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to that is believed to release the healing ailments, seasonal acute conditions, simple aches and pains, The - potential, or , of the medicinal substance. This method and minor injuries that educate readers about what remedies is beginning to be understood more clearly by modern to take for relief. science, due to the advent of nanotechnology. Using However, for chronic and recurrent conditions, it is best to Hahnemann’s method, almost any substance of plant, mineral see a professional homeopath, because she would take into Aromatherapy or animal origin can be turned into a homeopathic remedy. account all expressions and symptoms of your body, mind In fact, the latest development in homeopathic practice, and spirit, and then recommend a remedy. Being completely known as the sensation method, is about finding the holistic, homeopathy does not revolve around disease labels, nonhuman energy—be it from animal, plant or mineral but focuses on the whole individual and strives to restore Connection source—that superimposes itself on the vital force and creates wellness to a person’s vital force. a disease state that expresses itself as symptoms at the physical, mental- by Vatsala Sperling, Ph.D. emotional and spiritual levels. When the here is a famous story of how Sir Isaac Newton saw Homeopathy considers health and illness as expressions source of this nonhuman energy is an apple falling from a and realized the of the vital force, or life force, on all levels: body, mind and identified by the process of case-taking, existence of gravity. Similarly, Samuel spirit. Homeopaths understand these three components made into a remedy and administered in a T Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German medical coexist in all of us, and one of these components does not suitable potency, clients can experience doctor, chemist, multilinguist and scientist, observed suffer without affecting and involving the other two. When healing. cinchona bark could produce symptoms similar to malarial the homeopathic remedy picture completely matches the As homeopathic remedies are fever. He thought if this natural substance could bring on symptoms expressed by an individual, the remedy is able to administered in very minute doses, there symptoms of malarial fever, it could also be used as a remedy cancel out the disease symptoms and help the vital force get are no side effects. The remedies are for treating similar fevers. Hahnemann’s experiments, well from the inside out. This principle of homeopathy is nonaddictive, noninvasive, gentle and observations and conclusions about the medicinal potential known as “like cures like.” reasonably priced, and many of them can of natural substances; vital force; illness, health and Hahnemann discovered the method of making be purchased without a prescription. remedies; a special method of preparation and dispensing; homeopathic remedies by diluting and succussing, or When a client seeks a homeopath, it is descriptions of the disease process; and the science and art of vigorously shaking, medicinal substances, a process unique a commitment to a journey together in case-taking, all together brought on a revolution in the which the homeopath serves as an medical scene of his time. While the mechanistic model of objective observer; tries to understand the medicine and the mechanistic world view were gaining client with empathy; and figures out momentum, Hahnemann had the courage to go against the where and how energy flow is blocked, mainstream and establish a system of healing known as thus causing disease symptoms to appear. homeopathy, meaning “similar suffering.” During case-taking, questions will After Hahnemann discovered homeopathy, knowledge of come up about physical complaints, how it spread throughout the world and is today practiced in they affect daily life, thoughts, spirit, almost every country. hunger, thirst, energy level, desires, aversions, cravings, fears and phobias, dreams, and even hobbies and ambitions. All of these details help the homeopath create a picture of the disease state. The homeopath will then match that picture to a remedy that can cause—and, therefore, cure—such a disease state as per homeopathy’s Law of Similars. In this manner, homeopathy is a highly individualized healing modality and not a one-size-fits-all approach. Homeopathy can be used to help newborns, children, adult men and women, and older people. There are K C O T several self-help books that describe S K N I

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