Anke Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH

02/16/2026

Good news of the day: 10-year-old girl on the spectrum who used to engage in significant self-harm, including punching and hitting the side of her face during meltdowns 2-3 times a week has only self-harmed once over the past month! The parents are very relieved. She has also improved in a lot of other areas, including being more loving, engaged and interacting with others as well as being able to sit and do crafts for 30-40 minutes now. And remarkably, she is now eating almost everything and with gusto, before she only ate three things, turkey lunch meat and turkey hot dogs, vegan grilled cheese sandwiches and one type of cereal! All this so far just with a constitutional remedy, in her case, Sulphur 6C twice a week. Please note that Sulphur is not a remedy for autism per se, it is supporting her vital force and creating a stimulus for self-healing :)

02/13/2026

Sepia - a common remedy for burn out in moms. Sharing from the Irish Society of Homeopaths

Sepia: The Remedy of Overwhelm, Exhaustion & Emotional Withdrawal
Sepia is often described as the remedy for people who feel drained from giving too much for too long. It carries the picture of someone who has poured their energy into caring, supporting, and holding everything together — until their own well runs dry.

The Emotional Tone
Sepia resonates with states of:
- Feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities
- Becoming irritable, snappy, or easily annoyed
- Wanting space, solitude, or emotional distance
- Feeling “flat,” indifferent, or disconnected from loved ones
- A sense of burden, as though everything is “too much”
It’s not that the person doesn’t care — it’s that they’ve been caring non‑stop, and their system is signalling depletion.

The Physical Expression
People in a Sepia state often describe:
- Low energy or heaviness
- A sense of being “dragged down”
- Tension in the pelvic or abdominal area
- A desire to move — dancing, running, or vigorous exercise can temporarily lift the mood
- Feeling better for warmth, rest, or being left alone

The Inner Experience
Sepia’s inner world often includes:
- Feeling emotionally overloaded
- A need to withdraw to protect one’s inner space
- Irritation at demands, even from people they love
- A sense of losing themselves in roles and responsibilities

Who might relate to the Sepia picture?
People who:
- Carry the emotional load of a household
- Feel responsible for everyone
- Have been “strong” for too long
- Experience burnout from caregiving, parenting, or constant giving
Sepia speaks to the person who says:
“I’m exhausted. I need a break. I need myself back.”

A gentle reminder
This is a general remedy profile, not a diagnosis or treatment plan. Homeopathy looks at the whole person, and remedy selection is individualised.
If you would like to learn more about homeopathy or find a homeopath, please visit www.irishhomeopathy.ie

02/11/2026

Stem cell treatments and possible spike protein contamination: One my kiddos, a young girl, showed high spike vaccine antibodies and both mom and stepdad showed very high spike protein levels although none of them took any of the shots. However, both mom and stepdad underwent stem cell treatments which is how they may have gotten spike protein. Just something to keep in mind in case any of you are considering stem cell treatments, which can, of course, be quite helpful. Maybe you can get them tested for spike protein before taking them. They will try a remedy made from homeopathic spike protein and a detox supplement to see if their antibodies will come down.

02/07/2026

Good news of the day: One of my clients breeds Great Pyrenees dogs and since she is very aware of the whole va$$*ine quandary she does not vaccinate the puppies. One of the puppies in a recent litter brought home parvovirus from a vet visit :( Parvo causes often severe gastrointestinal illness with vomiting, diarrhea (often bloody), lethargy and dehydration and can be fatal if not treated promptly. She treated the puppy with Nux vomica and got her and almost all of the littermates through it very quickly and safely! Do you ever treat your pets with homeopathic remedies at home?

02/07/2026

Did you know we have a remedy made from tattoo ink? With the increased popularity of tattoos I occasionally get complaints from clients not feeling well after getting tattoos. At the moment I'm seeing a young woman who developed swollen lymph nodes in her neck after getting a tattoo. Tattoo ink is not a trivial mixture of colorants and carrier; it’s a complex chemical slurry, often containing industrial pigments never intended for use in or under human skin. Some can even contain mercury compounds.
The pigment particles do not remain confined to the skin. Studies using mass spectrometry and synchrotron X-ray microscopy show particles migrating to regional lymph nodes.
This is exactly what can cause swollen lymph nodes, especially in the neck or armpit draining the tattooed region where macrophages engulf them.
Some die, releasing the pigment again, creating a chronic cycle of immune activation.
This can manifest as:
Chronic inflammation.
Lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes).
Occasionally granulomas or sarcoid-type reactions.
In sensitized individuals, systemic allergic responses.
Remedies like Arsenicum, Nux vomica, cleavers as a herbal extract may also be helpful to support lymph drainage. Saunas could help also. Has anyone here had experience with adverse reactions to tattoos and subsequent detox?

