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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole.
-- Plato

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Remedies

Homeopathic remedies are derived from plants, animals, minerals, metals, acids, alkalis, venoms and diseased human tissue. The bulk of remedies in everyday use are derived from plants. In fact, homeopaths took over the pharmacopoeia of the herbalist in many countries and cultures, although homeopathic medicines do not resemble herbal medicines in any way. The fundamental understanding of disease is significantly different, therefore, the fundamental approach to prescribing is significantly different.

Homeopathic remedies are manufactured through a multi-step process of serial dilution and succussion, or trituration, by which the inner medicinal power of a crude substance is released or increased. The higher the dilution, the more powerful the remedy. As well, the dilutions make it possible to use poisonous substances safely.

The Process

Human beings are organisms of body, mind and spirit functioning in total harmony (homeostasis). 
A healthy organism will keep itself healthy and if injured will act to repair the damage. 
Throughout this process of self-correction, the individual produces symptoms. To a Homeopathic Doctor, these are not the signs of ill health, rather an indication that the healing process is under way. Symptoms are a guide to appropriate remedy choices; they are a guide to how well the healing process is proceeding and they are a guide to ongoing treatment and assessment. Homeopathic Doctors understand that nothing can be known about disease except what is seen in the symptoms and nothing can be cured except the symptoms.

Symptoms show the disturbed patterns. Homeopathic Medicine addresses these disturbances. This is the realm and the particular expertise of this powerful system of medicine.

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