The Benefits of Homeopathy

People tend to turn to homeopathy or other alternative therapies because they have tried orthodox medicine and it has either failed them completely or they have had to cope with unpleasant or serious side effects from the drugs. Others have felt tired and below par for many years (symptoms which often precede more serious conditions) but, despite many tests and sometimes unpleasant investigations, it has not been possible for a diagnosis to be made for them. Since homeopathy treats the individual as a whole, rather than just the disease, it is possible to treat people successfully who are feeling very unwell, in pain, or with unpleasant symptoms, but for whom there is as yet no orthodox diagnosis. In this way homeopathy can prevent the onset of many serious conditions. Many things contribute to disease: the toxic load we acquire through daily life, weaknesses and tendencies towards certain diseases which we may inherit, and all sorts of stresses both emotional and physical – all these result in the body’s natural healing powers failing; the body runs out of the energy to heal itself and the homeopathic remedy acts as a stimulus which boosts this energy and so assists in the healing process.

Homeopathy literally means ’similar suffering’ and is based on the law of treating like with like; this means that a substance which can cause a certain picture of symptoms in a healthy person will cure that same picture of symptoms when met with in a sick person. Homeopathic remedies are made in a very special way which involves giving only a very minute dose of the substance. This means that the remedies are not addictive, and do not have side effects.

People react in different ways to the same illness and treating the whole person means that the homeopathic remedy is chosen especially because it suits that particular individual; this means that there could be ten people with flu and they each would have a different remedy or sequence of remedies. This is because although they have the same diagnosis, their individual symptoms, their individual ways of coping with stress, their individual characteristics and personalities vary considerably.

It is often not realized that, since homeopathy is holistic in its approach, homeopathic remedies can also help with all sorts of emotional complaints and stresses such as grief, anger, jealousy, fears of all kinds, many inadequacies, worries, shyness and phobias to name only a few If left undealt with, most of these negative emotions eventually become contributing factors in triggering off physical disease of some kind, and one of the joys of homeopathy is that the remedies work on both levels; the emotional as well as the physical. With homeopathic treatment patients’ general health gets better as well as the disease, so that their quality of life improves. Any negative emotions, which may hold patients back from making the most of themselves as individuals, will be reduced or eliminated; people find themselves feeling much more energetic and their general outlook on life is happier and more positive.