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How Your Dreams Keep You Healthy Tales from Tanzania Cold Contents | Zoom in | Zoom outFor navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page How Your Dreams Keep You Healthy Unlock the code & make them work for you Tales from Tanzania Homeopathy transforms lives in Africa Cold & Flu Season? Trust Your You can survive & thrive! Gut Again Hope & healing for IBS Quick Fixes for Tummy Troubles A Winter’s Tale Helping all creatures 7INTERs great & small HomeopathyCenter.org Display until March 31, 2015 Contents | Zoom in | Zoom outFor navigation instructions please click here Search Issue | Next Page qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Free for all NCH members! NCH Webinar Series NCH’s monthly webinar series covers a wide variety of timely and practical topics – including both introductory and advanced presentations. 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For example, chilliness with desire for ice cold omeopathy is a safe, effective system of natural medicine, drinks, or dizziness that is better from motion. Such a symptom often used by millions of people worldwide for more than 200 points directly to the curative remedy. Hyears to achieve wellness. Homeopathic medicines are pre- chronic illness: (See acute illness.) pared from natural sources, are used in extremely small amounts, common symptoms: Symptoms that are commonly found in a and are recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. particular disease, for example, spots in measles or swollen glands in They are non-toxic and, when properly administered, can be mumps. safely used with infants, children, adults, and animals. constitutional treatment: Treating the whole person, rather than the symptoms alone, thereby attempting to enhance the general level of health rather than just getting rid of the symptoms. How does homeopathy differ from conventional medicine? materia medica: Latin for “materials of medicine.” A reference book listing homeopathic medicines and their therapeutic actions/indications. Homeopathy is based on the principle that “like cures like.” That This information comes primarily from the provings of the medicines; is, if a substance can cause symptoms of disease in a healthy also from clinical observation. person, then it can cure a sick person suffering from similar miasm: a block to health, usually left by a disease. This can be inher- symptoms. Suppose a person has hay fever, with watery eyes and ited or acquired and is an obstacle to cure. a burning nasal discharge. Instead of giving an antihistamine to Organon: The Organon of Medicine, by Samuel Hahnemann, founder dry up the discharge, a homeopath might prescribe Allium of homeopathy, is the book in which he set down the fundamental cepa—a tiny dose of onion, specially prepared by a homeopathic principles of homeopathy. He wrote 6 editions, the last in 1842; current homeopaths refer primarily to the 6th and sometimes the 5th editions.
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