Homeopathy has been verified by 200 years and
thousands or perhaps even millions of practitioners.
When you employ homeopathy you are igniting the
biological intelligence in the organism. Furthermore,
homeopathy delivers bio-information to the organism,
which is necessary for healing. There are various
levels of homeopathy such as the traditional constitutional
level and the therapeutic level. Homeopathy is a
system of medicine that was founded in the early
19th century by a German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
It had its greatest popularity in the late 19th
century here in the United States, when 15% of the
doctors in this country were homeopaths. However,
with the advent of modern medicine, homeopathy began
to look old and stodgy and its popularity took a
nose-dive. However, since 1980 homeopathy has seen
a resurgence of interest in the United States and
homeopathic books can be found in many bookstores
and homeopathic physicians in most major cities.
Classical homeopathy rests on three principles:
the "law of similars", the single medicine,
and the minimum dose. The law of similars states
that a disease is cured by a medicine, which creates
symptoms similar to those the patient is experiencing.
Hence an important part of the prescription of a
homeopathic medicine is a lengthy interview to determine
all the symptoms the patient is experiencing. The
homeopathic physician then determines which medicine
best matches the symptoms the patient is experiencing
and prescribes it. The principle of the single remedy
states that a single medicine should cover all the
symptoms the patient is experiencing: mental, emotional,
and physical. A classical homeopath would not prescribe
one medicine for a headache and another for an upset
stomach; he or she would find a single medicine
that covered both symptoms. The principle of the
minimum dose has two parts. First the homeopathic
physician only prescribes a small number of doses
of the homeopathic medicine and waits to see what
effect the medicine has. Second, the medicine is
given in an infinitesimal dose.
POTENTIZATON
Homeopaths have discovered that the effect of homeopathic
medicines is strengthened upon successive dilutions
as long as the medicine is succussed (shaken) between
each dilution. Medicines are typically used in very
high dilutions such as 30C (1 part in 10^-60) or
200C (1 part in 10^-400).
In modern homeopathy, combinations of several homeopathic
substances, together with some herbal remedies,
are often used as mixtures, which is called "complex
homeopathy," and has been developed in Germany
over the past 150 years. There is also the isopathic
approaches (ISO = same), in which case the causative
factor of the illness is diluted in the same way
as homeopathic medicines and is then given as a
medication. One example of this is giving potentized
pollens for the treatment of hay fever.
Potentization makes the diluted, inert substance
active by releasing its energy. According to Hahnemann:
"Homeopathic potentizations are processes by
which the medicinal properties of drugs, which are
in a latent state in the crude substance, are excited
and enabled to act spiritually upon the vital forces."
Simple dilution of a drug is insufficient to produce
a cure. To achieve potentization, after each successive
1-to-9 ("D") or 1-to-100 ("C")
dilution, the solution must be shaken vigorously
(the process is known as "succussion").
In the case of a powdered substance, it must be
vigorously ground up (trituration). Potentization
purports to liberate the energy of the substance
being used for treatment and this liberated energy
remains, even in the lowest doses.
A plant substance, for example, is mixed in alcohol
to obtain a tincture. One drop of the tincture is
mixed with 99 drops of alcohol (to achieve a ratio
of 1:100) and the mixture is strongly shaken. This
shaking process is known as succussion. The final
bottle is labeled as "1C." One drop of
this 1C is then mixed with 100 drops of alcohol
and the process is repeated to make a 2C. By the
time the 3C is reached, the dilution is 1 part in
1 million! Small globules made from sugar are then
saturated with the liquid dilution. These globules
constitute the homeopathic medicine.
Although such infinitesimal quantities are considered
by some to be no more than placebos, the clinical
experience of homeopathy shows that the infinitesimal
dose is effective: it works upon unconscious people
and infants, and it even works on animals.
Quick Notes
- One could say that a homeopathic
remedy is a mirror, which shows you what is wrong
with you.
- When you are treating with homeopathy, give
a remedy for the most advanced symptom first.
- Throughout the world, homeopathy is used
by physicians.
France, approximately 40% of physicians use classical
homeopathy. Britain, over 40% of physicians use
classical homeopathy. Germany, approximately 20%
of physicians use homeopathy Holland, 45% use some
homeopathy India, approximately hundreds of physicans
use homeopathy and in addition, there are 115 medical
schools and 100 hospitals.
HOMEOPATHIC HORMONE REJUVENATION
There is a vast difference between homeopathic hormone
rejuvenation and other hormonal creams that contain
so-called natural bio-identical, synthetic hormones
and/or herbs. You see, homeopathic hormone rejuvenation
uses small micro-amounts of a hormone. There are
no milligrams of the hormones present because the
molecules are micro. The hormones used in preparing
a homeopathic remedy aare usually taken from animals,
not drugs. (Although one could make a homeopathic
remedy from any substance including a drug.) The
animals used are healthy bovine. Since homeopathy
is made of poisons, toxins, insects and pathology
- using animal sources are very common.
MORE HISTORY
Homeopathy can not even be compared to a vaccination.
Homeopathy remedies have even smaller amounts of
the actual substance in it.
Samuel Hahnemann who lived from 1755 to 1843 founded
homeopathy. He qualified in medicine at the University
of Leipzig in 1791. He was born one year before
Mozart, and was a contemporary of Goethe and Schiller.
He also had a great talent for languages, mathematics,
geometry, and botany. After qualifying in medicine
he practiced for nine years, during which time he
married. He became increasingly disillusioned by
the cruel and ineffective medical treatments of
his time such as bloodletting, purging, and poisonous
drugs, particularly mercury-based drugs. He took
the courageous decision to give up his practice,
concentrating instead on study, research, writing,
and medical translations. This meant that for many
years Hahnemann, his wife, and his increasing number
of children were extremely poor. One of the major
works that Hahnemann translated was Dr. William
Cullen's A Treatise of Materia Medica. Cullen (1710-90)
was an Edinburgh teacher, physician, and chemist,
and his book included an essay on Peruvian bark
or cinchona (which homeopaths call 'china') from
which quinine, the treatment for malaria is derived.
Cullen attributed cinchona's ability to cure malaria,
with its symptoms of periodic fever, sweating, and
palpitations, to its bitterness. Hahnemann was skeptical
of this and tested small doses on himself. He observed
that cinchona produced in a healthy person the symptoms
of malaria, the very disease it was known to cure.
This discovery was to be of great importance in
the development of homeopathic theory and practice.
By observing the symptoms any substance produced
when given to a healthy person, Hahnemann could
discover the healing properties of that substance.
Doctors had long grappled with this problem and
the doctrine of "signatures," which states
that a plant will act on that part of the body which
it most resembles in appearance (Rudolph Steiner
was particularly keen on this idea and much of his
medical approach is based on this idea). This doctrine
was an attempt to understand the healing powers
of natural remedies. Hahnemann had discovered an
experimental method that would systematically yield
accurate, specific information about the individual
substances tested. This procedure was called "proving,"
a sort of testing, which was applied to a large
number of remedies. Hahnemann assembled a number
of "provers", who would take various substances
and would record in great detail any symptoms occurring.
Then the principle medically was to match the patient's
symptoms to a homeopathic drug picture, and give
that drug in a very dilute, and "potentized"
(see below) form. Clinically this seemed to work,
and Hahnemann attracted an increasing number of
doctors to his ideas. |
