Homeopathy
What is homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a clearly defined system of medical therapeutics that was discovered by a German medical doctor, Christian Friedrick Samuel Hahnemann (1765 – 1843).
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The basic principle on which homeopathy rests, is the law of nature known as the Law of Similars, first identified by the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. The law states that those symptoms that a substance can cause when administered to a healthy person are the symptoms that the substance can cure when administered to a sick person.
Another principle of homeopathy is that it is curative. It does not simply bring about the disappearance of symptoms. It restores the patient’s constitution to a state of ongoing vigour, health, and balance, experienced both mentally and physically. To achieve this, homeopathy acts by using, stimulating, and enhancing the body’s own curative, defensive, and recuperative powers.
Therefore, in accordance with the Law of Similars, and in order to treat a case curatively, a Homeopath will identify a remedy that has been proved to produce in a healthy person, a complex of symptoms most closely resembling (most similar to) those of the patient requiring treatment.
As a simple example, the ordinary onion can cause the person slicing it to experience a watery, burning, nasal discharge, congested, watery eyes, and violent sneezing. A remedy made from the onion is therefore effective against a similar common cold and/or hay fever.
Tiny doses: The Law of the Infinitesimal Dose.
Unlike pharmaceutical medicines, homeopathy does not use a remedy made directly from the onion. Yes, the remedy, known as Allium Cepa, is derived from an onion but is diluted and ‘potentized, by repeated succussion of repeated dilutions to such an extent that no scientific instruments can trace the original chemical in the solution. That’s because the potentization process takes the remedy into the realm of quantum physics, with only the energy signature of the original onion remaining. It is the energy that has the curative power. This is a vibration frequency energy that helps to fine tune your unique system to heal it self.
The key point being that one needs only a very tiny amount of a remedy to bring a patient’s system back into balance. This is directly opposite to pharmaceutical conventional medicines, where very high doses of often extremely toxic chemicals, are used to suppress the natural healing power of the body.
Safe
For all these reasons, homeopathy is safe. It has no side effects and makes no demands on the body’s organs and processes. It can, therefore, be used by everyone, including babies, the elderly, and people who are frail as a result of medical crises or chronic illness.
Homeopathy does not interact with pharmaceutical drugs and is therefore safe to use in conjunction with such conventional (allopathic) treatments.
(Our thanks to Dr David Lilley, from whose book Healing the Soul some of this material was sourced.)
