Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century
Defending Choice in Medicine
H:MC21 is a charity established to counter the unfounded propaganda against homeopathy by informing the public of the facts about homeopathy and its historical and scientific relationship to orthodox medicine.
It will do this through research, publication and campaigning.
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Homeopaths consider that what needs treating is all patient’s symptoms, not an arbitrarily selected group of them. As a result homeopathy makes use of all the symptoms of a patient, in order to find a remedy to match the specific requirements of the individual, rather than the common symptoms of diseases. For the same reason homeopaths record all the individual responses when gathering information about remedies in 'provings'. As a result the style and type of information gathered in the provings matches that gathered in case-taking.
In addition to choosing the right remedy for the case, the potency and frequency of the dose needs to be selected to match the individual need of the patient. This is an area in which experience plays an important part, as there are many interacting factors to take into account. These include:
Use of a remedy that does not meet the patient’s specific requirements may cause one of several reactions, but if a homeopathic prescription were only a placebo, there would either be a “beneficial” effect or none at all.
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