What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is both a science and an art and embodies what we envision as a truly twenty-first century medicine.
Homeopathy is a sustainable healing system that respects the wisdom of the body and recognizes that symptoms of ill health are expressions of an imbalance in the whole person. Homeopathy works, and it does so in both a gentle and effective way.
Homeopathy uses minute doses of medicine to stimulate the patient’s own healing responses and individualises these according to the totality of the patient’s physical emotional and mental symptoms.
FAQ
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Homeopathy is a truly holistic and sustainable system of medicine that seeks to restore the patient to health in the gentlest, most effective and permanent way possible. The restoration of a patient’s health is realised according to clearly established and proven homeopathic principles.
Homeopathy looks at individual symptoms rather than diagnosed diseases, it also recognises that people function on several levels and that illness is often a result of factors like stress, grief or anxiety for example. These factors are all taken into account when prescribing during the homeopathic consultation.
A Homeopath will treat a person as a whole with every aspect of their person being taken into account during treatment with the aim of restoring health and well-being.
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About Homeopathy
Hahnemann
A German Doctor Samuel Hahnemann (1755 – 1843) is the modern-day founder of Homeopathy. It was Hahnemann’s contribution to take the law of similars and to organise Homeopathy into a workable methodical system of medicine. He tested this principle of like curing like, initially with his experiments with Peruvian bark or Cinchona, which is a treatment for Malaria. He found that by taking regular doses of the substance Peruvian bark he developed symptoms of malaria. This was a turning point, as he had observed the Law of Similars in action and he devoted the rest of his life researching and refining his methods to help develop the modern system of homeopathy we have today.
Law of Similars
The Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (4th century B.C.) is generally regarded as the father of modern medicine. His methods went against the general thinking of the time and he was aware of two ways of healing: the way of Similars and the way of Opposites. He emphasised the importance of accurate observation of the patient, saying: ‘I would rather know what kind of person has a disease, than what kind of disease a person has’.
The way of Opposites is well-known to all of us from conventional medicine: If you have a pain you are given a painkiller, if you have constipation you are given laxatives, and so on. The way of Similars is rather different: a substance is given which, in a healthy person, would produce the same set of symptoms as those of which the patient complains. This is the basic law of homeopathy: similia similibus curentur – ‘let likes be cured with like’. Based on this premise, the first homeopathic principle states that any substance that can make you ill can also cure you – anything that is capable of producing symptoms of disease in a healthy person can cure those symptoms in a sick person.
Provings of the Homeopathic Remedy
Homeopathic remedies are non-toxic, are made from various substances with the most common sources being flowers, plants, minerals, metals, insects, animal milks and venoms.
Hahnemann tested many other substances in the same way as Peruvian bark, and the process is called a ‘proving’. He proved more than 100 homeopathic remedies in his lifetime publishing his findings in The Chronic Diseases and Materia Medica Pura. Proving – is the process associated with the homeopathic method of testing substances in order to establish their ‘symptom pictures’. All symptoms physical, emotional and mental are noted in detail, then gathered in a systematic way, common themes are noted, collated and published in the Homeopathic Materia Medica.
Since Hahnemann first made the proving of Peruvian Bark (remedy known as China) thousands of provings have been carried out by Homeopaths and their volunteers. All remedies are tested on healthy humans. Homeopathy is a dynamic medicine and volunteers continue to ‘prove’ new remedies on a regular basis.
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