To obtain
the best results of homeopathic treatment, one should resort to
homoeopathy in the early stage of the disease. Due to ignorance and lack of awareness in general public about the
homoeopathic System of Treatment and its effectiveness in many
diseases ranging from Common Cold to Cancer, patients approach
homoeopathy very late and expect miraculous results. Unfortunately
by this time the disease process has advances to an irreversible
stage and homoeopathy can offer little, to the otherwise curable
disorders. However timely given homeopathic treatment could be a
blessing to the ailing humanity.
Homeopathy: Methodology &
Principle of Medicine
Homoeopathy
is a system of healing based on the theory of "Similia
Similibus Curenter" like [diseases] is to be cured by like
[remedies]. In view of many errors and misinterpretations that
exist concerning Homoeopathy, one major falsity should be avoided at
all costs: "We are not dealing with a law of similarity in the
form of a generally applicable rule of physics or natural phenomenon
on which Homoeopathy purports to be based, but rather with a simple
instruction on how to act or with a practical guideline for
procedures, in order to "Cure in a
Mild, Prompt, Safe and Durable manner".
There are
5 basic principles of Medicine on which homoeopathy itself is
founded. These classical principles include:
Prevention
Physician
First Do No Harm
Remove
the (primary) cause of disease
Vix
Medicatrix Nature (it is the process of life itself that heals;
the healing power of nature)
The
homoeopathic medicines are prepared from a wide range of natural
sources. Over 75% of the medicines has their origin from the
vegetable kingdom. Rests of the Homoeopathic Medicines are prepared
from chemicals, minerals, animal kingdom, nosodes and some body
secretion such as the hormones.
The method of medicine preparation in homoeopathy, called as
Potentisation, utilizes a medicinal substance obtained from initial
substances found in the plant, animal or any other kingdom through a
specific preparation /manufacturing procedure. A very small
portion of any medicinal substance, as one part, is mixed with 99
parts of alcohol or distilled water. Some powerful strokes are give
to this mixture of about 100 drops/ml. It makes so called 1c
potency. Now, out of this 100 drops, one drop is taken and mixed
with 99 drops of alcohol, again to undergo the process of vigorous
strokes, making the potency 2c. The process is continued higher
level up to 30c, 200c, 1000c, 10000c, 50000c, 100000c. Although this
method makes use of a continuous dilution or reduction in
proportional quantity of medicinal substance in its different
vehicle. It is the experience of homoeopaths through out the world
that at least within certain limits the effects of the preparations
thus obtained don’t depend on their degree of dilution. In fact
practice has shown that these drugs posses an inherent "potency"
or effectiveness which increases their suitability as homoeopathic
drugs. From this one can realize that there is infinitesimal
original drug substance in the higher potency medicines. Actually it
crosses the Avogadro's limit. There is no detectable material in the
potency higher than 24. What is left behind is the power or energy
of the medicine. One may call it dynamic power, which is capable to
induce definite changes in the body system to bring about the
healing process.
Homeopathy: Law of Cure
Symptoms
disappear in reverse order of appearance.
Cure
occurs from the more vital organs to the less vital and from the
interior of the body toward the skin.
Cure
occurs from top of the body downward.
Homeopathy: Fast or Slow?
Homoeopathy
is fast acting in acute conditions such as infections, fever,
diarrhea, etc. The chronic and old disease such as psoriasis take a
long time to treat hence homoeopathy has been labeled as slow
acting. One may say that homoeopathy may be slower than the effect
of steroids. One must know that homoeopathy is faster in the
treatment of conditions where modern system of medicine is unable to
satisfy the patients such as allergy, asthma, eczema, migraine,
psoriasis, Hypertension, Diabetes, Orthopaedic Disorders etc.
It is a myth that Homoeopathy is useful only for the chronic
conditions and and has no role for acute ailments. Homoeopathy is a
great alternative medicine for acute diseases. In fact, almost 50%
of practice of any professional Homoeopath consists of acute
ailments varying form cough-cold-fever to otitis media, pneumonia,
tonsillitis, hepatitis, sinusitis, etc. in India.
Homoeopathy: Aggravations!
