Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a healing art whose "highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles." (1). It is the art of healing that employs" a perfectly simple system of medicine, remaining always fixed in its principles as in its practice" (2).
Homeopathy is a whole system of medicine that utilizes the principle of totality of symptoms to assess the state that needs to be cured. The sum of all the symptoms and condition in each individual case, including those in the mental and emotional realm, is the sole indication of a remedy. It is by the dynamic action on the vital force that remedies are able to re-establish health and harmony by safely removing the whole of the disease, the totality of symptoms that were presented.
The homeopathic remedy that is selected is one that has the capacity to dynamically alter the condition and lift the natural disease at hand through similarity to the disease state itself. This is called the law of similars or similia similibus. Homeopathic remedies are prepared according to the strict guidelines of the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS) and are regulated by the FDA. Homeopathic remedies prepared this way are dynamized to the point where only a minimum dose is needed to stimulate the organism to heal itself.
Homeopathy lends itself to self care for self-limiting conditions and is safe to use for infants, pregnant women and the elderly. Homeopathy is simple, safe, effective, affordable medicine.
Nancy Gahles, D.C., CCH, RSHom (NA), President, National Center for Homeopathy, www.nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org, E-mail: askDrNancy@aol.com
1. Aphorism 2, Organon of Medicine, Sixth Ed. translated by William Boericke, M.D.
2. Samuel Hahnemann to the Organon of Medicine, Sixth ed. Translated by William Boericke, M.D.