Homeopathy
Homeopathy Explained
Homeopathy from the Greek words omoios (similar) and pathos (suffering or disease) is based on the principle that ‘like cures like’. The physician Hippocrates first understood this but it was the German doctor Samuel Hahnemann who formed it into the unique system we now use. Experimenting by taking China (Cinchona, Peruvian Bark) and developing in his healthy body symptoms of intermittent fever, he postulated it could remove these same symptoms if unwell. Think of the streaming eyes you get when peeling an onion. The remedy Allium Cepa made from red onion can be used to treat both hay fever and the common cold.
What is in a homeopathic remedy?
Sourced mainly from animals, minerals or plants they are dissolved in alcohol for several weeks to produce a mother tincture. From this 1 drop of the tincture is added to either 9 (for x potency) or 99 (for c potency) drops of water. This process is repeated again and again to produce different potencies and higher and higher dilutions. After several dilutions no trace of the original source remains so substances that are poisonous in material doses can be used with no adverse affects. After dilution the mixtures are shaken (succussed) vigorously releasing energy from the substance into the liquid making them more dynamic and powerful.
Why turn to Homeopathy?
When we are out of balance or have dis-ease we begin to display symptoms. These may be physical, mental or emotional and are our body nudging us that something is amiss and we should seek help. Many things may be contributing: our toxic load from daily life, emotional and physical stress, or inherited weakness, and tendency towards certain diseases; all play their part. A carefully selected individualised remedy can restore the ‘vital force’ or disrupted energy body to health, “retaining all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation”.
