Homeopathy

intelligence, which conserved and restored the organism in an active fashion’ (Wood, 2005, pp. 14-15). Paracelsus’ notion of vitalism exerted a significant influence in the evolution of medicine, including Van Helmont’s alchemical medicine, Hahnemann’s homeopathy, eclecticism and Thomsonian herbalism. Furthermore, we can see throughout history how the concept of vitalism has evolved, but it is still maintained around the fundamental principle as the force that drives us, that gives us our

What if there was a new drug that’s making you high, but is just a sugar pill? What if you can get drunk with non-alcoholic drinks? What if there was a pill that can cure all your physical and emotional problems? This is known as the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a phenomenon in which some people experience a type of benefit after the use of a placebo. A placebo is any substance with no known medical effects; such as sterile water, saline solution, or a sugar pill. (About.com Psychology)

remedies. Each constitution has a typical chronic remedy, however a strong traumatic incident can impose a layer on a patient of any constitution. Constitutional types have both a light and a dark side depending on life events and circumstances. Homeopathy helps to restore children to health, to overcome their weekness and to get them ready for a healthy ife. People who have taken homeopathic remedies from childhood have fewer chronic diseases later on in their lives. The greatest protection is when

Writer's cramp What is Writer's cramp? Writer's cramp is a condition that involves chronic sustained pain or sudden painful contraction of some muscles of the hand or fingers. The patient experiences this disease generally feels uncontrolled, irritating or tedious muscular contraction that leads to changed movements and abnormal position or attitudes of hands and fingers. Writer's cramp mostly affects one body part and people between the ages of 30 to 50 years generally get affected with this disease

He was able to conclude that vaccine therapy had more in common with homeopathy than with allopathic medicine. Dr. Bach searched and found that flowers had the same vibrations the bacteria had. He saw the psychic components in physical illness. This helped him understand that each different flower went with a certain type

that I feel is necessary to be successful in any field of life. Looking at any piece of information without bias, and purely to find facts is the key to making an accurate judgment. I was surprised by the claim made by James Randi (2010) in video “Homeopathy, quackery and fraud” that Homeopathic medicine does not work. Mr.Randi claims that since homeopathic sleeping pills do not work, it means none of the homeopathic medicine work. I see his claim as an example of “Broken Logic.” One of my close friends

Introduction Henry Beecher (1904–1976) was a physician who treated wounded soldiers in America during World War II. When he ran out of pain-killing morphine, he decided not to tell the wounded soldiers. Instead he kept telling them that he was giving them morphine, while he was actually giving a saline. Surprisingly, almost 40 percent of the wouded soldiers that were given the saline said their pain was actually reduced by the treatment. Breecher had discovered what is called the placebo effect.

The history of the placebo The placebo, though unknown at the time, has been a fundamental part of medicine since antiquity. Simply put by Shapiro and Shapiro (who are considered influential writers in placebo research), “the history of the placebo is the history of medical practice itself, until modern times”. (Shapiro & Shapiro, 1997) In their book, ‘The Powerful Placebo: From Ancient Priest to Modern Physician’, there is an extensive list of ancient medicine medicaments and procedures all of

Nux Vomica Homeopathy Remedy for Headache Homeopathy, “the practice of medicine that embraces a holistic, natural approach to the treatment of the sick (Chase, 2007-2016, para 1). Homeopathy treats the person as a whole and all homeopathy remedies are from natural resources such as vegetables, mineral or animals (Chase, 2007-2016). There are three basic principles to Homeopathic medicine: Let Likes Cure Likes, The Minimum Dose and The Single Remedy (Chase, 2007-2016). There are also two main categories

Alternative medicine is used all around the world in various forms. Some applications are acupuncture, salt treatments, reiki, aromatherapy, and magnet therapy. These treatments can be used for various ailments such as: chronic pain management, illnesses, stress relievers, respiratory problems, and skin conditions. As a pre-med student I am curious why these medicine alternatives are used as treatment methods. Although some of these alternative treatments have been used for thousands of years, how