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What is Homeopathy? Homeopathy is a system of medicine that uses natural substances to stimulate the body’s self-healing properties. Homeopathy is a very effective, natural and complete system of medicine. This method uses small amounts of natural medicinal substances to support, balance, and stimulate your body's defence system in order to fight sickness. Homeopathic treatments respond to sickness by treating your whole system, meaning your mental, emotional, and physical health. It is important that your homeopath know about all your ailments, even if they are not related to your present illness. This is true, even when your symptoms seem quite intense. Homeopathy treats each person differently. These treatments are designed for your personal ailments, and this process is very individualized. When we start experiencing mild symptoms of our illness, our own bodies begin the process of healing and treatments help boost this natural process. Overall health and well-being is achieved, because the treatment responds not only to your sickness but your entire system. In Greek Homoios means " SIMILAR" and Pathos means "DISEASE" Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, introduced homeopathy in 1810. While working with Cinchona (Quinine) he discovered that when (Quinine) was given regularly over a period of a few days to a healthy person, it produced chilliness, fever with thirst, heat waves, sweat, weakness, dizziness, fatigue, etc. If the same remedy was given methodically to an ill patient with the above symptoms, the patient was cured. Further research and experimentation led Dr. Hahnemann to understand that substances which produced symptoms of a disease in a healthy individual actually cured the same symptoms/diseases in an unhealthy person. Dr. Hahnemann referred to this discovery as the “Law of Similars” , “Similia Simililbus Curantur” which means ‘similar cures similar’. Homeopathy follows fundamental laws within nature in order to restore balance and harmony, which is a state of health. |
