How does Homeopathy differ from Conventional / Allopathic medicine?
The term 'allopathic' refers to the conventional medical practice of medicine. Allopathic medicine uses active chemically isolated substances, aimed at either suppressing specific biochemical functions in the body or killing specifically targeted organisms, such as bacteria, viruses or other pathogens. Grave side-effects are often caused by this approach because such substances affect more than just the biochemical process, organisms or pathogens targeted, leading to possible destruction of biochemical processes, important defence mechanisms and organisms.
Homeopathic Medicine stimulates specific defence and repair mechanisms
of the body needed to ward-off and heal the condition under treatment.
In this case, the medicine does not fight the disease, but the
body itself is stimulated to combat the condition. Homeopathy,
being a holistic form of medicine, takes into account every
aspect of the patient's life, diet, nutrition, causative factors, environment and
being, thereby contributing to better success and health maintenance
by supporting the action of the medicine. Unlike allopathic medicine,
Homeopathic Medicine individualises every prescription to the needs of
each patient and does not just give a 'blanket medicine' for a diagnosis.
This makes it a powerful therapeutic system that employs the body's
own healing potential to the benefit of the patient's over-all health and
ability to maintain good health.
