What is homeopathy?

     Homeopathy is an energy medicine. Like cures like. That which has the power to harm the healthy has the power to heal the sick; a medicine repeatedly taken by a healthy person causes symptoms; in a sick person with those symptoms, those symptoms will disappear. In order to do so, a homeopath individualizes that person's illness, taking the most characteristic traits of that person's vital force and finding the most similar remedy.

     The practitioner looks for why one isn't well. Life is a progression of energy into matter; disease is a disruption of that energy. An individual has three main parts: life force energy, susceptibility (the degree of receptivity to internal/external stimuli), and inherited predisposition to disorder. These three main parts make up the first 3 tenets of homoeopathy, of which there are nine. You are in constant flux with the state of your health, disease, and cure, with balance being the key. When you become sick, you are susceptible to disease; when you become well, susceptible to cure! Health is ENERGY flowing freely in an organism, with balance, order, and adaptability. We are in a constant state of adjustment. In health, we have purpose, meaning, and function, we are completely fulfilled on all levels. Spirit, mind and body are all taken into the picture, which we call totality (another tenet).

     Disease (acute or chronic) is a change of state, from health to disorder, health to ill health. Harmony is disrupted, disturbed. We are uncomfortable, vulnerable, susceptible to disorder or dysfunction. Each person is an individual, each state is different. Your allergic reaction is not the same as your best friend; she may have sneezing and itchy red nose, and you may have itchy eyes and headache. This calls for a different remedy, unlike allopathy. We treat the person, not the disease. Some people are more affected than others, depending on inheritance or cause. The state of disarray is reflected in signs or signals of an organism; we call them symptoms. In homeopathy, we don't suppress symptoms, we use them to find your remedy. Symptoms help us perceive imbalance of life force. Life force energy is also what cures you, with the help of your carefully selected remedy.

     Disease and health are dynamic because the life force is dynamic. Disease and cure work from innermost to outermost; if you suppress your symptoms, you may drive them inward. Skin is less vital than lungs; having eczema is healthier than asthma. The weaker the life force energy, the deeper it goes; thus the skin disease shows a stronger life force than the lung cancer (from inner to outer). Symptoms soothe life force energy, they give it a vent, a way to temporarily relax the imbalance. Applying the Law of Similars (the fourth tenet), we aid the life force, completing the process already begun. Your carefully selected remedy will now reestablish harmony throughout the organism, free to express itself once again. In order to do this, we use scientific provings, done on healthy individuals to find the symptoms they cause. These are published in a repertory, a wonderful tool for the homoeopath. We match your symptoms to those already known. Remedies are energetic medicines that are now thought to employ quantum physics. The essence of the remedy is transferred via succussion and dilution (potentizing it; 2 more tenets), and then taken one remedy at a time (yes, another tenet), with longer periods between remedies in chronic cases, short ones in acute. There is no contraindication for pharmaceutical drugs, but it may make it more difficult for a homoeopath to find the totality of the disease, and to determine the effectiveness of the remedy. Totality is very important. You may have 30 remedies that reflect chilly people, love spicy food and ice cold drinks, but only 5 that love the fog, and only 1 is a person that thrives in the morning. This is the elimination method we use to find your remedy. back to top