Homeopathy: A Safer Approach to Healing

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The population is much sicker than 60 years ago, when Big Pharma took over health, and that is mainly because conventional medicine is not causing the problem. The homeopath treats the cause of the disease or the disease in order to cure the effect.

Much safer than conventional medicine, homeopathy is a form of treatment that uses very small substances found in nature, such as minerals and herbs to trigger healing responses in the body using an organic method that teaches the body to heal itself. Unlike pharmaceutical drugs, when the patient leaves the medication, the body retains the healing benefits. In other words, the body is not dependent on certain molecules that remain in the body to continue the healing process, as it would with …show more content…

Homeopathy is not only the second largest system of medicine in the world, but is also the fastest growing!

Origin of Homeopathy

Homeopathy was founded by German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), who was very concerned about the medical system of his time, believing that his cures were rudimentary and some of their strong drugs and treatments did more harm than good to patients. Hahnemann experimented himself with Peruvian bark, which contains quinine, a cure for malaria.

He concluded that in a healthy person, quinine creates the same symptoms as malaria, including fever and chills and that is why it is effective as a remedy. Then he began to analyze the resources available in nature and called them checks. These checks homeopathic remedies are still being collected by dosing with various substances in healthy adults and documenting the results in order to know the dose necessary to produce the symptoms and duration of efficacy of the dose. The findings are contained in large homeopathic references called materia medica.

Hahnemann formulated the principles of

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