Homeopathic medicine treats disease using remedies that will
produce the same symptoms as the disease itself. For
example, if you suffer a rash on one arm, a homeopathic
remedy is applied to it, which, if applied to your healthy
arm, would result in the same rash.
Another good example surrounds kitchen burns. For
kitchen burns, most people apply an allopathic remedy: ice.
However, when the ice melts, the pain returns. Placing the
burned part under hot, running water until the skin around
the burn feels as hot as the burn (and holding it there for
a couple of seconds) will take away the pain almost
immediately. Only the brave will test this, thus only the
brave will find out how well it works.
Another concept of Homeopathy is the use of minimal
(or small) dosages. Let's face it, if something you are
about to take will cause the same symptoms of your disease,
then it must be toxic, therefore it is prescribed in very
small dosages.
Homeopathy's strength lies in the ability to treat pain and
suffering for which no apparent cause can be found. Chronic
pain can oftentimes be caused by psychological problems. A
person suffering from chronic pain, if diagnosed by a
psychiatrist as being enormously depressed and suicidal,
will be given a homeopathic remedy that in a healthy person
would cause that person to become enormously depressed and
suicidal. Though this sounds crazy at first, it works, and
successful treatments of this sort are commonplace in the
homeopathic community.
Homeopathy's weakness lies in treating fractures and
other injuries requiring intervention. Another of its
weaknesses is that it, like Allopath, cannot do a thing for
a disorder caused by a nutritional deficiency. Only
nutrition can do that.
Homeopathy has proven itself in blind study after blind
study, but it still takes a lot of flack from critics and
does not receive funding for research anywhere close to what
Allopathic medicine gets. Homeopathy has never killed a
patient and is never contraindicated. Homeopaths will tell
you it either works, or it doesn't. It just never kills the
patient. |
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