HOMOEOPATHY-6

Homoeopathy is being defined as the THERAPEUTIC METHOD of SYMPTOM-SIMILARITY.

Homoeopathy deals only with Therapeutics, i.e., treatment of disease. It is further limited to the use of certain pharmacological preparations prepared according to standard, well-defined principles laid down by the Founder.

Law of Homoeopathic relationship is two-fold:

1. We have a group of symptoms expressing the disease.

2. We have a group of symptoms caused by the effect of some drug on the healthy human body.

“In applying this Law in practice if a disease is curable and if medicine which has the same group of symptoms corresponding to the disease is given in conformity with the Homoeopathic rules of practice, a cure is bound to follow.”-T.S.Iyer.

Therefore,

1. Homoeopathy is a special form of using drugs.

2. The practice of this system is not in conflict with the great field of modern medicine.

Advantages of Homoeopathy over modern medicine:

1. Greater attention paid to the study of the scope and usefulness of drugs in the treatment of diseases;

2. The use of single remedies whose effects are well-known;

3. The laws for the administration of homoeopathic drugs are based on certain well-defined principles; and

4. The absence of possibility of any danger to the patient by their wrong or excessive administration.

In short, Homoeopathy is a practical method of using drugs backed up by the experience of over more than a century, which will hold good for all time. Homeopathy’s foundation is like a rock as it is based on symptoms of disease and symptoms of drugs, which will not undergo any change.