Homeopathy Works (Score 1)

Hi Everyone: I am currently a student of homeopathy. Homeopathy works, and it's been proven to work for the last 200 years. It's not all about placebo. Placebo can play a small part in the cure, but it all depends on providing the patient with the right kind of remedy (simillimum) to match the patient's symptoms. A good explaination of why homoepathy doesn't work by the placebo effect, is because it works on animals, and babies as well, so the placebo argument goes out the window. Originally, before I studied homeopathy, I was sceptical as well, but once you start studying homeopathy, and see how it works, then you begin to understand it more. The whole idea with homeopathy, is that you have disease that is giving the body a hard time (lets say cholera). So what you do, is that you choose a remedy (simillimum) that matches the disease symptoms, and what happens is that the body's Vital Force now focuses on the new artificial disease (the homeopathy remedy), and in doing so, provided you have the right remedy (simillimum), dose and potency, what should happen is that then the original disease get extinguished. We don't know why it works (at the physical / quantum level), but we do know that it works. Sure, when a remedy is in the process of getting created, at each stage of potency, there is further dilution, but at the same time, the remedy is sucussed (energy / power added to it), so basically, physically observable what you have is just water (and sugar from the pellets), but the remedy takes on the energetic imprint of the original substance it was made from (whether from the vegetable kingdom, animal kingdom, mineral kingdom or disease matter). It is a natural science, and follows natural laws of cure (a similar, slightly more stronger disease will extinguish / cancel out a similar disease). So the science and art is sound. It is definately not quackery. I understand when people call it such. When I first heard of homeopathy, I was sceptical as well. What are all these wierd "remedies" with latin names. How can they work ? But once i started reading about homeopathy, and discovering how it works, I was very much fasinated by it, and it truly is an ingenious medical healing modality (thanks to Samuel Hahnemann who started homeopathy more than 200 years ago). So if you read a good book about homeopathy, you'll see how it works. Of course there are homeopaths who practice homeopathy the way it should be practiced, and then there are what's call "pseudo-homeopaths", who stray from the way that homeopathy should be practiced. That is basically "quackery" within the homeopathic community, and something that is very much frowned on by the much respected homeopaths that exist today. So homeopathy has a problem, when such "pseudo-homeopaths" give a bad name to homeopathy. Anyway, hope everyone will find the time to study homeopathy. The problem is, that there are some teachers and schools, which don't do a very good job of teaching the art (they've strayed from the tried and true way of practicing the art). But that doesn't mean that homeopathy doesn't work. The science and art is sound: you just need a very good practitioner studying it. Good luck on your future studies. Pat