Homeopathy is one of many alternative and complementary therapies available today. Such therapies take a 'holistic' approach to the treatment of patient. The word 'holistic' is taken from the Greek word 'holos' meaning 'whole'. The idea is that the person is treated as a whole, with every aspect of them - physical, emotional and mental - being taken into account when selecting a remedy.
Homeopathy uses very dilute substances to stimulate the body's healing power. Its basic principle is treat 'like with like'. This involves treating a patient's symptoms with minute amounts of a substance that would cause similar symptoms in a healthy person. This practice contracts with conventional allopathic medicine, in which treating 'like with opposite' prevails; that is, a disease is treated with a substance that oppose it.
Minor ailments such as cold can be successfully treated using homeopathy at home !
Homeopathic remedies are generally prepared using a series of dilutions steps that no molecules from original substance remain after such dilutions. Homeopathy asserts that the remedy will retain a memory of the diluted substances and the therapeutic potency of the remedy can be increased by a series of dilution combined with succession and vigorous shaking of diluted solution.
Remedy Preparation
The mother tincture is prepared from the source material
One drop of the ticture is diluted with 99 frops of alcohol and water
The remedy is then succussed. This makes the 1c potency
Using the 1c potency, the process is then repeated to reach the required potency
