What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is essentially a natural healing process, providing remedies to assist the patient to regain positive health by stimulating the body's own natural forces of recovery. In its current form, homeopathy is based on three principles, which are:
A medicine that in large doses produces the symptoms of the disease will, in small doses, cure that disease.
By extreme dilution, the medicine's curative properties are enhanced and all the poisonous or undesirable side effects are lost.
Homeopathic medicines are prescribed individually by the study of the whole person, according to basic temperament and responses.
How did homeopathy begin?
Although the basic principle of homeopathy, 'like cures like', was recognised by Hippocrates as early as the fifth century it is the German physician Dr. Samuel Hahnemann who is credited with its development as a viable medical practice. Disenchanted with what he saw as barbaric medical practices in the eighteenth century, Hahnemann came across 'A Treatise on Materia' by Dr. Edward Cullen in which Cullen stated that quinine was an effective treatment for malaria. Intrigued, Hahnemann investigated the effects of quinine on himself and his friends and found that, in a healthy person, quinine produced the same symptoms as the disease itself - fever, sweating and shivering - whereas in an ill person it appeared to act as a cure.
Over a long period of time Hahnemann tested many different substances - animal, vegetable and mineral - on himself and noted down the symptoms produced, forming many 'drug pictures'. To test his remedies on ill people he questioned his patients closely to build up a similar picture of their symptoms that he could then match to the relevant drug picture. He discovered that the closer the match, the more successful the treatment - like cures like, the first principle of homeopathy. He named this new method of healing 'homeopathy' after the Greek words 'homoeo', meaning similar, and 'pathy', meaning suffering.
Many substances that Hahnemann used were highly poisonous. To ensure their safety he developed a three-stage dilution and mixing process, called 'succussion' . By repeated dilution and succussion Hahnemann found that the more times a remedy had been diluted the faster and more effectively it worked. This process of dilution formed the second principle of homeopathy - 'by extreme dilution the medicine's curative properties are enhanced and all the poisonous or undesirable side effects are lost.
During his research Hahnemann discovered that people varied in their responses to each remedy depending on their basic temperament. So homeopathy concentrates on treating the whole patient rather than the disease and this became the third principle of homeopathy.
Homeopathy Today
Homeopathy today is now widely accepted as an effective treatment for many conditions, and is available on the NHS in some cases. Recognised by an Act of Parliament in 1948 as a safe alternative form of medical treatment, it has often been used successfully where other forms of medicine have failed.
In response to consumers' growing awareness of, and demand for, homeopathy we conducted extensive research and development aimed at making our remedies even more user-friendly. The result is the revolutionary, technologically advanced and ergonomically innovative cl!kpak.
Advantages of the new dispensing method include:
No need to touch pillules - simply click them in to the cap. The pillules are delicate and handling them can make them less effective. Clicking them in to the cap also makes them easier to take.
Remedy-friendly glass storage of pillules. Because the delicate nature of the pillules needs to be protected, the inside of the clikpak is made of inert glass.
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