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treatment name Understanding Homeopathy: A Gentle Approach to Healing

Homeopathy is a holistic healing system that uses natural substances to stimulate the body’s self-healing abilities. Unlike conventional medicine, which often focuses on treating symptoms, homeopathy seeks to address the underlying causes of illness.

Homeopathy is not at all a theory of disease, but theory of cure explained by stuart close. Organon of Medicine is a book on medicine written by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder and father of Homeopathy. It was written in the later years of 18th century, considered a revolutionary book on medical philosophy. This book contains the guiding principles of homeopathy. Practicing homeopathy in its unique method as preached by its founder Samuel Hahneman is possible only by understanding the Organon of medicine. Practicing homeopathy without the knowledge of Organon of medicine is like going into the sea without knowing swimming.

Homeopathy considers patient come for sick as a whole. “Treat the patient not the disease” says Master Hahnemann. For a beginner and for the dominant medical school it should be question mark. But study of “Organon of medicine” in its whole will understand this explanation. To a homeopathic doctor, the signs and symptoms reveal not only the name of a particular disease but also the medicine suitable to the patient. The homeopathic doctor tries to find out the individuality of the patient, uniqueness in ones sufferings of that off other individuals suffering.

Based on the symptoms of the patient homoeopath can detect the earliest manifestations of a disease process before it can damage the anatomy of the patient. It is believed that homeopathic treatment removes the infection by stimulating the natural defense mechanism of the body. Hence it does not interfere with the immunity. This system tries to cure the patient with least possible dose of medicine, sufficient enough to produce a curative reaction in the organism. In homeopathy, “The quality of the medicine is important than the quantity”. It does not employ medicines in crude or physiological doses. This medical system tries to stimulate the patient’s life energy to cure by itself. Hence chances of getting side effects in homeopathic treatment are almost none.

Homeopathy as a profession is best to those physicians who try to understand their patients as suffering individuals and not just physical bodies with some pathological tissue changes that means treat as a whole. Because of this reason homeopathy perfectly fits under the heading of “Holistic system”. The term “holistic” was first used by former South African president Jan Christiaan Smuts in 1926. This word is derived from a Greek word “holos”, which means understanding the reality in terms of its complete form.

Homeopaths follow the constitutional approach (condition of a person’s body and mind in health and strength) in treating the patients. Experienced homeopaths believe that if carefully planned and treated from the time of conception and during pregnancy, homeopathic treatment protects the child from pernicious hereditary disorders. Founder of this system Dr. Hahnemann and his followers like Dr. Boenninghausen, Dr. J.T. Kent, Dr. Hering, Dr. Allen, Dr. Clarke and Dr. Boericke etc with their tremendous painstaking efforts have brought homeopathy to an individual, independent status.

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REFERENCES

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