Medicine - Homeopathy

What is Homeopathy???

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What are Homeopathics?

Homeopathic remedies (also called homeopathics) are a system of medicine based on three principles:

Like cures like
For example, if the symptoms of your cold are similar to poisoning by mercury, then mercury would be your homeopathic remedy.

Minimal Dose
The remedy is taken in an extremely dilute form; normally one part of the remedy to around 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water.

The Single Remedy
No matter how many symptoms are experienced, only one remedy is taken, and that remedy will be aimed at all those symptoms.

Similar principals forms the basis of conventional allergy treatment, where the allergic substance is given in a small dose, and in vaccines where an impotent form of the virus is given to bolster the immune system against that particular virus.

Why use Homeopathics?
Homeopathy is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world. Its growth in popularity in the United States has been around 25 to 50 percent a year throughout the last decade.

This success is fueled by several factors:
Homeopathy is extremely effective. When the correct remedy is taken, results can be rapid, complete and permanent.

Homeopathy is completely safe. Even babies and pregnant women can use Homeopathy without the danger of side effects. Homeopathic remedies can also be taken alongside other medication without producing unwanted side effects.

Homeopathy is natural. Homeopathic remedies are normally based on natural ingredients.
Homeopathy works in harmony with your immune system, unlike some conventional medicines which suppress the immune system. (For example, cough medicines suppress the cough reflex, which is your body's attempt to clear the lungs)

Homeopathic remedies are not addictive - once relief is felt, you should stop taking them. If no relief is felt, you are probably taking the wrong homeopathic remedy.

Homeopathy is holistic. It treats all the symptoms as one, which in practical terms means that it addresses the cause, not the symptoms. This often means that symptoms tackled with

Homeopathy do not recur.

But there is a catch...

Every silver lining has a cloud, and there are two main barriers to the effective use of
homeopathy:

Prescribing the right homeopathic remedy takes a little more time and patience than conventional medicine. Exactly the right remedy needs to be taken for your symptoms. There is no such thing as a standard homeopathic headache remedy (though, sadly that doesn't mean no such product is sold...).The remedy you take has to be matched to your particular headache - where it occurs, what brings it on, what type of pain it is, what aggravates it, what makes it feel worse, your state of mind and what other symptoms you experience.

The sheer range of remedies in use can cause practical problems for an average sized pharmacy. If the right remedy is not one of 30 or so commonly used remedies, they can be difficult to obtain.

And so...We built a remedy finder. Type in your symptoms in plain English, answer a few questions and the homeopathic remedy finder will help you to work out exactly which remedy you need to take.

We opened a remedy shop to sell an extensive range of homeopathics. You can search by the name of the remedy, or a few letters of the name. Easier still, you can put remedies in your basket directly from the homeopathic remedy finder.

ONLINE HOMEOPATHY REMEDY TOOL # 2

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Welcome to the Homeopathic Prescriber

This online homeopathic tool suggests homeopathic remedies based on the symptoms you enter.This software is intended to be used by an authorised Homeo Doctor. Homeopathy relies on gathering a detailed picture of the patient before Homeopathic Remedies can be correctly prescribed. Therefore, for this homeopathic prescriber software to work properly, you should enter all the symptoms.You should read the Homeopathic Prescriber instructions,disclaimer and the Terms & Conditions before continuing.

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ONLINE REMEDY TOOL #2

Remedy finder instructions

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Remedy finder instructions:

The ABC Homeopathy remedy finder can help you find which homeopathic remedies you need, quickly and simply, using a plain English translation of Kent's Repertory. Just enter your symptoms, tick the relevant boxes and choose the remedy. A valuable tool for the amateur and the professional, our free and easy homeopathic software makes it easy to find the similium, from around 64,000 symptoms and 650 remedies. Remember though; nothing on this site is intended to constitute a diagnosis, or a claim for the effectiveness of any remedy in treating any condition. Minor symptoms can often be a sign of something more serious, so if your symptoms persist or worsen, go and see your doctor, or a homeopath.

1. Enter your symptoms

The home page of the homeopathic remedy finder offers you a choice of Searching or Browsing to find your symptoms. If you choose to search, bear in mind that you are searching for symptoms, not a condition. (ie search for headache, sore throat, exhaustion, sneezing, coughing, running nose rather than flu).We also allow users to group a symptom set by the name of a condition, but be aware that these conditions will not be exhaustive lists of possible symptoms. Although these are quicker and more convenient to use, you should supplement them with other symptoms specific to your case.The more symptoms you include, the more accurate the final result will be. See the guide to self diagnosis with homeopathy for more on this.

