Q. What is homeopathy?

A. Homeopathy is a form of medical treatment and a pharmaceutical science that predates conventional drug treatment by at least a hundred years. The German physician and medical genius Dr. Samuel Hahnemann developed it in the late eighteenth century. It has been practiced and developed further since and today it enjoys great popularity worldwide.

Q.How is it different from conventional medicine?

A. Homeopathy works with nature rather than against it. It uses the disease symptoms to its benefit rather than working against them or trying to palliate them. Disease is an expression of the body’s natural repair capacity. Homeopathic medicines are given to aid the body’s natural self-healing impulse to overcome the illness and restore itself back to health.

Homeopathy is about curing diseases, not merely about getting rid of symptoms.

When you take an aspirin, you may alleviate the symptoms, but you do not address the cause of the trouble. Most modern drugs work by suppressing or opposing the symptoms. That is why, for example, they have names with the prefix “anti-”, which means “against”- like antihistamines, antidepressants, antispasmodics, etc. READ MORE