Homeopathy: An Alternative Medicines

There is an alternative to conventional medicine that costs less, is equally effective, and does not cause side effects. “There”s a new world of medical doctors who resort to drugs and surgery as a last measure” (Heimlich 2). It is called homeopathy and it is making its way into doctors” offices, hospitals, and homes everywhere.

First and foremost, it needs to be understood what homeopathic medicine is and how it works. There are numerous forms of this medication, all of which are 100% natural. Just like prescription drugs they come in pills, capsules, creams, and liquids. They are derived from plants, minerals, and animal origins. When taken in small amounts they trigger the human defense system. Allergists base their treatments on the same principle. Their patients are injected with a serum containing the substance causing the allergic reaction. The body”s natural response is to build up immunity to that allergy. This is similar to how a vaccine works and how homeopathic remedies work; they crank up the body”s defense system (Toy 146).

A patient”s symptoms are the body’s way of reestablishing balance. It is beneficial to provide the body”s immune system with medications that support rather than suppress its efforts to heal.

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it is self. It is a known fact that symptoms are a body’s way of adapting to an infection. Physiologist Matthew Kluger and colleges at the University of Michigan Medical School have determined that in some instances the human body prepares itself for resisting infection by producing a fever. If aspirin is prescribed, it is ultimately prohibiting the body to defend itself. A second example of the body”s ability to self-heal is the process of inflammation. This is the body’s way of localizing, heating up, and burning out infectious agents or foreign matter (Ullman, Discovering 5). Homeopathic remedies work with the body and the symptoms, not against them.