Homeopathy, a Proven System of Natural Health
The following article was written by Gretchen Weger Snell, BS, DiHOM providing Homeopathy and natural health in Oakland County Michigan.
Homeopathy, a proven system of medicine for over 200 years, is practiced widely all over the earth. It works by stimulating the body's natural defenses instead of than suppressing symptoms. Natural remedies are used which are non-toxic and do not cause side effects. This medicine is empowering as it allows the body to self-correct.
Homeopathy is built upon a whole structure of laws, philosophy, theories and practice began by Dr. C.F.S. Hahnemann (1796). His philosophy states that the body is giftedwith a dynamic, self-regulating capability, which he named the vital force. Continually striving for a state ofoptimal healthor homeostasis is the main goal of this vital force. When the human body is compromiseddue to physical, emotional, mental or spiritual stress, the vital force tries to regainhomeostasis.
Unenthusiastic by the medical practices of his day (bloodletting, leeches, mercury), Hahnemann began striving for alternatives and became an advocate of natural healing techniques. Based on the principles of Hippocrates and Paracelsus, he developed the idea that cure could be achieved through the action of similars.
To test this hypothesis, he began to experiment on himself with the medicine cinchona, which was being used for treatment of malaria. To his surprise, this "cure" taken by a healthy person induced the exact same symptoms manifested by the person suffering from malaria. Hahnemann then created one of the cornerstones of Homeopathy, similima similibus curentur, Latin for "let likes cure likes". Simply stated: A substance that produces symptoms in a healthy person can cure a unwell person with those same symptoms.
A homeopath studies the whole picture produced by the substance ingested by a healthy person (called a proving), and tries to match this picture to the disease manifestations in a sickperson. The philosophy of Homeopathy were published in Hahnemann�s magum opus, The Organon of the Medical Art, 1810.
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