Conditions
benefited by homeopathy:
Homeopathy
is a complete system of natural medicine that can have a therapeutic
effect on almost any disease or health condition.
Who
can benefit from homeopathic treatment?
People
of all ages can benefit from homeopathic treatment. Homeopathic
treatments have no side-effects and can be used in conjunction with
other medical treatments without harm. The long-term benefit of
homeopathy is that it not only alleviates the presenting symptoms, but
re-establishes internal order at the deepest levels and thereby
provides a lasting cure. What
to expect during a homeopathic consultation:
A
homeopathic consultation is a unique experience for someone accustomed
to conventional medicine. For instance, you may be suffering from
chronic headaches, perhaps migraines. While the conventional medical
treatment for this condition is the same for almost everyone (some form
of analgesics or anti-inflammatories), homeopathy recognizes over two
hundred symptom patterns associated with headaches, and has
corresponding remedies for each. Your
headache may be in the front of your head. It may get worse when it is
cold and improve with heat. It may be better while you are lying down,
or while you are sitting up. You may be a person who is thin, and
easily excited, or the docile, sedentary sort. The first task of the
homeopathic practitioner is a process called
“profiling” or recording all of the
qualities physical, mental, and emotional that will determine your
patients remedy or combination of remedies. Practitioners
of classical homeopathy consult vast compendiums, called repertoires,
and the materia medica to determine the remedy that most closely
matches the picture of the patient’s symptomatology. These
compendiums are compilations of findings of thousands of tests, also
called provings, for over two hundred years that record how healthy
individuals react to different substances. The very detailed reactions
by subjects are catalogued in these compendiums and the homeopathic
practitioner’s task is to match them exactly to the
patient’s profile. Homeopathy
worldwide: Europe
is the birthplace of homeopathy. There are approximately six thousand
practitioners in Germany and five thousand in France.
In
Britain, homeopathic hospitals and outpatient clinics are part of the
national health system, and homeopathy is recognized as a postgraduate
medical specialty by virtue of an act of Parliament. Homeopathy has
also enjoyed the patronage of the British royal family for the past
four generations. In South
Africa homeopathic doctors and homeopathic medication are controlled by
the Department of Health and the Allied Health Professions Council.
Training of homeopathic doctors is done through the University of
Johannesburg and the Durban University of Technology. There are more
than 700 doctors of homeopathic medicine in South Africa.
In the
United States, an estimated three thousand medical doctors and licensed
health care providers practice Homeopathy, and the number continues to
rise annually. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) recognizes
homeopathic remedies as official drugs and regulates their
manufacturing, labelling, and dispensing. Homeopathy
is also widely practiced in India, where over twenty-five thousand
doctors practice homeopathy. | 
