Homeopathy- A Gentle Approach to Permanent Cure

To view health in its entirety is to look at the different school of thoughts to how our bodies are viewed. We all will eventually reach a certain realization that who we really are is not the shell or body we live in. Rather, we are consciousness, a being that encompasses an inner force or what some school of thoughts call the Vital Force or ‘Immaterial Wesen’. It is this vital force that orchestrate our bodies to help us grow in the most natural and gentle way. For as long as we do our part in keeping our temporary shell safe, our inner being will do its role in maintaining an internal equilibrium. Through the awareness of this inner, invisible wesen that everyone possess, we can come to understand what would happen should this force be disrupted. This brings us to the different approaches that medicine exemplifies. Different schools of medicine have taught various views to this concept. For example, allopathic medicine may view that a particular physical symptom is the cause to a breakdown in our bodily functions....called disease or illness. Holistic medical fields, on the other hand, believe that it is not that particular symptom that is of utmost importance but the whole being. Notably, classical homeopathy highlights the vital force as being the first to acknowledge a mistunement in our bodies. The symptoms we observe when we feel an alteration in our health is really our vital force communicating to us that there is something going on that should be noticed. Therefore, the role of symptoms is really to let us know that our inner wesen is weaning. So how does homeopathy approach illness or the disturbance of our whole being in relation to bringing out complete and permanent health? If there is an imbalance to our internal equilibrium communicated to us through symptoms, the intention of a homeopathic remedy is to initiate the body’s ability to heal itself. (Remedies are prepared from plant, mineral and animal products. They are also tested and proved only on humans). Contrary to the allopathic approach to cure, homeopathy intends to focus not on the one symptom the patient talks of but rather focuses on the person as a whole. In addition to the patient’s physical illness, their mind and emotions are considered as well. In this way, the homeopathic practitioner sees their patient, not through a tunnel vision, but from a holistic perspective. Through inductive reasoning, all the patient’s symptoms can then start to paint the whole picture for the homeopath. Unlike allopathic medicine, once all the symptoms are determined, only then can the right remedy be known. The appropriate remedy will lift not only the physical symptoms but can relieve mental and emotional upsets as well. Homeopathic medicine also differs from allopathic medicine through their primary principles. Firstly, the law ‘like cures like’ is one of the foundations of homeopathy in which a remedy that is closest to arousing a similar suffering to the one it is supposed to cure will lead to a gentle, permanent healing with no side effects. In this field, painful treatments including surgery are avoided at all costs. As Hippocrates states, “disease is born of like things and by the attack of like things people are healed.” Homeopathic remedies also uses very minute doses to the extent where there are no molecules of the source in the substance. Yet, it is this very dilute solution where the medicinal powers are beyond our senses that our innermost ailments can be permanently cured. In addition, using one remedy in this minimum dose is of importance in the strategy of healing. In this way, single dose remedies will prevent complications as well having the most powerful effect. In contrary, allopathic medicine does not acknowledge our dynamic vital force as playing a crucial role in homeostasis. Rather, disease is seen as the cause of itself however it is not possible for the cause to be identical to the effect. For this reason, allopathic medications are opposite to the symptom itself in order to suppress the symptoms. It is believed this will annihilate the disease. Allopathic medical practitioners also focus on one symptom without giving attention to the whole picture. But what occurs is a temporary alleviation before the symptom or illness returns stronger, only aggravating the whole mistunement of the vital force. A harmful aspect of allopathic prescribing involves the use of large, frequent doses of unknown compounded medical substances. Not only does this weaken the body further, if used repeatedly, a new disease may erupt. As explained in Hahnemann’s Organon 6th edition, a main allopathic method is drainage where nature is imitated only bringing stronger irritations. For instance, agonizing surgical procedures include: amputations, vomiting, bloodletting, extracting bodily fluids, electric shocks for paralysis and eliciting nosebleeds for headaches. As such, any attempts to relieve the disease symptoms through ‘opposite’ principles will increase the malady furthering our vital force from initiating the body’s self healing powers. With society’s standards, notably North America’s medical school of thought, the public has been trained to view their health in a restrictive manner. Patients have become used to going to the doctor for a quick visit to fix a particular symptom. This leads to an expectation of immediate results through the suppression of their symptoms. Allopathic medicine may still be dominant in some countries but as more people realize the scars it has left on many, alternative medicine will continue to pave the way. As more and more experience this inner transformation, health will no longer be taken for granted but a way of life for many.