Homeopathy
What is homeopathy?
The word “homeopathy” comes from “homeo” meaning same or similar, and “pathos” meaning disease. Thus, homeopathy means “same disease” or “like cures like”. This is known as the law of similars in which the same substance that would normally cause a disease is used to generate a cure.
How homeopathic remedies are made
First, any substance—such as an herb, a metal or a bacterial culture, is typically placed in some dissolvent like alcohol. Upon dissolving, the ensuing result is called the “mother tincture” and is often prescribed in just this form. Second, one part of the tincture is added to 9 parts of alcohol and shaken. This shaking is called succussion, and is designed to impart the “energy” of the herb (or whatever the remedy) uniformly into the whole bottle of alcohol.
What is next?
If we continue the process of dilution and succussion still further, we may eventually arrive at the point where a 30X remedy has been diluted by a factor of ten, but thirty times! By now the likelihood of having any of the original substance within the bottle is very small. However, what we do have is a medicine that may help to alleviate the very symptoms that a toxic amount of the original substance would have caused if given in an undiluted form. Plus, we now have a remedy that can no longer produce any negative side effects because there is literally nothing physically there, not even one atom!
Energetic blueprint
Does it mean that there is really nothing left? Well, there is energy, but energy with a specific pattern and geometry—and that particular pattern has actually been observed using Kirlian photography. It has been discovered that every substance appears to have a unique energetic “footprint”—much like every person has a unique fingerprint. Thus every toxin, every vitamin, every herb and every bacteria or virus, contains within itself its own unique energetic pattern.
Matching the pattern of illness
When the remedy's energetic pattern is similar to our own body’s pattern of illness, the remedy can be used as a trigger to stimulate a healing response on the part of our immune system. It can help the body to recognize its own unhealthy patterns so that it can attempt to dispel them—but it is our own life force that will do the healing. The higher the dilution of the remedy the more precisely it must match the current symptoms of illness of the patient. This includes not only the patient’s physical condition, but also their mental and emotional state as well.
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