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Published on April 8, 2021. EST READ TIME: 2 minutes

World homeopathy day falls on April l0 each year in honor of its founding father’s birthday. This essay seeks to shed light on what homeopathy is, its origins, how it differs from allopathic or science-based, modern medicine, and understand its importance today.

What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (or CAM) which seeks to cure diseases by taking advantage of the human body’s ability to heal itself. All medicine prescribed under homeopathy are made of natural ingredients. These ingredients are predominantly plants and minerals. Doctors who practice homeopathy are called homeopaths. They weaken ingredients with water and / or alcohol via a process called “potentization” in order to transfer the healing essence. Homeopaths believe that their remedies are more potent when their dosage is low. A number of their remedies presently do not contain molecules of the original ingredients. Homeopathic medicine can be procured in the form of sugar pellets, liquid drops, creams, gels and tablets. When consulting a homeopath, it is normal for patients to be questioned about their mental and emotional health in addition to their physical health.

Homeopathic medication is used to treat and cure a number of health issues including some chronic illnesses. Popular treatments include those prescribed for allergies, depression and anxiety, dermatitis, ear infections, migraines, premenstrual syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis.

Examining the Origins of Homeopathy –

Founded by Dr Samuel Hahnemann in the late 18 ^th century, Homeopathy sought to offer an alternative healing to patients seeking medical care. Originally educated and trained as a physician, Dr Hahnemann believed that the prevailing allopathic forms of medicine in Europe weren’t sufficiently effective and could often be harmful.

Dr Hahnemann noticed that once he started having regular doses of Cinchona, he experienced all the symptoms associated with intermittent fever to a lesser degree. He continued to experiment along these lines and ultimately found that by providing an ailing individual with medicine which would invoke the same illness in a perfectly healthy individual but to a slighter degree, he could cure their ailment. He compounded his findings and was able to come up with a number of remedies which came to constitute homeopathy.

Allopathy vs Homeopathy –

Homeopathy and prevailing allopathic practices of the late 18th and early 19th century were worlds apart. Homeopathy modeled itself as a holistic form of treatment and required its patients to spend a significant amount of time detailing their illness along with their life prior to prescribing an appropriate plan of treatment. As homeopathy rose in popularity over the early 19th century, allopathic medicine was entrenched in the belief that diseases could only be understood and cured via a correlation of symptoms and signs visible in a sick individual along with findings in an autopsy. Prevailing allopathic treatment plans were for the most part crude, ineffective and potentially dangerous. They ranged from purging to extreme bloodletting.

Homeopathy Today –

The Homeopathy Research Institute indicates that over 206 million people across the world seek to treat their medical issues with homeopathic medication. Having been in use for over 2 centuries, this form of medicine is continuing to grow in popularity and is the longest surviving complementary and alternative medicinal treatment originating from Europe. Presently homeopathy is used by 6 million people in the United Kingdom, 100 million people in the European Union and by 100 million people within India alone. India is home to 200,000 registered homeopathic doctors with an additional 12,000 doctors qualifying for the same each year. Some countries like Brazil, Mexico and Switzerland have incorporated homeopathy into their national health system. In India, it falls under the AYUSH or ‘Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy’ ministry which seeks to promote indigenous alternative forms of medicine. AYUSH benefit is even included in all health insurance policies in India.

Homeopathy is an alternative form of healing which has been in practice for the past 200 years and has been incorporated into a number of national health schemes in different countries. World Homeopathy Day seeks to raise awareness about this form of healing.

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