WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY?

Homeopathy is a complete system of  medicine which aims to promote general health, by reinforcing  the   body’s  own   natural   healing  capacity.  Homeopathy does  not   have treatments for diseases. It has  remedies  for people with diseases. It works   in   a totally different way from conventional  medicine, which  is   known   to homeopathic practitioners as allopathy. Allopathy means ‘different from the suffering'; the drugs that are given  work against  the disease and its symptoms. Therefore drugs that are ‘anti’  are  found,  such as anti - biotics,  anti-depressants,  anti-inflammatory  and anti-pain drugs  etc. Homeopathy means  ‘similar   to  the   suffering'.  The   remedies  used  to treat sick people are actually capable of  producing similar   symptoms in a  healthy  person  to  those  present  in   the patient  needing  that remedy.

It is well known that  homeopathic   remedies are very  dilute in their  preparation  though their effects cannot be   explained so simply. It might be  said  that  the remedies work at the  level  of    energy and not of matter. The method of preparation  of the remedies and how    they    act   is   not   essential   to  an understanding of homeopathy.Homeopathy  is  about  why a remedy is given, not what is given . There  can  be no such thing as a homeopathic  remedy for colds or arthritis. No  two   individuals   manifest their illnesses  in exactly  the  same way even if they are given the   same   disease  label.  It is  only  when  a substance  is  matched  with a patient according to  the  Law   of  similars  that  it becomes homeopathic. When it is  sitting in  the medicine      chest  or    pharmacy   i t   is    not homeopathic. at all; it is just a potentized remedy.