Homeopathy
What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy’s founder, Samuel Hahnemann’s work is based on the scientific steps of hypothesis, observations, testing, validation in practice, which led to the formulation of the principles of homeopathy (which are very to simply find the cause of the symptoms and prescribe from that place and the body will naturally remove the effects). Homeopathy is part of the wider study of energetic medicine and necessitates an understanding of nutrition, diet, herbal remedies, detoxing and life style changes that fall under the term ‘naturopathic medicine’.
Pharmacology has noticed that when we intrude on the body by overriding natural processes, our body compensates by adjusting its own chemical levels to cancel the effect of the drug. This is known as the “bi-phasic” (or two-phased) effect of drugs.
The “bi-phasic” (or two-phased) effect of drugs is:
• ‘Phase one’ is what the drug does to the body.
• ‘Phase two’ is how the body adapts to the drug.
The phases tend to go in opposite directions: the drug pushes; the body pushes back. The end result of this two-phased effect is a temporary illusion. For example if you take aspirin to thin the blood to prevent strokes, the body’s reaction is to thicken the blood even more and so the GP has to constantly prescribe higher and higher doses of aspirin to keep the blood thin (leading to increasingly to severe so called side effects which then have to be treated by more drugs!).
Samuel Hahnemann noticed this two-phased effect of drugs as early as 1792, ‘Most medicines have more than one action,” he wrote, “the first a direct action, which gradually changes into a second action which is generally a state exactly the opposite of the former.”
Hahnemann’s unique contribution to the science of health was to find a way that makes use of the second action to produce the healing effect. And that’s why Hahnemann sought remedies that, as their first effect, would exactly mimic the patient’s symptoms.
Allopathic Drugs use the first, and as a result, they put doctors in the curious position of fighting the very immune system they hope to strengthen.
Homeopathic remedies do not act like drugs, and do not control the body. They cannot be applied in the same way as drugs to suppress symptoms. Homeopathy is fundamentally an alternative form of medicine, based on solid scientific principles. Only when practitioners understand this will they be able to use it effectively as a complementary medicine and that is why it is so important to choose a training that works from these principles.
We hope that this brief insight into what homeopathy is will have sparked your interest to study further this safe, gentle and effective system of medicine.
A vocational training at The College of Practical Homeopathy provides you with an alternative medical paradigm to conventional medicine that is fundamental to becoming a successful practitioner.
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