What is the difference between homeopathy and conventional medicine?
Homeopathy is a holistic medicine, as it treats the whole person. It does so by giving a single remedy that acts most similarly to the person s overall state of illness as expressed by the totality of mental, emotional and physical symptoms. The person s overall state of health, and thus the symptoms experienced, are the result of an imbalance of the life energy. Since the homeopathic remedy is given for the sake of treating the person s overall state of health the life energy each person requires a remedy that is suitable for his or her own unique state of illness. No two people are alike, thus each person is treated as a unique case. Since we are treating the life energy, energetic medicines that are highly dilute, nontoxic, and very powerful, are given. Homeopathy is concerned about the person and the entirety of his or her discomfort, not with specific diseases or conditions. Conventional medicine is the exact opposite of the homeopathic approach. Conventional medicine views diseas
Homeopathys Approach Homeopathy is based on a”whole person” approach. In homeopathy, the remedy or treatment program is customized and individualized to the patient, with the intent of removing the underlying cause. Conventional Medicines Approach Conventional (allopathic) medicine usually relies on treating a patients physical symptoms. This treatment might also assume a persons symptoms need to be controlled, suppressed or eliminated. The difference may be stated in a simple analogy: eradicating the “symptom” of a cars low oil level (the warning light) does not change, or remedy, the cause of the signal (low-oil). Goals of the Homeopathic Approach The Homeopaths Role as “Detective” It has been said that the work of the homeopath is to observe the patient, process and reflect on the gathered information, and then determine the underlying disturbance.
