Homeopathy

Doctor's Corner

Dr. Ravindra Nath Tagore: It is not merely a collection of few medicines but a new Science with a rational philosphy as its base. Swami Vivekananda: An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad: I believe Homoeopathy as a system of cure has great scope in a poor country like India and deserves encouragement.

Dr. S. Radha Krishnan: Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. Shri K. R. Naraynan: Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full-fledged alternative system of medicine.

Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel: Homoeopathy is supposed to work miracles.

Shri Jaiprakash Narayan: Homoeopathy, unaided by the State, has wonderful progress to its credit. Its cheapness, its simplicity is remarkable. The cures it has affected are no less remarkable. I have no doubt; therefore, that it deserves state patronage as any other system of medicine.

Shri C. C. Biswas: If there is a scientific system of medicine, in vogue today, it is Homoeopathy; other systems are more or less empirical, but not so Homoeopathy, which has a scientific basis of its own. That, in fact, was the great contribution of Hahnemann to medical science.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia: Homoeopathy offers the optimal mix of simplicity, economy, effectiveness of treatment and cultural acceptability amongst the diverse population of a large developing country like India.

Mahatma Gandhi: Homeopathy cures a greater percentage of cases than any other method of treatment. Homeopathy is the latest and refined method of treating patients economically and non-violently.

What is Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a scientific therapeutic method which is based on specific laws and principles.

The basic law of homeopathy, to which it owes its name, is the Law of Similars. Since ancient times Hippocrates claimed that “like cures like”. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), raised this axiom to a complete scientific therapeutic method. He and his family used to live on the money he was earning from the translation of medical books. One day as he was translating a pharmacology book and reading about the Cinchona Officinalis plant, which was given for the treatment of malaria, he thought of trying it and started taking daily doses of the plant’s infusion. He then noticed that his own body exhibited symptoms similar to those of malaria.

It was this observation that led Hahnemann to discover the Law of Similars, according to which, in order to cure a disease a suffering body must be given a substance that will cause the same symptoms when given to a healthy body. This law is based on the belief that God’s creation of man is not random and the function of the human body is conditioned by unchanging principles of the universe, and that man is gifted with therapeutic remedial forces which start functioning when the body is on alert to confront situations that jeopardize its health.

Therefore it can be claimed that our body has an internal doctor who is responsible for the health of the body itself. Each body reacts in its own unique manner.

Therefore in homeopathy, the correct diagnosis is not to name the disease but to find the medicine that has caused similar symptoms to a healthy subject, and whose prescription will lead to a cure.

The person is treated as a whole and the medicine that will be prescribed will cure not only local symptoms but all other symptoms as well.

Patients are often surprised when, along with curing a headache or constipation, stress, excessive sensitivity or even irritability are also cured. For this reason homeopathy is referred to as a total or holistic therapeutic method.

Homeopathic treatment is conducted with use of homeopathic remedies. Homeopathic remedies come from the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdom. Through the process of their potentization, even the use of toxic substances is possible without causing side effects. Nowadays over 5,000 remedies are used in homeopathy and are made in various potencies.

Benifits of Homeopathy (Homeopathy versus Allopathy)

Allopathy refers to the system of treating disease by inducing a pathologic reaction that is antagonistic to the disease being treated. This term was coined by Dr. Hahnemann to differentiate conventional medicine from homeopathy. Today, many practitioners of conventional medicine object to being called allopaths, but the term has never-the-less remained in use.

A simple example will help explain the difference between the homeopathic and allopath approaches to healing:

If someone with high blood pressure goes to an allopath (i.e, a conventional medical doctor), the doctor will prescribe a drug that would produce low blood pressure in a normal individual. The intention would be to strike a balance between the two pathological states with the blood pressure ending up somewhere in the middle. The problem with this approach is that very strong drugs are usually required and there are often very undesirable side-effects, some of which can be very dangerous.

If the same individual with high blood pressure went to a homeopath, the homeopath would prescribe a dilute preparation of a substance that in a higher dosage would produce high blood pressure in a normal individual. However, since the preparation is so diluted, there is no chance that it will raise the blood pressure. Instead, the homeopathic preparation stimulates the body into regulating its own blood pressure, bringing it back down toward normal. Because homeopathic preparations are so diluted, there are rarely, if ever, any side-effects.

What does Homeopathy Treat

Homeopathy is used to treat a myriad of physical illnesses. Anything that you can think of that doesn't require immediate surgical intervention (meaning emergencies such as broken bones, ruptured organs, serious wounds requiring repair, burst appendix, etc.) can benefit from homeopathic treatment. It can also be effective in helping mental problems, chronic conditions, first aid situations, and improving the overall quality of your life.

HOMEOPATHY CAN BE USED IN TANDEM WITH OTHER TREATMENTS - YOU DON'T NEED TO STOP SEEING YOUR DOCTOR OR STOP TAKING PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES IN ORDER TO BENEFIT FROM HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES!!!

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