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Homeopathy Background
The term "homeopathy" was coined by the German
physician Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843)
and first appeared in print in 1807, although he began outlining
his beliefs of medical similars in a series of articles and
monographs in 1796.
What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy involves giving a patient with symptoms of illness
extremely small doses of substances that produce the same
symptoms in healthy people when given in larger doses. A homeopathic
remedy is prepared by diluting the substance in a series of
steps. Many homeopathic remedies are so highly diluted that
no molecules of the original substance are likely to remain.
Homeopathy asserts that the remedy will retain a memory of
the diluted substance and the therapeutic potency of a remedy
can be increased by serial dilution combined with succussion,
or vigorous shaking. Homeopathy regards diseases as morbid
derangements of the organism, and states that instances of
disease in different people differ fundamentally. Homeopathy
views a sick person as having a dynamic disturbance in a hypothetical
"vital force", a disturbance which, homeopaths claim,
underlies standard medical diagnoses of named diseases.
The three principles that homeopathy is based on is:
- Like cures like
For example, if the symptoms of your cold are similar to
poisoning by mercury, then mercury would be your homeopathic
remedy.
- Minimal Dose
The remedy is taken in an extremely dilute form;
normally one part of the remedy to around 1,000,000,000,000
parts of water.
- The Single Remedy
No matter how many symptoms are experienced, only
one remedy is taken, and that remedy will be aimed at all
those symptoms.
Similar principals form the basis of conventional allergy
treatment, where the allergic substance is given in a small
dose, and in vaccines where an impotent form of the virus
is given to bolster the immune system against that particular
virus.
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