Homeopathy is one of the most popular and reliable among alternative medicines today. The term Homeopathy is derived from two Greek words, ‘homoios’ which means like or of the same kind and ‘pathos’ means suffering. It was Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a German doctor who popularized homeopathy in its present form. It was through Hahnemann that the method of experimentation started on human beings in order to determine the action of a drug. He argued that the physicians should “rely as little as possible upon chance and proceed as rationally and conscientiously as possible”, by experiments of the medicines on the healthy human body, so that the real effect of the medicinal substances be conscientiously discovered. According to Hahnemann, every drug produces a unique effect and two drugs are totally different from each other. He found that the potentized drug had a tremendous power to cure the symptoms. Homeopathy treatment is not uniform. It varies in accordance with the physiological, psychological and emotional profile of the patient.

Homeopathy uses ordinary substances like vegetables, charcoal and table salt for obtaining remarkable cures. Carbo veg’ which is a homeopathic preparation from vegetable charcoal is one of the finest medicines for debility, for acidity chronic or otherwise, and for ‘cynosis’ which refers to blueness of the skin in a number of emergencies and diseases. Metals like gold, silver, platinum and minerals like sulphur, arsenic and antimony, have all been made to serve the mission of homeopathy. Substances available in the herbal, mineral or animal kingdoms have been transformed by potentization into invaluable medicines for acute as well as chronic problem.

Homeopathy is comparatively harmless. No patient who requires a speedy cure without side effects can ignore homeopathy. The system operates, by and large without laboratory tests and other expensive means of diagnosis. Hence it is less expensive too. The benefits of homeopathy medicines are the following:

1. These medicines are non-toxic and do not have any side effects

2. Frequent consultation with doctor is not required

3. It is easy to understand

4. It is not necessary to go to a pathological laboratory unless one faces a serious Problem.

5. The homeopathic treatment is a symptomatic treatment, symptoms as apparent are recorded and analyzed in order to choose a medicine

6. The cost of medicine is negligible. It is not a burden even on the poorest of the poor

Several research studies have proved the effectiveness of homeopathy in chronic diseases like allergy, asthma, Isnophilia etc.

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