Homeopathy is individualized medicine.
Continue reading to learn more about why homeopaths don't use a 'one size fits all' approach, and about how homeopathy approaches health & illness.
Understanding Homeopathy
This page contains an introduction to homeopathy. If you're not familiar, read on to learn the basics of what homeopathy is, how it works, and why it's a safe and effective way to treat health conditions.
In homeopathy, three different people with colds are each likely to get a different homeopathic medicine. Even in pandemics, this is often true. Homeopathy is individualized medicine.
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Homeopaths view illness as a maladaptation of the organism to its environment. That maladaptation occurs when three things happen:
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The organism has a hidden inflexibility to adapt or recover from an insult. That inflexibility is called a susceptibility. (Get head colds a lot? Then YKWIM.)
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The organism is exposed to an environmental insult, that throws it out of balance.
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Susceptibility + Insult = Illness.
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Each of us has different susceptibilities, different vulnerabilities. When we get sick, our illness is not separate thing from who we are. The illness becomes an unhappy part of us.
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This is why Homeopathy is both holistic and individualized medicine. We don't try to treat an illness apart from the patient. Homeopathic medicines support a person who is sick to heal themselves.
​​This is not merely semantics. We see this approach work every day.
What is Illness?
Homeopaths view illness as a maladaptation of the organism to its environment. That maladaptation occurs when three things happen:
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The organism has a hidden inflexibility to adapt or recover from an insult. That inflexibility is called a susceptibility. (Get head colds a lot? Then YKWIM.)
02.
The organism is exposed to an environmental insult that throws it out of balance.
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Susceptibility + Insult = Illness.
Each of us has different susceptibilities, different vulnerabilities. When we get sick, our illness is not separate thing from who we are. The illness becomes an unhappy part of us.
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This is why Homeopathy is both holistic and individualized medicine. We don't try to treat an illness apart from the patient. We support a person who is sick.
​​This is not merely semantics. We see this approach work all the time.
A Little History
Homeopathy is a 200 year old form of medicine that was created by the German Physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. Founded during the Enlightenment, Homeopathy is a system of rational medicine which emphasizes inductive logic over deductive, and though rational operates on fundamentally different principles than conventional Western medicine. These differences include:
Understanding Homeopathy
Homeopathy is individualized medicine.
Why? Doesn't one medicine fit all?
How does homeopathy approach health & illness?
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In homeopathy, three different people with sinusitis are likely to get three different homeopathic medicines. Even in pandemics, this is often true.
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Homeopaths view illness as a maladaptation of the organism to its environment. That maladaptation occurs when three things happen:
1. The organism has a hidden inflexibility to adapt or recover from an insult. That inflexibility is called a susceptibility. (Get head colds a lot? Then YKWIM.)
2. The organism is exposed to an environmental insult, that throws it out of balance.
3. susceptibility + insult = illness.
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Each of us has different susceptibilities, different vulnerabilities. When we get sick, our illness is not separate thing from who we are. The illness becomes an unhappy part of us.
​​
This is why Homeopathy is both holistic and individualized medicine. We don't try to treat an illness apart from the patient. We support a person who is sick.
​​This is not merely semantics. We see this approach work all the time. to know.
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Homeopathy is a 200 year old form of medicine that was created by the German Physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. Founded during the Enlightenment, Homeopathy is a system of rational medicine which emphasizes inductive logic over deductive, and though rational operates on fundamentally different principles than conventional Western medicine. These differences include:
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Individuation of prescribing – different people presenting with the same illness will often get different medicines.
Attention and emphasis on subjective symptoms
Entirely different methodology for formulating medicines. Most homeopathic medicines are extremely diluted – even well past Avogadro’s number.
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Homeopathic medicines (termed “remedies”) are given on the basis of “The Law of Similars” or “like treats like” and the medicines’ proven ability to create the same symptoms as those seen in the client receiving them. Conventional medicine operates mostly on the principle of opposites, that is drugs oppose disease states or suppress their effects.
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Homeopathic medicines do not have “side effects,” and are one of the safest forms of alternative medicine.
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Homeopathy is gentle, and natural, homeopathic medicines work to move the body to heal itself.
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Homeopathy can work quickly – as in acute situations for shock or pain relief.
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Homeopathy can work on healing long term illness.
