How Homeopathy Works
In Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's pristine homeopathy, illness is understood to be where the regularity of life is disturbed at the core of the human mind and body and ripples outward affecting the whole person causing uncomfortable sensations and irregular processes which we call symptoms that signal the natural instinctive healing process has begun.
The character, severity and location of symptoms indicate not only how far an extremely harmful influence has penetrated mind and body, but also how far towards the exterior of the body our instinctive, natural self-healing power has vented the disturbance without any assistance, and the toll this valiant effort takes on our strength.
In authentic homeopathic treatment, the remaining strength of our life force energy is assessed, conserved, harnessed and gently strengthened, so that the totality of symptoms experienced are extinguished and the natural curative process is completed.
To achieve that goal using homeopathy, application of the therapeutic homeopathic Law of Similars requires not only (a) selection of a single medicinal substance which, through its proven action on the healthy human mind and body, it has demonstrated its power of producing the greatest number of symptoms similar to the totality of those experienced during illness, but also (b) administration of that single medicine in rare and minute single doses, so small that they just suffice to extinguish the natural illness without causing pain, weakening, injuring or torturing the patient in the very least.
To find the most suitable symptom-similar medicine, Hahnemann's homeopathic patient examination process elicits the most striking, singular, uncommon and peculiar, characteristic symptoms and features of the natural disease which are analysed and assembled in such a way as to create a unique multidimensional portrait of each person’s mental, emotional and physical suffering.
Next, the characteristic illness portrait is compared with the list of symptoms experienced, reported and documented during homeopathic medicine drug trials, which Hahnemann conducted to understand exactly which symptoms are produced artificially by which medicinal substance when it is ingested by healthy people in a simple, uncombined, non toxic and homoeopathically prepared highly dilute form.
The greater the similarity between (a) the strength of the homoeopathically prepared medicinal dose and the strength of the life force energy that prevails within the patient, and (b) the degree of symptom-similarity between the characteristic symptoms produced naturally during illness and symptoms a medicinal substance has proven its power to produce artificially in healthy people, the more likely it is the homeopathic medicine and dose will restore health.
The moment the correct homeopathic medicine and proper dose is ingested and absorbed into the body, it is as if it were presented with a magnified, intensified, artificial medicinal version of the original natural disorder. The correctly selected homeopathic medicinal dose acts in union with and boosts the body’s vital force which gradually increases, until at last, it increases to such a degree and becomes so potent, it is far more powerful than the original natural disease—powerful enough to drive the symptoms in an orderly outward direction, extinguish the totality of symptoms experienced and leave the patient free from disease.
In that way, our reinvigorated innate life-preserving force completes the task of cure it started and gently, rapidly transforms illness into lasting health throughout our whole spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical body.
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