HOMEOPATHY
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What is Homeopathy? A medical system that stimulates the body's own healing responses while respecting nature’s laws and the wisdom of the body. The key premise is everyone has vital force energy that if disrupted or out of balance creates health problems.
A key philosophy of homeopathic healing as a natural health therapy falls under the principle of ‘like cures like’, or Law of Similars where the body’s own healing response is activated. Simply stated substances which cause symptoms can be taken in small amounts to treat the very same symptoms. It has been written that homeopathy is a natural health therapy that works by mimicking specific symptoms, rather than suppressing them as do allopathic medicines. Another philosophy of homeopathic practitioners is to treat the person, not the disease. Homeopathic practices are used throughout the world and can be coupled safely with conventional medicines with no side effects as homeopathy healing is non-toxic.
The founder of homeopathy is said to be Samuel Hahnemann, a German who established the fundamental principles of both the science and art of homeopathic healing over 200 years ago. He is also called the ‘father of experimental pharmacology’. Homeopathy became a popular healing method during the 1800’s with the first schools opening around 1830, followed by dozens of homeopathic institutions throughout Europe and the United States. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were thought to be over 15,000 homeopathic practitioners in the United States alone. However, homeopathy healing had many vocal critics throughout the mid 1800’s in both the U.S and Europe. By 1920, according to Wikipedia, the last homeopathic school in the United States had closed. Homeopathic practitioner numbers continued to dwindle until the mid 1970’s when homeopathy and homeopathic products experienced resurgence. Today you can find homeopathic healing products in most large pharmaceutical chains.
According to HomeopathyResource.com, 20% to 40% of physicians throughout Germany, United Kingdom, France and Holland regularly use homeopathy healing with their patients. Homeopathic services are reimbursable under national health plans in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Austria and India where over 100,000,000 use homeopathy as their only form of medical care.
We hope you have learned more about Homeopathy as a natural health therapy. For more information, visit the Homeopathic section at All Things Healing online regularly.
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Christine Breen Williams has been studying Homeopathy since 1994. She initially trained with Nuala Eising at the Burren School of Homeopathy and qualified as a professional homeopath an... read more |
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David A. Johnson is a certified classical homeopath in Wisconsin, USA. He's been studying homeopathy since 1994 and currently practices in Madison and Pewaukee, Wisconsin, and teaches a... read more |
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Is Homeopathy Herbal Medicine?
by Konstantinos Pisios, MD Many people think that homeopathy is synonymous with herbal Medicine (treatment based on herbs). In this article we will dispel this myth, despite the fact that both treatments have many things in common. 
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