Why homeopathy is getting more popular?

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scientific, logical, and effective. Evidence-based medicine supported by worldwide clinical research. Fastest growing medicine. Second largest system of medicine in the world. Queen Elizabeth II, Mother Theresa, Tina Turner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Pamela Anderson, Jane Fonda, Martina Navratilova, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, Boris Becker, David Beckham, Tony Blair, Prince Charles have used it

Answer 1

1 . Homoes - similar

     Pathos - sufferings.

     Homoeopathy follows 'similia similibus curenture' - means it cures     diseases with medicines which can produce similar sufferings.

It has a philosophy which is very logical ...

Materia medica pura -- is the collection of all the pathogenetic conditions

produced by homoeopathic medicines (called drug proving - on human).

And this collection of drug symptoms is getting bigger and bigger day by day.

A drug can cure a disease , which can be produced by it.... is the simple logic.As we can control the dose and potency, generally drug disease does not get fatal, obviously when it is well selected.

If not well selected and admintered the wrong disease producing agent

or the drug it becomes inaffectual on that particular constitution- hence generally there is no side effects

Hope u have heard of Homoeopathic Aggravations : this aggravation is the effect of over dose  or due to higher potency than required.BUT

once there is aggravation one must be sure that the selection of the drug is wright and then it is called THE MEDICINE for that particular disease for that particular person.

THE CURATIVE PROCUDURE IN WELL SELECTED MEDICINE:

In the Aphorism 27 of Organon of medicine; Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

says - A weaker dynamic affection is parmanently extinguished in the living organism by a stronger one, if the latter (whilst differing in kind)

is very similar to the former in its manifestations.

as we can regulate the dose and the potency we can creat a stronger dynamic affection (artificial disease) than the natural disease--

now the magic happens !! as u know the light of lamp get lustureless

when sun arises (sun is stronger)-- similarly the natural disease gets

repelled by the vital force when stronger artificial disease attacks the same constitution  .... as we can regulate the dose and potency the medicinal artificial disease is within our control.Within few days the artificial disease vanishes after judicially stopping of the medicine and

the health is restored by removing the disease (acute or chronic) from root.

Why it is the best choice?/

1.It does not harm other system in the way to cure a particular disease.

2.In chronic cases - There is no recurrence in almost all cases if treated by unprejudiced and a good doctor.

3.Very cheap Treatement--- poors also can afford it- especially poor countries.

4. Does not deal with the nosological name of the disease.

5.It treats the patient not the disease symptoms.

       And so on..........

Agian it is not Homeopathy---- it is HOMOEOPATHY

Answer 2

Homeopathic medicine are focused, precise & with required strength to cure the disease, explaining logically its like a smart missile and hits the target accurately.

Moreover, Homeopathy is natural with a concept "like cures like" poison kills poison. So it doesnt have any side effect. And any problem or disease cured by homeopathy doesn't make your body addictive and helps body to defend itself from the problems.  

Answer 3

The appeal of being able to do something to your own body.

You know without the pesky problem of having to learn how the body works, or knowing the basic principles of chemistry and physics the idea violates. Or the danger of actually doing yourself harm, since what you're using is basically water. And it's been disproved over and over again, from it's highest applications to it's basic concepts.

That appeal sure is nice isn't it?

Answer 4

Hi

I am a man on the street, I don't have a M.D credential behind my name and I don't have scientific or statistical evidence to support.

This is from my understanding, Homeopathy medicine treats the disease from its root whereas conventional or  Alopathy medicine treats disease from the surface.

Example, tumor or cancer, conventional medicine would treat with surgery to remove the tumor. Homeopathy medicine would find the root of the tumor and would give treatment using herbal or natural medications.

Answer 5

no side effects or some what.

Answer 6

Systems of medicines originating from lab slowly learn, if at all they learn, that human body is constituted of not only blood, flesh, veins, bones, brain and organs; but also have something called Mind, life giving forces like Soul(Prana), basic elements like Air, Fire, Ether etc. which are fundamental to its functioning, Energy centers and signaling mechanisms for which all causes they have hitherto found out were of mechanical level and below senses level and treated by medicines which are visible by senses, understood and manufactured by machines produced by sensual knowledge.  

