Principles of Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a
holistic system of medicine. The central philosophy is “similia similibus curantur”,
which translates into “like cures like”. By using
a minute dose of a natural substance, which can cause physical
symptoms in crude form, the body’s own healing powers are
stimulated, leading to improved health and vitality.
Symptoms are more important for Homeopathy, rather than
disease names, as these are individual to the patient and indicate
the remedy required. From a Homeopathic point of view, symptoms
occur on any level, physical, mental or emotional. When analysing
a patient’s case all aspects of that person are taken into
consideration.
Hence homeopathy is a healing system that seeks to match the symptoms
of the patient to those of his or her illness, and as a result
lays great stress on getting a very detailed description of the
patient's illness. Homeopathy actually rouses the healing process
by creating a fake disturbance of health with medicines and when
this disorder matches to the disturbance caused by the disease,
it makes the body work harder to get well. This way, the patient
can recover their health within few weeks or months necessary for
the body to repel the disease and re-grow damaged tissues.
Key Points
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In homeopathy, a key premise is that every person has energy
called a vital force or self-healing response. When this energy
is disrupted or imbalanced, health problems develop. Homeopathy
aims to stimulate the body's own healing responses.
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Homeopathic treatment involves giving extremely small doses
of substances that produce characteristic symptoms of illness
in healthy people when given in larger doses. This approach
is called "like cures like."
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Various explanations have been proposed as to how homeopathy
might work. However, none of these explanations has been scientifically
verified.
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Research studies on homeopathy have been contradictory in their
findings. Some analyses have concluded that there is no strong
evidence supporting homeopathy as effective for any clinical
condition. However, others have found positive effects from homeopathy.
The positive effects are not readily explained in scientific
terms.
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It is important to inform all of your health care providers
about any therapy that you are currently using or considering,
including homeopathic treatment. This is to help ensure a safe
and coordinated course of care.
Three Laws of Homeopathy
This popular form of alternative medicine is based on
three therapeutic principles. The first of these principles is
the law of similar. Based on the concept of treating "like
with like", according to this law symptoms are result of body's
attempt to restore itself to health. Increasing these symptoms
would then aid the body's normal healing process. This form of
alternative medicine make use of inner power for healing by giving
medicine which further increase the symptoms similar to those that
the patient is previously experiencing. Now under this law, the
inner vital force of the body works simultaneously to neutralize
the action of the medicine and finally eliminates the signs of
diseases which are similar to it.
The second principal of homeopathy
is the use of a single medicine. Every disease we face is the effect
of a fight among the disease agent and the body's interior essential
force and this fight articulate itself as the symptoms or signs
that the patient experience. Now as we know that the body owns
a sole unitary crucial force, and when a person gets ill all the
symptoms the person experiences are a part of that illness. There
is no such thing as illness limit itself to a small area or in
a single part of the body. As a result of this, one recommends
the single medicine that matches all of the patient's complaints.
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third fundamental of this therapy is that of minimum
dose. This
law is just opposite to conventional drug philosophy and vital
to homeopathy's feasibility, since some compounds use as ingredients
in this therapy can be lethal at high concentrations. In fact,
experience has trained homeopathic practitioners that in most circumstances
the smaller the dose, the more powerful it is.
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