Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone. The 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”.
Homeopathy focuses on you as an individual, concentrating on treating your specific physical and emotional symptoms, to give long lasting benefits. It is a form of health care that developed in Germany and has been practiced in the United States since the early 19th century. Homeopathic practitioners are commonly called homeopaths.
It is believed by practitioners of Homeopathy that the therapeutic ability of a remedy can be increased by continuous dilution of the drug combined with shaking and succussion. Opposed to the laws of Physics and Chemistry, Homeopathy believes that the potential of a medicine is enhanced by diluting it as it increases the spirit like medicinal properties.
Homeopathic medicines are prepared from herbs, non-biological substances like salts, animal matter like duck liver and substances of human origin called nosodes.
Like many alternative medical approaches, homeopathy is largely dismissed by the conventional medical community on account of the lack of scientific evidence supporting the benefits of this approach. This, however, does not deter large numbers of advocates of the philosophy from seeking relief from conditions such as depression and anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, migraine, eczema and common colds.
Typically, homeopathic medicines are administered in liquid form with the active ingredient having been diluted many times to remove its toxic property while still retaining its therapeutic property. The ingredient is diluted with alcohol, sugar solution or plain water. Remedies can be made up of substances derived from synthetic, plant, animal or mineral sources.
Homeopathy can be considered a holistic medical approach since practitioners take into account all aspects of the patient’s physical and mental state. Only when a homeopathist has considered all aspects of the patient, including the patient’s body type, personal likes and dislikes and innate predispositions, is a remedy be prescribed.
While the efficacy of homeopathic remedies has yet to be proven by modern scientific methods, it’s generally accepted that most homeopathic prescriptions are safe for human consumption. The levels of ingredients, that would otherwise in their purest forms be considered toxic, are so minute as to be undetectable and hence pose no danger to the patient.
Homeopathic remedies
Remedy is a technical term used in homeopathy to refer to a substance prepared with a particular procedure and intended for treating patients. Homeopathic practitioners rely on two types of reference when prescribing remedies. The Homeopathic Materia Medicae which is comprised of alphabetical indexes of "drug pictures" organized by remedy and describes the symptom patterns associated with individual remedies. They also rely on homeopathic repertories which consist of indexes of symptoms of diseases and listing remedies associated with specific symptoms.
Most homeopathic remedies are derived from natural substances that come from plants, minerals, or animals. A remedy is prepared by diluting the substance in a series of steps (as discussed in above). Homeopathy asserts that this process can maintain a substance's healing properties regardless of how many times it has been diluted. Many homeopathic remedies are so highly diluted that not one molecule of the original natural substance remains. Remedies are sold in liquid, pellet, and tablet forms.
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