How does homeopathy differ from normal medicine?
In normal medicine (sometimes called allopathy), each individual symptoms or complaint is analysed in isolation. Drugs are given to directly focus in on and combat these symptoms one at a time, often with side effects. This treatment is all on the physical level. Ever increasingly powerful drugs are administered to “keep the symptoms down”, they suppress the symptoms, hiding them rather than treating the true cause. In homeopathy the symptoms are not seen as the disease but as signs to be interpreted telling us that there is a deeper imbalance that must be addressed. Once balance is restored then the symptoms no longer exist. Example of treatment: A patient comes to a Doctor with the following symptoms • Head ache • Bad back • Blocked nose • Anxiety • Sweaty palms • Sweet smelling urine • Constipation The normal/allopathic doctor would give painkillers for the headache and backache, some decongestant for the nose, a neurotransmitter inhibitor for the anxiety, glucose inhibitor tablets
