Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Homeopathy Botanic

Homeopathy is a method of treating disease by administering drugs in small doses that actually cause symptoms of the disease. There are different types of homeopathy, but all homeopathic remedies are made from naturally occurring plant, animal or mineral substances.

Homeopathy has become a thriving profession because it offers a natural alternative to Western medicine during a time of obesity, chronic stress and disease.

Homeopathy is a vitalist philosophy which interprets diseases and sickness as caused by disturbances in a hypothetical vital force or life force. It sees these disturbances as manifesting themselves as unique symptoms. Homeopathy maintains that the vital force has the ability to react and adapt to internal and external causes, which homeopaths refer to as the law of

susceptibility. The law of susceptibility implies that a negative state of mind can attract hypothetical disease entities called miasms to invade the body and produce symptoms of diseases.  However, Hahnemann rejected the notion of a disease as a separate thing or invading entity and insisted that it was always part of the "living whole".