Allopathy Vs Homeopathy I

Allopathy Vs Homeopathy


In medicine world, different modes of treatment are available for the welfare of sufferers to bring Positive Health. They all approach in different ways with different principles to attain the goal “CURE”. In the race, Allopathy system of medicine stands first with its efficient acute management and Homeopathy stands first in treating chronic complaints without any adverse effects. Each one has its own efficacy, advantages, disadvantages and limitations. This is to show off how these two systems differ in the treatment of disease / patient and medicines derivation / selection / applications.
As a main point of deviation Allopathy don’t have any fixed law or relationship between drug & disease. As it evolves as the best for the period with advancement of science and series of lab analysis it won’t give importance to any principles and opt for most suitable method of that time whereas Homeopathy developed as a rational science, based on definite principle – law of similars (let likes be treated with likes).

Disease / patient

• Allopathy concentrates on disease, its diagnosis and causes whereas Homeopathy concentrates towards patient and their feelings, i.e. on the biological whole (mind and body) to individualize the patient.

• Allopath tries to label the disease at their first outlook – their task will become very easy once they diagnose the complaint, whereas in Homeopathy, Homeopath further needs to individualize the patient to anticipate cure. Homeopath uses diagnosis only in prognosis point of view.

• In Allopathy, once disease is diagnosed with specific disease name, they will find out specific drug and its treatment is common to everyone irrespective of their symptom presentation whereas In Homeopathy, treatment may differ from person to person depending upon the symptom presentation of the patient.

• Allopathy treats diseases with common symptoms of the diseases whereas Homeopathy treats patient by giving importance to patient symptoms, i.e., uncommon, rare, peculiar symptoms of the patients. For example – In jaundice, some may come with vomiting and fever, some may come with just yellow urine and tiredness, some may come with body itching, etc. Here, Homeopathy treatment point of view and drug selection varies depending upon patient’s presenting symptoms.

• Allopathy usually identifies bacteria, fungus or virus as material cause for the diseases whereas Homeopathy declares dynamic derangement of vital force / immune mechanism as the cause. For example, if 10 members happened to attend a party and had foods / water / ice creams in the same place and when only 3-4 members out of them suffers with food allergy or flu like symptoms, then here bacteria or virus alone cannot be blamed as the causative factor, i.e., It is further because of low resistance of those suffers, i.e. deranged or weak vital force.

• In Allopathy, treatment depends on pathological findings / lab reports / causative factors whereas Homeopathy concentrates to strengthen the immune mechanism / vital force to expel / prevent the disease. In homoeopathy, diagnosis with lab investigations and causative factor (bacteria or virus) won’t help much for medicine selection since medicines are not going to act against disease or kill bacteria or virus directly. Here, treatment with individualization makes resistance / immune mechanism to climb up giving no chance for recurrence / re-infection of the same bacteria or virus. Further, in allopathy if they could not find any abnormality with lab investigations / findings they need to remain cross hands, whereas in Homeopathy those patients can still get benefited since Homeopathy treats symptoms and aims for strengthening of immune mechanism to expel the disease. Anyhow, kindly aware that no one can deny the importance of diagnosis, laboratory investigations for the assessment of prognosis and to monitor the betterment.

• Allopathy usually stops treatment once the symptoms go off or if they have found normal lab reports whereas in Homeopathy it will be continued till the patient attains comfort and well being sensation. Here one need to aware that cure and comfort feeling (well being sensation) can be felt only by the patient and cannot be examined or diagnosed by doctor or lab findings. As Homeopathy gives importance to patient symptoms, their feelings and emotions, with startup of Homeopathic treatment itself one can start feeling comfort. For example, if one happened to take allopathic anti-pyretic drugs for fever, they may have profuse sweat and reduction in fever temperature but they may feel profound weakness / tiredness, i.e., there won’t be comfort feeling even after fever subsides. But every one can feel the well being sensation while getting Homeopathy treatment even when there is fever. It is because of start up of cure process by natural defense mechanism.

• Allopathy treats patients in parts (concentrate only in diseased part) whereas Homeopathy treats patient from the point of view of a biological whole i.e. for their entire physical complaints, feelings and emotions. As Allopathy treats patients in parts, there may be many doctors working in one human to bring / maintain good health whereas in Homeopathy, one Homeopath usually gives importance to the all presenting complaints of the patient.

• Allopathy usually suppresses the symptoms / complaints – for example in case of Back pain they will be providing pain killers to suppress pain without addressing the exact reason. Every one should aware that pain is the alarm of the body to take care of the parts. Likewise in case of cough, they will be providing cough syrups to suppress the cough. Every one should aware that suppressing the cough may lead to retention on phlegm in chest which can pave way for recurrent infection / constant phlegm in chest. Even though response may be instant with cough syrups / painkillers, it won’t be useful in long run. – Homeopathy is a non suppressive way of treatment without any complications later. It addresses the problem to the core with the aim of cure.

• Allopathy suppresses the body’s natural healing mechanisms whereas Homeopathy favours or utilizes the body efforts / natural healing powers. For example, Fever needs to be treated as friend and not as disease (likewise cough). It is the first alarming sign to point out the entry of disease. Further it works as a defense mechanism which creates circumstances that are not favourable for virus or bacteria to thrive. If you are going to off the fever (natural alarm / healing mechanism), without taking steps against the disease, then you are paving way for the disease force to progress, i.e., while suppressing a disease, patient may feel better at first, but sooner they will experience the disease in worst manner.

• Allopathy can provide instant relief (not cure) with their instant remedies whereas Homeopathy aims for cure always. Even though there may be some delay in the process of Homeopathic treatment in attaining comfort level when one happened to analyse the reach of destination – cure, Homeopathy can always leads the race. For example – if one happened to take pain killers for headache and get instant relief with allopathy, it is matter for that day only, later he may suffer often with same set of symptoms – every time one need to go for painkillers – here one cannot expect cure. Whereas in Homeopathy, if one opts for Homeopathy treatment for headache, it will address the problem to the core and cure the case, further it will abort the tendency of recurrent headache. Here, by analyzing the end result, one can realize the value of instant and proper approach. Further everyone should aware that if one happened to avail / start treatment as soon as the complaints get started, betterment / cure can also be attained at the earliest.

• Allopathy aims more in “Management” for chronic cases” so patient may sometime need to depend on treatment / drugs for their lifetime (for example, using supplement of thyroid hormones / thyroxine for Hypothyroidism, pain killers for back pain, etc) whereas in Homeopathy, Homeopath treats core of the disease with the aim of complete cure. Here, every one should also aware that complete cure is possible only when patients opt for treatment in earlier stages. When they come after complications or structural deformity, it cannot be cured but can be maintained.

• Allopathy treats patients with external mode of treatment too (i.e., with ointments / external applications) whereas Homeopathy gives importance only to internal treatment since in Homeopathic point of view, external treatment will usually be a suppressive one. For example – by using creams for pimples, every one might aware that pimples may remain only dormant until then they keep continue with the use of creams. Once they discontinue the creams, pimples may rebound in more numbers. From this one can understand suppressive treatment not only suppress the complaint but also internally allow the disease to grow.

(To be continued)

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