What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a 200-year old comprehensive system of medicine that treats a wide range of acute and chronic conditions. It is based on an understanding that mental, emotional, and physical planes of the body are intrinsically interrelated. Effective homeopathic treatment demands a detailed understanding of how a disease affects an individual at all of these levels.

Homeopathic medicine works by stimulating the immune system to heal the body rather than suppressing symptoms. This allows symptoms to reach an endpoint and then resolve without the need for suppression or daily medication. Homeopathy recognizes that the experience of most disease is not external but an internal reaction producing the symptoms. The purpose of homeopathy is to cure diseases, not to manage or suppress symptoms.

The central difference between conventional and homeopathic treatment of chronic conditions involves suppression of symptoms. Symptoms are the way our body attempts to normalize and reestablish balance. Most prescription drugs work to block or suppress these symptoms. Our symptoms are a built-in effort to self-correct so when symptoms are blocked then the body is driven to use more forceful means to regain balance. This means that symptoms usually get worse over time and require higher doses of drugs to treat them. It also explains why you need to take these drugs every day, and why the symptoms can return when you stop, often worse than they were before treatment.

The homeopathic remedy choice made by your provider is based on symptom patterns and is individual to each person. Homeopathic treatment is a process and typically patients will notice improvement of chronic conditions within months and acute conditions within hours. The duration of treatment and extent of cure is individual. Homeopathic medications are made from plant, mineral and animal substances. They are regulated by the FDA and are considered non-toxic.