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| Healing Therapy: | Homeopathy |
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| Date submitted: | 1/4/2009 |
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Homeopathy: The Royal Choice
In 1831, a terrible cholera epidemic swept through Europe. Thousands died, but this year was unique because in some treatment centres, the death rate was remarkably low. They were using a recently organized medical system known as homeopathy.
At the Raab Centre in Hungary, for example, only six out of 154 patients died — that's just under four per cent. Treatment centres using orthodox methods averaged a 59 per cent death rate. All over Europe, the same pattern became clear. The death rate in homeopathic hospitals varied from between 2.5 to 22 per cent, compared to a minimum rate of 50 per cent using orthodox methods. This amazing success led to a swing away from orthodox medical practice.
So what is the basis of this medical system that was demonstrated under the most severe conditions to be superior to standard medical practice?
Samuel Hahnemann started it. He worked his way through the University of Leipzig as a student with unusual talents in languages, mathematics, and botany. Then he took up the study of medicine and chemistry, becoming a qualified physician in 1791. He practised medicine for nine years but gave it up because of his dislike of the cruel and often useless treatments that included blood letting, purging, and the administration of poisonous drugs.
For years, Hahnemann lived in poverty, rather than earn a high income doing more harm than good, making a living translating medical books. In one of them, A Treatise on Materia Medica by Dr. Cullen of Edinburgh, Hahnemann read of the discovery that Peruvian or Cinchona bark could cure malaria and its symptoms of sweating, fever, and chills. Cullen thought that the cure had something to do with the bitterness of the bark. Hahnemann doubted this and experimented with small doses on himself. To his surprise, he found that he suffered the symptoms of malaria as long as he took the Peruvian bark; when he stopped taking it, the symptoms abated too.
Hahnemann perceived a new principle of medicines that might induce in a healthy person the symptoms that they relieved in a sick person. It was Hippocrates, the great Greek physician, who said that diseases could be cured by similars. Hahnemann set out to test this hypothesis, so startlingly illustrated with Peruvian bark and malaria.
Hahnemann tested dozens of herbs and chemicals on himself. He found that when some of these substances were given in an extremely dilute, or attenuated, form to patients with matching symptoms, some amazing cures resulted. He called his new system ‘Homeopathy’, from the Greek homois (similar) and pathos (pain or disease). To the other medicine, he gave the name ‘allopathy’, from the Greek meaning opposite.
Hahnemann had enormous success with typhus during the Napoleonic Wars, securing his reputation. Many orthodox physicians switched from treating the symptoms to treating the cause and became homeopaths.
The history of science (not part of the present medical curriculum) is full of stories like that of the student, Constantine Hering, whose medical professor asked him to write a paper refuting homeopathy. Hering read Hahnemann's books (although his professor hadn't) and became convinced that homeopathy was a superior system. He had to go to another college to finish his degree.
Hering then travelled all over the world testing herbs, snake venoms, and anything else that might extend this new system of medicine. He passed through America and was persuaded to stay, founding the Hahnemann Medical College which grew mightily, with 70 professors and 300 students at any time, training about 3,500 homeopaths and treating 50,000 patients or more in this 200-bed facility.
Another recruit was the famed Dr. James Tyler Kent, whose wife was cured by a homeopathic physician where orthodoxy failed. He wrote a Materia Medica that is still in use today because of the cleverness in his categorization of symptoms.
Homeopathy flourished in the United States at that time because it obviously worked. Pioneer wives travelled across the continent with their black boxes of remedies, just as the Queen today takes her black box wherever she goes. There isn't much that can go wrong that can't be addressed with something from a home box of about 50 remedies.
Homeopaths criticized allopaths for using strong, and sometimes dangerous, medicines all at once, instead of as a last resort after gentler remedies had been tried. Then in 1846, the American Medical Association (AMA) was founded to get back the business that the allopaths had been losing. Its code of ethics forbade members from even consulting homeopaths. In 1883, the entire New York Medical Society was expelled from the AMA because it chose to include in the membership all qualified physicians, including homeopaths.
The AMA used its political clout and its drug company contacts to hammer home its anti-homeopathic propaganda through every available medium, mastering advertising before the homeopaths so, as still happens today, the voice of the other side wasn't heard. The AMA took clever advantage of new assembly line methods to make the allopathic ideas of the body as a lot of unconnected pieces of machinery seem reasonable and ‘modern’.
Straightforward lying was not above the AMA and its counterpart in Europe. The British Board of Health in 1854, the year of the Crimean War, suppressed the fact that the death rate from cholera at the Homeopathic Hospital was 16.4 per cent compared to 50 per cent at other hospitals. When challenged about this, the British Board replied:
The figures would give sanction to a practice opposed to the maintenance of
truth and the progress of science.
In other words, these figures prove homeopathy is a superior modality, so in the interest of truth, they mustn't be used, and because we don't understand how it works, therefore it doesn't, and it isn't science.
The AMA has the same attitude today about modalities that work but aren't understood by the technicians, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, reflexology, reiki — the list is very long. About such modalities only the negative is allowed. This happened to homeopathy and later to midwifery. If there wasn't anything true and negative, the AMA just made up something and came out on top in the propaganda battle because it had the eyes and ears of the market, and the homeopathic voice wasn't heard.
It is becoming clear, even to the public, that homeopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, reflexology, and dozens of other modalities have been systematically persecuted by the AMA for decades because they took business away, not because they were ineffective.
As the new millennium gains momentum, the magic bullets of antibiotics that generated five-minute visits and huge incomes are not working any more. However, superbugs can't become resistant to the homeopathic remedies that still work just as well as they did when they astonished 19th century Europe and America.
In Europe, homeopathy is part of the medical curricula and part of medical insurance. Physicians tend to prescribe from homeopathic and herbal remedies that are safer (84 per cent of prostate prescriptions in Germany are herbal) and much more cost-effective because their health systems are not dominated by the drug industry.
From the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day, Britain’s Royal Family always has had homeopaths as personal physicians, and they are well known for their long lives, health, and vitality. The Queen is over 80 years old and her mother was 100 years of age when she died. Hahnemann died in his unsanitary times at age 88. The average life span of allopathic physicians in America is 58 years. Go figure!
All homeopathic remedies are FDA approved. They produce no side effects, and if you take the wrong one, nothing happens. If you take the right one, you get a result within the hour, and sometimes almost instantly, because these remedies work on the energy field that controls the physical body. Compare this with the 100,000 or more people who die in an average year from complications due to prescription drugs.
The cost is generally $10 for 100 doses. Compare that to patented prescription drugs that cost so much that people without insurance have to go without.
A homeopathic practitioner will talk to you for an hour or two to learn about you as a person because he/she recognizes that people need to be treated individually. Compare that with the mass production approach of allopathic physicians.
If you need a health practitioner, find a homeopathic physician and get the best of all medical worlds — receive health care instead of disease care. Read about homeopathy or check it out on the Web and become your own wellness coach.
Copied from: www.darshem.org/sys-tmpl/homeopathy/
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Related Article submitted by: Dianna Medea MA CCH (dmedea)
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