2. Refine your symptoms

In most cases, the results of searching or ticking boxes produce more options; such as exactly where, when and how symptoms occur. Just tick the boxes of all that apply and then press either next button. Depending on the precision of your search, you may also be presented with more options after that, as sub options from what you have already ticked.Homeoapthy requires exact definitions of your symptoms to be useful. Therefore, there will be a maximum of 5 screens of tick-boxes to refine your symptoms. You can choose to ignore them, and just press next at any time to see the best remedy matches up to that point; you can of course then use the back button on your browser to resume ticking. If none apply, just press next.

3. Select a remedy

The aim is to find the one remedy which best matches all your symptoms.

When there are no more questions to be asked, you will be presented with a screen showing details of the best remedy for your complaint. Usually the remedy will not be appropriate for all the symptoms you enter, and often there are other equally likely remedies.To differentiate between the most likely remedies, you can also see the remedy grid, with the symptoms down the left and the remedies across the top, by pressing the next button again. They are arranged with the best match on the left, and then less likely remedies to the right. A maximum of 12 remedies are shown at any time.

With the remedy grid, you can easily compare remedies, and even rearrange the grid, prioritizing any symptom and discarding others.

If there is no obvious remedy which matches better than the others, and you really can't think of other symptoms to add, you can describe your state of mind, or the colour and consistency of your stool into the search box.

ONLINE HOMEOPATHY REMEDY TOOL # 1

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This free online homeopathic tool suggests homeopathic remedies based on the symptoms you enter. Homeopathy relies on gathering a detailed picture of your complaint before Homeopathic Remedies can be correctly prescribed. Therefore, for this homeopathic remedy finder software to work properly, you should enter all your symptoms, using the search or the tick categories, or both. You can add symptoms at any stage; you do not have to add them all at the beginning.

You should read the remedy finder instructions and guide to self-diagnosis before continuing. This remedy finder is a presentation of Kent's Repertory, a respected work on Homeopathy, but it can not replace a consultation with a medical professional.

Online Remedy Tool #1

Homeopathic Software

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Homeopathic Software
Welcome to the world's First and Only center dedicated to Homeopathy Software. Find news, views, reviews, detail specifications, comparisons, useful links, Discussion Forum for every homeopathic software all at one place.

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Homeopathy Research Center

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Homeopathy Research Center

The Homeopathy Research Center is intended to provide information about all the historical and current research related to homeopathy and homeopathic medicines at one place.
If you have access to any research paper dealing with the physical basis of homeopathy, clinical and biological experiments, thoritical discussions on the scientific validity of homeopathy, requirement of research in homeopathy and scientific protocols, please send them to us at editor@hpathy.com The more information we share with each other, the more we will grow together!

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Overview of Positive Research in Homeopathy

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The Latest Research Into The Effectiveness and Safety of Homeoprophylaxis

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Homeopathic Treatment of Diarrhoea in Cows

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Homeopathy and CFS Research

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Homeopathic Potencies Identified By a New Magnetic Resonance Method

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The Life Force

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Homeopathy & Biophotonics (II): The Vital Force

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Scientific Research in Homeopathy: To Prove or To Improve?

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Validating Controlled Research Part II: Accounting for Complex Process

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Miasms: A New Look Through Epigenetics - I

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Finding The Simillimum Using Facial Analysis

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The Principle That Makes Homeopathy Scientifically Possible

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Inventing the Randomized Double-Blind Trial: The Nuremberg Salt Test of 1835

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Another POV on Research

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The Monster with 1000 Heads

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The Effect of a Homeopathic Neem Preparation for the Prophylaxis of Malaria

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Validating Controlled Research

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Particular and Common Symptoms.

