What is the difference between osteopathy and homeopathy?
Osteopaths used to only use manipulation of the spine in treatment of their patients. They felt the correct balancing of the body would prevent and cure diseases. Today D.O.’s (doctors of osteopathy) also combine the manipulation with standard medical treatments with prescription drugs and surgery if necessary. http://innerself.ca/Health/discovering_osteopathy.htm Homeopathic medicine, if I understand it is when you treat a like symptom with a like substance. Also treatments are very diluted. Homeopaths are not nearly as trained as osteopaths, and don’t use standard methods of surgery or prescription medicine. Homeopathic remedies (also called homeopathics) are a system of medicine based on three principles: • Like cures like For example, if the symptoms of your cold are similar to poisoning by mercury, then mercury would be your homeopathic remedy. • Minimal Dose The remedy is taken in an extremely dilute form; normally one part of the remedy to around 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water
