By Charles Barrett. Soc; Hom; B.M.H.A.
A series which will make it easier to understand how Homoeopathy works.

Natural substances, e.g. animal, vegetable & minerals absorbed into human systems will cause a reaction within or on the body system. So-called symptoms. Most people have heard of Arnica a plant which when eaten causes bruising & pain but if you had a fall then to take Arnica in the form of homoeopathy tablets this would bring out & clear the bruising.

Disturbances of a human system or an infection, either Bacterial or Virus will cause other symptoms of disease. A Homoeopath gives a homoeopathically potentised remedy made from a substance whose reaction in a human body would cause similar symptoms.

The first writings on a "like curing like" were found in manuscripts from ancient Greek times.
This form of medicine was formalised by Dr: Samual Hahnemann in the 18th century. Since this formalisation many Doctors have made large contributions to the proving of substances in potentised form& with modern technology even bigger inroads have taken place. There are now many published scientific papers that show that the correct homoeopathic treatments for patients' symptoms work very well & without side effects.

This is more than can be said about Alliopathic drugs used in conventional medicines. You will probably have seen & read reports in the media that homoeopathic remedies do not work or can cause us harm. In my forty odd years of homoeopathic practice I have never had a single complaint of causing any distress to a patient.

However it is well known & reported that all alliopathic drugs can have serious side-effects even when prescribed correctly & far worse when a mistake has taken place.

How do Homoeopaths & conventional Doctors differ in the examination of a sick patient?

Our conventional doctors are well trained to look for an illness or disease & prescribe a drug or drugs designed to treat that ailment. A homoeopath consults with his or her patient & asks for all details of pain & discomfort with this & any past illness. Examining the body for any external symptoms. They will then match those symptoms to the provings of various remedies & potencies of those remedies that will suit the patient.

Why do we become ill? Bacterial, or Viral infection. Digestive disorders etc:

To a Homoeopath all forms of illness are seen as the body being disrupted by abnormal functions, often chemically induced or through a stressful state of the mind which causes our immune system to become inefficient. These are a few of the many causes that can disrupt our body system. Homoeopathically potentised substances can correct this imbalance & assist the body system to repair itself, which it is perfectly able to do.

The classical doctor will give a chemical drug to block or transform the process that caused the illness which often means the patient will feel somewhat better. Often this blockage of a chemical, bacterial or viral illness will induce another problem elsewhere. This can often be seen in patients treated with Beta Blockers for high blood pressure, which will often lead to digestive disorders for which the doctor will then prescribe another drug to calm the stomach.

However as other great homoeopathic minds come onto the scene, homoeopathy also takes a step into the future. We now have a bridge between classical Homoeopathy & Alliopathic drugs - Homotoxicology.
The principles of Homotoxicology are well written & proved. There are three thousand or more doctors in Europe who are trained Homotoxicologists & will treat their patients with Homotoxicology. This form of homoeopathy differs from our older classical remedies by using remedies or several remedies mixed together in different potencies which now allows a doctor to prescribe homoeopathic treatments for all forms of illness by referring to the Biotheraputic Index. There they can select natural treatments which cause no side effects.

This form of medication has been frowned upon by our Alliopathic doctors for many years. I studied Homotoxicology some twenty years ago & use it alongside classical homoeopathy & by doing somy practise has grown worldwide even though I never advertise. We get requests to treat animals & these can be dealt with by a homoeopathic vet of whom there re now several. It has been found that in general animals answer much better to this form of treatment, possibly because most have no stress in their lives, unlike their owners.

Backgrounds

Homoeopaths have always had to be very adaptable in the way they investigate the patient's medical & mental backgrounds in their consultations. The reason for this is the way our standard of living has changed. In the late 18th century Samual Hahnemanns unenviable task was to treat patients who had suffered from the poisonous substances fed to them. He had to detoxify their bodies & minds. These substances had been given to them in the name of medicine but in the long term, & after a great deal of suffering & pain, would kill them. Doctors then began to prescribe herbal extracts, which at least had a curing effect on some acute symptoms although they did make some others very ill. Quite a few of these herbal remedies were on sale until the mid to late 1980s when these or most of them were banned from the chemists shelves.

The next big change came along in the 1960s which was the time that stress became very well known & very widespread. We humans have inflicted upon ourselves a general way of life that causes stress & by the very nature of the effects of stress, we leave our bodily & mental systems open to the onslaught of many of our modern ailments.

What is stress? Basically stress is a confusion of the mind & brain but we must also consider that every function of our body is pre-empted by an order from the brain.

Brain Waves

Most humans take for granted that whatever we do it all begins with an order from the brain.
Nerves are activated to set limbs in motion & reflexes to activate organs in our body. In this way our heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, digestive & glandular systems are all controlled by our brain. Therefore, a confused & overloaded brain & mind makes mistakes & we begin the process of putting our body into a state where it is less able to fight off infections & illnesses of all kinds.

The food we eat has to have antioxidants in it to keep it fresh. In the past we only ate fruit & vegetables that were in season & went without when they were out of season. Now we expect to buy them all year round & to do this the growers have to force them & to treat them with anti-oxidants which is the only way to have them fresh at the point of purchase.

Consumers now seem to want or need to fill the whole day with work or play. Fast food means time not wasted but we have no time to digest our food. We work harder & longer to earn more money to purchase more modern gadgets just to keep up with our friends. To relax is a waste of time! No extra work means no extra money & so it goes on.

I have found in my work over forty years, big changes in my patients' lifestyles. Stress is now the root cause of most of our modern diseases. It really does cause our bodies defence systems to break down.

Those who take my advice & my treatment for stress, eat good wholesome food, exercise in moderation & learn to relax, live a better life & suffer far less illness. It is better to prevent than to cure & it is well within the means of homoeopathy to do just that.

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