Homoeopathy

Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone, young and old. Homeopathy focuses on you as an individual, concentrating on treating your specific physical and emotional symptoms, to give long lasting benefits.
Homoeopathy is an approach to healing which is based on the primary principle of "treating like with like." The word, itself, is derived from the Greek words, homos (same) and pathos(suffering).
A more complete description of the homoeopathic principle would be: that which can produce a particular complex of physiological reactions in a healthy person, can be used in minute doses to treat a person in whom those same (or similar) reactions are found as symptoms of a disease.

The founder of homeopathy was Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Based on his observations, he formulated the so-called PRINCIPLE OF SIMILARITY, which states that a given substance can cure in a diseased person the symptoms that it produces or causes in a healthy person. Homeopathy is a well-described, scientifically based system of approaching health and disease. "Scientific" because the insights are based on reproducible experiments. "Well-described" because from these observations a number of precise basic fundamental rules became evident, first among them the "similarity principle." Hahnemann published his ideas and experiences in a book called the Organon. The first edition appeared in 1810 and he wrote the last edition (which appeared posthumously) in 1842. As was the custom in those days, he gave numbers to each paragraph in which he explained his different concepts. What is so striking is that Hahnemann’s fundamental concepts still hold true today nearly 200 years later. This is not to say there has been no progress in homeopathic thought but rather to the fact that subsequent investigators have been able to confirm and reconfirm these basic principles. Every serious study of homeopathy even today begins with a study of the Organon.

If treating like with like in order to achieve cure is a concept that is not intuitively obvious to our way of thinking, the idea of potentization is even more of a challenge.  Yet the homoeopathic process of potentization dilutes the original substance well beyond this point, so far beyond in fact, that it would be difficult (if not impossible) to find any of the original substance in the solution.  (This is the primary reason why those who dismiss the homoeopathic effect regard it as nothing more than placebo effect, i.e. suggestion. Unfortunately for this argument, an appropriately chosen homoeopathic remedy will work as well on a pet or herd of cattle as it will on us suggestible human beings.) Homeopathic remedies are a unique, potentised energy medicine, drawn from the plant, mineral and animal worlds. They are diluted to such a degree that not one molecule of the original substance can be detected (after the 12c potency).They work by gently boosting the natural energy of the body, and are very safe, even for pregnant and sensitive patients. There is no danger of addiction or toxicity.(2)How it is diluted is the determining factor between ending up with nothing or a homoeopathic remedy.Another important point regarding the essential nature of homoeopathy is that a skilled homoeopath is trained to observe the patient in the most comprehensive way.  Homoeopathy does not easily address an individual symptom without the overall symptom picture of the remedy matching the overall and essential constitution of the patient.  In this sense it is regarded as a holistic form of therapy. From this we can see that homoeopathy can bring a wonderful healing element into society.  This is especially important where the conventional alternative may involve a high price in the form side effects and often dependency on order to maintain a controlled state of the patient's condition.  It is acknowledged that antibiotics are over-prescribed causing digestive disorders and eventual ineffectiveness, that steroids can bring tremendous problems in their wake if used excessively in the control of inflammatory conditions, and others.It is important to not undervalue the importance of many of the solutions that conventional medicine offers for conditions which homoeopathy can ease but not resolve.  It would be dangerous folly to suggest to an insulin-dependent diabetic patient, for example, that homoeopathy can cure their diabetes and that they can come off their insulin.  But homoeopathy can ease the diabetic's suffering in many cases while they maintain their regular course of conventional medicine.

When taking homoeopathgic medicines.Follow the instructions of your physician. Drops can go directly into your mouth or be dissolved in water and then administered in teaspoonful doses. Grains and globules can be placed under the tongue. It is better not to touch the remedies, so use the cap of the vial or tube. Store your homeopathic remedy in a place where there is no sunlight or strong odors and where it is neither too hot nor cold. This way it will remain active for a long time. After you have taken your medication it is important to observe yourself. Be sure to keep the follow up appointment which will be two to eight weeks after the initial appointment. Typically in the treatment of a chronic illness the follow up will be one to two months later. The better the treatment goes the longer will be the intervals between appointments until you are eventually cured. Cure is not simply the disappearance of one or several complaints but an optimally stable equilibrium physically as well as well as psychologically.

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