The common
belief is that Homoeopathic medicines sometimes cause initial
aggravation of symptoms. This however, is not totally true. The fact
is that homoeopathic medicines first create an artificial similar
symptomatology which in turn fight with the original symptomatology
paving the way for cure. Patients with chronic diseases who had been
taking palliative (allopathic) treatment including steroids,
invariably report long drawn aggravation which is due to the
withdrawal effect of the medicines. That is why it is always
suggested to withdraw these medicines gradually after getting
improvement of the case with homoeopathic medicines. In chronic
cases where there is long standing suppression of different
symptoms, old symptoms tend to appear during the phase of
recovery. This phenomenon is mostly found in chronic skin diseases
and medicinal dependent disease like Hyper/Hypo functioning of
Thyroid, Rheumatoid Arthritis and not every where.
Is homoeopathy treats the symptoms
alone?
Not
exactly! In Homoeopathy equal importance is given to symptoms of the
patient as well as clinical diagnosis of the disease. In Homoeopathy
the clinical diagnosis is not the only basis for prescribing
medicines but individual patients mental state, behavior, his/her
food habits climatic changes, social economic conditions, color and
even sometimes racial characteristics makes a difference in treating
the patient homeopathically. That is why in two similar well
diagnosed cases the homoeopathy medicine may not the same.
Homeopathy & Prescription
Drugs!
Homeopathy can be safely
taken without side effects or interactions with prescription
drugs. However, you should consult your physician and a
homeopath before you do so.
Homoeopathy & Dietary
Restrictions
Dietary
restrictions are required while taking homoeopathic medicines in
case-to-case basis. Generally, coffee and camphor products are
restricted due to their antidoting effect to the entire vegetable
kingdom medicines. External applications containing camphor and
canthradine hair oil also antidotes the effect of vegetable kingdom
medicines. The latest research advices the diet restrictions
according to the blood group of each patients in each disease paves a way for speedy recovery.
Homeopathy Online Consultation
Filling Consultation Form
You are requested to fill the consultation form in your own language, the one
you feel about your condition. You should not write your problem in
medical language unless specifically asked. Same is true if you
are submitting query regarding your child.
Be Sure to Tell...
All the medicines, vitamins
herbals and dietary supplements that you are already taking.
This includes:
Prescription Medicines.
Medicines you can buy
without a prescription.
Vitamins and dietary
supplements such as gingko biloba etc.
Also be sure to tell:
If you have medicine
allergies or if you have had problems when taking
medicines before.
If you are pregnant, may
get pregnant or nursing a baby.
About any other doctors
or health care professionals who have prescribed medicines
for you or suggested that you take a vitamin or herbal supplements.
Consultation & Medicines Charge
The
consultation is absolutely free of charge. You will be
required to purchase the homoeopathic remedies prescribed from your
local homoeo-pharmacy on your own or you can order the same from our website.
Treatment Plan
Your
finalized treatment plan will be sent to via email (the one you
provided while submitting the form), which will
contain details of the remedies with proper potencies that you have
to use, its dosage and duration. The possible aggravations that one
might feel after taking the remedy will also be specified within the
treatment plan.
You have
to strictly follow the treatment plan and are not suppose to take
any allopathic or any herbal remedy or vitamin supplement's without prior consultation as
this might suppress/increase the disease condition or even
neutralize the effect of homoeopathic remedies.
If you are having any severe
aggravations stop the medicine and send feedback immediately!
Never
give your prescriptions medicine to someone else or take
prescription medicine that wasn't prescribed for you, even if you
had the same medical condition.
Feedback - A
Must
You are
required to send the feedback of the treatment after the said
duration within the treatment plan. If however you are having
change of symptoms, you must send feedback before the said time. This
is really necessary for your treatment as some disease
conditions requires lot of care and constant monitoring of the
symptom changes. If you feel that the medicine is not working
or not showing any effects then also kindly send the feedback at the
said time.
Failure to comply with
this will result in termination of your treatment without
notification.
Duration of
Treatment
The duration of the treatment varies from condition to condition and severity of
the disease of the patient. Generally common ailments will disappear
within weeks while other will take atleast 3 months.
Ask Questions
If you have any questions or
concerns feel free to ask. Write questions ahead of time
so that you don't forget them. By taking the time to ask
questions, you may be preventing problems later.
Change of
Treatment
If,
however, you want to change your treatment to any other homoeopath
please let him know about your past and current treatment coz the effects of
homoeopathic remedies last for more than months in the body
(sometimes). If you are planning to shift to allopathic remedies
then also please do inform the concerned physician.
If you
have any doubt on complications, ask the doctor
concerned, instead of running to another doctor. Please
do not change treatments too often.
This may damage your over all immune system than doing any good. This might
also lead to permanent changes in
your body or development of certain types of conditions that will
have possible no cure except life long dependency on medication.