What You Should Know About Homeopathy
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No one likes going to the doctor’s office and having to take prescription medication. There are always side effects to the medication and sometimes a person has to be on a certain medication for most of his or her life. Homeopathic products have become an alternative to prescription medication.
But do you really know if these homeopathic cures can help your ailment? There is a lot of controversy involving homeopathy and unless you have done your homework and investigated homeopathic ingredients, you could find yourself worse than when you started.
Homeopathy derives its name from the Greek words homois (similar or like) and pathos (suffering or disease). The discoverer of classical homeopathy and its cures is attributed to Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, who began working on homeopathic principles in the late 1700’s. He was not a fan of the medical practices employed at that time, such as those of blood letting, leeches or purging, and he was right to be so mistrusting of those barbaric practices, as they often did more harm than good.
The current medical practices of the time worked on a principle of opposites. Dr. Hahnemann began to ponder about using a method of “like cures like” through the use of homeopathic medication. His belief was that if a similar agent to what the patient was suffering from was introduced into the patient in small amounts, then the body’s natural healing process would be sped up to cure the ailment.
If this concept seems similar to you it is because that is the basis for vaccinations. A vaccine is a minute amount of a certain disease that has been changed to the point where it is harmless to the person but still causes the immune system to learn its properties and thus becomes enabled to fight it properly.
Through Dr. Hahnemann’s work a complete Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia manual was introduced into the world of medicine. His ideas on homeopathy soon spread to the rest of the medical community and many physicians at the time began to embrace these homeopathy treatment options.
Unfortunately, the practices and products listed in the manual were not scientifically tested so the veracity of them led to many disputes between medical doctors and scientists, and homeopathic practitioners. Today, though the Food and Drug Administration acts as a governing council to verify pharmaceuticals, homeopathic medications do not fall under the same guidelines.
This is why you can purchase these remedies in health food stores, pharmacies and even your grocery store. The real question is whether or not the homeopathic remedies will work for you? Unfortunately, it is a guessing game and you are the guinea pig.
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