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What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a natural and holistic method of treatment that works with the body's innate ability to heal. It is based on the "law of similars" which states that a substance that can cause a particular set of symptoms in a healthy person, can cure that same set of symptoms in a sick person.
Homeopathy, though its philosophies can be dated back to Hippocrates, was officially founded by Samuel Hahnemann in the 1700s. Samual Hahnemann was a physician at the time who was becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of effectiveness of the orthodox medical procedures and treatments of the time. He began to notice that many of these treatments were making his patients worse!
This was not acceptable to him and so he began to seek out other methods of treatment in order to better treat his patients. In his research he came across a case of Cinchona Bark that had successfully treated a case of malaria. He realized that when a healthy person was poisoned with Cinchona Bark, that the symptoms of poisoning very much resembled a case of malaria. Here is where the law of similars was realized. This substance, which caused malarial type symptoms in a healthy person, could cure an individual suffering from those same symptoms.
And so the journey began to find other substances that could be curative in the same way. However, using the physical substance was quite a tricky business, being that many of the most effective substances were substances known to be poisonous. And so the process of potentization was realized.
Potentization is what makes a homeopathic remedy safe and effective. Through potentization, the substance is physically broken down and what you're left with is a remedy where there is no trace of the physical substance left. Instead, the pure energetic potential of that substance is released. This is beneficial in two ways:
1. Breaking down the physical substance eliminates the dangers of poisoning
2. Because all dis-ease exists first on the energetic plane, treatment must be administered at this level in order to be truly curative and address the problem at its core
Successful Homeopathic treatment occurs when the appropriate healing energy (via the potentized Homeopathic Remedy) is matched to the individual presenting dis-ease state and applied in the correct dose.
The result is a strengthening of the individual as a whole, and sometimes immediate relief of symptoms that have afflicted the individual for years (though, more likely symptoms will taper off gradually, disappearing in the reverse order of how they appeared)
Modern day Homeopathy has evolved quite a bit, with the number of available and proved remedies increasing every day. Additionally, the methods of case taking, prescribing, dosage, etc. are being refined to increase effectiveness. Up until now case taking has left the homeopath with a plethora of seemingly unrelated symptoms to sort through and the available remedies for treatment were limited to that particular practitioners scope of the materia medica.
Now, new methods of case taking help us to get to the core of the imbalance far more quickly and new systems of looking at remedies have made little known remedies accessible to even the novice practitioner.
What does this mean for you? It means, there's never been a better time to pursue Homeopathic treatment!
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Healing with Homeopathy
Trish Barker
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