What you need to know about homeopathy

Homœopathy is a method of treating sick people with a medicine that will produce a cure that is gentle and fast in its action as well as permanent.
A Homœopath uses remedies that have similar symptom pictures as the diseases that are being treated. They will take into account the symptoms that are special to their patients in order to find this remedy.

As an example, conventional medicine (Allopathy) would treat a common headache with paracetamol, which blocks the making of a chemical in the brain that makes pain more intense, thus, alleviating the headache (but at the same time partially suppressing the immune system). On the other hand, a Homœopath would select a remedy from many possibilities based on the unique symptoms of the afflicted person. Such symptoms may be pain in the head and eyes with redness of the eyes and face where all pains are made worse by movement (especially the eyes) and noise, these symptoms would usually accompany a fever (as in influenza). The remedy (in this case Belladonna) would be selected because it has these very same symptoms (obviously, there would be many more symptoms to take into account so it is wise to not prescribe this remedy without consulting a Homœopath or having attended a Homœopathy First Aid Course). In order to use the principal of finding a remedy with a similar disease picture as the patient, the Homœopath must find as many symptoms as possible by talking to the patient and determining what symptoms are causing distress at the present time and that have been persistent for read more