Kip Magee
Week 10 Discussion
Video Homeopathy
1. What are some
expectations or misconceptions people have when going to see a homeopath?
People who sought homeopathic medicine thought they
would be prescribed dosages of herbal medicine or vitamins. But what they are
given is extreme medicine in small dosages, this medicine was for the treatment
of the whole well-ness of the person body, for the treatment of the organism.
2. What lead Hahnemann to study and develop
homeopathy? How were his studies viewed by his contemporaries?
When developed in 1894 his peers thought that it was a
radical ideal and heresy. But Hahnemann was dissatisfied with the medical
treatment of his patient in modern medicine. Branch out to experiment with herbal
medicine but in small dosages of natural substances. To minimize the side
effects from his prescribed medication, Hahnemann’s medicine had to be diluted with
water, vinegar, or salt. This made the trail medicine less dangerous with his toxin
less potent.
Hahnemann made the medicine less potent by vigorously
shaking the medicine calling this succussion. He believed the more the remedy
was diluted the more it would cure.
3. What is the theory of 'like cures like?' How
does it work? What do you think of this idea?
Like cures like is what Hahnemann called the Law of
Similar. What Hahnemann derives is to reproduce the symptoms of a disease using
the dosage of a herbal bark’s. He concluded that what trigger ailment in a healthy
person could be cured by a person being afflicted with a diseased. Like Cures
Like is what Hahnemann called by deriving that the body will tell you what it
needs to cure it. If a person has allergies; a red onion will re-enact the effect
of the allergy and trigger the symptoms of the disease. This “proves,” theory
made Hahnemann says the body heals itself in homeopathy believes.
4. What is the vital force?
How does it relate to healing?
Homeopathic belief that vital force is the primary operation system of the organism. It provides a life climate with the body preserving its state of being with a healthy balance with its environment. It compensates for well-being balance for a physical mental and emotional stress to the organism. Homeopathy treatment is directed to the root cause of the illness that has weakened the individual.
5. What is succussion or dilution? How do
homeopathic remedies work? What do critics of homeopathy say?
. By administering minute dose of a special substance. Producing
the same characteristic symptom as in a sick person. Homeopathy’s seeks to
stimulate the patients vitality and return them to a natural state of health. Critics
of homeopathy say that the medicine is just water down sugar pills.
6. How are homeopathic remedies
different from conventional medication?
Homeopathic treatment of the direct cause of the
organism disease for the root cause of the illness. It keeps their immune
system and their natural recuperative abilities intact. Whereas conventional
medicine fights the disease itself.
7. How do homeopathic doctors assess and evaluate
patients? How is this different from conventional doctors? What kinds of
questions do they ask?
Researchers work to unravel the mystery of organization
and prove the efficacy of modern homeopathic medicine. Contain only trace
element s of the base ingredients. These remedies contain a kind of energetic
memory of their base ingredients that has one dynamic effect in triggering the
body’s innate healing mechanism. The difference is the over the counter
prescription means to suppress the disease.
8. What are 4 possible outcomes
of treatment?
To stimulate the organism will vitally force and
restore the body to a state of health. This is used with sinus, cough, hay
fever flu migraine. People are looking for alternative medicines that have less
toxicity.
A. The Patient is cured, and no remedy is needed.
B. There is no change in the patient and indicate that
the remedy was not homeopathic to the case.
C. The symptoms change, and the patient improves some
requiring a second prescription.
D. Symptoms worsen and a corrective remedy is called
for.
9. Can you treat yourself with homeopathic
remedies, or should you always go to a homeopathic doctor?
Homeopathic can be used for simple minor first aid or non-acute medical conditions. If it’s very serious then the host should go to a professional practitioner.
10. What sources are remedies
made from?
Remedies from the 2,000 or so botanical world. And many
mineral remedies elements from the periodic table. Salt natrum muriaticum
sodium chloride.
11. What factors account for the
rise in homeopathic use?
Its methodical approach to the treatment of illness
fell. Medical beginning to understand the limitation of antibiotic therapy to
over prescribe and patients developing immunities to medication are looking for
a different way to heal.
12. Why might homeopathy be especially
useful for children? For the elderly?
While conventional way is used homeopathic is looking
for something less toxic in the Western way. Learning to fight infection early in
the life of the patients’ immune system an develop antibody’s ability to fight
against illness.
13. How are homeopathic remedies
regulated?
Homeopathy is regulated as a drug like any OTC
prescription convention Western Medicine, since the 1938 Food and Drug Act
regulated a bill to maintain the field of medicine.
Hahnemann’s “Law of Similar,” is taking bark of toxins or herbal and turning them into medicine. To describe the method is using ‘succussion’ to shake the special herbals breaking the compound down to minute traces of toxin. Using himself to show symptoms of ailment from the herbs he noted the reactions and tried to vital force his healing. This ‘proven’ theory made the case for over 2,000 remedies of medication. The medication is diluted with substances either water, salt, chloride, or vinegar. The element is bringing the trait down to the lowest level form to let the body re-energies and heal itself. Like cure like, is the body wants to h
