A Short Introduction to Homeopathy
Homeopathy was once regarded more highly than modern medicine and is experiencing somewhat of a comeback by people who are sick of being prescribed various medications that seem to be pushed on them by pharmaceutical companies. People today are more concerned when it comes to taking potentially harmful medications that are prescribed by medical doctors.
While medical science has come leaps and bounds since the 18th century when blood letting was considered the way to treat various ailments. Many of the medications, including skin of a viper and opium, seemed to be doing more harm than good. Some patients were actually dying after having their blood let out and given snake venom. Homeopathy became the preferred choice for the discerning patient of the 18th century who quickly realized that medical science did not know everything there was to know about the profession.
Today, many medications that are prescribed by physicians have adverse affects similar to those of long ago. On top of that, many medications, especially those that are prescribed for anxiety or insomnia, are highly addictive. Homeopathy remedies are not addictive and treat the entire body and not just the symptoms.
The biggest difference between homeopathy and traditional medicine is that homeopathy treats the cause of the symptom instead of just the symptom itself. Medical science treats only the symptoms and usually prescribes medication. Just like a surgeon will operate on the body, a medical doctor will usually prescribe some sort of traditional medication. The trouble is that traditional medications are not always a cure.
People suffering from skin rashes are often prescribed dangerous drugs such as steroids. The homeopathic remedy would be to discover the cause of the rash and give a small dose of the rash. The concept of homeopathy was discovered when the treatment for Malaria ended up making a healthy person ill. The law of similarities, on which is based the basic concept of homeopathy, remedies that if you give a person a small dose of the illness, they will fight off the illness. If you just treat the illness, it will manifest itself somewhere else in the body.
This may seem medically improbable, but vaccinations against diseases pretty much work on the same concept. A vaccination is a small dose of the disease, diluted and given to you in a short or orally. Your immune system then fights the diluted disease and you are then immune to getting the disease. The concept of Homeopathy works the same way. A healthy person usually gets a little ill after taking a flu shot or some other immunization.
Homeopathy relies on the natural immune system of the body to fight off illness throughout the body by addressing the root of the problem instead of just the one symptom. Homeopathic medicines are completely natural and will not hurt you.
More and more people are turning towards alternative medicine as a means to a cure. Today, homeopathy is the second most popular form of medical treatment in the United States.
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