies.

Homeopathic remedies are derived from natural substances that come from plants, minerals, or animals. Common remedies include red onion, arnica (mountain herb), and stinging nettle plant.