SpiritNetwork Insights
by Francine Milano and John Landis
There are many problems with the current course that the Medical system is taking. For instance, the medical community uses the term "Idiopathic" to describe diseases of unknown cause. Diagnosis is derived from the symptoms but can not address the cause. Because of this, the treatment only suppresses the symptoms and drives the disease deeper in to the body. The prognosis is a long life, unfortunately of suffering. Why is the majority of our society content with this?
Homeopathy considers symptoms as the body's way of expressing illness or dis-ease. The body does it's best to heal itself, given a set of problems. If there are bacteria in your nose, your nose runs to flush out the invaders. Why is it that we insist on taking decongestants to stop this natural defense mechanism? With "modern medicine", managing a condition is like unplugging the oil warning light in your car instead of adding oil. Symptoms are the body's attempt to heal. Homeopathic medicine is a natural pharmaceutical system that utilizes microdoses of a substance to arouse a person's natural healing response. It is much safer and has little side effects like synthetic drugs.
Homeopathy existed as a formalized medicine long before today's modern medicine. "Allopathy", and much credit for working out the early and still practiced methods goes to Samuel Haneman. It was also being developed concurrently by the American Indians.
It is based on the law of similars. Homeo meaning same and opathy meaning medicine. This law treats a set of symptoms which indicate a root cause with a substance which when taken in overdose will cause the same symptoms. Homeopaths attempt to match the drug overdose symptoms to those of the illness. In a simplified example, getting Poison Ivy may be cured with a very dilute solution of Poison Ivy. In reality, everyone expresses slightly different symptoms even for the same disease, so there are needs for different remedies. If there are one hundred people suffering from arthritis, there could be one hundred different underlying causes and one hundred different remedies.
In order to match a remedy to the individual an interview process is necessary. Interview questions range from chief complaints to seemingly minor characteristics like the side you sleep on and what foods you crave or dislike.
What makes Homeopathy so different and effective is that the remedy acts on all symptoms together as a unit - Wholistic. No other therapy or medicine does this. What do aching feet, headaches and anxiety attacks have to do with each other? This may be your personal blueprint for a remedy.