Homeopathy is based on the concept of using the energy of items in nature to allow your body to heal itself. In large doses, this energy of a substance will cause a symptom, while very small doses of that same substance will cure it. Most of the first known medical schools in the United States taught this concept and practice. This concept was later abandoned because of the length of time a physician must spend with a patient and learn about each patient in order to accurately diagnose them.

Substances (usually plants, roots, or insect energy) that cause a certain symptom in a person are given to the person to relieve those symptoms. Of course interaction with these items that cause symptoms are usually accidental while the administration of small doses of the same substances are mixed and intentional. Tests were done on each substance for their healing effect. During the testing process the testers carefully wrote down what they felt (symptoms) with each substance they administered.

These meticulous notes were later compiled into a manual and when patients had those symptoms, they were treated with very dilute doses of that substance. This approach that Dr. Hahnemann had discovered became the first Law of Homeopathy or the Law of Similars, or known to non-practitioners as “like cures like.

When a patient describes his symptoms, the symptoms are compared with this collection of documented symptoms know as a Materica Medica. The patient, after being matched, is then treated with a highly diluted version of that substance. Most remedies are most effective in the lowest dosage. Dosages range from 3x to 30x for acute illnesses. Higher doses are available but are used for chronic illnesses or for treating the constitution of a patient.

A person complaining of intense emotion, unusual outbursts not normal of the patient, or recent emotional trauma, for example, might be treated with a very diluted dose of Ignatia (a poisonous part of a fruit trees seed pod), because a tiny bite of that fruits seeds cause changes in emotions and emotional instability.

Homeopathic Remedy Preparation

Homeopathic remedies are made from natural substances ground completely and then diluted thousands of times in water or alcohol. Between each dilution, the liquid is shaken vigorously or spun in a centrifuge. For example, one drop of a plant extract is placed in 99 drops of water or alcohol. After the lengthy shaking process that I mentioned above, one drop of the new solution is mixed with another 99 drops of water. This mixture is shaken vigorously, and then one drop is taken from it and added to another 99 drops of liquid, and so on. This process is repeated many times, thus resulting in the different dosing strengths like 6x, 30x, etc. The dosing numbers actually indicate the number of times the substance was diluted. The higher the number the more diluted; the higher the potency; and the less actual natural substance remaining.

Yes, that is correct. In final form, Ignatia as with all other homeopathic remedies, when examined microscopically does not contain any evidence of the original substance. It is the energy of that substance that remains effective and the treating product To put this in context, the end remedy will be a solution more dilute than one molecule of salt in a huge body of water like an ocean. It is therefore somewhat easy to understand why some are skeptical of its healing power. This is also why most current medical professionals deny homeopathic remedies as having any actual benefit for an ailing patient.

Because of the controversy, most people willing to partake of homeopathic remedies, will do so for symptoms that annoy like with colds, flus, and aches.While I also believe that homeopathy is not a cure or replacement for some ailments, diseases, and life threatening problems it has many useful remedies that indeed help in improving illnesses.

Keep an open mind about homeopathy and you also will find much help for curing what ails you.

A Materica Medica can be found at: http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/index.htm.

Robert Cooper is a specialist in the fields of nutrition, dieting, and fitness. As an author he writes many articles in the alternative therapies and medication fields. If you are interested in additional about alternative medicine and natural healing you may enjoy this article:

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