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Homeopathy
hello everyone! I wanted to ask what is homeopathy? and what does it do for you? -
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Hi – great question! I LOVE homeopathy and have personally started learning more about it and homeopathic cell salts.
The history behind homeopathy… it was developed by a German physician named Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century. The prefix “homo” in Greek means “same”. After conducting extensive research on botanical medicines, he evolved the hypothesis that “like cures like”, which basically means that the same substance which is causing the symptoms of a particular disease in a healthy person often resulted in curing those same symptoms when someone was ill.
In the book An Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Homeopathy, Dr. Wheeler explains that:
“the success of vaccine therapy comes to strengthen the possibility that ‘like’ may be a remedy for ‘like’, for if it is not homeopathy to make remedies for diseases out of the agents which are held to be the causes of the diseases it is difficult to find a better word… Vaccine therapy does not prove the truth of homeopathy, but does it not make it less paradoxical and incite to independent research?”
In simpler words, vaccine therapy which is highly accepted in conventional medicine basically uses a small pathogen to “cure” the body of the same infection itself. The concept of homeopathy using ‘like cures like’ in very tiny doses is similar.
The difference however is that it is very individualized. Because just like functional medicine, each person will have their own set of unique symptoms and root causes. So finding a good homeopath who will get a full health history and determine the root causes is key. Because it’s all about finding that “right” remedy.
Now there are more than 2000 remedies in homeopathy, so what I’m currently learning about are homeopathic cell salts, which are only 12.
Dr. Schuessler, another German physician practicing homeopathy found that he could simplify the repertoire down to 12, which are minerals!
In the Schuessler dosages, far less than 1 part per million of the mineral is present in the final cell salt, which is the mineral and milk sugar (so it tastes sweet). And because the dose is so so tiny, there’s no harm that can be done, even if you don’t need that particular mineral!
But the idea is that because the dose is so tiny, it supplies the body with a micro-nutrient that enables the body to rebuild itself on the cellular level.
If you want to learn more about cell salts, I recommend these 2 books:
• Homeopathic cell salt remedies
• Facial diagnosis of cell salt deficienciesI’m learning how to use cell salts to be able to add them to my medicine cabinet repertoire.
Hope this helped answer your question.
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