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How does homeopathy differ from conventional medicine?
How does homeopathy differ from conventional medicine? -- Posted by Daniel on 02-26-04 02:31
How does homeopathy differ from conventional medicine?
How does the concept of homeopathy differ from that of conventional
medicine?
Very simply, homeopathy attempts to stimulate the body to recover
itself. Let's
look at an example: the common cough.
First, we must accept that all symptoms, no matter how uncomfortable
they are, represent the body's attempt to restore itself to health.
Instead of looking upon the symptoms as something wrong which must be
set right, we see them as signs of the way the body is attempting to
help itself. Instead of trying to stop the cough with suppressants, as
conventional medicine does, a homeopath will give a remedy that will
cause a cough in a healthy person, and thus stimulate the ill body to
restore itself.
Second, we must look at the totality of the symptoms presented. We
each
experience a cough in our unique way. Yet conventional medicine acts
as if all
coughs were alike. It therefore offers a series of suppressive drugs
something
to suppress the cough, something to dry the mucus, something to lower
the
histamine level, something to ease falling asleep.
Homeopathy, on the other hand, looks for the one substance that will
cause
similar symptoms in a healthy person. The person with a cough
characterized by
being worse when breathing cold air, and sounding like a deep bark,
will need a
quite different remedy than the person whose cough is loose in the
morning, dry
in the evening, and better when sitting up in bed. We characterize
both as
"coughs" but they are different illnesses in the individuals, and
therefore
require different homeopathic treatment.
In conventional medical thought, health is seen simply as the absence
of
disease. You assume that you are healthy if there is nothing wrong
with you. To
a person versed in homeopathy, health is much more than that. A
healthy person
is a person who is free on all levels: physical, emotional, and
mental.
Obviously, a person with a broken leg is not free, on the physical
level, to
move around. But on a more subtle level, a person who cannot eat
certain foods
or is allergic to certain materials is also experiencing a lack of
freedom. It
is a good emotional release to cry at a "tear jerker" movie, but
someone who
continues to cry for several weeks afterwards is experiencing a lack
of freedom
on the emotional level. Likewise, a person who cannot absorb what he
has read or cannot remember day to day appointments is experiencing a
restriction on the
mental level. The homeopath recognizes such limitations and attempts,
through
the use of the properly selected remedies, to restore the person to
health and
freedom.
An important basic difference exists between conventional medical
therapy and
homeopathy. In conventional therapy, the aim often is to control the
illness
through regular use of medical substances, even if the medication is
nothing
more than vitamins. If the medication is withdrawn, however, the
person returns
to illness. There has been no cure. A person who takes a pill for high
blood
pressure every day is not undergoing a cure but is only controlling
the
symptoms. Homeopathy's aim is the cure: "The complete restoration of
perfect
health," as Dr. Samuel Hahneman said.
Read more this Article at:
http://www.homeopathic.org/introduction.htm
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