And once they learn that, the tendency is that they become so full of jubilation by their findings or reinventions that they try to project it as an invention failing to understand that they did not understand what was being repeatedly told to them time and again about the existence of that knowledge.   They cannot see the body as a composite whole though the Upanishads had said it thousands and thousands of years ago that “remove the whole from the whole and the whole remaineth”.   The result is a set of treatment, which are compartmentalized and have the seriousness of opening a bonnet of a car and repairing.   What is not working, remove it, replace it, what is bad chop it of, if there is no liquid add liquid, still persists drain the liquid, and the like.  

What is beyond  are obviously the spiritual aspects, the micro aspects, the nuclear aspects, the energy and numerous other metaphysical aspects which can only be visualized, thought, and philosophized, but would look like blunders and foolish when described and put in black and white because they are beyond the scope of the senses to describe and when tried to be expressed through the senses, it reduces to the level of any other sensory perception and loses its meaning and understood by a materialist only to a level of materialistic understanding which he posseses.   This is precisely the reason why anyone laughs at the medicines and the subtle theories as placebo, or the idea behind the memory of water cannot be understood. There is always a rejection at the outset due to the material ego, and realization may not dawn the whole life.    To understand a subtle theory, it needs a subtle mind.  In the same way as, those who crucified others never understood who and why they have done so, if they did they would never have done what they have done.

Each human being is evolving, not only physically, but mentally too.   When their mind reaches a stage of understanding the spiritual aspects, the right medicines, the right path, the right thinking, all dawns upon him and the vivek or capacity to chose between the right and the wrong too.   This is a stage where they abandon the shallow paths, which includes the treatment methods of offensive tactics.   When for e.g. a child cries, there are four classical methods prescribed i.e. Sama, Dama, Bheda, and Danda.  Sama means to appeal to reason and rationale; Dama means to offer a lure; Bheda means diplomacy, and finally Danda the punishment.  Out of which the last resort is offensive, which was never been applied in olden times, though unfortunately,  this is being applied as the first resort in the offensive methods, which includes conventional methods of medicine.    Here we should understand that Sama, Dama, Bheda and Danda are not  just single words, but a complete set and a pattern of  philosophy, by which a whole lot of life on the surface of the earth and universe can be conducted.  

Homeo medicines are proven on human beings and not on animals.  It does not need a brilliant mind to understand that man is not a animal.  It has certain higher faculties which work differently with different human beings.  Anything proven on human beings is more adaptable to human conditions than that were proven on animals.

Whatever medicines proven in Homeo have not changed for 250 years.  And they will not change until the world lasts.   The reasons being they adhere to the fundamentals of existence.   They are not away from it, they go hand in hand with the life force.

   The question is a choice between Blood transfusion and blood purification, a choice between regrowth of bone marrow and bones; and transplantation of bones.  The choice is  between killing the germs and in the process killing all the good bacteria or not receiving the germs and allowing it to settle that it takes the shape of a serious malady.   The choice is between maintaining good drainage; or toxifying, contaminating,  choking & clearing up of the drainage.   The choice is between treating a disease; or creating a condition where disease does not happen.  The choice is between treating a malady to virtual cure; or transforming the system from morbid state to healthy state.  The sense should prevail.

    Homeo or any other system of medicine is not the end.   All medicinal systems have its value and should be honoured.   They are the different limbs to the system; we cannot say one limb is better than the other.   What we need is an integration of all the system where by a composite whole system of medicine which treats the phenomena called living beings can be rejuvenated rather than treated, when they come pass a situation where their life force is ailing, and create a healthy society who don’t receive sickness, who don’t think sickness, who don’t speak sickness, and who don’t act sickness.

            

Answer 7

because it has cures unlike modern medicine that keeps you on meds with side effects that may be actually worse than the ailment

Answer 8

Due 2 d absense of side-effects n sure-shot remedy...

Answer 9

Most alternatives help without hurting and are cheaper to employ than a doctor.

Practitioners are more likely to listen to their clients and not play god.  They also share as much knowledge as a client wants.

Answer 10

well,

i am an intern(mbbs),

u stated urself in 2nd line that its "second largest", then which is largest?

cases like m.i., trauma, complicated pregnancy, and other emergencies,can u deal them with homeopathy?

may all celebs use homeo. but can u deny they dont use alopathy?

as far as side effects are concerned ,u r in medical feild u must b knowing drugs are used rationally keeping theraputic window of each in mind.

sorry for stones..i didnt mean to hurt u .

Answer 11

For me? It's because I watched doctors kill my grandma. I don't like them at all, so I do a lot of homeopathy.  

