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What Is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a natural, safe, effective and scientific system of alternative medicine which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognizes that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person. A person’s life and the totality of those symptoms, mental, emotional and physical are considered as one complex unit.

What Is The History Behind Homeopathy?

Homeopathy was discovered by a German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who found that substances from nature that can cause certain symptoms in a healthy person can cure those same symptoms in an ill person.

How Does It Work?

Homeopathy is based on the pharmacological law called the “Law of Similars” or “Like Cures Like”. So if the natural disease process is expressing itself in a certain way in a person then the remedy that mirrors that same expression most closely is given to effect a natural cure.

The effect is to slightly magnify the existing disease process, encouraging the body to react to this stimulus and activate its own healing power. Homeopathic remedies therefore act to stimulate the innate capacity of the body to cure itself.

What Is A Remedy?

Homeopathic remedies are made from plant, animal and mineral substances, taken directly from nature as they are found. They are prepared in pharmacies, homeopathic remedies being regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a drug. Extremely small amounts of these natural remedies are given; the minimum amount necessary to stimulate a reaction in the body.