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Particular and Common Symptoms.
The generals always rule out non-agreeing particulars. Under the particular symptoms we find:
“The symptoms that are predicated of a given organ are things in particular. The symptoms that cannot be explained are often very peculiar. The more they relate to the anatomy of a part, the more external they are; the more they relate to tissues the more liable they are to be particular, although many symptoms of regions are both common and particular. Symptoms are on a more or less sliding scale. What is peculiar in one remedy may be in no degree peculiar in another; of instance, it would not be peculiar to have a fever patient thirsty. It is common thing for them to want to drink, but it would be peculiar to have a patient without fever or chill who wanted to drink all the time, as we find in some chronic cases.” (Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy, pp. 237-240.)
Under common symptoms we find: “All those which are common to both the drug and disease. That which is pathogenic is always common. For instance, if we had a pleurisy (patient) it would be a common thing to want to keep the chest wall quiet and you would get the symptom worse from motion, one of the keynotes of Bryonia; but if there were no other symptoms of Bryonia present we could not make a prescription on that rubric alone. Again, if we had abscess it would be a common thing for it to be sensitive, and if pus was forming we would have throbbing pains and redness, but Belladonna could not be given on these common symptoms if there were no other Belladonna symptoms present. You can readily see how the common symptoms have no place in our repertory work. You need not bother with the common symptoms, for when you have worked your case out from the generals and particulars turn to your materia medica and you will find the remedy will contain most of the common symptoms.” (Ibid., p. 238, 245.)
Grades of Particular and Common Symptoms.
After considering the generals we take up the symptoms referring to various parts or organs of the body. These are known as particulars, and are of lower value in repertory analysis than generals.
Running through all symptoms from innermost to outermost, from mind to skin, from generals to particulars, we have two divisions:
(a) The strange, rare, peculiar and uncommon symptoms. (b) The common symptoms.
Be these general or particular, mental or physical, common symptoms must be considered last in every case of repertory study. First, we must become familiar with symptoms that are common, then it will be easy to know what are uncommon strange, rare and peculiar.
Common symptoms as related to many remedies are found in the large rubrics in the repertory, such as constipation, irritability, chill, fever, sweat, weakness, etc. These common symptoms may become peculiar where their circumstances are peculiar, such as trembling during stool, before a storm, during urination, etc. Chilliness, if constant, is a strong, common general, as it refers to the whole patient, but if it comes only in bed, or before urination, or before, during or after stool or in relation to menses or only at night or while eating, it is at once changed to a strange, rare, peculiar or characteristic.
Weakness is also common if constant, but may become uncommon, strange, rare or peculiar if it comes only while eating, or during a storm or after stool or when cold.
All of these modalities are common to no known disease, and so they become striking and peculiar and help to individualize the picture for repertory work.
It is in showing what is common to disease that pathology helps us, hence it is important that we make a diagnosis, not that we may prescribe for the disease, per se, but to know what symptoms are common, and, therefore, worthless as individualizers.
The common diagnostic symptoms of typhoid fever are the general malaise, epistaxis, the peculiar temperature wave, gurgling and tenderness in the right iliac fossa, rose spots, early dicrotic pulse, enlarged spleen, Widal reaction of the blood, Diazzo reaction of the urine. These symptoms you use to make your diagnosis; you expect to find them in every case, but among them are no symptoms to lead you to a remedy.
Pathology through diagnosis helps us to eliminate many symptoms as result of disease. Stiffness may be a very troublesome symptom to your patient, but if it is the result of an ankylosed joint you know that remedies would not cure, therefore that symptom would be ruled out.
Pains due to pressure of tumors or growths in the abdomen are very troublesome to the patient, but we know that when such end products of disease exist, it is beyond the realm of medicine to cure without the removal of the offending growth. Thus all symptoms produced by pressure of the growth must be ruled out of the symptom picture to be used in repertory analysis.
Kent says: “We must not expect a remedy that has the generals must have all the little symptoms. It is a waste of time to run out all the little symptoms if the remedy has the generals. Learn to omit the useless particulars, the common particulars - common particulars are generally worthless. Get the strong, strange, peculiar symptoms and then see to it that there are no generals in the case that oppose or contradict.”

Preservation of Homeopathic Drug Substances

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PRESERVATION OF DRUGS:

There are specific directions for the preservation of homoeopathic drug substances in the monographs of the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India and other Pharmacopoeias but the general rules are:
(1) A container or jar should be properly labelled while preserving a drug in it.
(2). All substances should be preserved in natural glass or earthenware vessels or jars, being well stoppered.
(3) For corrosive substances, such as acids or alkalies hard glass bottles with glass stoppers should be used.
(4). For storing Fluoric acid, gutta purcha bottles must be used, otherwise it may dissolve the glass.
(5) Drugs which may be affected by the light or sunlight 'actinic' glass bottles (coloured) covered outside with a solution of asphaltum or black varnish should be used.
(6). Avoid blue-coloured container, as blue colour has some on dynamic effects injurious to drugs.
(7) Yellow or amber coloured bottles exposed to sunlight (or" sometime, acquire medicinal virtue, so they should be avioded.
(8) Keep the container with the medicinal substances away from dust, odours, smoke, moisture, damp, strong light etc.
(9) Strong smelling drugs, such as Asafoetida, Camphor, Iodine, Kreosote, Moschus, Terebinthinae, oleum etc. should be kept isolated in tightly closed bottles, so that the peculiar odours of such drugs may not contaminate other drugs.
(10) The drug substances should be used for the preparation immediately after their collections.
(11) If a fresh drug cannot be used immediately, it must not be allowed to dry; by keeping them in a cold air space.
(12) Drugs which are to be preserved for a considerable time may be dried in a chamber , allowing hot air to flow for drying the drug substances.
(13) Drugs possessing the power of mutual reaction should be preserved separately.
(14) If fresh drugs are to be collected from a distant place, they should be packed loosely and carefully in paper-pulp cases and kept as cool as possible.
(15) Drugs which need drying before transportation or preserving, they should be carefully dried by tying in loose bundles, and hanging in a shade away from direct sun light, ram. dust, worms, insects etc.
(16) Plants or their parts should be kept in a dry, cool, dustless, odourless place or a little amount of purified (distilled) water may be sprinkled upon them from time to time.
(17) For preserving pulverised drugs, they should be perfectly dry, otherwise their moisture content may mould, Their dryings should be made by spreading the pulverised materials on a water-bath, or for a bigger quantities, in a temperature adjustable drying chamher.
(18) Animals and animal products decompose very quickly hence they should be used immediate after collections, If required they may be preserved in freeze. Venoms can be preserved in deep freeze being kept in glycerine; or sometime after collections, they are quickly freezed and preserved properly.

