Homeopathy

Excerpts from the entry on Homeopathy in Relieving Pain Naturally by Dr. Sylvia Goldfarb and Roberta W. Waddell. For full entries on all 37 conditions and 27 treatments, order the book.

The principle of homeopathy is to work with your symptoms, rather than suppress them, because symptoms are looked upon as your body's efforts to restore itself to health. The homeopathic approach, completely opposite to mainstream medicine, which treats most conditions with substances designed to suppress symptoms, is to treat by stimulating your body's own disease-fighting mechanisms. It does this by using extremely small doses of a substance that will trigger these mechanisms in order to allow them to do the healing. The word homeopathy comes from the Greek words homoios, which means like, and pathos, which means suffering.

Also in this entry:

• The History of Homeopathy
• How Homeopathy Works
• Painful Conditions that Respond Well to Homeopathy
• Advantages of Homeopathy
• How to Use Homeopathy
• Cautions
• Clinical Studies

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