What is homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a proven science. It is based on the principle "Similia Similibus curantur "which means "like cures like". It means treatment by the same.
It is system in which there is treatment of diseases by administrating homeopathic medicines having a capacity to produce similar symptoms to that of the patient.
The founder of homeopathy is Dr. Samuel Hahneman. Homeopathy not only is useful for curing the disease but also useful in increasing immunity of a person. Homeopathy also has scope in the prevention of diseases. Proving of medicines is done on healthy human being, not on animals because the effect of some drugs on animals is different than those on humans.
In homeopathy there is no treatment for a particular disease, but it treats patient as a whole by considering his mental and physical state of the body not his different parts of the body. It means removal of the disease from it root. So during case taking the main aim of the physician is to find out the most characteristic symptoms of the patient. So while doing this his signs and symptoms are considered, and these sign and symptoms vary in each and every individual for the same diseased conditions also intensity of the complaints varies.
So while case taking a detailed history of the patient is taken like present complaints, details of it in location, sensation, factors which make complaints better or worse and detailed of past, family, personal history, his lifestyle and finally most important is his metal symptoms in that about his nature, nature, memory, emotions etc.
In homeopathy metal symptoms has given very much importance. Then after considering all the physical and mental symptoms the correct medicine which has capacity to cure all his sign and symptom is given.
Is homeopathy slow acting? Does it acts only in long lasting chronic diseases?
Homeopathy is not slow acting; it acts in both acute and chronic diseases. This is misunderstanding of people that it takes very long treatment to cure, so they do not go to homeopaths when they suffer from acute ailments like cold, cough, fever etc. It can act very fast in acute infections also.
They go to homeopath only or when suffer from long standing chronic cases such as asthma, skin complaints, arthritis etc , and when the acute complaints becomes chronic and then says it requires very long treatment to cure. But they don't understand these diseases require long term treatment with any other medicines too.
So duration of treatment depends upon nature of the disease. When they have tried all other medicines for their complaints and failed everywhere then finally come to homeopath where the diseased has already very much progressed after so many years, and the nature of disease has become very chronic, so now obviously treatment will take longer time.
What are the dietary and restrictions while taking homeopathic medicines?
Abstinence from strong smells like perfumes, scents, strong smelling soaps, strong smelling flowers, onions, garlic, coffee, because the given homeopathic medicines are so minimal in dose and thus these thing can interfere with the action of medicines and can nullify the effect of the drug substance. Coffee acts as an antidote to homeopathic medicines.
What are the limitations?
As every field has limitations, homeopathy also has its limitations .It has limited scope in surgical cases where surgery cannot be avoided, dental surgical cases but it can take care of before surgery and after surgery. Before surgery it can reduce anxiety, fear, can control blood pressure etc and after surgery helps to complete the healing process in a faster way.
Why same white sugar pills are given for all patients? Are they effective?
White sugar pills do not contain any kind of medicines, but it acts as a vehicle for medicine. There are alcohol based dilutions of medicines and are in the form of liquids; only few drops of medicines are added on the sugar pills. Or medicines can be taken directly on the tongue or can be dissolved in water. There are about more than 1000 of dilutions medicines
Is there is any side effect of medicine?
There is no any side effect of the homoeopathic medicine but there can be temporary aggravation of the complaints. Aggravations depend on the potency of the medicine given. Higher potencies may cause aggravations of the complaints, and it also depends upon individual's susceptibility, nature of the disease. But some mother tincture, lower potencies like 1x can show minor side effects, because they contains large amount of dose and are less potentised.
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