Azadeh Olia is a former NASA engineer who changed her career path to homeopathy. She completed the four year degree in Classical Hahnemannian Homeopathy at the distinguished Institute of Classical Homeopathy (ICH) in San Francisco. She is currently teaching at the ICH free clinic, as well as having her own practice in Los Gatos.
She has successfully consulted many patients of all ages with different acute and chronic conditions such as depression, anxiety, allergies, injuries, menstrual problems, hyperactivity (ADHD), low energy, recurrent infections, various pains, urinary problems, digestive problems, respiratory conditions, sleep disorders and many others.
My Story ...
I am a trained engineer who worked twenty years in the high tech industry, including six years at NASA Ames Research Center. My career path into homeopathy began when my young daughter became very ill after having repeated sinus infections and two related surgeries. Years of prescribed antibiotics had destroyed her good intestinal bacteria, making her lactose intolerant and creating severe abdominal pain. All of this started affecting her emotionally. My happy, cheerful child had become miserable. She was having about ten tantrums per day. In homeopathy, we refer to this as the disease moving inward. As a mother, I had to find a cure. Mainstream medicine was unable to help me. They had brought this on with their repeated medications, and the only solution they had to offer me was to remove dairy from her diet and to give her yet more medications to calm her down. That was not an option.
Finally my husband convinced me to take her to a homeopath. A month after taking her first homeopathic remedy, all her pains went away and her allergies diminished. Within two months she was able to eat anything she wanted. Her tantrums took a bit longer. Each week she would have one or two less episodes and by the third month she became the happy little girl with the sunny disposition I was used to. I could not believe it. Could the solution have been so easy all along?
I decided to try homeopathy for myself. For many years I had been suffering from Repetitive Stress Injury in my shoulders, neck and wrists due to computer overuse. I did not think homeopathy could help me with this problem, rather hoped that it would help me better cope with stress and calm me down. When I spoke with my homeopath a month after taking the remedy, she asked me about my shoulder pain. I realized at that point that I had not experienced any pain in about two weeks. The cure had crept up on me so gently that I did not notice. But it couldn’t possibly be permanent, could it? Here I am years later and except for when my body calls for a new dose of remedy, I have been pain free and healthier than I have ever been in my life.
In the years since my family and I began seeing a homeopath, our trips to doctors have become very infrequent. We still catch colds occasionally, but our bodies fight them off before we have a chance to worry about it. After a year or two, I noticed changes that I never thought possible. My energy, confidence, guilt and all the little things that nagged at me for many years, but I had learned to live with, began to be replaced by positive changes.
In truth, I was sold the minute I saw what homeopathy did for my daughter and me. I felt that I had just found a miracle cure that could prevent so much suffering. Why didn’t more people know about this? I wanted to know more and upon learning more decided that I wanted to be able to change lives as my homeopath had changed mine and my daughter’s. What an honor to be able to help end suffering without causing side effects.
I followed my passion and became a homeopath. The feeling that I get each time I help someone conquer his suffering, be it mental or physical, is priceless. Having learned about disease and its progression, and knowing that I just intercepted one and effectively changed the course of someone’s life, even if he or she is not aware where they were heading, is indescribable. Every day, I pray for wisdom and strength and thank god for showing me this amazing path.