HOMEOPATHY
1. What is Homeopathy?
"Similia similibus currentur." A medicinal-apothecarial practice based on the principle that "like cures like".
2. Samuel Hahnemann was born in Germany, 1855. He began a scholastic career studying languages and Classical Philosophy. After these, he studied mainstream medicine, which he didn't like. He began a career in translating books and found "Cullen's Materia Medica", in which he found a cure for malaria. He overdosed himself on the herb suggested in the book (Peruvian Bark - Cinchona officinalis) and his own body (which was healthy before the overdose) began to develop the symptoms of malaria.
This took his interest, so he overdosed his family and friends on the herb also. To his delight (for want of a better word), they also developed the symptoms of malaria. So he came to the conclusion that like cures like (that which gives the symptoms will cure the symptoms), or the Law of Similars.
Because the symptoms developed in healthy people were so strong, Hahnemann diluted the remedies and found that the more diluted the herb was, the less aggravations and the longer the remedy lasted. This is the Homeopathic Law of Potentization.
The Law of Potentization is a mathematico-mechanical process which reduces, according to scale, the inert substance in a crude form to a state of physical solubility, physiological assimibility and therapeutic activity. It is carried out in Homeopathic Medicine by two methods:-
a) Trituration (for dry and crude substances)
b) Succussion (for liquid substances)
EXAMPLE 1. To make a Homeopathic Trituration for Sulphur
1 gram Sulphur
9 grams Sugar of Milk (Cane Sugar)
Split the Sugar of Milk into 3 parts, and place the sulphur and first 3g in a mortar and pestle. Grind for 20 mins in an anti-clockwise direction. Add the next 3g, and do the same. Repeat for the last 3g. The substance is now at a grade of 1X. To obtain a substance of 2X, do the same again, only replace the 1g of Sulphur with 1g of the 1X mixture. Preferred strength = 30X.
EXAMPLE 2. To make a Homeopathic Succussion
1 part tincture (Cinchona)
99 part alcohol:water
Give the mixture 100 succussions (slaps on wrist) to create a mixture of 1:100.
Potentization processes are in two scales:
a) Decimal, ratio of drug to vehicle is 1:10 ( 1X, 2X, 3X, .... )
b) Centecimal, ratio of drug to vehicle is 1:100 ( 1C, 2C, 3C, ... )
Homeopaths believe that when a person is healthy, their vital force is harmonized, For dis-ease to occur, the vital force must be dis-harmonized. So it is that homeopathic remedis effect and re-balance the vital force rather than the physical body. Homeopathy is a vibrational medicine.
A Homeopathic Aggravation is what happens when either the wrong medicine is given, or the correct medicine is given at the wrong strength. The effects of a homeopathic aggravation are as Samuel Hahnemann discovered - the cure for a dis-ease will bring on the effect of the dis-ease in a healthy individual. A homeopathic aggravation may last from six minutes to six years (there is nothing that can be given to reverse the aggravation, and no other homeopathic remedy may be given until the condition of the aggravation has dissipated). This is why it is so important for patients to tell their homeopath all symptoms, whether they think it is related to the problem they are trying to cure or not.
Another Homeopathic belief is that all people's vital force has a predisposition to dis-ease. This is often inherited as a Miasm.
MIASMS
Psora - itching; some homeopaths believe all people today have now inherited this miasm
Sycotic - reproductive ailments; brought on at childhood from sexual repression
Syphilitic - problems such as miscarriages, birth defects also
Tubercular - pigeon-toed, weak respiratory system
Cancer
Homeopathic remedies may also be given as the cure or antidotes to the side-effects of vaccinations (eg. some vaccinations will cause drowsiness/fatigue, some provoke/disable the appetite). Antidotes (or neutralisers to Homeopathic remedies are:
- coffee
- camphor
- peppermint (all strong-scented substances)
- chamomile (all strong herbal teas)
Cures may be slow (and take years) or instant (and take minutes). At first, a remedy may appear to have given the patient a negative effect (not an aggravation, but brought on some other problem). 99% of the time, this means that in the past, the patient has suppressed the dis-ease, and forced the problem deeper into the system. The problem will then re-surface itself later, when the body is strong enough to deal with and rid itself of the problem (for example, if a patient suffering flu symptoms came to a homeopath for a remedy, and years ago they had a nervous deficiency, had taken medication for it and the problem had gone, then when the body has cured itself of the flu symptoms, the nervous problem might then re-surface as a result of the system beginning the healing process). This occurs because Homeopathy is truly a holistic healing mechanism.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEALING AND SUPPRESSION:
Natural Remedies utilise the body's own energy or effect the vital force, therefore preventind the dis-ease as well as curing the immediate problem.
Un-natural Remedies (synthetic substances such as aspirin, vaccinations, etc) do not require any energy from the patient, therefore suppressing the symptoms and only providing the antidote. Because the problem is only fixed on a physical basis, it may re-surface itself down the track.
This is all the information that the lecture I attended touched on. This page has been designed to inform people of Homeopathy, its principles and methods of practice.
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