What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy works by stimulating the immune system through the intake of extremely small amounts of natural substances, restoring the body to balance gently and safely. The remedies used in homeopathy are made from very small quantities of either plant, mineral and other substances. This allows a gentle, non-toxic yet powerful re-stimulation of your body’s natural healing capacity. These substances are recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. They are non-toxic. Therefore, they are the best approach to treating infants, children and adults. It is also very safe to be used during pregnancy.

History of Homeopathy

Homeopathy was created around 1790 by Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann was a german doctor who became very dissatisfied with how doctors were treating their patients back then and decided that instead of seeing patients he was going to translate medical books for a living. In one of these books, he ran into a study that said that Peruvian bark (a tree) cured malaria because of its bitter properties. He thought that was odd because other bitter substances, even more bitter than peruvian bark, didn't help with malaria at all. He then decided to take the tincture of the bark himself to experience the effects of it. Much to Hahneman's surprise, every single symptom he developed corresponded to the ones that afflict someone with malaria. He then understood that malaria wasn't cured by the bark's bitter taste but for its poisoning similarities to the symptoms of malaria. In other words, after taking the tincture, he started developing malaria like symptoms. From then on, he and his early followers conducted "provings" in which they administered herbs, minerals, and other substances to healthy people, including themselves, and kept detailed records of what they observed.

The Law of Similars

The "Law of similars" or "Like cures like" states that a diluted substance can cure a disease if its symptoms match the ones it produced on a healthy person during a "proving" (method of testing a substance to determine its medicinal effects). Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was the first to utilize the law of similars in Western culture. In fact, the word "homeopathy" is a Greek derivative. He, and later others, reasoned and demonstrated that a substance producing a particular symptom in a healthy person would stimulate the body to remove that symptom in a sick person. Hippocrates used homeopathy extensively. back

The Diluted Dose

The organic materials from plant, mineral and other substances are made into ultra-diluted products called homeopathic remedies. In it’s preparation the healing capacity of the substance is preserved and the toxic properties are extracted. All the homeopathic remedies are FDA approved. This process of dilution is called potentization. It is believed that the more a substance is diluted the greater are the effects of healing. This dilution makes a homeopathic remedy completely harmless with zero side effects. back

Is Homeopathy for You and Your Family?

That is a good question today due to an increasing dissatisfaction with our regular doctors, specially pediatricians. I hear more and more mothers complaining that their children have been prescribed too many rounds of antibiotics and that the infections keep coming back. Well, I can certainly tell you that the suppression of symptoms caused by the strong medicines prescribed by pediatricians today, are the main reason kids get sick regularly. Now let me illustrate what I am trying to say. Children's bodies are very resilient and strong, they can take high fevers, as a matter of fact, the body only starts effectively killing bad bacteria when it reaches 102-degree fever. Their little bodies need to learn how to take care of themselves, just like any living thing that needs to evolve to mature, the bodies need to get sick to learn to get better and on the process they get stronger and stronger. If you give acetaminophen to your kids when their fever is 100 degrees, you are sending the wrong message to the body. Think about it. If the body only fights bacteria at 102 and you give them medicine when fever reaches 100 you are telling the body to do exactly the opposite. Fevers are a good sign that the body is strong. Suppressing symptoms is the first thing doctors do. Homeopaths on the other hand, can only work on symptoms. They are the only clue we have of the disease. By taking a homeopathic remedy you are stimulating your bodies' immune system to work more efficiently. We want to teach the body how to heal itself. Now, if your doctor keeps prescribing antibiotics immediately after an ear infection is detected, your child's body is robbed the chance to fight the disease and therefore will have many more ear infections and need more powerful antibiotics to suppress them. One thing is certain, if you are not allowing the body to fight non-life threatening diseases and get stronger, how can you expect your children's body to know how to fight more serious ones? Let's save the antibiotics for when they are really needed. Just food for thought....back to the top