A Discussion on Homeopathy

How does it work?

Homeopathy works by giving to the sick a remedy that produced a similar set of symptoms in the healthy.

It stimulates the bodies own defenses and immune system to get rid of disease symptoms.

It has been proved effective against acute, chronic and epidemic diseases.

Throughout the ages the non-homeopaths who investigated Homeopathy became

Homeopaths themselves. One prime case is Dr J. T. Kent who had failed to

cure his wife's sickness and none of his colleagues were of use either until

she saw a Homeopath who cured her in a very short time. He then studied

Homeopathy and became one of its masters.

I myself was converted when I saw BBC2's program QED (Quat Erat

Demonstrandum = That which needed to be proved is demonstrated).

During the program discussions, non-homoeopath doctors claimed that as

there was no chemical basis to Homeopathy, it was all a matter of the

placebo effect. That is to say the patients were led to believe they were

getting better and so they did. (Question is - how is it that a patient

having being 'treated by an army of doctors all to no avail, then comes to

see a Homeopath and is cured and it is all down to placebo effect - so how

come the doctor's placebo effect didn't work but the homeopath's did??)

To counter, Homeopaths said that there are those for who we can prescribe

Homeopathic remedies who will not be influenced by the placebo effect -

These being babies and animals.

An experiment was set up where a dairy herd was divided in to two halves -

each having its own field and trough. Dairy herds are very prone to mastitis

(Inflammation of the udders). Normally antibiotics are given and the milk

needs to be thrown away for a few weeks.

Into each trough (which continuously filled as the cows drank from it) about

10ml of a solution was added - One being just distilled water and the other

a homeopathic remedy which works well against mastitis. The bottles had

been marked A & B respectively. Two sealed envelopes were handed to the

producer also marked A & B.

After a few weeks the farm was visited and the farmer was questioned about

the sickness level of his cows.

He said that one lot he had about 20 cases of mastitis and in the other

there had only been the one case. When the envelopes were opened, it was

found that the lot with only one case of mastitis had had the Homeopathic

treatment. QED!!!

What potencies are used to treat or to cause immunization?

It depends if you are using it to prevent or treat.

To prevent, a 30C is used.

To treat, again a 30C dropped into a 250 ml bottle of water can be used

quite frequently as and when needed.

Higher potencies are not to be used unless your Homeopath feels the Rubrics are right for them..

They are never to be used by a novice.

But if you are using the Similimum (and you won't know until you have tried)

then any potency will give you a good result - how long it will hold may

vary.

Boenninghausen and Boger et al. who pioneered the use of nosodes for

treating epidemic outbreaks generally used 200c of either the nosode or the

epidemic simillimum on a regular schedule as long as the person was in

actual danger -- every week, every two weeks, not less often than every

three weeks. If there was any question about the strength of the

individual's vital force, they then used 30c. Generally both homeopathic

theory and experimental data strongly support prophylactic treatment of

people probably exposed to an epidemic but not yet showing gross symptoms.