Collection of Drug Substances

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Though the aphorism of the Organon of Medicine and its certain portion are not directly connected with the process of collection, yet the advices given by Hahnemann forms the fundamentals of preparing a drug, in which the process of collecting a drug substance is an important part for the genuineness of the drug so prepared. In aphorism 264 of Organon of Medicine, Hahnemann holds, "The true physician must be provided with genuine medicine of unimpaired strength, so that he may be able to rely upon their therapeutic powers." In aphorism 66 of Organon be also emphasises that "substances belonging to the animal and vegetable kingdoms, possess their medicinal qualities most perfectly in their raw state". As such advices of Hahnemann are to use fresh animal and vegetable drug substances

Vegetable Kingdom - Purity and genuinity of the original drug substances must be ensured. All vegetable drug substances should be procured fresh, as far as possible, except the substances which has to be imported from outside. It should be collected only in healthy or well developed state; free from worms, insects, or as per direction of the particle drug preparation given in Homoeopathic pharmacology. All those are in decayed state should be discarded. They shall show no discolouration, abnormal odour, slimness or any sign of deterioration. The wild ones are preferable to cultivated ones. They should be collected when their medicinal virtue is greatest. They must not be packed too closely in carrying; and be used quickly in preparing the substance after collection, so that they may yield their full medicinal strength unchanged. Never collect them during morning dew, nor immediately after a shower, nor during too heat of the day. They should be gathered when the weather has previously been sunny and dry, and just after disappearance of the morning dew. Cleaning of the drug materials, so collected, should be done carefully so that any part of it is not erroded. Never wash with profuse water; if become unavoidable, use only too little water for washing. Exotic drug substances should never be imported in powder form, and without proper identification of their genuineness (vide Organon of Medicine-aphorism 268).

'Narcotic' plants should be collected while in bloom and: partly just before or when coming into bloom. The general directions are as follow, with the few exceptions:

Whole Plant-By the term 'whole plant' is meant the whole plant with root. The whole plants should be collected in sunny whether, when they are partly in flowers and partly in bud.

Root- They should be used fresh. Roots of 'Annuals' must be collected early in the autumn, as they die after ripening of the seeds. Roots of 'Biennials' should be collected in the spring and of 'Perennials' should be collected in the 2nd and 3rd year, before they develop woody fibres; and should be free of moulds, dampness and woody appearance and must not be cleaned with much water.

Stems-Should be collected after the development of leaves.

Woods- Collected early in the spring or late in autumn before the juice are not exhausted and also from mature young trees and tree like shrubs.

Barks- Barks should be collected from mature, vigorous young trees. Barks of 'Resinous' trees should be collected at or about the time of development of leaves and blossoms. 'Non-resinous' barks are to be collected late in the autumn. The same principle is also for root-barks.

Young Shoots- They are collected in the spring, when the whole plant is in full vigour.

Leaves- Only fully developed leaves should be collected just the before or during the flowering time. In cases of Biennials plants the leaves which first appear in the spring of the second year are the best and so these should be collected as soon as any the flowering stems begin to shoot.

Twigs- Twigs of current year's growth only.

Herbs- Fullly developed herbs are to cut above the root leaves.

Flowers- Should be collected in dry whether, when they are partly in bud and partly in blossoms.

Fruits, Seeds and Berries- If not otherwise specified, are to be collected when they are fully ripe. Succulent fruits, seeds or berries should be used while fresh. Only dried fruits, seeds or berries may be stored in well-closed glass containers. Fresh fruits when collected are to be used immediately after their collection.

