HOMOEOPATHY

INCREDIBLE SCIENCE WITH THE TOUCH OF AN ART...!!!

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) a German, was a qualified M.D. & had a roaring practice of Allopathy medicine for a period of about two decades. But he was not satisfied with the conventional medicine being practised at that time. He felt that he was not curing ailments of his patients but just palliating them for sometime only making patients suffer again and again. So he did a profound study and research and invented HOMOEOPATHY in the year 1796 at the age of 41 years. Hence, Homoeopathy is being practised since last 220 years all over the world.

“LAW OF SIMILARS”

Word HOMOEOPATHY was coined coz, in Greek, HOMOEOS means similar & PATHOS means suffering. Homoeopathy is based on the doctrine of “Law of similars” or “Like Cures Like” which means that substance given in its crude form & larger dose, produces a set of symptoms in a Healthy person & cures the similar set of symptoms (ailments) if given in a minute dose in a sick person.

This “Law of Similars” was understood by Aristotle, Hippocrates, Paracelsus & is also mentioned in our Ancient Hindu manuscripts. Aristotle, way back in 400 B.C., prescribed a small dose of mandrake root to treat Mania, knowing that it produces mania in much larger doses. Ancient Hindu Ayurveda practitioners knew about principle of “Visha Vishashya Aushadham” or “Poison Kills Poison”. But it was Hahnemann, however, who turned the “Law of Similars” into a Science of Healing & called it HOMOEOPATHY.

Homoeopathic medicines are prepared from almost all the kingdoms like Animal, Vegetable, Chemical, Mineral, Metal etc. etc. Few medicines are also prepared from diseased material like pus etc. We have medicines prepared from Club Moss fungus (Lycopodium), sea sand (Silica), Snake venom (Lachesis), Salt (Natrum Mur), Gold (Aurum Metallicum) etc. etc. In fact, one can prepare Homoeopathic medicine from any substance which is naturally present on EARTH.

Homoeopathic Medicines are useful in curing almost all the ailments of various systems of the body except absolute surgical conditions like Hernias & Cataracts. Few so-called surgical conditions like haemorrhoids, fissure-in-ano, fistula-in-ano, warts, abscesses, varicose ulcers etc. etc are curable with Homoeo medicines without surgery.

PROVING IN HOMOEOPATHY

Homoeopathy is the ONLY system of Medicine in the world wherein provings of the medicines are done on Healthy Human beings...!!! To understand the set of symptoms or ailments a substance is capable of producing and later curing, Hahnemann administered the larger doses of a substance (medicine) to Healthy Human beings and recorded entire set of symptoms produced & when he found the similar set of symptoms (ailments) in a sick person, he administered the minute doses of the same substance (medicine) and observed that patient gets cured.

The proving done on Human beings is a tedious & painstaking procedure wherein minutest details of physical & mental symptoms produced are recorded and with double-blind trials too.

IMPORTANCE OF MIND

Homoeopathy is the ONLY system of medicine which takes into consideration the MIND, the Psychological status or the Nature of an individual while prescribing medicine even if the patient has only physical ailments. (like eczema for example). Hahnemann realized the importance of MIND almost two centuries ago whereas Modern Medical Science has now understood & confirmed the so-called “Psycho-Somatic Illnesses”.

The Magic of Minimum Dose – POTENTISATION.

Homoeopathy differs from the other systems of medicine coz of the way in which a Homoeopathy Medicine is prepared from any substance. To evoke the dynamic curative properties of a minute dosage, crude & larger doses of a substance has to pass through the amazing process of POTENTISATION.

POTENTISATION includes DILUTION & SUCCUSSION wherein one part of the substance is diluted with 99 drops of Alcohol (as it is the best preservative vehicle) and the mixture is Succussed (giving jerks to evoke dynamic energy of a substance) which gives the 1st Centesimal Potency of the medicine. (1:100 dilution). Again one part of this 1st Centesimal Potency is mixed with 99 drops of Alcohol & the process leads to 2nd Centesimal Potency & so on. Thus, we have 30C, 200C, 1000C, 10,000C etc. etc. potencies of Homoeo medicines. At each step, material part of the medicine diminishes but the dynamic energy power of the medicine is evoked.

Hence as the potency of Homoeo medicine gets higher, one finds only atoms & molecules of a substance and a stage comes when the dilution contains no material but only ENERGY.

BARC had done a research about this & scientists over there could trace atoms & molecules of the medicine only till 32C potency. Beyond 32C potency they could detect only Alcohol!!! Recent studies have found NANO PARTICLES in higher potencies.

NO SIDE EFFECTS...!!!

Generally, in treating patients, Homoeo medicines are used begining with 30C and later 200C potency and so on. Hence, it is easy to understand why it is generally said that Homoeo medicines do not have SIDE EFFECTS as material part of the medicine is almost not there. But, obviously for no adverse reactions or side effects. Homoeo medicine should be used judiciously following the Laws & Principles of Homoeopathy.

ACTION OF HOMOEOPATHY MEDICINE

“Law of Similars”, “Proving on Healthy Human beings”, “Potentisation” & “The Magic of Minimum Dose” makes Homoeopathic system of medicine absolutely unique and one of its kind and making it very very difficult for the practitioners of other systems of medicine to understand & digest!!!

Modern medical science now believes that one suffers from any illness when the IMMUNITY of the body is affected or lowered due to any reason or factor. Hahnemann had understood about this “Resistance Power” of the body way back & he termed it as “VITAL FORCE” 200 odd years back.

He believed firmly that smooth functioning of this “Vital Force” leads to HEALTH. Vital Force, it disturbed, leads to DISEASE. Homoeo medicine in its minutest energy dose just “activates” or “ignites” this Vital Force to get it to normalcy & which in turn sets all the systems of the body perform in a right way and thus CURE is achieved.

Homoeopathy is difficult to understand and more difficult to practise as it requires profound expertise of a HOMOEOPATH to master the SCIENCE as well as ART of Homoeopathy.

To understand Homeopathy, the practitioners of other conventional systems of Medicine would require absolute Open, Unprejudiced, Unbiased and Artistically thinking Scientific MIND...!!!

Just one last thought. Survival of any Science or a System of Medicine for more than two centuries in itself should be the logical and substantial proof of its efficacy in healing.

Long live Homoeopathy.
Dr. PARESH GALA
L.C.E.H. (MUMBAI)