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Homoeopathy is scientific.
It is the only western medical system with a practical model
of health and disease.
The Model of Health and Disease
- all living beings have a life force which is responsible for
keeping us in harmony with our environment.
- this life force runs through, and connects the four
major
planes of our existence: the physical, emotional,
mental and
spiritual.
- when we have imbalance in the system, we see disease.
- this imbalance is in the life force itself.
Manifesting imbalance and
producing symptoms
- the life force always attempts to manifest imbalance in a
way that is the least danger to life.
- for example eczema is less of a danger to
life than asthma.
- so there is a hierarchy from least vital, to vital in all
three levels
- in terms of the planes, disease that manifests only on the
physical body is the most superficial; disease that manifests only
in the mental level, indicates a very deep level of disturbance in
the life force.
Our predisposition determines where our
disease will manifest
- we are all born with predispositions or
weaknesses that make us susceptible to disease.
Sometimes we say "I have a weak chest". or " I have
terrible period pains, just like my mother used to".
- we can also acquire these weaknesses, for
example, if you live in an environment where you are always
getting chilled you might develop a weak chest.
- however the predisposition isn't enough to produce
disease on its own - it is just the potential. We
need a trigger to cause an imbalance which will
manifest at the most superficial weakness it can.
- the trigger we call an exciting cause.
Using the model; diagnosis and prognosis
- we can understand exactly where the disease process is at this
point in time and make a diagnosis.
- we can therefore predict what will happen if the patient
continues along the course they are going, or
- what will happen once they receive a homoeopathic
remedy, i.e. make a prognosis.
- we can use the model to decide which method of treatment is
the most appropriate at that time - allopathic or homoeopathic.
The Laws of Cure
- based on the model of health and disease
- are a 'map', enabling us to accurately assess a patient's
progress.
Testing the model
- in everyday practice the model is tested in forming a
diagnosis and prognosis for the patient.
Medical trails
- generally, only half of those been done show homoeopathy to be
effective the evidence is inconclusive.
- Importantly most of the trials do not take into account the
model above especially when investigating remedy activity.
- for published trials, see
pub-med.
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Science
is the detailed study of a subject. It involves the creation
of a model, and to use this to make predictions which can be tested
by experiment or observation.
The Life Force
pervades our whole being and functions like a conductor to an
orchestra
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