The persona of Homeopathy

Why this out of the box article? Well...In my new bud of Content Management, I came across to write 24 articles with a theme of Alternative Medicines. So started the same with Homeopathy being my first topic. The very first obvious question arises in this field was Why to go for Homeopathy? They claim Homeopathy to be as old as 200 years. But is it enough to trust them? Why Samuel Hahnemann cared for a need to coin Allopathy then? Let me struggle to find the answer.

Do a self-diagnosis below. If you answer YES, homeopathic medicine may be right for you:

• My tests are normal but I still feel sick.

• I take my medicine, but I don’t feel better – in fact, I feel worse.

• I know there’s “natural” cures, but I don’t know where to find them.

• I wonder if the drugs I am taking are right for me.

• I have chronic pain and told to live with it or take pain killers.

Homeopathy is holistic, scientifically based, safe, effective and less expensive than allopathic medicine. These remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking, which homeopaths term succussion, after each dilution under the assumption that this increases the effect. After this potentization, homeopaths look for physical and psychological states of the patient. Repertories are then consulted and a remedy is suggested on the basis of totality of symptoms. These remedies are considered to be safe though homeopathy has been criticized for putting patients at risk due to advice against conventional medicine such as vaccinations,anti-malarial drugs,and antibiotics.

Seven important disciplines of Homeopathic medicine are:

1. Classical Homeopathy works through activating the body’s own powers of self regulation and self healing. One of the basic principles is the “law of similars” which states that substances which can cause certain symptoms in healthy people can cure those same symptoms when they occur in an ill person.
2. Chelation is an Oral or Intravenous medical treatment that is used to remove heavy metal poisoning from the body. Chelation “cleans up” the circulatory system and slows normal aging by removing metals. It is important to understand that Chelation does not remove Plaque from Blood Vessels but works by removing those toxic metals elements in the blood and blood vessels that contribute to blood clot formation. This has the effect of greatly improving circulation.
3. Orthomolecular Therapy provides the optimum concentration of substances normally present in the human body such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes. Orthomolecular therapy includes the diagnosis of ailments or physiologic stresses that occur as a result of genetic or environmental influences as well as acquired or inherited allergy and hypersensitivity responses and enzymes.
4. Neuromuscular Integration is musculoskeletal therapy that uses any combination of manual methods, physical agents and physical medicine procedures and devices to improve physiological function by normalizing body structure.
5. Nutrition is the recommendation by a licensee of therapeutic or preventative dietary measures, food factor concentrates, fasting and cleansing regimens and the rebalancing by a licensee of digestive system function to correct diseases of malnutrition, to resolve conditions of metabolic imbalance and to support optimal vitality.
6. Pharmaceutical Medicine is drug therapy that uses prescription-only and nonprescription pharmaceutical agents as well as medicinal agents of botanical, biological or mineral origin and that is based on current scientific indications or traditional or historical usage indication.
7. Acupuncture is a medical therapy in which ailments are diagnosed and treated by the specific application of needles, heat or physical and electromagnetic impulses or currents to specific anatomic points on the body.

These above mentioned seven dimensions probably justify the variability of human acumen in consistent search for development. I never experienced any of the clauses in persona; but as they say homeopathy has survived the attempts of allopaths, at times.