ANIMAL KINGDOM - Animal substances must be collected from perfectly healthy specimen, wild animals are preferable, as they are natural specimens. Secretions and excretions should be obtained in hygienic conditions and from healthy beings. Medicines from them should be prepared in their pure and unadulterated state, without mixing with any other substances.The animal drug substances are obtained from either the young wild or domestic ones and zoological gardens. Some are gathered by fishing, e.g., Asterias rubens, Cod fish (for Oleum .rousJec. Aselli). Cuttle fish (for Sepia). Jellyfish(Medusa)etc.Wild animal procured by hunting, e.g., Sperm whale (Ambra grisea), Musk deer (Moschus), Beaver (Castoreum) etc. Insects like Cantharides (Cantharis), Apis melifica, Cochneal (Coccus cacti) etc. are procured wild, or they are also cultivated in scientific way. Toads (bufo) ; different spiders (Aranea avicularis, A. diadema, Mygale, etc.); Lizards (Lacerta agilis etc.) are also caught by different processes. Venoms are either collected from wild snakes or cultivated ones from the snake farms, e.g, Coral viper (Elaps cor.), Lachesis mutus (Lachesis), German Viper (Vipera), Spectacled snake (Naja tripudians) etc., venoms are collected in glass container by experts of the line. Different 'Lacs' are generally collected from domestic animals.

Bufo -The live toad is fastended to a slab of cork by four strong pins stuck through the webs of the feet. Next the poles of an 'induction apparatus' in action are slowly drawn over the back of the animal, whereupon the poison exudes from the dorsal glands of the toad, which is removed with a small horn knife.

Hydrophobinum- (The saliva of a live rabid dog) Most carefully collected in milk sugar.
Venoms of serpents- May be obtained from the live snake by collecting the poison on milk sugar by pressing the fang upwards against the 'poison sac'. Different types of venoms may also be obtained from sereological laboratories.

MINERALS AND CHEMICALS - The minerals, metals and chemicals should be collected in natural state and natural source or in pure chemical form if not available from natural source as stated for the individuals.

SARCODES AND NOSODES: The 'endocrine' products and few 'enzymes' may be collected from cattle, sheep etc. from the slaughter houses. Collections of these drug substances require some special and elaborate techniques and should have sufficient knowledge in morbid anatomy and physiology of the particular specimens.

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Instructions for using the the Online Remedy Finder Software

The ABC Homeopathy remedy finder can help you find which homeopathic remedies you need, quickly and simply, using a plain English translation of Kent's Repertory. Just enter your symptoms, tick the relevant boxes and choose the remedy. A valuable tool for the amateur and the professional, our free and easy homeopathic software makes it easy to find the similium, from around 64,000 symptoms and 650 remedies.

Remember though; nothing on this site is intended to constitute a diagnosis, or a claim for the effectiveness of any remedy in treating any condition. Minor symptoms can often be a sign of something more serious, so if your symptoms persist or worsen, go and see your doctor, or a homeopath.

Enter your symptomsThe home page of the homeopathic remedy finder offers you a choice of Searching or Browsing to find your symptoms. If you choose to search, bear in mind that you are searching for symptoms, not a condition. (ie search for headache, sore throat, exhaustion, sneezing, coughing, running nose rather than flu).We also allow users to group a symptom set by the name of a condition, but be aware that these conditions will not be exhaustive lists of possible symptoms. Although these are quicker and more convenient to use, you should supplement them with other symptoms specific to your case.The more symptoms you include, the more accurate the final result will be. See the guide to self diagnosis with homeopathy for more on this.

Refine your symptomsIn most cases, the results of searching or ticking boxes produce more options; such as exactly where, when and how symptoms occur. Just tick the boxes of all that apply and then press either next button. Depending on the precision of your search, you may also be presented with more options after that, as sub options from what you have already ticked.Homeoapthy requires exact definitions of your symptoms to be useful. Therefore, there will be a maximum of 5 screens of tick-boxes to refine your symptoms. You can choose to ignore them, and just press next at any time to see the best remedy matches up to that point; you can of course then use the back button on your browser to resume ticking. If none apply, just press next.

Select a remedy
The aim is to find the one remedy which best matches all your symptoms.
When there are no more questions to be asked, you will be presented with a screen showing details of the best remedy for your complaint. Usually the remedy will not be appropriate for all the symptoms you enter, and often there are other equally likely remedies.To differentiate between the most likely remedies, you can also see the remedy grid, with the symptoms down the left and the remedies across the top, by pressing the next button again. They are arranged with the best match on the left, and then less likely remedies to the right. A maximum of 12 remedies are shown at any time.

With the remedy grid, you can easily compare remedies, and even rearrange the grid, prioritizing any symptom and discarding others.

If there is no obvious remedy which matches better than the others, and you really can't think of other symptoms to add, you can describe your state of mind, or the colour and consistency of your stool into the search box.

Tips for quick working
Repetorization (the process of finding the right homeopathic remedy) will take a few minutes. If you find you've spent more than ten minutes entering specifics of your symptoms, you can probably skip to the end (by clicking the next button without ticking anything) without loss of accuracy of the result. If the result does not seem satisfactory, you can always use your browser's back button to go back and pick up where you left off.

