What is Homeopathic Medicine?
Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Dr Samuel Hahnemann (German Physician). It is based in a holistic- natural approach treating the unique individual and stimulating their own healing. Holistic means treating the person as a whole: Emotions, Mind and physical body and not focusing only on the disease.
Homeopathic remedies are from natural sources from the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdom and this remedies are produced according to the U.S. FDA-recognized Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States.
Homeopathy is recognized by the World Health Organization as the second largest therapeutic system in use in the world. Aside from bringing health benefits without side effects or the dangers inherent in major interventions, it offers the holistic approach to health, It is very popular in India and South America, over thirty million people in Europe, and millions of others around the world, also benefit from its use.
The principle of Homeopathy: Likes Cure Likes (similia similibus curentur)
Dr. C. F. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the first who codified this principle into a system of medicine, based on his doctrine of like cures like applying the principle that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.
We can also understand the law of similars in terms of homeodynamis – the body’s way of maintaining health. When a person becomes ill there is an imbalance; for example if you had a fright one night and the next few evenings you had insomnia this could be considered normal as you adjust and return to health. If the insomnia continues, however, then homeodynamis has not taken place and you have become stuck, you are not in the flow of life. Health is characterized by a flow of vitality.
How this works
A person takes the homeopathic medicine and it does gently exaggerates the symptoms ( in this case stuck) thus triggering the healing response. Conventional western medicines suppress symptoms, masking them, and this is why you often have to stay on drugs for a long time or your symptoms return id you are off the drugs. Homeopathy do not suppress symptoms. When the symptoms of insomnia appear and stay, this means the homeodynamic action is stuck. The appropriate homeopathic medicine will stimulate the body into action again. The person in treatment may often experience a small and temporary ‘aggravation’ in the symptoms as the vitality is energized into action to overcome the slowdown. Now the self-healing power is re-established and the flow of vitality continues again.
Today more than 2,000 homeopathic remedies are in existence and they are based in toxicological data, and clinical experience.
Is homeopathy safe to use?
Homeopathic remedies are gentle and non-addictive. Unlike some conventional drugs, homeopathic medicines are non-addictive and have no dangerous side-effects. Homeopathy is safe and ideal to use for babies, children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, who are under the supervision of a homeopathic doctor or a professional practitioner.
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