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It
wasn't long ago this question was asked more often in the US. Homeopathy was
more widely used in India and Europe.
Americans used 'modern' medicine like
antibiotics, surgery, and synthetic drugs. Allopathic medicine
of this nature has been around for about 180 years.
Once the Colonies or America favorite form of
medical treatment was blood letting, dosing with mercury and
other medicines that would make your skin crawl! But about
almost 2 centuries ago medicine was of the verge of a
break-through as a man in Germany named Samuel
Hahnemann, a medical doctor 1796 discover a better way to heal
illness and avoid surgery and even early death.
The basic principle is a similar cures a
similar, or let likes be cured by likes. Simply if a plant or
herb in small doses can make you experience agitation or even
depression. That same plant prepared homeopathy can cure these
symptoms.
Hahnemann discovered this universal principle when he was working as a medical
translator. He was reading a medical text, which gave
information on the effects of cinchona bark (quinine), which was
used to treat malaria. He disagreed with the author's
description and took quinine himself, and unexpectedly
experienced the symptoms of malaria. In a moment of divine
inspiration, he wondered if the malarial symptoms that a sick
patient experiences are similar to the effects of quinine on a
healthy person. Can a healthy person take a substance and
experience the
same symptoms of a naturally occurring illness,
which can then be cured by that substance?
He later proved this
to be true but at doses much smaller than the physiological
doses used by the medical profession.
The theory closest to the law of
similars we have today in
medicine is utilized in vaccinations, which are supposed to
boost the immune system. This is very specific to one pathogen
while homeoprophylaxis is much more general and based on
different principles. The homeopath looks at the entire
individual to see all levels physical, emotional and mental to
find the correct remedy. If we wish to make use of
homeopathy, we need to find what Hahnemann termed the
a homeopathic remedy that cures the disease
in question as well as prevents other cases.
Homeopathy today comes
in many forms such as liquids, tiny pills and even in tasteless
powers. Often a single remedy is given to clear the condition or
a person's constitution.
Debra Arko also then looks at a complex
remedy or formula of combined homeopathics
to complete the treatment.
To explain this future Dr. Hahnemann
first published this principle in 1801 when he described how he
prevented the spread of scarlet fever across Germany with the
remedy Belladonna. Later he used homeopathic
remedies to successfully treat the typhoid epidemic of Leipzig
in 1813. He cured 180 patients and only lost two, a far cry from
the 30 percent mortality rate of the conventional physicians
(allopaths) of his time. Would homeopathy be a viable solution
to a modern epidemic or biological attack? This is an excerpt
from a paper read to the International Hahnemannian Association,
June 1940, by W.L. Bonnell, M.D., "Not one case receiving
homeopathic care died, while the 'old school' doctors lost 20
percent of their (smallpox) cases... I gave about 300 internal
vaccinations (homeopathic remedies), five to adults acting as
practical nurses; to the man who installed the telephone and
lights in the pest house; to mothers who slept with their
children while they had smallpox in its severest form. All of
these people, exposed daily, were immune."
Another account of a serious epidemic that was treated
successfully by homeopathy was documented by Thomas L. Bradford,
M.D., in his book "The Logic of Figures," in which he stated,
 "In the records of three years of diphtheria in Broome County,
New York from 1862 to 1864, there was a report of an 83.6
percent mortality rate among the allopaths (western medicine) and a 16.4 percent
mortality rate among the homeopaths."
During the 1918 flu pandemic, homeopathic physicians
documented more than 62,000 treated homeopathically with a
mortality rate of 0.7 percent. Of those who were hospitalized,
conventional medicine had a mortality rate of 30 percent,
whereas 27,000 documented hospitalized cases treated with
homeopathy had a mortality rate of 1.05 percent ("Journal of the
American Institute of Homeopathy" 1921; 13:1028-43).
Colorado Homeopathy is growing especially with National
Jewish Hospital leading the way in treatment of Tuberculosis and other lung
diseases which respond well to homeopathy. Should we experience another epidemic
of any nature this form of alternative medicine is a must.
Before taking a homeopathic it is
recommended that you contact a qualified homeopath. You can
schedule your consultation with Debra by phone or in person.
Simply call our office to schedule a time that works for you!
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