Homeopathy

Over fifty million people in Europe and many in the United States already benefit from homeopathic preparations, and in Asia the use of homeopathy is widespread.  Could homeopathy help you? Certainly the topic is a controversial one, yet in some major areas of the world homeopathy is a major form of health delivery, and followers are enthusiastic.

What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone, young and old. Homeopathy focuses on you as an individual, concentrating on your specific physical and emotional feelings, to give long lasting benefits. Many people confuse homeopathy with botanical medicine, or just any natural method or technique. However, it is a specific and unique discipline quite different from the above.

Why is it so popular?

How long has homeopathy been used?

Homeopathy has been used on the continent for over two hundred years, but has an honorable tradition dating back to ancient Greece. It was Samuel Hahnemann, a brilliant German physician, linguist and scholar, whose insightful and detailed investigations led to the scientific and philosophical foundations of this gentler way of healing. These scientific principles form the basis of successful homeopathic practice today.  Homeopathy is quite popular in California and Hawaii.

What happens when you see a homeopath?

Your practitioner understands that establishing good health involves treating both mind and body, so time is taken to listen to your emotional and physical symptoms. To stimulate your body’s own healing process, a remedy closest to your individual symptom picture is prescribed. Healing begins from within your body, improving your health and strengthening your immune system, without the common dangers of damaging side effects.

Are homeopathic remedies safe?

Homeopathic remedies are a unique, potentised energy medicine, drawn from the plant, mineral and animal worlds. They are throught to work by gently boosting the natural energy of the body, and are very safe, even for pregnant and sensitive patients. There is no danger of addiction or toxicity.

Homeopathic preparations fall under the purview of the FDA, and are legally regulated as pharmaceutical drugs.  However, since side effects from homeopathic preparations are nil, the FDA devotes little time to them.  Nonetheless they are drugs just the same, and self-treatment, casual telephone and internet advice is ill advised, compared to seeking professional help.  Most are approved for sale and use OTC.

What can homeopathy treat?

Homeopathy is used to help everything from acute fevers, sore throats and toothache, to promote healing in chronic illnesses such as arthritis, rashes, asthma, anxiety and insomnia.

How does homeopathy work?

Homeopathic medicines serve as a signal to the body to stimulate the body’s own natural healing defenses.  It is a form of energy medicine, as described in the second section below.

What will the experience be like?

Usually you will receive a tablet or tablets, liquid or special preparations, which should be allowed to dissolve in your mouth.  You will have to avoid coffee, peppermint, menthol, eucalyptus and camphor, since these substances can interfere with the homeopathic remedy.  The remedies should be kept in a cool, dark place, away from other items with strong smells, and away from energy fields, such as around cell phones, magnets, and x-ray scanners.  There is no danger placing them near pacemakers and defibrillators.

Treatment periods vary according to your malady and how long you have had it.  Homeopathy improves things from the inside out, so outer symptoms are often the last to disappear.  But each case is different.  Homeopathy is a medical science but also a healing art, and is highly individualized.

Homeopathy restores health by re-balancing physical and mental changes an illness produces.  Biological homeopathic medicine detoxifies and drains the body on a cellular level.  This lays the foundation for improved immune function, natural repair, and rebuilding of organ systems.

What about lifestyle, diet, and nutrition?

Proper nutrition and healthy lifestyles are also powerful tools to ensure health, and you will definitely have an assessment and advice to help you achieve optimum health in the shortest period of time.

Summary:

Homeopathy is a 200+ year old system of medicine that uses remedies made from natural substances.  They are prepared in a way that leaves them nontoxic, meaning they do not cause side effects. The preparations follow the “law of similars”, supporting and relying upon the body’s ability to heal itself. Supporters the world over enjoy its safety, effectiveness and affordability.

The Texas Homeopathic Medical Association was organized in Galveston on March 18, 1874.  Another organization, the Texas Society of Homeopathy, now exists.

 ”The highest ideal … is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health…”     
        Organon of the Medical Art, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOMEOPATHY: The 3 Laws

1. Like cures like (“The Law of Similars”). This means that a substance that causes a particular symptom or condition, can, when properly diluted and energized, actually cure others that produce similar problems. The energizing process is carried out by vigorously shaking (“succussing)” the remedy after each dilution step.

