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 What are the differences between conventional or allopathic medicine and homeopathic medicine? Homeopaths do not diagnose illness and treatment of illness is not dependent upon diagnosis.* What does this mean? If you have suffered symptoms and have ailments but have not been officially diagnosed with a chronic condition; you do not have to wait until your illness progresses or worsens before receiving help. You can receive homeopathic treatment while still undergoing investigations to determine the cause of an ailment. Homeopathic treatment is based on a careful observation of all symptoms. All symptoms pertaining to the whole of the body and not just of the dis-eased part. Symptoms in context with the general level of health. Therefore, homeopaths do not rely on technology, tests, machinery and examination. This makes the experience of the patient a positive one, where they can really talk, and are treated gently - there are no invasive procedures, no tests, no ordeals. Many homeopaths preserve and retain vast knowledge and experience of illness through perception and familiarity with the meaning and significance of signs and symptoms. Before technology advanced so far, many GP's had this knowledge and familiarity. But in modern times, ironically many an illness has been missed through the unavailability of a particular test result and because doctors are afraid to use their own senses and experience. And everything must be 'proven'. Imagine a power-cut in a hospital? Where no test can be conducted and all machines fail? Just consider the scenario in Haiti. However, the practice of homeopathy would be entirely unaffected. The disadvantage of such a technology-dependent approach means that many people have known they were ill and helplessly awaited the final manifestation until such a time as it showed up in tests- which is the only point in modern medicine at which treatment can begin. Many so-called hypochondriacs are abandoned to fate- when they finally prove themselves by developing the very illness they fear. Because the predisposition, the initially minor disturbances, small symptoms do not fit into a disease category. This is why homeopathy has a significant role to play in preventative medicine and the maintenance of health. It also takes into account family history but makes use of that knowledge in its understanding of how people become susceptible to particular illnesses, how and why this susceptibility is activated, and homeopathy CAN treat disorders that 'run' in families, even going so far as to prevent the transfer of illnesses to generations. Because treatment is essentially individualised and independent of diagnosis - there is no risk of mis-diagnosis. Many ailments that have been unsuccessfully treated due to mis-diagnosis and not discovering the true cause of the problem and therefore choosing the wrong approach, can be resolved. For example, a woman who suffers depression may have undetected hormonal imbalance. Normally, she might not be aware of this or consider her mood and her periods to be separate complaints. She may consult a GP in relation to her menstrual cycle. She may feel the need to consult a counsellor due to severe anxiety or depression. If she receives no diagnosis of actual dis-ease in relation to her menses and she continues without intervention she may continue to suffer severe mood disturbance. If this lady consults a homeopath and in the course of the consultation the connecting link emerges - treatment can cover both these areas and as a result be effective. In conventional medicine, there are many specialities and consultants dedicated to a particular area of the body or particular illnesses. For example, cardiologists, neurologists, pediatricians, gynaecologists, orthopaedics and etc. Homeopaths specialise in holistic medicine - a whole-istic approach to illness. Any ailment is not considered to be isolated from the whole. If you ask a homeopath who practises holistically if they treat your particular ailment - you may sense hesitation and their answer will be they treat all people and a large variety of ailments rather than specialise in one particular illness. It is true however that some homeopaths gain a reputation in one particular area and thus attract many patients with the same ailment. The medicines that homeopaths use are non-toxic and do not not disrupt health. In other words, a person will not develop a new illness arising from long-term side-effects of conventional medication, thus requiring yet more medication. The medicines that homeopaths use are tailored to the individual. This means that each person presenting to the homeopath with chronic migraine for example, will receive a different remedy. As opposed to standard pain-relieving medication. As the treatment is not based on the individual's experience not the name of the ailment.  Now that you have visited this website - say hello, leave your feedback and comments - I would love to hear from you -Sign my Guestbook.
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Consultations with a homeopath differ from consultations with the average GP. Interest is shown in appetite, sleep, dreaming thirst, environmental preferences, body temperature and the individual personality and their likes, dislikes, motivations, fears and dreams. As well as the whole of the health history up to the present moment. The focus is not just a physical one - as years before 'stress' became a familiar buzz word - homeopathy, amidst many holistic alternative medicines, acknowledged the connection between psyche, soul, mind and the body. This acknowledgment dates back to the early part of the 19th century! Homeopathy always was ahead of its time. Consultations are very thorough and more lengthy. All symptoms are carefully recorded so that they can be properly tracked as to their appearance, disappearance or movement around the body. So instead of a homeopath noting the disease and assuming that the symptoms related to the diagnosis are automatically present in that person, the homeopath questions and examines in what exact manner is the patient suffering. Homeopaths employ the principle of the 'minimum' dose. This means the least amount necessary to stimulate a curative response is required. Nothing more. In conventional medicine, for example - it is known that one must 'finish the course'. In homeopathy, when improvement or relief is obtained - all medicine is ceased. As the body's natural capacity for managing its own affairs has been restored and repaired. Healing necessitates independence from drug-taking. In conventional medicine, many drug dosages must be adjusted upwards to maintain good effect as the body, once having adapted to the ingestion of a particular substance, becomes less susceptible and more immune to its effects. In homeopathy, the opposite occurs when the body begins to recover - dosage decreases proportionately finally ending in withdrawal of the medicine. Homeopathy has the potential and capacity to actually cure- which means to permanently remove illness. * Please, note that I always encourage independent medical diagnosis and referral to medical practitioners in case of chronic, ongoing illness where a multi-disciplinary approach is necessitated, depending on the individual circumstances. As stated, I do not diagnose illness nor am qualified to do so. I provide help where a patient is seeking a viable alternative or complement in their health-care. Samuel Hahnemann,the founder of homeopathy, as it is mostly practised today,said "If, then, beneficent nature shows us, in the homeopathic method of treatment, the only sure and infallible way by which we can remove easily and permanently the totality of symptoms in a patient, that is, his whole morbid state, and by which we are able to make him well at will; if every instance of treatment conducted on this plan shows us the most unfailing cure; who could remain so perverse, and neglect to such a degree the good of himself and of humanity, as to refuse to tread in this path of truth and nature, but stick to the indefensible, antiquated, purely imaginary phantoms of diseases and modes of treatment, to the destruction of the sick? I know full well that it requires heroic courage in order to cure ourselves of prejudices grown almost into mental infirmities, which have become sacred to us on account of their hoary age, and that it demands very uncommon strength of mind to eradicate from our memory all the absurdities which have been imprinted upon our youthful susceptibilities, and to exchange them for new truths. But the oak-garland with which a consciousness of acting right, crowns us, rewards these victories over ourselves a thousand-fold! Do old, antiquated untruths become anything better - do they become truths -by reason of their hoary antiquity? Is not truth eternal, though it may have been discovered only an hour ago? Does the novelty of its discovery, render it an untruth? Was there ever a discovery or truth that was not at first novel? " Help towards Health: Are you and sick and tired of it all? Visit my interactive BLOG. Do you need help or information about any of the following? Topics for Help and Discussion: and stay tuned for many more topics....... Feel free to leave me feedback, comment, or share with friends. Subscribe to my Blog if you wish. For many more updates and further discussion.
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