Is Homeopathy Science or Fake?
It wasn't long ago this question was asked more often in the USA. Homeopathy was more widely used in India and Europe. We combine homeopathy with Denver acupuncture treatment and Littleton acupuncture services.
Americans used 'modern' medicine like antibiotics, surgery, and synthetic drugs. Allopathic medicine of this nature has been around for about 180 years.
Once the Colonies or America favorite form of medical treatment was blood letting, dosing with mercury and other medicines that would make your skin crawl! But about almost 2 centuries ago medicine was of the verge of a break-through as a man in Germany named Samuel Hahnemann, a medical doctor 1796 discover a better way to heal illness and avoid surgery and even early death.
The basic pr
inciple is a similar cures a similar, or let likes be cured by likes. Simply if a plant or herb in small doses can make you experience agitation or even depression. That same plant prepared homeopathy can cure these symptoms.
Hahnemann discovered this universal principle when he was working as a medical translator. He was reading a medical text, which gave information on the effects of cinchona bark (quinine), which was used to treat malaria. He disagreed with the author's description and took quinine himself, and unexpectedly experienced the symptoms of malaria. In a moment of divine inspiration, he wondered if the malarial symptoms that a sick patient experiences are similar to the effects of quinine on a healthy person. Can a healthy person take a substance and experience the
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same symptoms of a naturally occurring illness, which can then be cured by that substance?
He later proved this to be true but at doses much smaller than the physiological doses used by the medical profession.
The theory closest to the law of similars we have today in medicine is utilized in vaccinations, which are supposed to boost the immune system. This is very specific to one pathogen while homeoprophylaxis is much more general and based on different principles. The homeopath looks at the entire individual to see all levels physical, emotional and mental to find the correct remedy. If we wish to make use of homeopathy, we need to find what Hahnemann termed the a homeopathic remedy that cures the disease in question as well as prevents other cases.
Homeopathy today comes in many forms such as liquids, tiny pills and even in tasteless powers. Often a single remedy is given to clear the condition or a person's constitution.
Debra Arko also then looks at a complex remedy or formula of combined homeopathics to complete the treatment.
To explain this future Dr. Hahnemann first published this principle in 1801 when he described how he prevented the spread of scarlet fever across Germany with the remedy Belladonna. Later he used homeopathic remedies to successfully treat the typhoid epidemic of Leipzig in 1813. He cured 180 patients and only lost two, a far cry from the 30 percent mortality rate of the conventional physicians (allopaths) of his time. Would homeopathy be a viable solution to a modern epidemic or biological attack? This is an excerpt from a paper read to the International Hahnemann Association, June 1940, by W.L. Bonnell, M.D., "Not one case receiving homeopathic care died, while the 'old school' doctors lost 20 percent of their (smallpox) cases... I gave about 300 internal vaccinations (homeopathic remedies), five to adults acting as practical nurses; to the man who installed the telephone and lights in the pest house; to mothers who slept with their children while they had smallpox in its severest form. All of these people, exposed daily, were immune."
Another account of a serious epidemic that was treated successfully by homeopathy was documented by Thomas L. Bradford, M.D., in his book "The Logic of Figures," in which he stated, 
"In the records of three years of diphtheria in Broome County, New York from 1862 to 1864, there was a report of an 83.6 percent mortality rate among the allopaths (western medicine) and a 16.4 percent mortality rate among the homeopaths."
During the 1918 flu pandemic, homeopathic physicians documented more than 62,000 treated homeopathically with a mortality rate of 0.7 percent. Of those who were hospitalized, conventional medicine had a mortality rate of 30 percent, whereas 27,000 documented hospitalized cases treated with homeopathy had a mortality rate of 1.05 percent ("Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy" 1921; 13:1028-43).
Colorado Homeopathy is growing especially with National Jewish Hospital leading the way in treatment of Tuberculosis and other lung diseases which respond well to homeopathy. Should we experience another epidemic of any nature this form of alternative medicine is a must.
Before taking a homeopathic it is recommended that you contact a qualified homeopath. You can schedule your consultation with Debra by phone or in person. Simply call our office to schedule a time that works for you!