Homoeopathy: Myths & Reality

Homoeopathy is a system of medicine that is thoughtful, natural and comprehensive. The essence of Homoeopathy is to strengthen the already existing natural immunity within a person to fight the disease rather than creating a chemically opposite condition in the body.

The first myth about homoeopathy, that we would like to clear from the minds of people, is that “Homoeopathy does not have side effects”. This is not true. As homoeopathic medicines have low dosage, the effect that they produce on the body is very mild and many a times unnoticed. But if they are frequently repeated and consumed in high concentrations, they can produce irreversible damages. This myth has also lead to self medication with homoeopathic medicine on a very large scale, just to magnify the hazards. A case spoiled by wrong homoeopathic medication is seldom curable. It is equally wrong to repeat the same medicine by one’s own self, for a particular problem which was considered cured by a certain homoeopathic medicine. It is not necessary that the same homoeopathic medicine is needed every time you get the same problem. In most cases the recurrence of the problem could be an indication that the medicine used earlier was insufficient in dosage and thus requires a change in its strength (dosage) or the cause of the illness was different from what it was in the previous occurrence.

Another major factor diluting the soul of homoeopathy is “use of multiple homoeopathic drugs in a combination to treat diseases”. Homoeopathy was discovered and meant to be practiced on the main principle of a single simple medicine at a time. The use of more than one medicine and the combinations available “off the counter” is highly discouraged. Homoeopathy treats the person as a whole and all its symptoms with one single simple medicine at a time. The use of one drug for fever, another for cold and another for acidity in the same patient at the same time is not the logic of homoeopathy.

A further major myth about homoeopathy is that “it takes a long time to cure”. This has become a notion about homoeopathy only because majority of the cases that come to a homoeopath are those diseases which have been chronic and have been with the patient for years and years together. Does it seem slow to cure a disease that has existed in a person’s body for 10 long years in a matter of few months? A fever that has developed from getting wet in the rain yesterday is cured within a few hours. This in itself is one of the many examples which proves that homoeopathy does work fast. Homoeopathic drugs start their curing effect the moment they are on your tongue. In fact the smell of the drug is also used in cases where it is not possible to give medicine by mouth. Homoeopathic medicines are equally efficient when used in emergencies. Whether it is an acute emergency or a disease you have been suffering from for years…homoeopathy may give you the cure.