homeopathy

Homeopathic Cures Treat Symptoms As Imbalance

For virtually every ailment and physical and mental complaint, there are remedies prescribed by different medical conventions. Traditional medications may include prescriptions of chemical drugs while natural cures evolve from plants and other botanicals. Homeopathic cures revolve around treating the symptoms as a part of the body being out of synch with the rest of the body, and work to return all the bodily systems back into alignment and balance.

Typically, when a patient offers complaints to a physician of traditional medicine, there may be some history involved, which can relate to the examining doctor the reason for the symptoms. In most cases, drugs are prescribed to help treat the symptoms that do not necessarily treat the core cause of the problem. With homeopathic cures, the symptoms are not viewed as an invading problem, rather a problem that has developed because of an imbalance in the entire system.

This belief in a hypothetic vital force, which if some part of the system is out of balance, can cause many ailments. Using homeopathic cures to treat the entire affected system, it is believed, will return the vital force to harmony and balance, ending not only the symptom but also their underlying cause.

Natural Ingredients Used In Homeopathic Cures

Since the ingredients used in homeopathic cures are all natural ingredients and they are vastly diluted during the succession process, the dangers of any reaction to the treatments are virtually non-existent. In most mixtures of homeopathic cures, the ingredients are diluted to about 100 to one, with the curing properties of the ingredient mixture basically pounded into the water's memory. By consuming the diluted mixer or ingredients and water, the healing properties are available for consumption without actually ingesting the ingredients.

This process is what has many in the scientific and biological fields questioning the effectiveness of homeopathic cures for any ailment. Since the processes in which they are made so greatly dilutes any substance that may contain any benefit, most involved in modern medicine, claim that any benefit from homeopathic cures is due to the placebo effect.

The theory that like cures like is relatively unwelcome in the field of modern medicine, despite that many vaccines for specific illnesses are derived from the bacteria or virus that causes the disease. Vaccines, such as those used for the flu, actually inject a form of the flu virus into the patient to ward off future, and potentially worse instances of the flu.