Homeopathy

What is it?

It is an alternative system of medicine discovered tested and established by Dr.S.Hahnemann of Germany. It is easy to understand, pick up and apply. It is very helpful for day-to-day health problems for infants, kids, men, women and old generation, at any time, place, and season or even in chronic problem & emergency. It may not require the immediate services of a general physician or a specialist. However, any intervention, if required cannot and should not be ruled out.

What is the basic principle of this system?

Dr. Hahnemann enunciated his doctrine of 'Similia similibus curentur' or 'like cures like', based on vaious tests, experiments and experiences wrt various pure compounds, and their potencised and dynamized (with dilution, shaking or vibration which imparts medicinal curative power) drug-forms, to heal the sickness of body and mind. He found that the potencised drug had a tremendous power and efficiency to cure the symptoms, which the same drug in its purest form would have produced in a healthy person.
Homeopathy is a system of medicine that originates from natural substances, which come from the metals, mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom.

What are main benefits of homeopathy?

- Homeo remedies are non-toxic
- Homeo remedies have no side effects.
- There is hardly any need for diagnosis or pathological laboratory tests for acute/chronic problems (except seriousness for intervention)
- There is little need to visit and consult a doctor for day-to-day health problems.
- Many times even surgical operations are avoided or eliminated.
- Drugs/Remedies have a long lasting shelf life.
- Drugs/Remedies are easy to store and handle.
- Taste-wise, even infants/kids/children love to take these drugs.
- Based on interest, litrature study and observation of symptoms (body and mind) and environments, one can administer the medicine on himself or on others.
- The whole process is cheap and economical. It could be an excellent cure at nominal cost.

How to select a remedy, its potency, number of doses and duration?

- The homeopathic treatment is a symptomatic treatment. Symptoms as apparent are noted/recorded and analysed in order to choose a remedy.
- If the administrator is new or inexperienced, he will have to refer to some guide/litrature/materia medica (which gives the symptom picture of each remedy) to finally select the remedy.
- Remedies are available in small sweet white pills or tinctures/liquids.
- Potencies available are in general, 30, 200, 1000(1M), 10000 (10M) besides mother tinctures.
- For your own home, keep one homeo-kit or box, which may contain about 50-75 remedies, each of 30 potency, required for day-to-day health problems.
- In acute cases, where symptoms are sharp, indicated and selected remedy may be given every 15 minutes for the first hour. Start with a 30 potency. As soon as the improvement is noticed, increase the interval to 4 hours, taking 3 more deoses. If there is no improvement in the first hour, the choice of the medicine is wrong. On the other hand, if recovery stops before a complete cure has occurred, the potency is to be increased. The medication should be discontinued as soon as the cure occurs.
- In chronic cases, remedies with potencies of 200, 1M or 10M are more effective. These potencies go very deep into the system and effect remarkable results. The medicine should be taken four times a day till a cure occurs. If recovery stops midway, it is time to raise the potency.
- For the children, 30 potency should be used but there is no harm in raising if the circumstances so require or as suggested by experienced homeopaths/authores.
- If there is a probability of more than one medicine, do not mix the medicines. The indicated remedies should be taken at an interval of 30 minutes each
- If the cure occurs with one dose, just stop and don't repeat. Ordinarily 4 doses a day should be sufficient.
- At times relief may be insufficient because of low potency. Changeover to a higher potency brings in the results.
• After an improvement, the number of doses should be reduced from 4 to 3 the next day and 3 to 2 the day after. At times there may be a minor recurrence of the problem if the medicine has been stopped. In such a case, one more dose preferably of a higher potency should suffice. In the alternative, one dose of sulphur 200 would revive the effect of remedy already administered and complete the cure.
- Aggravation: In case a remedy has been overused or potency is higher than required, there could be aggravation of symptoms. Stop further doses. The patient would return to normal soon because the human body would eliminate the excess medicine through its own disposal system.
- Dose: Normal pill size is 20. If you get size 30 or 40, take 2 pills for a dose instead of normal 4. The dose should be taken on a clean dry tongue. The pills should be allowed to dissolve and not to be chewed. The mouth should be free of food or of any other matter like toothpaste or drink or smoke. Better not to drink/eat half an hour before or after. Administer the dose directly on the tip of the tongue through phial itself or with the help of clean stainless spoon or on a clean slip of white paper. A few of the medicines have to be used in the liquid form (as in case of diabetics)
- Mother Tinctures: are pure substances. These are generally needed for external use or sometimes taken internally.
- Shelf Life: If stored properly, the shelf life of homeopathic medicines is almost indefinite.

• HOME KIT: refer sub-menu, 'Harry's smart guide'.
• FIRST AID/KID KIT: refer sub-menu.
• PROBLEM/REMEDIES: for some day-to-day important health problems, refer sub-menu.