2. Diluting the remedy increases its potency (“The Law of Infinitesimal Dose”). This counter-intuitive concept was discovered by Hahnemann as he experimented with greater and greater dilutions of substances in order to avoid toxic side-effects. He found that the more dilute the substance, the more potent (and safe) it became. Extreme dilutions of homeopathically prepared substances (over 24 dilutions) actually contain none of the original material.  None.

It is for this reason that some (and others) have derided homeopathy as nonsense for many years. However, some current research on animals and humans has born out Hahnemann’s findings, and the explanation for the efficacy of highly diluted homeopathic remedies appears to lie in the domain of quantum physics. An entire issue of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine was devoted to homeopathy in November, 2005, and discussed homeopathic theory, practice, and the methodological difficulties in studying homeopathy.  In a review of homeopathy studies in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Wayne B. Jonas concluded “The weight of the current evidence right now falls slightly in favor of homeopathy.”  In the British Medical J review, 77% of the homeopathic medicines studies showed positive effects.  Sad but true: there are no preparations in any form of medicine that help or cure 100% of the users, either in subjective (I feel better!) or objective (my blood tests improved!) ways. 

Recent experiments using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging have shown that all 23 of the homeopathically-prepared remedies (that were evaluated in this study) demonstrated distinctive readings of subatomic activity as compared with equally diluted, but non-succussed controls.

This suggests that the explanation for the potencies of homeopathically prepared remedies lies in the realm of sub-atomic physics. Some researchers believe that the electromagnetic frequency of the original substance is imprinted in the homeopathic remedy via the process of successive dilution and succussion.

Indeed, experiments by the distinguished Italian physicist Emilio del Giudici have helped clarify homeopathy’s mode of therapeutic action. Del Giudici suggested that water molecules can form structures that are capable of storing minute electromagnetic signals. And Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig, a German biophysicist, performed experiments that show that homeopathic substances give off measurable and distinctive electromagnetic signals.

In February, 2006 an article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted studies at Stanford University showing that water structure was not at all as was believed, and that water can have its properties and structure changed “rather easily”.  It is believed that homeopathic medicines change the structure of water, and may transmit healing informational energy through those changes.

These experiments suggest that homeopathic remedies may convey an electromagnetic “message” that matches the “frequency of the patient’s illness”, and by so doing, promote a “cure” by stimulating the body’s natural healing processes.

3. The Third Law of Homeopathy states that everybody is unique and that an illness is specific for a given individual. That is, a remedy that works on one individual (for a given problem) may not be effective on another individual with the same problem. The job of the  practitioner is to elicit enough information from the patient to be able to correctly select the appropriate remedy.

Also see the journals Lancet 1997;350:834-843, British Medical J 1991;302:316-323, Homeopathy 2002;91:162-165, and Med Hypothesis 2000;54:634-637.

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What is Physiological Regulating Medicine?®

According to Alessandro Perra, Scientific Director of GUNA, Physiological Regulating Medicine a new therapeutic concept of restoring physiology through communicating molecules such as hormones, neuropeptides, interleukins, and growth factors prepared in homeopathic dilutions, which are at the same physiological concentration as the biological milieu.

The homeopathic preparation method of “dilution-dynamization” makes these communicating molecules even more effective, providing a biofeedback mechanism capable of restoring the body’s homeostatic balance.

DETOXIFICATION: A detoxified and drained extra-cellular matrix absorbs oxygen and nutrients adequately, allowing cellular receptors to be activated by the “therapeutic molecules”, thus enabling cells to perform their metabolic function. The organs of elimination, activated by specific detoxification ingredients, will be strengthened in their physiological excretory and toxin-release function.

P.N.E.I. RE-BALANCE: Modulating the Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immune axis in both directions, (psychosomatic and somatopsychic), is the essence of Physiological Regulating Therapy. In support of sophisticated biological mechanisms, homeopathic micro doses of: cytokines, hormones, neurotransmitters and selected homeopathic ingredients (herbal, mineral, or animal origin), reduce, modulate, and stimulate the reactivity of the three main biologic systems (nervous, immune and endocrine),  to rebalance their physiological functioning.

