What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy involves treating the sick person with a remedy that would produce similar symptoms if given to a healthy person. Only those symptoms a substance can cause, can it also cure. The remedy should be potentized by a process of serial dilutions and succession, so that it is safe for the patient to take and is also dynamic just as disease is dynamic in origin. The potency should match the energy level of the patient. The homeopath’s job is to take into account all the symptoms the patient has and to choose a remedy from the homeopathic Materia Medica which can produce similar symptoms.
The homeopathic Materia Medica is a record of all the proving or drug pictures of the remedies. The homeopath should also try to remove all the causes and bad habits which may be contributing to the disease. Symptoms are not the sign of a morbific process (disease process) but of a curative process.They are the diseased person’s efforts to maintain order within by pushing the disease out to the periphery; the symptoms are the end result, not the cause, of the disease. The homeopathic remedy is an energy which is matched to that person’s unique picture of symptoms and stimulates that person in his efforts to throw off the disease. Allopathic (conventional) prescribing works in the opposite way. Given in crude material doses, the allopathic drug is chosen because it produces opposite symptoms to those presented by the patient. If the patient has enough energy, he continues to try to throw off the disease despite the opposing medication. This is why many allopathic prescriptions frequently have to be increased in strength in order to suppress the symptoms completely. When this happens the presenting disease is eliminated but the level of disease has been driven inwards mutating into something else much more serious, for instance asthma following the suppression of eczema. The homeopath does not need to know the diagnostic ‘label’ given to the patient; this can in fact lead the homeopath away from seeing the uniqueness of the individual. While the homeopath can treat the patient long before the disease is so bad that it can have a diagnostic ‘label’, the allopath, or conventional doctor, cannot even start to treat the patient until he has that ‘label’. While the homeopath looks at the patient as a whole and in relation to his environment, the allopath specializes more and more until there are experts on every part of the body but nobody capable of looking at the patient as a whole. Homeopathy has stood the test of time and is based on sound, solid, unchanging, natural laws, which are neither trendy nor faddy, and it is safe.