Homeopathy has been established for about 200 years. Amongst the other holistic therapies, this is one of the most dynamic forms of medicine, capable of producing profound, lasting healing effect. Homeopathy is a safe effective and scientific system of medicine which treats the man in disease and not disease in man, it treats the sick individual and not the diagnosis.
It works by helping the body to heal itself.
It is based on the principle of “like cures like”. Take for example, a case of insomnia. Conventional treatment would involve giving a drug to cause artificial sleep. However homeopaths would find a substance, which, if given in large quantities, would produce sleeplessness. Surprisingly a substance like coffee, when given in minute doses, can treat insomnia.
Homeopathy takes a truly holistic approach to the treatment of the disease. It recognises that all the symptoms of ill-health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and hence it is the person who needs treatment for his suffering, rather than just the disease.
In simpler words, homeopathy aims at healing the whole person rather than just taking care of one or two symptoms or attacking symptoms aggressively unlike other forms of treatment. The holistic approach to medicine takes a wider view of illness, a wider view of causes of disease and they way in which people express their illness individually. Hence homeopathy can be used to treat almost anything.
One of the unique fundamental principles of homeopathy is that of individual prescription. E.g. two patients might have headaches but the way they have their headaches can be different, their overall state of health can be different, the way they cope with life can be different and so on. Hence such two patients with apparently similar illnesses may need different remedies, helping them more precisely.
Paracelsus a 16th century philosopher and physician said “Those who merely study and treat the effects of disease are like those who imagine that they can drive away the winter by brushing the snow from the door. It is not the snow that causes the winter, but the winter that causes the snow”
Homeopathic view of intimate connection of physical, emotional and mental or even spiritual illness, as all are aspects of the whole of the patients suffering, is also been now verified by researchers in modern medicine. Homeopathic medicines are prescribed according to the law of similar hence medicines act along with the natural healing process and not go against it.
The law of similar has been a part of medical practice in Greece, but Homeopathy as we know today, was first formulated two hundred years ago by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, chemist and linguist.
Safe and non toxic remedies, no danger of overdose, remedies are not addictive, remedies are not tested on animals, easy to preserve, less expensive in comparison to conventional regimes, long consultations enable the patient and practitioner to discuss all aspects of the person’s health and lifestyle.
In acute and chronic disease, whether the symptoms are physical, mental, or emotional, Homeopathy produces subtle, yet often dramatic, healing. From newborns to old peoples, most people can benefit from homeopathy. Homeopaths treat common illness such as allergies, asthma, digestive disorders, gynecological problems, skin conditions, insomnia, chronic fatigue, headaches, and arthritis. If a Homeopath can find the similimum for the individual, most diseases with reversible pathology can be treated. Even chronic autoimmune or hereditary diseases such as diabetes, scleroderma, psoriasis, and systemic lupus erythematosis may respond to homeopathic treatment, especially in the early stages of the disease.
Although homeopaths prescribe for the whole person rather than the specific disease state, injuries and acute illnesses, such as colds, flues, fevers, sore throats, and bronchitis can improve very quickly with homeopathic treatment. Homeopaths know that antibiotics are not the only successful treatment for infections. Ear infections, conjunctivitis, bladder infections, vaginal infections, boils, and cellulitis frequently respond well to homeopathic treatment. Many people have come to respect Homeopathy after witnessing its rapid action.
In case of kidney stones, gall bladder disease, ovarian cysts, and uterine fibroids, the need for surgery may sometimes be avoided with prompt homeopathic treatment. In more advanced or emergency cases, surgery may be the treatment of choice. Even when the body is unable to heal the problem completely, the symptoms of these illnesses, such as bleeding, inflammation, and pain, can often be significantly improved. When surgery is necessary, homeopathic medicines can help prevent excessive bleeding and hasten healing after surgery.
Homeopathy can often provide benefit to patients with neurological conditions such as Bell’s palsy (a type of facial paralysis), epilepsy, carpal tunnel syndrome, twitches, numbness, and sciatica, and other kinds of nerve pain. It may sometimes help multiple sclerosis, Parkinsonism, other more serious neurological diseases.
Homeopathic remedies are obtained from different sources of nature like plants, minerals, metals and some poisons which have been used medicinally for generations.
After initial preparation of the raw material the remedies are made by serial dilution and succussion (vigorous shaking) in a solution of water and alcohol (in small amount). This is done a few (3-4 times) or upto many thousands of times. The liquid dilution is used itself as a remedy or soaked into tablets or granules for convenience.
The process of succession apparently imprints the characteristic energy pattern, or blueprint, of the original substance onto the water in which it is diluted.
A homeopathic remedy acts as a signal which energises or stimulates the body’s self-healing powers, mobilising the immune systems on all levels – mental, emotional and physical. Homeopathically potentised medicines (not the Bio chemic combinations) have the ability to cross the blood – brain barrier could be explained scientifically on the theory of pharmacodynamics.
Homeopathic medicines are made from natural sources and are diluted uniquely to such a degree that often only a molecule of the original drug substance is present; rest is only the potentised energy. They work on the body by gently boosting up the natural energy of the body. They are virtually free of side effects and toxic effects or addiction.
They can be safely given to newborns, pregnant women and to sensitive persons.
Allopathic medicine aim to destroy bacteria and viruses, control physiological process, and maintain body function within the range necessary to sustain life like giving anti spasmodic for cramps, antiemetic for vomiting, antidepressant for depression, analgesic for pain etc. According to them disease disappears if the symptoms are taken away.
Homoeopathy helps by increasing the healing power of patient. By doing this homoeopath increases the healing power of patient.
Homoeopathy treats the man behind the disease but not disease itself. Homoeopath tries to understand the mind and body both together. Homoeopath tries to understand the whole man behind the disease.
Allopathic medicine uses synthetic drugs, while Homoeopathic approach, is to prescribe a substance in small doses which has been proven to stimulate similar symptoms in healthy volunteers on all levels of human being- not only the cramps or diarrhoea, but also mental/ emotional symptoms, temperature intolerance, sleep pattern, food cravings etc. (Each case of diarrohea will receive the different remedy.)
In Allopathy there is different medicine for the different diseases, but homoeopath gives one-medicine bases on mind-body, which covers him completely
Homeopathy is one of the safest forms of medicine, even for pregnant women, infants, and the elderly. Any toxic effects of a crude substance in nature disappear when that substance is prepared homeopathically. In order for it to be made into a homeopathic medicine, the substance is diluted sufficiently to eliminate all toxic effects.