The powers and potentials of our great profession exceed far beyond what we have seen to date.  Our profession has been positioned from its onset to expand in its power and influence, not to shrink back in mediocrity.  To accurately set our compass to the full potential of chiropractic we must first align our vision with the vision of the founders who created chiropractic.

I am reminded of D.D. Palmer's vision about how he had expected chiropractic to mature:

"But as soon as the human mind is capable of absorbing, a still more refined and advanced method and human inspiration demands it, it will be delivered to the denizens of the earth.  A few years ago it was thought impossible to send a telegram without using a stretched wire from post to post to convey it from one point to another.  Today, by proper adjusting, messages are sent thousands of miles over land and sea without the need of posts or wire.  Is it too much to expect a similar development, along chiropractic lines, to be awaiting our beck and call?"
--D.D. Palmer
The Chiropractor’s Adjuster, 1910

I believe D.D.’s vision for chiropractic is fulfilled by homeopathy.  Homeopathy offers chiropractic the ability to go beyond the limitations of the “stretched wire from post to post” analogy.  We will never fulfill the high call of chiropractic until we transcend the limitations of the spine and address the bigger picture involving nerve interferences throughout the whole body.  A more complete understanding of nerve interference would encompass a combination of irregular neurological dysfunctions including reflex aberrations, abnormal reflex responses, dysfunctional memory patterns, pathological reflexes, and inherited reflex anomalies that can occur anywhere from the brain to the most peripheral portions of our body.  As we take steps to embrace a bigger picture of nerve interference, we will take quantum leaps toward fulfilling D.D.’s vision for chiropractic.

Homeopathy offers chiropractic a detailed and comprehensive approach to correcting the deeper dimensions of nerve interferences beyond the bone on the nerve.  Homeopathy understands the essence of how we are intimately interconnected to the world around us.  We cannot survive more than a few minutes without a right relationship with the atmosphere in which we breathe, drink, eat, and live.  Homeopathy provides us a comprehensive compilation of our neuro-sensory and motor relationships to the substances of our world and extracts the innate vital force from these substances through a comprehensive process called potentization.  Homeopathy offers chiropractic over 200 years of controlled studies called provings, which are backed by clinical outcomes to confirm its efficacy and safety.  This information is recorded in various texts called homeopathic materia medicas and repertories to help us chiropractors better impact the whole nervous system. 

Similar to chiropractic, homeopathy works to activate our body’s natural, innate abilities to express optimal health.  Homeopathy, with its serial dilutions and succussions beyond the molecular levels, works not bio-chemically, but bio-energetically, upon the nervous system to activate proper healthy functions of the body.  The science of homeopathy offers the chiropractor a detailed network of tools to easily, safely, and effectively corrects the bigger picture of nerve interference.

Homeopathy and chiropractic coincide ideally in philosophy, mode of action, and in effectiveness:

• PHILOSOPHY.   The body is a self-healing organism.  Healing occurs when proper communication is established in the nervous system.  Symptoms are but the body’s own intelligent way of saying through the sensory nervous system that it needs help.  Our purpose, then, is to help the body’s attempt to heal by expressing health, not to mask or suppress this phenomenon of sensory communication..

• MODE OF ACTION.   Homeopathy assists the body’s own innate natural healing capabilities through the nervous system.  Retracing—or temporary aggravation of symptoms—is the body's positive attempt to heal and may indicate the true healing responses to the cause-of-dis-ease.

• EFFECTIVENESS OF RESULTS.    Homeopathy has the most profound effect on the nervous system.  Often symptomatic relief is noticed within minutes or even seconds of taking a homeopathic remedy, confirming its therapeutic pathway through the nervous system.

The principles above sounds like chiropractic, yet they originated over 200 years ago with the inception of homeopathy.  And, as you might have figured, these principles originated with homeopathy and predate D.D.’s discovery of chiropractic.

B.J. Palmer’s vision was to empty the hospitals, insane asylums, and jails and fill the churches.  Homeopathy offers chiropractic the opportunity to expand its scope of practice to begin fulfilling that vision.  Homeopathy has an exhaustive arsenal to correct imbalances in the body, mind, and emotions. 

What Kind of DC Do You Want to Be?

Have you have felt unfulfilled or that something has just been missing in your practice?  If so, then it’s time to ask yourself some serious questions that can significantly and positively impact your practice: 

• Do you desire to experience more in chiropractic than the basic aches, sprains, and strains of a musculoskeletal practice? 
• Is it in your heart to help the whole person? 
• Do you want to rise up out of the mundane and take chiropractic to a whole new level? 
• Would you like safe, simple, and easily applied procedures to effectively help the ever-growing number of patients suffering from chronic, recurrent conditions in which conventional procedures (medical and/or chiropractic) have been ineffective?
• Are you ready to be liberated as a chiropractor, free to help more people and broaden your scope of influence? 
• Do you want to increase your value as a DC?

If your answer was yes to these questions, you are taking positive steps in the right direction to accomplish those goals.

The Ideal Practice

What would be the ideal practice a doctor of chiropractic could have in today’s climate?  You would have an abundance of patients waiting to see you without having to use sales gimmicks.  People would travel long distances to see you and would pay cash for your services whether or not they had insurance.  You would be liberated from managed care or the dependency on health insurance companies.  You would have the good reputation of helping people that other doctors could not.  Would you want to help more people in fewer visits than other chiropractors?  Everyone wants to see the doctor who can correct so-called chronic conditions that others cannot!  If this is the kind of practice you want to have and the kind of doctor you want to be, read on.

The majority of the public is affected by some supposed, incurable, or recurring problems that neither medical nor chiropractic has been able to resolve.  These people are open to, hungry for—even hoping and praying for—someone to come along with an answer to their dilemma.  Dis-ease has been robbing people of their quality of life, and they are searching for a doctor at least willing to step up to the plate to try to help them.

Beyond the restrictions of insurance and managed care, people are willing and ready to find someone with an answer.  The answer to their prayers can be YOU.  The rewards are many.  After 20 years of practice, I can honestly say there are no incurable diseases, only incurable people who have not yet found the pieces of health they need to receive their healing.  You, doctor, have the opportunity to provide those answers to health they so urgently need. 

Enjoy the journey!

Frank J. King Jr., N.D., D.C. is a nationally recognized researcher, author and lecturer on homeopathy. In addition, Dr. King is the founder and director of King Bio; a registered homeopathic manufacturing company dedicated to empowering people to safely and naturally overcome the common problems plaguing our society.