Online Remedy Finder Software

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Instructions for using the the Online Remedy Finder Software

With the remedy grid, you can easily compare remedies, and even rearrange the grid, prioritizing any symptom and discarding others.

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Who uses Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is suitable for everyone, and has found wide support in all walks of life, all around the globe:

"..[Homeopathy] cures a larger percentage of cases than any other method of treatment and is beyond all doubt safer, more economical, and the most complete medical science. " Mahatma Gandhi - Homeopathy is now the most popular form of medicine in India.

"...[Homeopathy is a].. progressive and aggressive step in medicine." John D Rockefeller

"....You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the [orthodox physicians] to destroy it." Mark Twain (author) Harper's Magazine. February 1890.

More recently, the following have also endorsed Homeopathic Medicine:

Royalty: The entire British Royal family, including: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales

Sports personalities: David Beckham, English Football Superstar. Kate Schmidt, Two Time Olympic Javelin Medallist

Musicians: Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, and Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist

"Homeopathy is a highly developed health practice that uses a systematic approach to the totality of a person’s health. Anyone seeking a fuller understanding of health and healing will find Homeopathy extremely important and applicable." Gay Gaer Luce. Ph.D. , (science writer - twice winner of the national science writer's award)

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Homeopathy and conventional (allopathic) medicine

Conventional Western, or Allopathic, medicine has achieved significant leaps in preserving both the quality and longevity of life, and it is important to recognise this contribution. A world wide vaccination program by the WHO has eradicated smallpox; Insulin has enabled many type I diabetics to control their condition; antibiotics, though not without their own problems, can render potentialy lethal infections harmless.

There are many homeopaths who frown on the entire spectum of allopathic medicine, though in practice, a more balanced approach is often more effective. It is unwise, for example, for an insulin dependent diabetic to discontinue their insulin.

However, conventional medicine is a wide label, and not all conventional medicine is beneficial. While in many cases symptoms are relieved, cured, or prevented many allopathic medicines can do a lot of harm to your body.

The symptoms of a disease, for a Homeopath, are your body's attempt to cure itself. By contrast, conventional medicine often works by suppressing your body's natural reactions. For example:
A cough is usually the result of foreign bodies in the lungs; the muscles spasm in an attempt to remove it. Cough medicine simply stops this reflex.

A headache tablet is a painkiller and simply suppresses the feeling of pain, leaving the body to undergo whatever torment it was before, but divorced from our consciousness. This is a very bad thing. For example, many headaches are due to dehydration - once the headache isn't felt, the patient no longer feels the need to stop running around, working up a sweat and dehydrating further.

The conventional approach to treating infections is antibiotics. Antibiotics simply eat other bacteria. Our body also has bacteria that serve the same function (indeed, there are many types of bacteria naturally occurring in the body, all of which are beneficial) alas these are also consumed by antibiotics. In addition, a widespread concern is that bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Antidepressants generally work by blocking emotional responses. Unlike homeopathic remedies, dependence builds up quickly, and once a course of antidepressants has begun, it is often a step down a long, slippery slope to dependency.

Conventional medicine is a very blunt instrument. Part of its success lies in this very general nature. The sheer number of possible factors that need to be considered for effective treatment with homeopathic remedies have meant that it has required a long, and often expensive consultation with a trained specialist. In contrast, regardless of the type of pain, or even where it is, the conventional relief is a pain killer. Compare that to homeopathy - in our remedy finder database, we describe nearly 5,000 types of headaches.

Despite the best efforts of pharmaceutical companies, the research into medicines and their side effects is often woefully inadequate. The most famous case of this is thalidomide - a drug prescribed for morning sickness, which produced severe birth defects. More recently controversies include Seroxat, an antidepressant which, though benficial for some, has been linked to addiction, suicide, self harm, and aggressive behaviour in some people.

Despite the damaging side effects of conventional medicine, sadly, prescription medicines are without benefit for most people that take them. (source: Allen Roses, a Vice President of Glaxo SmithKline: one of the worlds largest drug producers.)

The approach of conventional medicine denies our body's efforts to heal itself and damages these systems.
Homeopathy does not work in the same way; how it does work remains a mystery. Chemists have concluded that in the very high homeopathic potencies there is actually none of the original substance left. Theories explaining homeopathy have been put forward, resting on vibrations, electromagnetism, or the memory of water.

However, is it not fitting that your body, a miracle way beyond understanding, can be cured by something which is also out of the reach of your rational mind?

Combinations

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Homeopathic Combination Remedies and Single Remedies

In recent years, Homeopathic remedies have been sold increasingly as combinations. A group of remedies, effective in tackling say, anxiety, in a range of people are combined on a single pill.

This is in contrast to the principals of classical homeopathy.

