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Read Chapter One - Highway to Homoeopathy

WHICH THERAPY OR TREATMENT?

There are many therapies and forms of medical practice, some recognised and accepted, others not. But no one system is the panacea for each and every illness. Each therapy, treatment or combination of the many may be the best or most efficacious, one for curing or alleviating certain diseases or illnesses, and then only at some periods of time. None may be of any help in certain cases. Every system of medicine or practice has value, in some or specific conditions and times, so none should be rejected out of hand. However, it is not my intention to delve into different therapies, but to concentrate on homoeopathy.

CAUSATION

In homoeopathy, we are much concerned with causation. Being a therapy based upon the whole person, we place great emphasis on causative factors, which, wherever possible, should be treated.

An example of this may be found with a patient suffering from a form of septicaemia, causing the eruption of boils on the skin. No matter how much we treat the boils, we will not cure the patient, but merely tend to drive the disease inwards. Treat the underlying condition, the septicaemia, and the boils will disappear of their own accord.

The danger is that in treating the boils we are merely treating the symptoms, not the disease itself. Suppressing the symptoms is really suppressing the body's language, trying to tell us that something is wrong. If the symptoms are suppressed, we may be left with an illness or a disease that will be difficult to treat because it will be unrecognisable, very much like a body without a head.

When it boils, a kettle of water generates steam. The more it boils, the more steam is produced. If we block the spout to prevent the steam escaping, the lid will probably blow off. The steam will find an outlet from the part of least resistance. A sickness in the body can be likened to this. The illness will, like the steam, find an outlet in the form of symptoms. Block the outlet or suppress the symptoms, then the illness will attack another probably more major or less resistant organ.

When a child is infected with measles a rash is produced. This is not the rash of measles, but part of the body's defence mechanism to measles. Likewise the catarrh experienced with a cold is also a sign of the body's defences.

CAUSATIVE FACTORS

There are many factors that contribute to, cause, or develop an illness, whether mental or physical, which orthodox thinking cannot even imagine as causative agents, whether of recent occurrence or many years back. Fortunately, homoeopathy not only recognises these factors, but knows how to deal with them. Amongst those considered of much importance are ones concerned with our emotions, such as anger, grief, jealousy and shock. Equally significant are phobias and fears, obsessions, moods, and temperaments, etc. I cannot stress too much how important these factors are.