Homeopathic medicines are not herbal or natural medicines or alternative medicines in a broader sense. Homeopathic medicine has a very unique, fascinating, sophisticated and powerful system for strengthening the body’s own defense mechanism by using substances from plant, mineral and animal kingdoms.
Symptoms represent the best efforts of our body in its defenses against infection or stress. It makes sense to utilize a medicine that helps and mimics this defense rather than that inhibits or suppresses it. Homoeopathy principle of similars initiates a healing response by respecting the body’s wisdom and is one of our most sophisticated healing strategies.
It is commonly understood in medicine today that symptoms are not just something “wrong” with the body, but rather, they represent the efforts of the body and mind, adaptive responses, to defend and heal itself from a variety of infective agents and/or stresses. The body creates fever, inflammation, pain, discharge, or whatever is necessary in order to heal itself. While these symptoms represent the body’s best efforts to heal, they are not always successful in doing so.
Discharges are understood as the body’s way of ridding itself of dead bacteria, viruses, and cells. Even high blood pressure is an important defense and adaptation to the internal and external stresses that a person experiences.
Once one recognizes that symptoms are important and useful defenses of the body, it makes less sense to use drugs that inhibit or suppress this wisdom of the body. Instead of using drugs to suppress symptoms, it makes sense to use medicines to strengthen the body’s own defense system so that the body can more effectively heal itself. Here is where it makes sense to use homeopathic medicines.
Homeopathic medicines are some of the most powerful natural drugs available to help augment the body’s ability to heal itself.