What Does Homeopathy Treat?
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Welcome to Emerald Matrix Healing Arts, where we specialize in homeopathy in the heart of Kingston, Ontario. Led by practitioner Christina Godfrey, our focus is on personalized care and holistic healing. Experience the gentle yet profound benefits of homeopathic medicine tailored to your unique needs. Begin your journey to optimal health and vitality today.
Homeopathic remedies are made from diluted substances such as plants, minerals, or animal products. These substances are repeatedly diluted and succussed (vigorously shaken). This process, called potentization, enhances the remedy's healing power.
Mechanism of Action
Homeopathic physicians believe in a vital force within every living being responsible for maintaining health. Illness is seen as an imbalance in this vital force. Homeopathic remedies stimulate the body's natural defense mechanisms to restore balance and health.
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Understanding disease
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, understood symptoms to be the expression of the disease. Therefore, if a substance given to a healthy person manifests a constellation of symptoms, then this same substance could be used, in minute doses, to cure a sick person who is manifesting these same symptoms.
“The curative power of medicines consists exclusively in their propensity to produce disease symptoms in the healthy and remove them from the sick” (Hahnemann S. Organon of Medicine 6th edition, Aphorism 22 p.24)
Case taking during a homeopathic consultation involves the examination of all of the symptoms experienced by the patient. These include the physical, mental, and emotional symptoms as well as the general symptoms and modalities. Questions are asked about the etiology of the disease (i.e., if there was an event in the patient’s life that they feel was the moment their health changed, such as, not feeling well since a parent’s death). General symptoms and modalities include how the patient handles such issues as their environment (e.g., temperature, seasons, changes in weather) and what makes the presenting symptoms feel worse or better.
Lifestyle activities and circumstances are also considered as contributors to the entire picture of the patient’s condition. The totality of these symptoms provides the homeopath with a picture of the overall holistic experience of the patient. The homeopath does not focus only on a single symptom that has presented itself or on an organ that appears to be not functioning optimally. The homeopath uses this totality of symptoms to match to the symptom picture of the particular remedy that is most appropriate for the case.
Hahnemann established, through experimentation and observation, that homeopathic remedies are effective when administered in minute doses. These minute doses are obtained through the process of potentization until only ‘an infinitesimal amount of the material substance’ is left. This minute dose of a carefully matched remedy (matched to the totality of the patient’s symptoms) is required to cure the patient.
