Allergies
What Homeopathy can do
Over the last three decades statistics show increasing numbers of adults and children reportedly suffering from hay fever, asthma, food allergies or other ailments as a result of a hyperactive immune system. These symptoms may be caused by various environmental and/or hereditary influences.
Conventional medicine seldom offers in-depth solutions and generally focuses on the suppression of the symptoms. The main pharmaceutical medicines Cortisone and anti-histamines, which are indispensable in emergency situations, may ease the symptoms for a short time but can also lead to severe side effects.
Homeopathy has a different approach. It takes into account the individual symptoms of the patient and looks at each person’s special needs.
Studies have shown that homeopathy is successful in treating allergies.
How can I learn more?
During World Homeopathy Awareness Week 2009, homeopaths all around the world will be informing the public about the homeopathic treatment of allergies. To find out more about these seminars as well as other events taking place in your area, please visit www.worldhomeopathy.org
What is Homoeopathy?
Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognizes that all symptoms of ill-health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease.
In 1796 a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick, which he called Homeopathy (from the Greek words meaning ‘similar suffering’). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier, he realized that there were two ways of treating ill health, the way of opposites and the way of similars.
Take, for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites (conventional medicine or allopathy), is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on an artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular doses of drugs, which can sometimes cause side effects or addiction.
The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, such as coffee, which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. Perhaps surprisingly, this will help the patient to sleep naturally.
Homeopathic remedies cannot cause side effects and you cannot become addicted to them. This is because only a very minute amount of the active ingredient is used in a specially prepared form. Homeopathic treatment is believed to stimulate the body’s ability to fight infection and susceptibility to disease.
Your homeopath will give you a homeopathic medicine or remedy that matches your symptoms as you experience them, including your emotional and physical tendencies.
What will your homeopath need to know?
In order to find the right remedy for you as an individual, your homeopath will need to know all about you. A detailed understanding of who you are, what your complaints are, and how you experience them, is needed to accurately assess your case. So anything you can tell your homeopath that is typical of who you are will help this process. Finding out about your general energy level, your past medical history and the way you live are also important. Anything you say will be treated in the strictest confidence. The initial consultation may take up to two hours.
Sometimes a cold, rash or some form of discharge may appear as a ‘spring cleaning’ effect. Similarly, old symptoms can reappear, usually for a short period. These symptoms will pass, and must not be treated, as they are a very important part of the healing process.
10 Good Reasons
To Use Homeopathy:
1 NO HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS
A special preparation process called potentisation refines the medicines to remove any toxic side-effects. It is safe for babies and during pregnancy and menopause. However it is advised to be under the care of a qualified homoeopathic practitioner if you are pregnant.
2 GENTLE
Homeopathy works by stimulating the body’s own natural defense mechanism to heal itself. Although gentle, the results may be powerful and long lasting.
3 HOLISTIC
Homeopathy takes into account the whole person. Often only one remedy may address all your complaints.
4 INEXPENSIVE
Homeopathic medicines cost surprisingly less than allopathic prescription medication. The homeopathic medicines are intended to boost the immune system, making you stronger and less likely to get sick.
5 PREVENTATIVE TREATMENT
By boosting the body’s immune system, homeopathy can help improve a person’s resistance to illness and infections.
6 NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS
Humans respond differently to medication than animals do. All homeopathic medication is tested on healthy humans. The symptoms that a substance taken over time elicits in a healthy person, are shown to be exactly those that can be cured in a sick person suffering from those symptoms.
7 EASY TO TAKE
Homeopathic medicines are given either as small pleasant tasting tablets which dissolve in the mouth, or in liquid form. Granules, powders or drops are available for babies and children.
8 PATIENT INVOLVEMENT
The homeopath will ask many questions, not only about the symptoms which are bothering an individual, but how they react to the condition, as well as wanting to know about general health and lifestyle.
9 INVALUABLE FOR FIRST AID
Homeopathic medicines can be safely used in the home or workplace to treat simple problems such as bruises, minor burns, sprains, insect bites and gastric upsets. However more serious or chronic complaints should be treated by a qualified practitioner.
10 THE MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE
With over 3000 homeopathic medicines in existence and new homeopathic medicines being discovered all the time, Homeopathy is a growing art. However unlike allopathic medicine that takes drugs off the market every year as new side-effects are discovered, homeopaths still use the same medicines they were using 200 years ago.
Scientists are only now discovering breakthroughs in quantum physics that help us to develop a deeper understanding of the therapeutic mechanism of homeopathy.