Homeopathy is a Greek word which means “the medicine should be similar to the disease” or, “likes should be cured by likes”. It sounds bizarre, doesn’t it? Surely practioners of modern medicine must think so, because their philosophy, clearly, is to Oppose the symptom: Antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, antihistamines….
Homeopathy is a Greek word which means “the medicine should be similar to the disease” or, “likes should be cured by likes”. It sounds bizarre, doesn’t it? Surely practioners of modern medicine must think so, because their philosophy, clearly, is to Oppose the symptom:
Antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, antihistamines….
Is there a problem with opposing nasty, horrible symptoms?
1. Well, for one thing, the symptoms are not the problem. There is another name for symptoms, it’s called The Immune System! Call me crazy, but, I had always heard that the immune system was our friend! If you have diarrhea, that’s your immune system doing that! It does that to get rid of germs or bacteria that represent a threat.
2. It also assumes that these opposite treatments can even do the job they’re being asked to do!
In fact, using an opposite force against a symptom gives relief only just long enough to make you think you might be on the right track; but inevitably, when the “anti” drug wears off, the immune system seems so angry that it was interfered with, it tries twice as hard to put the symptom out as before!
Our bodies are genetically programmed to put out symptoms when we are sick as a warning that there is a problem, or as an actual curative response to what is wrong! An illustration of this would be the nausea that develops after too much alcohol is consumed. Vomiting cures the whole thing and the person feels well again. No one would try to oppose this symptom because the symptom itself cures. It turns out that all symptoms have some purpose, despite being uncomfortable and often unfathomable. The solution is not to suppress them, thereby engaging in some kind of war with the immune system. If you “win”, what does that mean?
This immune response is instinctive and persistent in nature as long as the underlying cause is still there. Consequently, an “anti”, “anitpathic” or opposite treatment would necessitate constant repetition to beat back this instinctual response. Sooner or later, the body gives out under such an assault: the liver becomes overwhelmed, the stomach ulcerates, the kidneys are destroyed….
Why is homeopathy the better choice? Well, just not being toxic is a plus, but there’s more:
In nature, similars repel, and herein lies the scientific explanation for homeoapthy! Two similar diseases cannot coexist (come together) in the same body (this is the vaccination concept!) Homeopathic remedies are, in reality, “fake diseases”! Hard to comprehend, I realize! But, I’ll let Dr. Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, explain it:
“…two fevers cannot exist in the same body at the same time. There is much similarity between the fevers and coughs of measles and those of whooping cough. In an epidemic where these two diseases raged simultaneously, … many children who had just had measles remained free from whooping cough. They would all have remained permanently free of whooping cough and would have been rendered immune to it by the measles if whooping cough were not just partly similar to measles, ie, if it also had a similar skin eruption. … But when measles meets a disease that is similar to it in its main symptom–the eruption–it will undeniably destroy and cure it homeopathically. … But see what advantage man has over the chance happenings of crude nature!” (The Organon of Medicine # 46, 51)
What Hahnemann means by that last remark is that there’s no reason one has to wait around for the unlikely event that a natural disease will come along and neutralize a patient’s disease when the doctor, himself, can “administer” such a disease in a watered-down, safe fashion! The physician, Hahnemann says, should be imitating nature and giving, with intention, a similar disease as a medicine!
“How do you do that?” you might ask. There are numerous plants that cause symptoms. One simply has to know what symptoms a plant can cause and then prescribe it homeopathically to a patient whose symptoms are similar to the plant’s!*
If this sounds odd or reckless, think for a minute how dangerous our standard Rx drugs are. Think of the side effects, some of which include death itself! But homeopathic remedies are so diluted, that on investigation, they appear to be “empty”! They are empty–of physical matter, and so, perfectly safe, but not empty of energy, the vibration of the original substance–that’s what remains. Yes, this is energy medicine! It seems the body responds better to doses of energy than doses of substance! So, eventhough a homeopathic remedy might have been made from a disease-causing agent, like poison ivy or bee venom, there is absolutely nothing left of it by the time it reaches you!
So the modern doctor, according to Hahnemann, should be asking himself, not, “What will stop this symptom?” but rather, “What in nature could cause this symptom?” because whatever that is, that will repel the disease. Similars repel, opposites antagonize.
Hahnemann goes on to discuss what happens when an ”anti” medicine is given:
“The salient symptoms of a long-standing disease have never in this world been treated in this palliative, antipathic way without reappearing in a few hours, often manifestly worse. The orthodox physician imagines that he can get out of this difficulty by prescribing a stronger dose of the medicine with each new aggravation. This produces only another brief hushing up of the symptoms and, from the need to keep increasing the dose of the palliative, either some other, even worse complaint, or quite often a condition of complete incurability, danger to life, even death. It never produces a cure.” (#59-60 The Organon…)
Can anyone deny this is true?
Wouldn’t it be better if medicine imitated nature? Wouldn’t it be better to see a homeopath?
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* Although most homeopathic remedies are made from plants, some also are made from minerals and animal substances such as snake venom, which is a very good remedy for bleeding, hemorrhaging.
Elaine Lewis
