It is a therapy that restores health by stimulating the body’s own healing power.
The first and central law of homeopathic science is the Law of Similars: like cures like!
Allium cepa, (red onion), causes intense itching, and watering eyes and nose and attacks of sneezing; it is frequently used for the treatment of head colds and hay fever. Coffee causes insomnia and mental hyperactivity; used as a homeopathic remedy it relaxes the mind and permits a good sleep.
Dr Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) formulated the principles upon which homeopathic science is based. Experimenting with quinine, he proved that it not only possesses the power to cure malaria, but can also cause malaria-like symptoms in healthy subjects. Similar tests with various plant, animal and mineral substances, revealed the same universal relationship between cause and cure.
The curative potential of a remedy is revealed and developed by giving it to healthy subjects under controlled conditions. The symptoms that emerge are known as a proving symptoms and they provide a template for the remedy. The art of homeopathy is the selection of a remedy, which in it’s proving, has produced a symptom picture most similar to that displayed by the patient.
As perceived by Hippocrates, the symptoms and signs of disease are the effort of the body to re-establish homeostasis and bring about a cure. They reveal the picture of an incomplete healing process, which must not be suppressed, but assisted to its completion by a remedy capable of producing a similar picture. With this the curative power of the body is stimulated.
For example, Arsenic, which causes severe vomiting and diarrhea, can be an ideal remedy for many gastro-enteric problems.
The second law of homeopathy, the Law of the Infinitesimal Dose.
The process of potentisation (dilutions and succusions) imprints the image of the remedy upon the molecules of the solvent and progressively amplifies it. This is a phenomenon of quantum physics. It is the quantum form of the remedy that renders the curative stimulus.
The remedy is selected on the basis, not only of the clinical symptoms, but also, and especially, on those aspects and attributes which reveal the patient’s uniqueness – the life experience, personality, values, beliefs, habits and emotions. Disease affects everybody different, and the remedy must be selected on holistic principles and administered in quantum form to be able to address all these levels of existence.
In these days of chronic diseases, viral infections, resistant organisms and other debilitating conditions, a system of healing that is non-toxic and capable of stimulating the body to heal itself, is more essential than ever before. Homeopathy is such a system!