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Homeopathy Explained.
What Is Homeopathy, Why Homeopathy, What Are The Advantages of Homeopathy.
The word 'homoeopathy' has suffered a lot of misconception over the years. Many think it is a form of medical treatment based on herbs-similar to that practiced by the 'Chinsese Sinseh' . Others presumed it is concerned with the traditional medicine and therefore, has element of the occult.
Few realize that homeopathy is actually a well develop system of medicine based on a fundamental universal law, " Let like be cured treated by likes". The law is known in Latin as " Similar Similibus Curentur".
Homeopathy is based on the application of this universal law to the treatment of disease. This principle was known even to Hippocrate, the father of modern medicine.
Homeopathy a Complete Medical System
But it was not until the late 18th century that homeopathy was developed into a well defined system of medicine. A German physician, Dr Samuel Hahnemann responsible for pioneering the system in Europe. And he gave the name " Homeopathy"
Dr Hahnemann actually developed homeopathy by chance. His initial works was translating English medical books and essays into German. It was 1790 that while engaged in translating Cullen's Materia Medica, he came upon an idea which was to be nucleus of a completely new system of medicine.
Dr Cullen was professor of medicine at London University and had devoted 20 pages of his Materia Medica to the therapeutic effect of " Peruvian Bark", that is, quinine. He attributed its success in the treatment of malaria to the fact that it was bitter.
Dr Hahmenann found that he could not agree with Dr Cullen's claim that quinine cured malaria by its action on the stomach. So he decided to find out for himself. He took quinine in certain quantity and he got the symptom of an ordinary attack of malaria. This made him wonder whether a drug really cured a disease or rather a symptoms that it was capable of producing. He therefore experimented with various other drugs and found his original concept held true.
Homeopathic Drug Proving
He used the members of his family as well as some volunteer doctor as a "guinea pigs" because homeopathy proved the drug in human being and not lower animals. When a healthy person take a medicine for experimental reasons, certain effect are produced, that is change in body functions, secretions, sensations, which collective phenomena are spoken as 'homeopathic drug proving.'
The fact stands that those drugs which are the greatest poisons become, if used according to homeopathic concept, the greatest medicines. All the important drugs have been most subsequently by numerous societies and individual experimenters. All the result are recorded in a book called 'Materia Medica.' It is the basis the of homeopathic therapeutic today.
It means that the cure of disease is affected by drugs that are capable of producing in a healthy individual symptoms similar to those of the disease to be treated. In this connection Dr H. A. Robert, says " If a physician were to successfully practice homeopathic medicine, he must know first, what is curable in medicine, and second what is curative in drugs".
Dosology
Homeopathic dosology is based on the theory that dynamisation ( increased ) increases with diminution of matter and therefore, very small quantity would suffice to readjust natural in human body. For homeopathy uses micro dose of naturally occurring medicine.
It is in the methods of deciding what treatment to give that one main difference in the homeopathic approach is clearly shown. As in ordinary medicine, the brief history of patient is basic to forming an opinion.
But homeopathy requires that the doctor should examine it in greater detail. Not only are diagnostic symptoms and the patients constitution considered, but his personality as well.
Features of characters and behavior and even small apparently unrelated details have a place in the total picture. In short, the whole human being in relation to his environment is studied.
There is a variation of this approach in the case of an acute disease, such as influenza or acute gasrtro-enteritis, or measles. Here patient generally present closely similar symptoms and in homeopathic practiced, it is generally possible to find the remedy from a cases where the epidemic pattern usually overshadows variations found among patients, individual characteristic are of utmost importance. With migraine or rheumatoid arthritis, for instance, the pattern and respond of the individual likely to be far more important than the label attached to the ailment
Homeopathy is a natural healing
Every patients is treated as an individual and the complete picture that he presents is match against the necessary treatment. Homeopathic is essentially natural healing, the remedy assist recovery. Adequate rest and an appropriate diet with a satisfactory environment will obviously support quick recovery, and those using homeopathic medicine may have to require the patients to exercise patience, especially in the management of chronic illness.
Homeopathy has been in the world for more than one and half century. It has withstood the relentless test of time and the vicissitudes of many attack because it is a simple and completely effective system of medicine that is safe and no side effect.
In Malaysia, this system of medicine is being popularize by Prof Dr Sir Nik Omar bin Nik Daud of Kelantan through homeopathic college, The Faculty of Homeopathy Malaysia which runs part time and full time courses at his own 10 acres New Campus at Pasir Mas, Kelantan.
Established in 1979, it is considered as one of the best homoepathic college in Asia.