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HOMEOPATHY
THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND ANY RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY.
While homeopathy may be practiced by individuals who follow
other religious ideals, this can be said of any medical treatment. This
God-given natural therapy has to be taken back by those of us who understand
its value. We must not allow it to be stolen from us. Fear of homeopathy, as
some type of "woo-woo" medicine, is totally unfounded.
Homeopathic medicine uses many sources of plants, minerals, etc and applies the
principle of "like cures like". A good example of this, is the extract of
onion. In its undiluted form onion extract will cause your eyes to tear and nose
to run; however, if taken to a dilution that is much weaker than the original
extract, onion can be used very effectively to treat hay fever, colds or
symptoms that are like those caused by onion extract (i.e. a cold with runny
eyes and nose will usually respond to homeopathic onion).
An example in nature that quite nicely reveals the fact that a
dilution although very low or non existent has an energetic " power", is the
ability of sharks to sense blood that has been "spilled" in the ocean. Sharks
will travel hundreds of miles when they sense this energetic flow even though
none of the initial blood can be detected at that distance. So the cynic's
remark that homeopathy is like "spitting in Vancouver harbour and polluting
Tokyo Bay" is probably more true than he realizes. It would just depend who
spit and what he spit. The increased knowledge of quantum physics also gives a
better understanding of this energetic transfer. Even the writings of
Hippocrates make some reference to this type of usage of natural medicines. Dr.
Samuel Hahnemann, a trained medical doctor and chemist, further developed this
knowledge in the 18th century. He came across it while working on medical
translations of original transcripts of Socrates to German.
In this day of increased disease resistance, homeopathy is a valuable tool that
can be used to increase our immune response. It can stimulate our body's ability
to heal itself when antibiotics are no longer a choice.
With homeopathy we can better address the constitution of the individual as well
as the immediate symptom picture that is being manifested.
Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology, the study of the unity of
mental, neurological, hormonal and immune functions has given us a much better
understanding of how the underlying psychological and physiological makeup of
the individual is relevant to the treatment of a disease. This information can
be readily applied with homeopathy, whereas we are limited when using
pharmaceuticals.
Homeopathy will not do harm to one system in the body, while treating another, but will nurture the whole body. Pharmaceutical drugs can often have dangerous side affects. There may be aggravations but no harm if properly applied. The training of a Naturopathic Physician is such that we are well aware of our scope of practice. This insures that patients will not be treated by us if they require the services of another practitioner. These decisions are made by a careful review of the patients symptoms and history.
Homeopathy may very well prove, along with Chinese herbals, to be a real boon to our treatment and prevention of viruses like SARS and West Nile.