This practice has been met with mixed opinions in the homeopathic community. What is generally agreed is that combination remedies may work for you, but you have a much greater chance of success if you use single remedies, chosen for your specific ailments, as the other remedies contained along with the right one may complicate a condition, or prevent the right remedy from working.

Even the makers of combination remedies add the caveat that single remedies are more effective, where the right remedy can be prescribed.

The strength of combination remedies is certainly the convenience with which remedies can be prescribed; if it says headache on the box, then that's what it's for. However, through the online remedy finder, we hope to make the choice of the right single remedy apparent from simple self diagnosis, and we hope therefore that people have a free choice wether to use single remedies or combinations.

Although we reccomend single remedies, combination remedies have been added to the shop, for those who wish to use them.

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Homeopathy at Home

Homeopathy is safe for home use as there are no dangerous side effects. This, to many, is the principal that gets them interested in homeopathy in the first place.

There is also a popular misconception that other forms of alternative medicine, such as herbal, nutritional supplements, or chinese herbal are also completely safe to self-prescribe, because they are 'natural'. This is not the case; homeopathy is safe because everything is very very dilute; many herbal remedies and supplements can cause lasting damage if not taken carefully.

When people use homeopathy
Most people first come to homeopathy when they feel they've been failed by conventional medicine. It may be for a long-held, chronic condition, or a short lived acute ailment. It may be that conventional medicine has been unable to help at all, or that the side effects are simply not worth the risk.

This was from our survey in September 2003:
For what do you most often use Homeopathy?
Long term illnesses which conventional medicine has been unable to treat
29%
Long term illnesses which conventional medicine is able to treat, but with major side effects
16%
Long term illnesses which conventional medicine is able to treat, with no side effects
12%
Minor short term illnesses
39%
I've not yet used it
4%

You can see that of those who use homeopathy on long term illnesses, most do so because conventional medicine has been unable to treat them, and a much smaller number use homeopathy to avoid the side effects of conventional medicine.

Long Term and Short Term - Chronic and Acute
Long term (chronic) illnesses are deeper rooted than short term (acute) illnesses, and are consequently more difficult to treat successfully at home - normally guidance from a homeopath should be sought.

Short term illnesses can be treated much more successfully at home, by a layperson.
And finally, as you become more confident at treating conditions at home, don't get over-confident. Stopping prescribed medication without first consulting a physician can endanger your health. If symptoms persist, always seek professional medical attention. Bear in mind that even minor symptoms can be a sign of a more serious underlying condition, and a timely diagnosis by your doctor could save your life.

SELF-DIAGNOSIS

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Guide to Self Diagnosis and Treatment with Homeopathy

The basic aim of homeopathic prescribing is to find the one remedy which best matches all your symptoms. It is best not to take more than one remedy at a time.

Our free, online homeopathy software makes it very easy to narrow down the choice of remedies for first aid and disease with homeopathy, from the comfort of your own home. We have had many reports of people who have used our remedy finder to successfully treat themselves, however, self diagnosis is not a substitute for visiting a professional homeopath or physician. Nothing on this site is a recommendation as to how to treat any disease or health related condition.

What symptoms matter?
As homeopathy relies on prescribing one remedy to your precise combination of symptoms, all your symptoms should be included in the process.

Most of us have a few niggles that have been with us so long we don't even notice them anymore. (i.e., cold feet) These all need your full attention. You should also include things which you might not even class as symptoms, such as a persistent itch behind your ear.

Aside from the obvious nature of your complaint (i.e. headache). things to notice include:
State of mind (including fears, anxieties, attitudes etc.)
Colour and consistency and regularity of your stool
What makes a particular symptom feel worse or better?
Where exactly is each problem located?
When did symptoms first occur, and what bought them on?
Your sleep pattern
What are you sensitive to (i.e. light, cold, heat, drafts, touch, criticism etc.)
For women, where you are on your monthly cycle.

If you are using our online homeopathic remedy finder software, you will be offered relevant options in a lot of cases, but you may have to add information as separate symptoms.

Getting Familiar with the Repertory
It is worth spending a while exploring the database behind our software in depth, so as to familiarize yourself with the broad range of complaints that count as symptoms. You should, therefore, use the browse feature rather than the search facility on the remedy finder where possible. You may also wish to explore the complete repertory listing.

And a word of warning
The most important thing when attempting to diagnose and treat illnesses at home is to know when to stop. If symptoms persist, go and see your doctor; even if you feel your symptoms seem unworthy of professional help, minor symptoms can often be a sign of something more serious.
Your national homeopathy association can supply a list of qualified medical doctors who are also qualified as homeopaths.

