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Homeopathy is a system of medicine that treats like with like. It is extremely effective for a wide range of health problems and it is the most cost-effective of all medical systems.
The homeopath prescribes on the characteristic symptoms of the patient, whereas allopaths (orthodox medical practitioners) prescribe on the common symptoms of the disease. Therefore homeopathy is individually tailored to the patient.
How does homeopathy work?
There has been a lot of criticism levied at homeopathy that it cannot work because it uses medicines that are so diluted there are no molecules left in them.
However, ultra high dilutions have been proved to have effects on biological systems:
Ultra High Dilution: Physiology and Physics Edited by P.C. Endler and j. Schulte. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994
Fundamental Research in Ultra High Dilution and Homoeopathy by Jurgen Schulte and P Christian Endler (Eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1998.
International Journal of High Dilution Research. http://www.highdilution.org/index.php/ijhdr
Homeopathy is not the same as potentised substances. Homeopathy is a therapeutic principle. Potentised substances are a convenient vehicle for applying the homeopathic principle.
The principles of homeopathy can be easily explained even whilst we do not know fine details of how a potentised remedy exerts its effects.
The easiest way for me to explain how homeopathy works is to draw parallels with structural treatment. In structural treatment there is a way of treating a dysfunctional fascial or ligamentous pattern by holding the body in the direction of the dysfunction and taking it just very slightly beyond and holding it there with one’s intention – i.e mimicking the dysfunctional pattern and applying a greater intention – with this the body will release the dysfunctional or compensatory pattern easily with no trauma to the body – there may be some slight reaction to the treatment as the body readjusts and rearranges itself into a healthier pattern. This is a homeopathic treatment because it is treating like with like – its is matching the pattern of dysfunction with a pattern of slightly higher potency.
The body gets into a dysfunctional or compensatory pattern in the first place because of some kind of challenge that overwhelmed the body’s ordinary homeostatic mechanisms and healing capacity. The body is always making moment to moment adjustments to maintain equilibrium in response to changes in temperature, blood sugar etc – this is called homeostasis and it goes on all the time automatically without us being aware of it. When the body is faced with bigger challenges that exceed the body’s homeostatic mechanisms then the body produces symptoms – if the situation continues unchecked the body can become “stuck” in a situation of imbalance or dysfunction and the body can also make its own compensatory changes to try to best function in the situation.
So a substance is given that matches the dysfunctional pattern but in “potency” – the intention of the substance at a higher potency than the dysfunctional pattern.
Further reading
Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy by Amy L Lansky, PhD
The Science of Homœopathy by George Vithoulkas
The Homeopathic Conversation: The Art of taking the Case by Dr Brian Kaplan
The Healing Power of Illness: Understanding what your symptoms are telling you by Thorwald Dethlefsen and Rüdiger Dahlke
A New Model for Health and Disease by George Vithoulkas
A New Physics of Homeopathy by Dr Colin B Lessel
The Infinitesimal dose: The Scientific Roots of Homeopathy by Dr Colin B Lessel
The Organon of Medicine by Samuel Hahnemann
Miracles of Healing and how they are done in Homeopathy by Dr J Ellis Barker
The Genius of Homeopathy by Stuart Close