What is homeopathy?
Homeopathy was developed more then 200 years ago, by a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann. It is based on the ‘law of similars’, which states that any substance that can cause symptoms in a healthy human being, can help to heal an individual experiencing similar symptoms.
Hahnemann called this medical system of curing the sick ‘homeopathy’ from the Greek words homoios - meaning similar, and pathos - meaning suffering or disease.
How does homeopathy work?
Homeopathy stimulates the body’s own healing power to complete the curative process. The human organism has the dynamic and powerful capacity to protect and heal itself. However, sometimes due to an imbalance in the organism this dynamic force is not strong enough to complete the healing process. This is why we use homoeopathic remedies, which act as catalysts that stimulate our natural defences.
Homoeopathic remedies are made from very minute amounts of the active substance of plant, mineral or animal origin. The process of dilution and succussion is used to develop the healing properties of these substances. The remedies are diluted so many times that generally no chemical trace of the original substance remains, so they cannot cause any side effects.
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