Classical Homeopathy

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Homeopathy - Like Cures Like

Homeopathy, from Greek homoeo (meaning similar) and pathos (meaning suffering) is a system of medicine based on treating like with like. The same principle is widespread in mainstream medicine, the most notable examples being antidotes and vaccines. However, Homeopathy takes this premise a step further: if my symptoms produce an effect on me similar to a tarantula's bite, then tarantula venom would be my homeopathic treatment, even though I've not actually been bitten by a tarantula.

The theory that like can be treated with like can be traced back as far Hypocrites (468 -377 BC), but it wasn't until the work of Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) that the theory developed into a usable practice.

Hahneman's provings consisted in giving doses of various substances to both himself and his healthy volunteers, and noting the effects in detail. For safety reasons, the substances taken were very dilute, and it is here that Hahnemann chanced upon one of the more puzzling aspects of Homeopathy. The more dilute a homeopathic medicine is, the more effective it is in treating illness.

Hahneman's work was continued by James Tyler Kent in 1877-78. Kent's interest in Homoeopathic medicine was prompted by his wife's serious illness, which failed to respond to any other form of medicine available at the time. Kent's position as Professor of Anatomy (at the American Medical College, St. Louis) placed him perfectly to observe the effects of substances in precise detail. Kent's research into Homeopathy became his life's work, and he conducted provings on some 650 materials, observing over 64,000 symptoms. Even today, Kent's is still the most widely used repertory in Homeopathy.

The repertory used in this site's remedy finder is based on Kent's, with no additions, but some changes have been necessary in order to make its use easier for the modern day layman, including plain English Terminology, and categorizing symptoms where possible.

Classical Homeopathy - Treating the Whole Person
Classical Homeopathy is a holistic medicine; in other words it aims to treat the whole person. It may seem unusual to those used to allopathic (conventional) medicine, where one medicine is taken for a skin complaint, another for a headache, and yet another for sleeplessness.

If you use the remedy finder frequently, you may find that one particular remedy comes up time and time again for your complaints - however diverse they appear to be. For example, in testing the online remedy finder, on my own symptoms ranging from insomnia, headaches, to stomach complaints, Phosphor was frequently the suggested remedy. There is something in my nature, underneath any passing symptoms, which is akin to Phosphor.

A common cold, for example, is one virus which produces a myriad of effects, subtly different in different people. Different people with a cold caused by the same virus may exhibit different symptoms. It is for this reason that each case should be assessed by close and careful analysis of all the relevant symptoms.

Classical Homeopathy - Finding the Simillium
The Similium is the single substance which if given to a healthy person would produce exactly the same symptoms as exhibited by the patient.

In addition to the range of symptoms which must be included in a case to find the right homeopathic remedy, precision is also important. For example there are nearly 5,000 headaches in our symptom database; a different remedy may be prescribed depending on when symptoms occur, the type of pain, where in the head it is, what may have bought it on, what other symptoms are experienced, etc.

To find the similium manually would involve looking up each symptom, in detail, and producing a grid of remedies and their correlating symptoms, and from there, seeing which remedies occur most frequently and which are stronger for a given symptom. This is the working practice followed by ABC homeopathy's remedy finder, quietly and effortlessly behind the scenes. For help using the online remedy finder, see the Using the remedy finder section.

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Using Homeopathic Medicine

First, do no harm...
The first concern of anyone using any new medicine is "Is it safe?". The short answer is yes, homeopathic medicine is completely safe. However, you should not stop taking any existing medication without first consulting your doctor.

Dosage and Potency:

Not all homeopaths agree on dosage and potency, and the potency to be taken depends on both the sensitivity of the patient, and the exact remedy being taken. But as a general rule, chronic illnesses (i.e. those that you've had for a long time) should be treated with high numbers i.e. 30C - 200C and Acute (i.e. those that are relatively new) with low numbers i.e 6C.

However, there are exceptions, particularly where an accident started off the symptoms and you might give the body a kick start with a high potency dose such as Arnica 200C first and then follow with a lower potency remedy. Low numbers are used more frequently than high numbers.

Another general rule is that high potency homeopathic medicine should only be taken when you know it is the right remedy, so start off with a low potency remedy, and then increase the potency if improvement is felt, though incomplete.

Taking Homeopathic Medicine:

Homeopathic medicine should be taken on a clean pallet. While on a course of homeopathic treatment, you should avoid strong flavours such as mint (including toothpaste), coffee or camphor.

They are normally taken as pills which are placed under the tongue. Take two tablets every two hours for the first six doses, and then four times daily for up to five days. For some complaints remedies are taken as an ointment, for example, arnica cream applied directly to bruising.

If you are taking the remedy in pill form, you should avoid contact with the skin (including fingers). Just drop a few pills into the lid and pour them directly into the mouth.

Once relief from the symptoms if felt, stop taking the homeopathic medicine. Only take it again if exactly the same symptoms come back.