Dr. Sanjay Shah

What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is well accepted as an effective, safe, gentle and curative form of health care with the benefit of keeping one youthful in looks and mind.

A natural system of health care.

Homeopathy gives relief from suffering for millions of people in nearly every country of the world. It is used to cure and treats traumas, stress, chronic and acute conditions. It encourages the body to regenerate and make healthy new cells. It is safe for babies, children, adults and seniors. Homeopathy is used effectively for animals as well. It may be used in conjunction with other therapies like acupuncture and chiropractic treatments.

Homeopathy will enhance the benefits of nutritional and herbal supplements.

Homeopathy is a holistic system of health care. Homeopathy uses tiny doses of medicine made from natural substances to activate and stimulate the body's own healing powers to give optimum health to keep one young and vibrant.

These medicines are called remedies and are based on the discovery that a substance can cure the same kind of problem it causes. A plant, mineral or animal substance given in a crude form will produce specific symptoms. The same Homeopathically made medicine will cure exactly those same symptoms. This is the principle of 'let likes be cured by likes' or "The Law of Similars." It is the basic concept that Homeopathy is derived from. The name Homeopathy comes from two words. The Greek word 'homoios' means like or similar and 'pathos' means sickness.

For example a person slicing onions may get burning watery eyes, plus sneezing and a runny nose. A Homeopath may have a patient with a cold or hayfever that has these same symptoms of burning, watery eyes, plus sneezing and a runny nose. The remedy red onion (allium cepa) will be given to cure these symptoms.

This prescription is based on the "The Law of Similars." This way of healing works with the body's own reaction system and supports its function to bring balance back to the body to heal and produce health. So Homeopathy works with the body and not against it. Symptoms are generally considered good and indicate that the body is coping with an imbalance in the best way it can.. Symptoms are used to indicate what remedy is to be taken based on this "Law of Similars.".

Homeopathy is well accepted as an effective, safe, gentle and curative form of health care with the benefit of keeping one youthful in looks and mind.

A natural system of health care.

Homeopathy gives relief from suffering for millions of people in nearly every country of the world. It is used to cure and treats traumas, stress, chronic and acute conditions. It encourages the body to regenerate and make healthy new cells. It is safe for babies, children, adults and seniors. Homeopathy is used effectively for animals as well. It may be used in conjunction with other therapies like acupuncture and chiropractic treatments.

Homeopathy will enhance the benefits of nutritional and herbal supplements.

Homeopathy is a holistic system of health care. Homeopathy uses tiny doses of medicine made from natural substances to activate and stimulate the body's own healing powers to give optimum health to keep one young and vibrant.

These medicines are called remedies and are based on the discovery that a substance can cure the same kind of problem it causes. A plant, mineral or animal substance given in a crude form will produce specific symptoms. The same Homeopathically made medicine will cure exactly those same symptoms. This is the principle of 'let likes be cured by likes' or "The Law of Similars." It is the basic concept that Homeopathy is derived from. The name Homeopathy comes from two words. The Greek word 'homoios' means like or similar and 'pathos' means sickness.

For example a person slicing onions may get burning watery eyes, plus sneezing and a runny nose. A Homeopath may have a patient with a cold or hayfever that has these same symptoms of burning, watery eyes, plus sneezing and a runny nose. The remedy red onion (allium cepa) will be given to cure these symptoms.

This prescription is based on the "The Law of Similars." This way of healing works with the body's own reaction system and supports its function to bring balance back to the body to heal and produce health. So Homeopathy works with the body and not against it. Symptoms are generally considered good and indicate that the body is coping with an imbalance in the best way it can.. Symptoms are used to indicate what remedy is to be taken based on this "Law of Similars.".

History of Homeopathy

Homeopathic principles have already been used for many centuries. Hippocrates noted that disease is born of like things, and by the use of like things people are healed. It is a well established healing system used by the ancient Greeks. The modern system of Homeopathy was introduced by a brilliant German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755 to 1843.) He was appalled by the barbaric medical practices of his day and he sought a more humane alternative. He describes the 'principles of cure' in the book "Organon of the Medical Art." He starts by saying "The physicians highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy. (to cure, as it is called.) Then he goes on to say, "The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health: that is, lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable comprehensible principles."

This healing system based on an ancient principle has become widely used and now spread all over the world. Homeopathy was one of the most used healing systems in America during the early 1900's. It was a simple and inexpensive healing method that was suppressed by what is called modern medicine.

People are now going back to healing of natural therapy that does not have any toxic side effects. Today Homeopathy is practiced world wide. In Germany fifty percent of family doctors, prescribe homeopathic medicines. and in France one third. In the U.K. members of the Royal Family have been homeopathic patients since Queen Victoria. In India there are 120 Homeopathi