About Homeopathic Medicines

Regarding action of the medicines: Unlike other systems of medicine, Homeopathy doesn’t act through blood after digestion of the drug materials. It acts through nerve endings in the tongue. It reaches the brain and works from a higher level. So avoid taking anything in your mouth for 10 minutes before and after taking your medicine i.e. you should take medicine with a clean tongue (tasteless). For example, if you take coffee or tea, the taste of it will remain for 15-20 minutes, so you should avoid taking medicines during that period. The strength of the medicines will become low if they are not stored well. Homeopathic remedies should be stored away from strong light, strong temperature and strong smells. External application or treating externally by any means usually suppresses the condition and later it recurs with much intensity. You will understand this when you are cured easily with internal medicines.

Whether homeopathy medicines can be taken during pregnancy – Yes, since action of the medicines is not through blood, it won’t go to the womb.

Whether other system of medicines can be allowed to continue with Homeopathic medicines – Yes, it can be, since most of the other systems of medicine act through blood, whereas Homeopathic medicines act in the tongue where there are lots of sensory nerve-endings. The Homeopathic medicines dissolve in the tongue itself and won’t go up to the stomach to react with other remedies in the stomach.
Dietary restriction – Some people say you have to cut down on coffee, tea, spicy food, pepper, onion, garlic, smoking, drinks, flowers, scents, cream, etc., while taking Homeopathy. This is not true. These are things you cannot avoid in day-to-day life. If the medicine is correct, it will work to cure the condition in any kind of situation. But you cannot take sweets if you have diabetes, cigarettes if you have

respiratory complaints, alcohol in the case of liver complaints, spicy food if you suffer from ulcer, oily diet if it is hypertension, etc. So, it is unnecessary to worry about avoiding these unavoidable things in this modern world.
Can Homeopathy cure all diseases completely – Yes, but within its limitations. Each system has its own advantage and scope and Homeopathy is no exception. Within its limits, its performance is often remarkable. Irreversible or degenerative conditions where structural damages are more marked cannot be cured completely by Homeopathy. However, Homeopathy can play an important role in such cases by providing physical as well as psychological support which will aid the body in defending itself against the disease and further degeneration.
Diagnosis – Cure and comfort can be felt only by the patient and cannot be examined or diagnosed by doctor or lab findings. Homeopathy treats the patient’s symptoms in all ways, always. For selecting the right drug, it gives importance to the character of onset of symptoms, its aggravating or precipitating factors and characteristic symptoms of patient, exciting cause, thirst, sweat, shivering, appetite, sleep, stool habit, mental restlessness, relieving factors and associated symptoms.
Every patient has his/her own pattern of falling ill and will experience different sets of symptoms even for the same illness as per diagnosis. For example, some patients suffering from jaundice will have fever, vomiting, nausea, body itching, etc., but some others will have a different set of symptoms like loss of appetite, thirst, profuse sweating, weakness, constipation, etc. Here the selection of Homeopathic medicines will be different for the patients even though they suffer from jaundice. A well-selected remedy quickly supports the body mechanism and clears the complaints at the earliest.
Regarding investigations – No one can deny the importance of laboratory investigations in diagnosis and assessment of prognosis. It also helps in monitoring the betterment. Homeopathy doctors also use thermometer, stethoscope and BP apparatus, etc., which are all invention of physics and not a treasure to a particular system of medicine. Also a Homeopathy doctor will go in for ECG, EEG, ultrasound scanning, CT scan, MRI scan, and all blood and urine reports for diagnosing the complaints. Also blood values and other investigations, the elevated levels or structural changes found while scanning are only the effects of the diseases and not the disease itself. For example – An elevated level of total blood Eosinophil count and serum-Immunoglobulin, IgE, in blood are effects of the allergy conditions and they are not the cause for sneezing. Most people think that Eosinophilia is the ultimate cause of sneezing, but in real, it is not so.
Regarding prevention – Prevention is better than cure. Homeopathy has a greater advantage over other systems by treating the patient (not disease). It has the ability to prevent and control the progress of a disease. The earlier you treat, the better your chance of complete recovery. Since Homeopathy deals with improving immunity for eliminating the diseases, there won’t be any recurrences of the complaints.
Regarding side-effects – One of the most common reasons why people seek Homeopathic care, is the “cure will be permanent without side-effects” since it is very much refined. According to Newton’s universal law, every action has its own reaction. If it is true, if there is action, there should be reaction. Here in Homeopathy, since the medicines are administered in very minimal doses, we do not notice the reaction or adverse reactions which are also very minimal and unnoticeable.
For example, nowadays, in Allopathy medicines, people are often advised to use sleeping pills for sleeplessness. This sleeping pill will create artificial sleep on the drug day and produce sleeplessness the next day as its adverse action, obliging the universal law. Since people take pills at night regularly, the adverse action may not be noticed but its other adverse actions like depression and lack of concentration will be found in due course, after prolonged use. In contrast, in Homeopathy, substances which induce sleeplessness in large doses will be given to the patient in minute doses to sleep naturally, without any noticeable side-effects.
Regarding surgery – In advanced conditions, surgery is the only way. Homeopathy is not against surgery, if that is the case. But it can be avoided in many cases like piles, uterine masses, breast tumours, pleurisy, gallstones, kidneystones, etc, if it is properly diagnosed and treated before complications arise. For example, tonsillitis is not a pure surgical complaint which can be cured in 70-80 per cent of cases. Homoeopathy follows Nature’s rule, so it never admits removal as a cure. It takes healing as making healthy, not removing. Likewise piles, nasal polyp, kidney stones, etc., can be noticed to recur even after surgical manipulation. This is because surgery treats the effects of the disease rather than the disease itself.

Finally, regarding doctor & faith – Homeopaths may fail in curing the disease, but Homeopathy never fails, i.e., the cure depends upon the ability of the doctor to diagnose the case and select the right drug for the case. There is also a popular saying – Finally, it is faith that cures. Faith means faith in the doctor, medicine and cure. We have to accept this saying also, since occurrence, real causes, nature of complaints and its presentation and curing process are all still obscure and remain as unknown science.
In total, Homoeopathy is the fingerpost on the crossroads of healing which directs the way to SAFEST PERMANENT CURE.

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Dr. S. Chidambaranathan, BHMS, MD (Homeo)

Laxmi Homeo Clinic

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Madurai, TN 625 001

India

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