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How Homeopathy works ?

Homeopathy sees symptoms of disease as a positive outward sign that the body is trying to heal itself. Therefore, it holds that the symptoms should not be suppressed (as they are in allopathic medicines), and remedies are used which will help stimulate and support the healing process. In some cases, the symptoms will worsen before they will improve.

A homeopath prescribes remedies for the “whole”’ person, basing his or her decision on Hahnemann’s principles- the law of similar, the principle of minimum dose, and prescribing for the individual.

THE LAW OF SIMILARS: Formulated in 1796, it states that a substance that, in large doses, can produce symptoms of illness in a healthy person can cure similar symptoms in a sick person if used in minute doses. Hehnemann believed this was because nature allows for the existence of two similar diseases in the body at the same time. Homeopathic remedies work by introducing a similar artificial disease that negates the original the original disease, and yet its own effects are so minimal it causes no suffering.

THE MINIMUM DOSE: This states that successive dilutions enhance the curative properties of a substance, while eradicating any side-effects. This means only the most minute dose of the substance is needed to help heal.

WHOLE-PERSON PRESCRIBING: Homeopaths believe that symptom, pain, or diseases do not occur in isolation, but are an overall reflection of a person. They therefore do not just look for the problem presented to them, but at the person as a “whole”. Each person is treated as an individual, and the homeopath will consider the patient’s personality, temperament, emotional and physical state, and likes and dislikes before prescribing a treatment. In this way, a homeopath might see two people with similar symptoms, but would treat them totally differently. Therefore, in a way, homeopathy is a TRUE individual medicine.

Homeopaths also believe treatment works according to a set of three rules known as laws of Cure. These are:

•A remedy starts healing from the top of the body and works downward.

•It starts from within the body, working outward, and from major to minor organs.

•Symptoms clear up in reverse order to their manner of appearance.

Homeopaths also believe that treatment should be prescribed according to a person’s constitution, which is made up of inherited and acquired mental, physical, and emotional characteristics. These are matched to a remedy which will improve all-round health, no matter what illness the individual is suffering. This constitutional profile corresponds to a particular remedy, and a person might be therefore known as a Sepia type, or a Lachesis type.