Alternative Medicines: Homoeopathy
A
system of medical treatment started by a German physician, Samuel
Hahnemann (1755-1843 A.D.) homoeopathy is based on the premise that the
symptoms of a disease are evidence of a curative process going on in the
body in response to the disease. The homoeopathic physician attempts to
promote the further development of these systems in order to science
developed primarily in Europe and not having its roots embedded in
tradition and history, it has over the years, become an integral part of
the Indian way of life. Partly due to its remarkable healing capacity and
partly to the low cost of medicines involved, it is widely used by a large
segment of the Indian population. Indian homoeopaths have contributed to
its growth by developing and adding many medicines and drugs based on
their study of other prevalent systems of medicine in the country. "Similia
similibus curantur"-"Like cures like" - is the guiding
principle of homoeopathy. In practice this means that a drug which is
capable of producing a certain set of symptoms in a healthy body when
taken in large physiological doses, will relieve or 'cure' a similar set
of symptoms in the diseased organism when it is given in small
homoeopathic doess. True homoeopathic medicines in high potency doses are
so highly refined that they
cannot
possibly prduce harmful results or suppress nature's cleaning and healing
efforts.
Every acute disease is the result of a cleaning and
healing effort by nature. Giving a remedy which produces the same or
similar symptoms in the system, aids Nature in her attempts to overcome
the abnormal conditions; thus accelerating and hastening the curative
process. If the remedy is well chosen, the very first homoeopathic
aggravation will be followed by speedy readjustment.
Disease
resides in the cells of the body. The well-being of the organism as a
whole is dependent upon the health of the individual cells of which it is
composed. To restore them to health, cells must be freed of all
undesirable encumbrances. Homoeopaths are of the opinion that toxins and
waste products are generated in the body and merely stimulating the
activity of the kidneys or the skin with allphathic drugs will not
neutralize and oxidize these morbid materials. These drugs suppress acute
bodily reactions, thus interrupting Nature's efforts to cleanse, heal and
cure; thereby changing acute healing processes into chronic destructive
diseases. Homoeopathy, on the other hand, assists Nature in relieving
cells of their toxic burden resulting in a healthy body.
The
invisible natural forces in the human body are continuously at work to
restore the balance and harmony in the system. Based on these studies,
Dr.
William Schussler, a homoeopathic physician of long experience, came to
the conclusion that this process is carried out at the cellular level and
that it require only 12 remedies to restore the impaired health of the
body by supplying to it the vital cell-slats that it is deficient in.
these cell-salts are the inorganic constituents of the body's tissues.
They are supplied by nature in a pure and atomized form in certain
proportions in all tissue of the body, in all plants and in all foods.
They are abundantly available in their crude and impure state on the
earth. The composition of the 12 remedies formulated by Dr.Schussler
corresponds with the principle inorganic elements found in the body.
Absolutely harmless, these tissue salts or mineral salts are not drugs in
any sense of the word. They simply provide the system with its deficient
inorganic elements, prepared homeopathically, in an extremely fine form
which ensures their ready assimilation and a speedy restoration of the
balance and harmony in the system.
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