| What is Homoeopathy?
Homeopathy is a system of medicine which is based on treating the individual with highly diluted substances given in mainly tablet form, which triggers the body’s natural system of healing. Based on their experience of their symptoms, a homeopath will match the most appropriate medicine to the patient.
It works on the principle of “like cures like” - that is, a substance that would cause symptoms in a healthy person is used to cure those same symptoms in illness. For example, one remedy which might be used in a person suffering from insomnia is coffea, a remedy made from coffee.
Scientifically it can not yet be explained precisely how it works, but new theories in quantum physics are going some way towards shedding light on the process. What we do know is that a carefully selected homeopathic remedy acts as a trigger to the body’s healing processes.
How Dose Homoeopathy Works?
Many people, whether patient, doctor or scientist are sceptical of how extremely dilute substances can work. Some of the treatments used in homoeopathy are so dilute it is unlikely that even a single molecule of the original substance is present in the finished preparation.
Some believe that perhaps the molecules of the water used to dilute the material somehow can retain an 'imprint' of the original compound, but essentially no-one knows how homoeopathic medicines work. So, is it all in the mind? This is probably the wrong way to look at any treatment, whether 'conventional' or 'complementary'.
Homoeopathic treatment, it is believed, appears to stimulate the self-healing response. In a way it is a bit like trying to find the correct key to open a lock. In this case it is the selection of the correct remedy which will, hopefully, act as the proper stimulus to the body that will unlock the self-healing process.
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