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Homeopathy

Homeopathy, or homeopathic medicine, is a holistic system of treatment that originated in the late eighteenth century. The name homeopathy is derived from two Greek words that mean "like disease." The system is based on the idea that substances that produce symptoms of sickness in healthy people will have a curative effect when given in very dilute quantities to sick people who exhibit those same symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are believed to stimulate the body's own healing processes. Homeopaths use the term "allopathy," or "different than disease," to describe the use of drugs used in conventional medicine to oppose or counteract the symptom being treated.

Homeopathic Remedies

Homeopathic remedies are originally derived from the following substances.

1. •Botanicals: herbs, roots and flowers.
   

2. •Minerals and Mineral Substances
   

3. •Animal Substances: (Venoms)
   

4. •Electricity, x-ray, and magnetic fields
   

5. •Hormones, drugs and poisons such as agent orange
   

6. •Healthy tissue or secretions of the body and organ preparations
   

7. •Bacteria, viruses and pathology.
   

Secretions or flakes taken from a person's skin, urine, blood, saliva, and/or mucous are used to treat skin conditions such as psoriasis, acne, boils, ulcers or infections.

All homeopathic remedies should be made at FDA-registered homeopathic pharmacies and according to the simple procedure of dilution and succession (vigorous shaking). Succession is also known as dynamization or potentization. It may sound like succession is complicated, but it simply involves shaking some energy into the dilution or remedy.

Homeopathic Remedies Preparation Process

Here are the steps that go into making a homeopathic remedy from scratch.

1. •A substance is dissolved in an alcohol/water solution called a tincture.
   

2. •Then one drop of the tincture is diluted into from 9 to 99 drops of alcohol/water solution.
   

3. •This solution is vigorously successes (pounded & shaken). Succession is performed on every homeopathic remedy; it imbues the water with kinetic energy, thereby increasing the remedy's potency.
   

4. •One drop of this dilution is then added to from 9 to 99 drops of fresh alcohol/water. It is successed again.
   

This procedure can be repeated, and with each dilution increasing the therapeutic effect and the potency.

The potency of a remedy refers to the number of dilutions in any preparation, which has been dynamized using succession. Although homeopathic potencies go from very low to very high, most beginners start with the X and C scale. Conventionally, remedies are made on scales of 1:10 dilutions and 1:100 dilutions. The 1:10 dilution scale is designed X, and the 1:100 scale is call C potency. A 12X potency means that the original tincture is diluted 1:10 a total of 12 times serially, with vigorous shaking in between. A 12 C means that the original tincture is serially diluted 1:100 a total of 12 times, also with successions between dilutions.

The number of "successions" required for each dilution is not necessarily written in stone. In fact, some homeopathic physicians violently dispute the correct numbers almost as much as traditional doctors dispute the validity of homeopathy's healing powers.

Homeopathic remedies must be registered with the FDA. They have no known toxicity and are safe for all.