What Is Homeopathy?
Homoeopathy is a complete system a medicine
with its origins in Classical Greece. Hippocrates discussed the
value of treating
like
with like and throughout history many other commentators have done
likewise. However, it was not until
the early nineteenth century that a formal system based on the
principle of similarity
was forthcoming
as a result of the work of a number of physicians in Europe at
the time, Samuel Hahnemann being foremost amongst them. Homeopathy – as
it came to be called – quickly spread throughout Europe,
Asia and the New World and attained great popularity and importance.
Whilst
there was a decline in the importance of homoeopathy in the middle
of the twentieth century due to advances made by mainstream
medicine, homeopathy is now enjoying a resurgence and renewed popularity
because of its high degree of safety, freedom from side effects
and its concentration on the rebalancing and returning to health
of the whole person.
Homoeopathy almost certainly works by directly
acting on and balancing the interface between the nervous, hormonal
and immune systems
(an area of current research called psychoneuroimmunology) and
in doing so results in beneficial effects in other systems
and parts of the body.
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Steven Cartwright displaying homeopathic
remedies
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