homeopathy works on the regulation of “likes cures like,” (similia similibus curentur). In homeopathic treatment the therapist uses highly diluted remedies to stimulate the body’s own sanative functions.
The expression homeopathy is from the Greek words homios (similar) and pathos (suffering), is based on the theory of treating “like with like,”. homoeopathy started to develop during the end of the 18th century, although some underlying ideas have been known for a long time in Indian and Oriental Medicine. The essential formula of homeopathy was already introduced by famous medical personas like Hippocrates and Paracelsus.
“Through that which is similar arises illness, and through use of that which is alike unwellness is cured” Hippocrates in “On the Nature of Man”
The father of homeopathy is considered to be Christian Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Samuel Hahnemann was working 9 years as a medical doctor, but grew increasingly accusatory towards a number of aspects of the prevalent health care of the day. When Samuel Hahnemann interpreted William Cullen’s lectures on Materia Medica, he observed that the symptoms induced by quinine in a healthy body, were similar to the symptoms quinine used to relieve. He concluded that efficacious drugs must cause symptoms in fit people similar to the unwellnesses they are supposed to alleviate.
He started out with practical research into the area, with the departure point that certain substances cause certain phenomena in the human body. During a twenty year period he surveyed the mode of action of some seventy different matters from plant, animal and mineral kingdom. fit people could try one subject at a time and all the responses and symptoms were noticed. salubrious people tried one substance at a time, and all responses and symptoms were registered. In 1796 Samuel Hahnemann worded the law of simili similibus curentur (like cures like) Four years after he presented the philosophy of the dynamic forces of potentiation. That is, the highly diluted drugs could have healing effects on the human body.
The idea behind remedies being tested, today as they were then, on humans and not animals is that the former can register all their symptoms so that both physical and mental effects can be recorded.
The mapping has proceeded after Hahnemann’s time, and today revised editions of his Materia Medica (remedy science) lists around 2000 homoeopathic remedies, of which 200 are the most generally used. In 1879, Constantin Hering (1800-1880) introduced his work Guiding Symptoms, based on 50 years of clinical practice. One of the most significant homoeopaths was James Tyler Kent who was working on to try drugs and identify different homoeopathic treatments. In 1897 he published “Repertory of the homeopathic Materia Medica”, a homoeopathic repertorie still in use by physicians and homoeopaths world-wide.
homoeopathy sees the human being as an incorporated whole which at any given time operates on three different grades: the mental/spiritual, the emotional/psychological and the physical stage. The being always operates as a whole, whether well or affected by disease-generating factors. A sickness is a deviancy from the normal health condition and not something which is an separated event in and of itself. If a stimulus is further strong than the immunity of the organism, it leads to instability and numerous signs. The homeopathic medicament establishes its whole therapy on an observation of subjective symptoms – it is the sum of signs which makes up the patient’s very own sickness, and hence every case of condition should be treated individually. The fundamental concept in homoeopathy is to activate the body’s self-healing potentials.
cures used in homoeopathy are normally very diluted.
As mentioned earlier, the homeopathic important law is that like cures like. That essences which can induce illnesses also can cure these, is presumed to be the case since these matters stimulate the organization’s healing systems. The patient’s curative arrangement can only manifest its action by the expose of symptoms. That is why a good response to a homeopathic medicine can be preceded by an seeming “worsening” of symptoms, a so called “primary deterioration”. This can hence be observed as a wanted response: the patient primarily becomes worsened in order to then get better. however if an medication is repeated too repeatedly without being called for, the worsening can be injurious.
Hering’s law, named after the historical homeopath Constantine Hering, means just this: that diseases which do not get adequate (in other words homeopathic) treatment can go from an acute to a chronic stadium. They also have a tendency to move from the outer parts of the body to the inner parts, from lesser to more important organs and from the lower parts of the body to the higher. A genuine healing process goes in the opposite direction: upwards and down, the most important organs getting relief first, inside and out. This process oftentimes means that earlier stages of disease get relived.
while homeopathy stresses that every diagnosing and treatment must cover the complete body, only unwell cells is considered to respond to the medication prescribed. The motivation is that the resistance of these cells is lower and that the cell’s essential form is thought to agree with the principal pattern of the curative’s element. just as of this, and due to the lack of solid substantial substances in the homoeopathic medication, the risks for damaging side effects or harmful effects of an unsuitable medicine is low. However the preference is for the lowest potential dosage of a medicine.
In order to make which homeopathic medicament that needs to be prescribed, the homeopath studies the patient’s sign impression with a number of substances’ symptom pictures to determine the best match. The cornerstone of the homoeopathic prescription is choosing that equal essence.
For each remedy in the Materia Medica is a statement of the symptoms and signs associated with the substance in question, listed under somatic symptoms and signs. Listed are also factors which affect the patient’s signs, such as kind of pain and what ameliorates and worsens. Aside from localized signs, generic symptoms affecting the entirely individual and expressions of emotions and tempers are quoted. however, it is not the sign or signs in themselves which are then treated. The symptoms are clues – it is the undisclosed malady behind them which is tried to be attain and treated.
homoeopaths commonly initiate with an extensive medical history, including queries concerning their physical, mental and emotional states, their life status and any physical or emotional sicknesses. The homeopath then searches correlating symptoms and signs. Each symptom or sign is then coupled to a certain amount of homoeopathic remedies of various probability. By collecting these result with a software or an on-line repertory, the outcomes of promising remedies can rapidly be presented to the homeopath. originally, before the computer age the homeopath could pass several hours just searching for one remedy.
writer: Bjorn Lundberg, founder of Illnessfinder, Remedyfinder and Webhomeopath.
