Homeopathy Treats the Whole Person!

Homeopathy Treats the Whole Person!
July 4, 2012 | Josephine

This is often misinterpreted to mean everything about the person including ‘Personality’ type, aversions and cravings, weather, time, modalities of the ‘person’ even when well.

What we are really looking for are the deviations of these, the striking opposite or the exacerbation of these sub-symptoms when sick.

Statements like “Homeopathy treats the person not the disease” can be very unclear and misunderstood. What Hahnemann states is that we don’t treat the ‘name’ of the disease, but the unique and characteristic symptoms that individualise and represent the precise disease suffered by a patient, which has its closest match and thus most efficient curative response from a particular substance known to cause such similar deviation of symptoms in healthy humans.

Thus Homeopathy treats the whole of the diseased person.

Also according to Hahnemann, this often means the totality of the ‘principal’, predominant and most disturbing disease.

An Example in practise: If a patient in their ‘diseased state’ develops an aversion to bananas, that when in healthy state they desire, then aversion to bananas is used to individualise the persons susceptibility to disease.

However, if that same patient in their sickness had an increased desire for bananas on top of the usual level of desire, then this would be repertorised as a characteristic key to the remedy and may suggest that this sub-symptom is representative of a general state of chronic disease as well as the acute flare ups. The same medicine may be needed but in different potencies with varied repetition to manage the acute and chronic phases.

 
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Josephine is in her final year of studies of Homeopathic Medicine from Nature Care College in Sydney. Her current areas of research and interest are Mental Health, Nutrition, and Immunisation. Josephine has had an interest in fitness and wellbeing from an early age, and lives a nutritious and active lifestyle. Favourite recreational activities: Body Combat, Yoga, and Trekking through Sydney's picturesque Northern Beaches. Her passion is affecting the lives of her patients through achieving wellness with Homeopathics acting on a deep constitutional level. Her motto for life and business is 'do the Nike thing....Just do it'

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