Homoeopathy is a dynamic therapy which is based on natural laws of healing:

- THE LAW OF SIMILARS (similia similibus curentur), or "like cures like".

The name Homoeopathy comes from the Greek words 'homois' (similar) and 'pathos' (suffering). Over 200 years ago, Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, chemist and scholar, discovered that a substance (medicine) that could cause symptoms in a healthy person could cure the same symptoms in a sick person.

Over the ages people have used this law of nature with to turn sickness into health.The earliest written references that we know of come from Hippocrates the 'father of Western medicine'. Others have mentioned their observations of the same phenomena but until Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, no one had systematically and scientifically experimented with it. Dr. Hahnemann spent 53 years of his life establishing and refining homoeopathic medicine.

Mainstream medicine works in an allopathic way, treating with 'opposites, e.g, diarrhoea is treated with a medicine that would cause constipation in a healthy person. This sounds logical but the world of energy medicine is based on different phenomena. The difficulty in our time and with our modern education is that many people have trouble understanding anything which is not presented to their perception in a way that is basically materialistic.

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- THE USE OF THE SINGLE REMEDY.

It takes great skill and training for the classical homoeopath to prescribe the remedy required in a person's case. Only one remedy, which covers the totality of the patient's symptoms, is used at a time.

The Law of Similars precludes the use of the single remedy simply because there can't be two things most similar at the same time. The use of one remedy at a time that has been selected according to the law of similars is what is known as Classical homoeopathy. There are people who call themselves homoeopaths or who have 'homoeopathy' listed on their CV who give many different remedies together, and include other therapies at the same time. These people do not understand what the law of similars means. Use of the single remedy does not mean only one remedy ever is used in the patient's case, but rather that one remedy is used at a time. Time is allowed for the person's life force to change from sickness to greater health before repeating the remedy or choosing another remedy as necessary. In an acute illness the remedy maybe changed more frequently than in chronic illness. A trained classical homoeopath will know when to repeat the dose, change the potency or change the remedy. Although other alternative or complementary therapies like acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, reflexology and so on, work with life energy to enable greater well-being, homeopathy is the only one that deliberately works with the law of similars.

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- THE MINIMUM DOSE.

Homoeopathy uses very small doses of the indicated remedy. It is very gentle, non-toxic, without side effects and works by stimulating the body's own healing forces.. It is suitable for all ages. There is no suppression of symptoms, only safe, natural healing.

Fore-mostly, homoeopathy is a deliberate manipulation of Life Energy by use of dynamic remedies for the purpose of enabling the sluggish, unhealthy, disturbed life force of an individual human or animal to flow and circulate through their systems with greater ease and vigour. Our health comes from this free circulation of life force and the beginnings of sickness arise from the loss of vitality on this very fundamental level of Life. After years of study and experience with treating patients according to the law of similars and gradually reducing (by dilution and succussion in progressive stages) the material doses he prescribed until he was making medicines that had no more measurable material matter in them, Dr. Hahnemann began to understand that therapy was a matter of energy manipulation and good health meant good life force flow. He began to see that the life force of a medical substance (medicine or remedy) when applied according to the law of similars, cured his patients of serious acute epidemic sicknesses, and even chronic illnesses even when using such infinitesimal amounts.

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- PROVINGS ON THE HEALTHY.

Homoeopathic medicines have not been tested on animals but rather on healthy human volunteers. In this way it is possible to ascertain detailed symptoms caused by the substance being tested. A substance is not considered fully tested until it reveals symptoms on all levels of human experience - physical - emotional - mental. This is more logical than testing medicines on animals. When one thinks that each species differs from another physiologically, how can the gross physical results of drug tests on rats, guinea pigs, cats, dogs, monkeys etc. reliably apply to human physiology? Human testers are able to give detailed responses on every level of experience; changes in emotions, mental ability, exact location and type of physical sensations like pain, tinglings, sounds, temperature etc. By using human data we know what symptoms a given drug is capable of causing and by way of the law of similars, what it cures.

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- HERING'S LAW OF CURE

One of Dr. Hahnemann's contemporaries was Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880). He was an experienced physician who confirmed and defined what is known to homoeopaths as the Law of the direction of Cure, or Hering's law. This is a yardstick by which any therapy can be measured and is invaluable to the understanding of the true status of a person's health.

To understand this law one must know that a person is first and foremost sick in his or her life force. Even before the offending microorganism has appeared, the susceptibility in the person was there. By the end of his life Pasteur acknowledged that the micro-organism was not the primary cause of illness. Rather it affected certain individuals who were unwell on subtle levels to begin with. From the homoeopathic point of view, the individuals were weak/disturbed in their life force which made the physical cell matter less capable of resisting the microbe.

When a therapy is successful, real cure always begins from the centre outwards. The freeing up of Life force or Energy flow is the beginning of cure. The individual feels better in his or her very core; spiritually, mentally, emotionally, even before the physical symptoms are cured. The rise in energy is a sign that the remedy is working. Physically the cure begins with the function of the most important vital organs improving first and progresses to less important peripheral organs. This is not to say that an organ like the skin is not important. A disturbance in the innermost person may be expressed by the development of an eruption on the surface of the skin. It is just that the central nervous system, circulatory system, endocrine system etc, will benefit first and only later will one see results on the skin. Symptoms are also cured from the most recent to affect the patient to the most remote time wise. It's like unwrapping an onion, one layer at a time. Symptoms disappear from within to out and from head to feet.

Removal of symptoms without due regard for the law of cure is a foolish and frequently a dangerous practice. It results in suppression of symptoms without curing the underlying illness in the life force. The life force will keep trying to express its illness at the most peripheral area where it is least dangerous to life, but eventually, with continued suppressive therapy it will be forced to give up its efforts and the illness settles on a less peripheral area, either in the body or in the mind. A "new" illness that appears after suppression of symptoms is not a different unrelated illness at all, it is the uncured distrubance finding a deeper level of expression. So an individual becomes sicker on more serious levels and requires more and more drugs. Unfortunately suppression of symptoms is is all too common in mainstream medicine. Removal of symptoms with due regard for the Law of Similars results in a curative process that can be monitored reliably following Hering's law.

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