About Homeopathy

“There is one thing more powerful than all the armies in the world, that is, an idea, whose time has come” Victor Hugo

A force within our body is constantly striving towards harmony and integration with the whole. Without this, dis-ease takes hold. This balance/harmony is also necessary for healthy functioning of the natural environment: an example of this is how global warming is impacting on the environment around us, and on us as individuals. The environment, like ourselves, can adapt to changes and stresses but only within narrow limits – outside of these limits illness occurs.

Life expresses itself with intelligent design. This is seen internally: for example, in the complex and ingenious hormonal, immune and nervous systems. If unbalanced the life force and natural balance which exists in all living things is the core of all dis-ease.

Too many of us get caught up in demands of modern life: we worry relentlessly, face emotional or physical traumas, eat unbalanced and nutritionally deficient diets, expose ourselves to toxins, and/or live a life of physical inactivity. This existence perpetuates disharmony.

To achieve optimum health we have to take the time to identify and amend areas of disorder, physical or emotional, through lifestyle and dietary changes. However we can also use support from the natural world around us as many of the hunter gathering tribes did before us.

Through homeopathy we re-address this balance, therefore stimulating the body’s own healing response. This healing response has been experienced by every individual who has ever had, for example, a simple cut, a broken bone or a common cold. Homeopathy aids this process and speeds it up where necessary by complementing the wisdom within the body which has an innate knowledge of how to do this..

Homeopathy is a science which utilizes principles which govern intelligent design, it incorporates chemistry, physics and biology to do this. (For more information on this please see web links.)

An individual’s symptoms are merely the result of a response by the life force, to various causative factors. These influence the whole of the individual, either from within or externally through the group thought form. These causative factors includes viruses, bacteria, trauma, grief, anger etc.

The Samuel Hahnemann story.

The founder of Homeopathy was a German doctor called Samuel Hahnemann. He lived from 1755-1835 and was an eminent physician and chemist. He was known as a medical reformer, an early advocate of good diet and exercise and a great believer in the importance of improving all aspects of hygiene. Samuel Hahnemann was ahead of his time in many ways. He lived at a time in history when disease was thought to be the result of offending humours (fluids) in the body, which had to be drained. This was usually achieved by blistering, purging or bleeding by means of leech or scalpel. Disillusioned with the brutal treatment of eighteenth century medicine, where the cure often seemed to be worse than the disease, Hahnemann gave up the practice of medicine and turned to translating medical texts in order to support his family.

In the course of this work he came across a paper, written by a doctor called William Cullen on the treatment of malaria with Peruvian bark or cinchona. He was not satisfied with Cullen’s explanation of why Cinchona worked and he wondered why the treatment of malaria by this drug was so effective when other agues and plagues were untouched by the medicines of the day and so his life of experimentation began. He took four grams of cinchona (Quinine) twice a day to see what effect it would have on his own health. Within a few days he developed almost all of the characteristic symptoms of malaria. In his own words, "I grew languid and drowsy, my pulse grew hard and small; intolerable anxiety, trembling, prostration throughout all my limbs; then pulsation in the head, redness of my cheeks and thirst, and in short all these symptoms which are usually characteristic of intermittent fever made their appearance one after the other.

When he discontinued, the symptoms disappeared and he was in good health: when he took a further dose his symptoms returned. Hahnemann recognised clearly that by dosing himself with large quantities of Quinine he had suffered all the classical symptoms of malaria.

Hahnemann was aware of the idea that "like cures like" (similia similibus curentur) from teachings of Hippocrates and Paracelsus. Further experiments convinced him that the idea was valid, so from his studies came Homeopathy's first basic principle that "a substance that produces symptoms in a healthy person, cures those symptoms in a sick person. For more research referring to this principle and others used in Homeopathy, please refer to web links.

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