Principles of homeopathy

Totality of the symptoms

It is in the collection of all of the symptoms of the patient that the disease will be finally known. Hahnemann specifically noted that the most unusual symptoms were the ones that held the most promise for identifying the specific disease picture since many disease pictures look alike. The totality of the symptoms gathered from the physical, the emotional and the mental planes are what will guide the homeopath to the correct diagnosis.

Like cures like

Once the symptom picture has been taken and the totality of the symptoms are known, it is then that the remedy that best matches the disease picture, the simillimum, is sought after. By best matching the symptoms that are caused in healthy people by a substance with the picture of the patient’s symptoms, it will be found that that substance has the best chance of producing a curative response in the patient This is called the Law of Similars.

Minimum dose

The reduction of the chemical quantity of the curative substance should be carried out until the least amount produces a curative response. That limits the side effects of the chemical nature of the substance and increases the gentle action of the remedy. The substance is diluted and shaken repeatedly until the desired potency is achieved.

Single remedy

Although there are three laws of homeopathy, this is more of a tenet of scientific integrity which then allows you to say classical homeopathy. By choosing to give only one remedy at a time, it is sure that you know what results it will have. By combining several therapies or remedies at one time, not only are you not sure which one of the substances is causing a cure, but you are unable to determine if there is a drug interaction which helps cure or even worse, an effect as a result of the two working against the patient.

The process