How Homeopathy Works:

The Homeopathic Perspective on Health and Well-being

Conventional medicine views the body as a collection of parts governed by biochemical factors and threatened by external disease-causing agents. In order to fight disease, conventional medicine opposes these factors, using drugs to alter the body’s internal chemistry, or to kill invading bacteria. Unfortunately, this approach often results in unwanted side effects, and in the long term can weaken the body’s overall state of health.

Homeopathy works in a different way. It considers the body to be an integrated whole, and aims to strengthen the entire system. Symptoms are viewed as the body’s attempts to fight disease, and also as crucial clues that can lead the perceptive homeopath to a remedy capable of stimulating the body’s own healing powers.

A homeopath studies the whole person. Characteristics such as temperament, personality, and emotional and physical responses to stimulus are all considered when taking a homeopathic case.

In long term or chronic ailments, the most effective homeopathic treatment seeks to discover the underlying cause of a person’s complaint. In order to achieve this, an in-depth consultation is required, which explores the details of medical and life history. This consultation is conducted in an interview format.

In acute ailments, the homeopath does not need to go into such depth. Remedies can act very quickly in acute illnesses, sometimes within minutes.

Homeopathy is a gentle approach that may be used as a complementary therapy along with other forms of treatment.

For more information about homeopathy, visit the National Center for Homeopathy’s website at www.homeopathic.org.

© Copyright 2006-08 Dragonfly Holistic Works

Web site by Dana Rudolph