To try and define Homeopathy is not an easy task, but its natural therapeutic approach clearly distinguishes it from traditional medicine and its main characteristics can be pointed out.
HOMEOPATHY :
- considers illness as a body reaction to external aggression.
- identifies substances, which are flowing with the body's natural energy.
The body needs a minimum level of vital energy is essential in order to react. A homeopathic treatment cannot be of any help to a listless body. This capacity to react is absolutely essential in order to reap benefits from homeopathy.
- considers the patient as a whole, without limiting itself to illness-related symptoms.
- devises individual treatments according to every patient's personal reactions.
- takes into account a patient's constitution, heredity and environment, in order to compare and establish relationships between one individual's reactions and those of others who have similar characteristics or symptoms.
- tries to restore a patient's disturbed equilibrium through the use of appropriate natural substances.
- gives primary importance to a patient's own direct information.
THREE PRINCIPLES
Homeopathy is based on three important principles, which are :
- Similitude There should be a connection between illness and remedy.
- Infinitesimality Homeopathy uses vegetable, mineral and chemically processed mixtures of natural substances, in repeatedly diluted strength to administer minute doses.
- Totality Since Homeopathy considers a person as a whole, every treatment is based on the assumption that every illness is the apparent manifestation of a much deeper-rooted disorder.
