Homeopathy
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Homeopathy Bamberger Health and Wellness -- Everett and Lynnwood, WA -- (425) 355-4176
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Homeopathy was discovered over 200 years ago by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician and researcher who practiced medicine in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hahnemann was concerned that traditional medicine failed to get to the root cause of illnesses and in many cases was actually poisoning patients with highly toxic drugs. These matters are of even greater concern today. Hahnemann found that a substance, which would create a set of symptoms in a healthy person, would cure a sick person suffering from similar symptoms. Hence the homeopathic concept of "like cures like" and Law of Similars. As Hahnemann experimented with different substances, he found that if the substance was diluted in distilled water and shaken or "succussed," the healing power was increased. This process is called "potentizing". He also discovered, much to his amazement, that the more the substance was diluted, the more powerful was its curing effect. In the most powerful dilutions there is not a single molecule of the original substance left. All that remains is distilled water AND the vital life force vibrations of the substance, which are imparted to the water. That homeopathy uses medicines, which are so dilute that on a chemical level are only water, seems strange to the western way of thinking, because we have been told that the greater the concentration of a substance used as a medicine, the more powerful it it. It is important to recognize that greater its concentration, the greater its power to do harm. Although we know that homeopathy works because of the hundreds of double blind studies that confirm its efficacy with people and animals, and through a the large number of cures that have resulted from the use of homeopathy, pharmaceutically based traditional medicine labeled homeopathy as quackery saying, "How can nothing cure something?" Recent research in physics seems to point the way to a scientific explanation of how homeopathy works. Researchers have discovered that water molecules have memory and that the memory is physically different depending on what was dissolved in the water. Today most physicians and patients are used to looking at health and illness from the chemical vantage point that has been promoted and heavily marketed by the pharmaceutical industry. Unlike pharmaceutically based medicine, homeopathy does not work by using chemicals to attack symptoms of disease; it works by acting as a catalyst to stimulate the body’s defense system at its deepest levels. During various epidemics we have seen that some in a household died and others lived. This is because a healthy individual can fight off any disease, while a more debilitated individual will succumb to it. Classical homeopathy - like chiropractic and oriental medicine - works by strengthening areas of weakness so that the body can cure itself. Some of these weaknesses are inherited, like predispositions to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, alcoholism, and some mental illnesses, etc. Some are the result of physical or emotional stress and trauma suffered in life. Still others are created by the toxic effects of pharmaceutical agents.Unlike traditional medicine, where upon diagnosing a specific disease all who have that particular disease are treated the same way, homeopathy does not use one cure for one type of disease. In classical homeopathy each person is treated based on the uniqueness of his or her particular case. It matches an individual remedy with an individual person and the totality of his condition, rather than a certain chemical with a specific disease. While homeopathy works effectively on acute diseases, its primary goal is to restore the body’s ability to heal itself at all levels, through the use of what are called "constitutional remedies." They work very much like peeling an onion. The first remedy deals with the person’s latest damaging trauma. When that level is restored to health, the next one is addressed, and so on until the inherited traumas are dealt with and eliminated. As a result patients get well at deeper and deeper levels. Classical homeopathy depends on a very detailed case history to select the right remedy. A patient's symptoms, physically, emotionally, and mentally are recorded in great detail, as are the things that aggravate his condition or makes it better, his overall constitutional strengths and weaknesses, his likes and his dislikes. This history taking is far more detailed and holistic than is a traditional medical history. These particulars are then compared to the particulars of each remedy. The remedy which is most similar to the wholeness of a person's condition is then chosen, and proper potency is determined. In acute illnesses low potencies are generally used. In chronic illnesses and those that are more pronounced in the mental or emotional plane, a higher potency is generally used. The higher the potency the more dilute it is, and consequently more powerful it is. Classical homeopathy is a powerful healing modality that takes many years to master. Because of the difficulty, few practitioners practice homeopathy in the classical manner today. Instead, they use it as a traditional medical doctor would practice medicine, using the remedy in an effort to eliminate certain local symptoms, rather than to restore the whole person to wellness. In an article entitled, "The Difficulties of Homeopathic Practice", which appeared in the April 1967 issue of The British Homeopathic Journal Dr. P. Sankaran stated, "There is no doubt that all great Homeopaths are intuitive sensitive of a high order. However, for the ordinary run of doctors, treatment is all too often a case of trial and error, or hit and miss, which only experience can improve, it is a misfortune that Homeopathy has never had a technique for registering intangibles nor of measuring them" Homeokinetix - developed by the chiropractic physician Dr. Dennis Simpson, is exactly that, a technique for registering intangibles and of measuring them!
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