Homeopath

Story captured while on a gondola ride up the mountain in Whisler, BC.


Gondola and chairlift lines at major ski resorts typically have a singles line, which is a line that moves faster than the line with people standing in groups. By standing in this line, you get placed in a lift that is filled with people you don't know. On one particular ride up the mountain, I found myself listening in on a conversation with a lady sitting across the gondola from me. Typically I would respect her privacy, but we were in a very tight enclosure for a decent period of time and she was talking about remedies, which to me sounded interesting. She was talking on the phone to a friend whose son had come down with a fever. She was recommending that her friend give the son two remedies to cure his illness, before trying Tylenol. The remedies were meant to be given once every hour. Her friend had a lot of questions it seemed since the lady across from me was having to re-explain over and over again the instructions.

She later informed me that she was a homeopath, which I had never heard of before. It is an alternative medicine that is made of diluted substances usually found in a healthy person's body. More information on homeopathy can be found on Wikipedia. I found it interesting to hear this conversation considering the different language and medications I am used to in the modern medicine world. I'm interested to read more about this form of medicine, although it is highly controversial to modern day scientists.