HOW HOMEOPATHY SEES SYMPTOMS?
Symptoms are the language of a disease. They are understood as the attempt of the body to balance itself. Without symptoms, a person could have a potentially life threatening illness with no way of identifying it. There are cases of cancer patients who reported that they had not suffered from a cold or flu for years prior to being diagnosed with cancer. This was not because they did not have infections during this period, but more likely because their bodies were unable to fight these infections by producing the necessary alarm that are symptoms. In conventional (allopathic) medicine, many drugs try to inhibit and suppress symptoms, sometimes leading to even more serious and deeper pathologies. A fever is the bodys attempt to activate the immune systems white blood cells and defend itself from infection. If a person is given a medication to suppress this symptom, he/she will be less able to fight the actual infection. Homeopathy does not seek to remove or suppress symptoms. Its goal is
