WHY HOMEOPATHY?

Homeopathy is a gentle, effective system of healing that treats holistically. Holistic healing addresses the entire person – their full complex of physical, mental, and emotional symptoms and disorders – and understands each individual as an integrative organism that needs to be treated as a complete unit. This is in contrast to a medical approach to healing in which a patient’s various ailments are treated by a variety of specialists who focus on the function of particular organs or   physiological systems.  Homeopaths believe that the mind, body, and spirit function in unity and that one part of the body cannot be treated without affecting the whole. Homeopathic medicines are chosen to fit the complex of characteristics of each patient – even physical complaints are seen in relation to a patient’s mental and emotional state – which means that different people suffering with similar physical complaints are likely to need different medicines. The lofty goal of a homeopathic cure is not just the absence of symptoms, but an increase in vitality that allows for optimal quality of life.

Why Consider Homeopathy?

Homeopathy works. While any practitioner or medical method that makes claims to cure any and all disorders should be regarded with suspicion, homeopathy is highly effective for many people, much of the time, regardless of the specific nature of their complaint.

Homeopathic cure is gentle and non-invasive.

Homeopathic remedies have no side effects and do not create drug dependency.

Homeopathy is safe for all – babies, the elderly, immuno-compromised patients, and pregnant women.

Homeopathy helps strengthen one’s immune function and increase vitality – patients report a general improvement in well-being, often even before noticing a change in their physical pathology.

Homeopathic care is preventative health care. By creating a state of internal harmony and optimal vital function, those treated with homeopathic care are less likely to become ill.

Homeopathy requires a degree of involvement from the patient in understanding symptoms and articulating changes in function. In so doing, patients become more self-aware and pro-active in maintaining a healthy state of being.

Homeopathy is cost-efficient. Remedies are inexpensive to manufacture and only a few remedies are needed at a time. You will not need to spend large amounts of money on supplements or additional medicines during homeopathic treatment.

Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine

Many people looking for a non-conventional approach to health care do not know where to turn first. Homeopathy falls into the category of energetic medicine and, in this way, is more closely related to Traditional Chinese Medicine than it is to the other well-known “alternative” medical therapy – naturopathy. Queries about the difference between naturopathy and homeopathy are frequently raised.  Naturopathy is an eclectic practice that draws from a range of therapies such as herbs, homeopathy, supplements, chiropractic, oriental medicine and more. Naturopaths draw on all these modalities, often in combination, and, as a result, often in a slightly different manner than those who specialize in these areas of practice. They are the general practitioners of alternative medicine, doing a bit of many different protocols, although each naturopath will have their own preferences for treatment. Naturopathy is not holistic, but operates on more of a medical model; naturopaths are likely to make a diagnosis of a physiological dysfunction or area of weakness and treat that. They may use homeopathic remedies (often combination remedies) but not necessarily in a homeopathic way. Naturopaths often prescribe large quantities of supplements, vitamins, and other non-pharmaceutical medications.

In contrast, classical homeopathy is holistic medicine (as discussed above), and is systematically applied at a deep energetic level to heal mental, emotional, and physical symptoms of disease and achieve well-being at these three levels of human function. Your “presenting complaints” – be they mental or physical – are the starting-off point of a homeopathic exploration, but the final goal goes well beyond the eradication of the initial symptoms to embrace a general improvement of health and vital function. While a homeopath is likely to endorse a healthy life-style and encourage good eating habits, exercise, stress reduction, and other basic elements of good health, life-style changes are not usually a central part of homeopathic healing. Moreover, classical homeopathy uses only homeopathic medicines prescribed according to the model of a minimum dose approach to medicating.