What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a system of natural healing, which works by stimulating the body to heal itself. The founder of homeopathy was a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Based on his observations he formulated the law of similars, which states that a substance, which produces a set of symptoms in  a healthy person, will cure those very symptoms when given to a sick person. These principles were described by Hippocrates 2500 years ago and also were found in the old texts of Ayurveda. The word homeopathy comes from Greek words meaning similar + suffering. For example the homeopathic remedy Allium Cepa made from onions is sometimes used to treat Hay fever symptoms because a healthy person chopping onions usually experiences runny nose and stinging eyes. A homeopathic remedy made from coffee may be used to treat insomnia because coffee makes one alert and sleepless.

It is a holistic system and treats the whole person. It has a broader view of disease and takes into account the interrelatedness of physical, mental and emotional levels and their influence on each other. Symptoms are not viewed as the disease but the body’s effort to heal itself. A homeopathic remedy helps in that effort.  Homeopathy aims at healing from the inside out and not on a superficial removal of symptoms.

Homeopathy has an individualistic approach and takes into account ones unique response to disease and does not treat people as a collection of disease labels. Thus ten people with headaches may be treated with ten different remedies based on their unique individual response to headache. Homeopathic remedies are powerful, gentle, nontoxic and highly effective. Homeopathy is suitable for everyone from babies to the elderly. Homeopathy is widespread in Europe, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent and Africa. It is undergoing strong resurgence in Canada and the United States.

What are Homeopathic remedies?

These are derived from plants, minerals, metals and animal sources. There are approximately 3,500 remedies. Remedies are prepared in Homeopathic pharmacies by a special procedure of serial dilution and forceful pounding between dilutions. It is thought that the processes of dilution and pounding result in leaving an imprint of the energy pattern of the original substance in the dilution medium.

These specially prepared and highly diluted substances are given to healthy volunteers and their symptoms are carefully recorded into homeopathic materia medicas. Such an ultra diluted substance is then administered in the minutest dose to the sick individual whose disease symptoms closely match the symptoms produced by this substance in a healthy individual. This encourages individual’s own healing system to restore health rapidly, gently and permanently.

In classical homeopathy only one remedy is given at a time, which in the ideal case corresponds perfectly to the total state of the patient. A combination of several homeopathic remedies lacks the fine-tuning and individuality which are hallmarks of the homeopathic system.

The ultra dilution used in the preparation of homeopathic remedies makes them non toxic and safe for use even by babies.

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