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Homoeopathy is based on an understanding that our body
has an ability to heal itself and this healing activity is seen as
symptoms.
Sometimes the disease is so strong, or our defence mechanism
is so weak, our ability to heal is handicapped and the healing
process is inefficient or incomplete.
So, because symptoms are the healing activity of the defence
mechanism we need something to stimulate the body to act in the way
it is already acting i.e. to promote symptoms.
Like Cures Like
This is the basis behind one of the basic laws of
homoeopathy. If a medicine produces symptoms in a healthy
person, it will cure those symptoms in a sick person.
Holistic Medicine
Holistic refers to understanding something by examining it as
a whole. Compare this to the conventional view of
understanding the whole by examining its parts.
Homoeopathy is holistic because it understands ill-health
in terms of the mental, emotional
and physical aspects of a person.
It recognises that these aspects are intimately connected
and balance within and between them is vital to the
well-being of any individual.
The Concept of Health and Disease
Health is a state of balance within ourselves and within our
environment in which we can live our lives, fulfilling our
potential.
Disease is an imbalance, which our bodies struggle to
address, producing symptoms.
The goal of any homoeopathic treatment is to regain a state of
balance in an individual through the use of homoeopathic
remedies, and by alterations in nutrition, exercise
and lifestyle.
Because each of us is genetically unique, we each have
unique ways of resolving imbalance and will produce correspondingly
individual symptoms.
In any named disease e.g. a cold, there will be some symptoms
that allow us to identify we have a cold (sore throat, runny nose,
headache).
Alongside these there will be peculiar symptoms that only
that person has e.g. a feeling like they have a stick in the throat,
or a nose that runs only from the left nostril. It is these
individual things that the homoeopath prescribes on.
Homoeopathic treatment is always tailored to you as an
individual.
Healing is a process
Once imbalance has reached a point where we can label it as a
disease, it is usually at the end stages of a process.
This means that healing has to be the reverse of the
disease process.
In homoeopathy we carefully watch the process of
healing to make sure it is going in the right direction.
Homoeopathy is one of the few medicinal
systems which has an accurate 'map' of how healing occurs.
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