CELL METABOLIC SUPPORT: The action of the hormones, cytokines, or any homeopathic remedy on the cell membrane receptors would not be effective if the cell were not in the proper “energetic” condition to respond. Therefore, cell metabolic stimulation is a necessary step to assure therapeutic success. Vitamins, minerals, oligonutrients, and most importantly, homeopathic micro doses of Krebs Cycle salts and quinones, activate the mitochondria as energy reservoirs to restore the highest ATP synthesis capacity.

CELL NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT: Nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids) can have an essential role in maintaining or restoring health.  The most advanced research studies in nutrition have defined the typology, metabolic routes, and most importantly, the optimal amounts of each nutrient necessary for cellular nutrition. Products contain these small (oligos) and balanced (orto) amounts of amino acids, and vitamins necessary for proper cell nutrition. In addition, oligonutrients are incorporated to protect biological structures from free radicals, which are harmful in chronic and degenerative diseases, as well as in the aging process.

SYMPTOM CONTROL: The novel Guna therapeutic concept results from scientific studies in the field of molecular biology, coupled with homeopathic tradition. A nano-pharmacology technology is a process which utilizes homeopathic micro-doses of molecules at the same concentration as in the physiological milieu. These molecular micro-doses are capable of reactivating the appropriate biological immune response. Interleukins, neurotransmitters, homeopathic hormones, as well as classical homeopathic ingredients, work in synergistic coordination to reverse inflammatory processes and their resultant physiologic effects. The specific ingredients for each evolutionary phase of the inflammatory process (calor, dolor, rubor, tumor), are uniquely formulated to restore homeostatic balance with a considerable reduction in recovery time.

The Similarities and differences between PRM and homeopathy

Physiological Regulating Medicine (PRM) is guided by the principles of homeopathy and is based upon knowledge in molecular biology and especially in Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immunology.

PRM arises from a revolutionary idea: to bring a sick organism back to its original physiological conditions by using homeopathic medications containing, besides remedies from homeopathic pharmacopeia, also and in particular those biological molecules, called messenger molecules (neuropeptides, hormones, interleukins, and growth factors) that control and regulate organic functions under healthy conditions.

Of particularly innovative value is the therapeutic use of these messenger molecules at very low doses, called physiological low-doses, and above all, activated according to a specific method of pharmaceutical preparation called SKA (Sequential Kinetic Activation), which can render the low dosages as active in the treatment of the most diverse diseases as the high concentrations normally used in clinical pharmacology…but without the latter’s side effects.

Differences between Homeopathy and Physiological Regulating Medicine
PRM is different from homeopathy. Its method is based on Molecular Biology, PNEI and Quantum Physics more than on homeopathic basic principles (Laws of similars, infinitesimal doses, single remedy). Even the medical approach (diagnosis) to a patient is different. According to PRM diagnosis is based on an objective examination, on the medical and physical essential semiotics, on the interpretation of laboratory tests by means of instrumental examinations and not on the symptoms repertorization like homeopathy.

Analogies between Homeopathy and Physiological Regulating Medicine
PRM and homeopathic medications are prepared following the same method of preparation and remedies coming from homeopathic pharmacopeia act according to laws of similar and inverting effect. The former are classified and registered as homeopathic medications.

The manufacturing process of PRM medications takes its roots from the homeopathic tradition of dilution-potentization and has been standardized in a characteristic pharmaceutical technique called SKA (Sequential Kinetic Activation).

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) combined art and science to create the perfectly proportioned human (c1492). Building on Greek mathematical principles, the Vitruvian Man is an illustration of how balance and symmetry in health can produce extraordinary results from several core principles. The most basic of these components were emphasized by Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. Years later this was expressed as Sit mens sana in corpore sano.

The original work is stored in the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. One of Da Vinci’s most memorable quotes was: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” This is a variant of Occam’s razor [William Ockham (c. 1285–1349)]: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, or “Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated.” Razor refers to shaving off unnecessary assumptions to get to the simplest explanation, which has been used to guide scientists to basic explanations. Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung the other way, since the more science advances, the more we see that Mother Nature is extremely complex.

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