02/06/2026

Good news of the day:
A young boy developed a severe mold sensitivity causing intense emotions with anger and frustration to the point that family members had to change their clothes and wash their hair upon returning from shopping for example. He could not go into stores without a reaction and even had reactions when approaching certain places, including cities or parts of cities. He had been sensitized to mold in the past due to living in a moldy home, then improved with remediation, but relapsed after a couple of viral infections which caused a flare. He is doing much better after Carcinosin 30C about twice a week, a constitutional remedy for him at this time. His tolerance for mold exposure has significantly improved with just very mild and brief reactions, if any. Clues to the remedy included moles, occasional facial tics, bluish sclera, a sensitive immune system and mother developing type 2 diabetes as a child. Please remember that Carc is not a remedy for mold sensitivity, but suits him overall at this time. The remedies support and strengthen the vital fore, they do not treat conditions :)
(Photo from Istock.)

01/31/2026

And now for something completely different: I'm working on a book about how brain inflammation from all the toxins in our lives has affected romantic relationships - not for the better obviously. I have three covers to compare; would you give me your input? Which one do you like best?

01/30/2026

For those of you interested in the complexities of homeopathic autism care, this is a good case example from my practice. This boy has been under care for four years now. The case report only spans about the first two years, but you can see how his symptoms kept changing and he needed all kinds of different remedies - constitutional, acutes, clearing, over time. He has done very well.

A young boy with autism, severe aggression, OCD, speech delay and sleep problems improves under careful homeopathic management with many different remedies over 2.5 years.

01/29/2026

Did you know I also help adults with va$$*ne injuries? For example, I'm working with a woman in her 50s right now who reported being va$$*ne injured in her teens with an MMR injection after which she developed chronic diarrhea for a long time and again in her 30s with a TDaP shot after which she developed chronic insomnia and low energy which have persisted. We are working through a va$$*ine clearing right now and hopefully her symptoms will improve. Has anyone here had experience with being va$$*ne injured as an adult and/or healing from it?

01/28/2026

Case management notes: When doing va$$*ine clearings with children on the spectrum they often need acute remedies to support them during aggravations. Case in point: Adorable 4-year-old on the spectrum is responding well to Menitorix and Pfizer clearing remedies with increased awareness and engagement, more eye contact and vocalizations, however, Menitorix is giving her diarrhea, which mom has been able to address nicely with Nux vomica. Both are triggering different flavours of irritability, including irritable crying for no obvious reason, which is responding well to Chamomilla, as well as rages around 3 pm with a red face and feet stomping - which is responding well to Belladonna. She also has some nighttime rages which have responded well to Stramonium and sometimes Belladonna if they were closer to 3 am. Moral of the story: No need to suffer through aggravations, they need to be managed like acutes and of course don't go too fast with the clearing remedies either :)

01/27/2026

Recording of my webinar: Simple Energy and Spiritual Healing Approaches to Help Your Child with Autism' is now available at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/optVAEFU-7MeNeOBl0-aKFenK8_iQutt4-wEyhxLBgts_rsJuvLUk7ub41psewqX.-yBdYuHYO5NHYAXY?startTime=1769477138000
Passcode: wj8DTc9=.
I re-recorded the webinar due to several technical difficulties during the original session on Saturday. If you signed up through Eventbrite you will also receive a link, although they are holding the notification email for up to 48 hours. I hope this will be helpful to some of you and feel free to reach out if you have any interesting experiences :)

01/27/2026

Warts anyone? Warts may need to be addressed as part of the constitutional state of the individual. A few years ago, I saw a 13-year-old girl with a severe case of warts around her ankles. There were hundreds of warts around both of her ankles, it looked grotesque and she was very self-conscious about them. The family doctor had treated them with liquid nitrogen repeatedly, but they just came stronger. I noticed that the girl seemed much younger than her age, about 10 years old, rather than 13 and she answered in a slow way. I took the parents aside and asked about her academics and relationship with other children and they confirmed that she struggled with school and only played with younger kids. I ended up giving Baryta carb 200C. On follow-up a month later, the warts were all gone and the girl had made a developmental leap and no longer played with younger children! The warts never returned. In this case Baryta was a constitutional remedy for the child, it is not a remedy for warts, but in her case it was a remedy that supported her vital force so her body could heal itself. There is a link to the whole case in the comment section as well.