Answer 12

I guess because its harmless if it doesn't work and inspite of all the research pointing to it not being able to work inteligent people use it and it gives them the desired results.

Placebo or not it seems to be effective.....

Id like to see a trial done on hmeopathy after a 'placebo washout'.

This is when trials are done to see which patients respond positively to placebo. These are subsequently excluded from the trial.

Answer 13

Becasue it is healthier and can be more effective.

Answer 14

Homeopathy is merely experiencing a resurgence in North America, and has remained popular around the world.

"The Homeopathic Revolution"

Dana Ullman

From the Homeopathic Educational Services website

http://www.homeopathic.com/

M new book, The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy (North Atlantic Books, 2007) includes many amazing stories about the use of and/or advocacy for homeopathic medicine from many of the most respected cultural heroes of the past 200 years. Even I was surprised to uncover specific stories from 11 American presidents, seven popes, JD Rockefeller, Charles Kettering, and innumerable literary greats, sports superstars, corporate leaders and philanthropists, clergy and spiritual leaders, women’s rights leaders, monarchs from all over the world, and many of the most esteemed physicians and scientists of our time.

One of the most amazing stories came from the life of Charles Darwin. Because so many of Darwin’s personal letters have been maintained and are now available online, there is a veritable treasure-trove of information about his life, illnesses, and his medical treatment. What will be described here is a part of his story, with much greater detail provided in The Homeopathic Revolution (to read a short article about Darwin that provides LINKS directly to Darwin's own letters about his homeopath, click http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view...

Darwin’s story is but one story in the chapter on “Physicians and Scientists: Coming out of the Medicine Closet.” Some of the others included in this chapter are: Sir William Osler (the “father of modern medicine”), Emil Adolf von Behring (the “father of immunology”), Sidney Ringer, Charles Frederick Menninger (founder of the Menninger Clinic), August Bier (the “father of spinal anesthesia”), Royal S. Copeland (homeopathic physician and New York Senator), William J. Mayo and Charles H. Mayo (founders of the Mayo Clinic), C. Everett Koop (former Surgeon General, U.S.), and Brian Josephson (modern-day Nobel laureate and Cambridge professor).

During Darwin’s trip to South America in the mid-1830s, he became very ill. Although different historians and physicians have hypothesized on what ailment he had, there is no consensus, except to say that he was seriously ill. Ever since 1837, he suffered from persistent nausea and vomiting, heart palpitations, widespread boils, and trembling, and since 1847, he had fainting spells and spots before his eyes...and his symptoms were getting increasingly worse.

Although Charles Darwin was only 39 years old in November, 1848, he was so ill that he couldn't attend his own father's funeral. In March, 1849, Darwin himself acknowledged that he was unable to work one day in every three, and further, he felt that he was dying. He said this specifically,

    "I was not able to do anything one day out of three, & was altogether too dispirited to write to you or to do anything but what I was compelled.­ I thought I was rapidly going the way of all flesh."

When you consider that Charles Darwin was this sick in 1849 and that he published his seminal book, The Origin of Species, 10 years later in 1859, one cannot help but wonder if he would have even survived that long or if he would have been as productive as a scientist or as an author if he didn’t see Dr. James Manby Gully in March, 1849.

On the advice from one of his cousins as well as from a fellow shipmate from the Beagle, Charles Darwin brought himself and his family to the clinic and “water-cure” spa of Dr. James Manby Gully, a well-known and respected homeopathic physician and advocate of hydrotherapy ("water-cure").  For more details about this story, click http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view...

(To read the rest of Ullman's blogs: http://www.homeopathic.com/main/blogs.js...

Answer 15

Well, I would love to find an herbalist, acupuncturist, homeopath, etc. to deal with my long-term cliinical depression. However, none of these alternative approaches helped me.

I have seen at least half a dozen homeopaths and been very disappointed with the results. I am not saying homeopathy does not have value, but it has been unsuccessful for me. How many double-blind clinical studies have been done to prove or disprove homeopathy?

What has been very helpful for my depression is a combination of exercise, meditation, yoga and a combination of two psychiatric drugs. I would much rather see a homeopath than a psychiatrist, but when the natural approach fails, I found I had to start popping pills.

I don't want to sound cynical, but the fact that Pamela Anderson, Tina Turner, Jane Fonda, David Beckham, et al. support homeopathy does not impress me at all. Tony Blair was one of the only world leaders who sent his troops to fight alongside Bush's troops when we invaded Iraq.

Shanti, shanti, peace, peace.....................