With homeopathy, health is much more than just the absence of disease; a healthy person is a person who is free on all levels: physical, emotional, and mental.

For example: a person with a broken leg is obviously not free at the physical level. Similarly, a person suffering from allergies is also experiencing a certain lack of freedom. On another level, many of us have experienced crying during a sad play or movie, but if someone continues to cry for several weeks afterwards, we may assume that person is experiencing a lack of emotional freedom. Likewise, a person who is forgetful, or who cannot absorb what he is reading, may be experiencing restriction at the mental level.

The homeopath recognizes such limitations and attempts, and through the use of selected remedies, restores the person back to health and freedom.

Very simply, homeopathy attempts to stimulate the body to recover itself. Symptoms are looked upon as the body's attempt to restore itself to health. Instead of looking upon symptoms as something wrong which must be set right, homeopaths see them as signs of the way the body is attempting to help itself.

Second, homeopaths look at the totality of symptoms. Consider, for example, someone suffering from a respiratory problem and cough. Conventional medicines commonly attempt to suppress coughs, dry the mucus, lower the histamine level, and help one fall asleep.

Homeopathy, on the other hand, looks deeper into the symptomology: whether the cough gets worse when breathing cold air, whether it's coming from the chest, if it sounds like a deep bark, whether it is loose in the morning, dry in the evening, and better when sitting up.... All these "cough symptoms" may actually be different illnesses, and therefore, may require different homeopathic remedies.

Homeopathy offers cure of acute and chronic diseases (the only system to successfully treat chronic diseases.) There are no side effects. Period.

The results are gentle, rapid, permanent restoration of health (annihilation of the disease in its whole extent), in the shortest, most reliable, and least harmful way.

Homeopathy also offers the most comprehensive protection and prevention of both acute and chronic diseases (prophylaxis). It allows the entire patient to get well physically, emotionally, and spiritually, with minimum or no intervention, except a good healthy diet.

Homeopathy allows the physician to treat diseases never seen or studied before, hence it is a great boon in epidemics and the new pathologies that baffle the medical profession.

Even in the case of today’s five main killers: Cancer, Heart Disease, Cerebro-Spinal diseases, Kidney disease and Chronic Lung disease, where regular medicine offers little or no hope, Homeopathy will wonderfully palliate and often cure these diseases.

Homeopathy is the only system of medicine based on an unchanging law : the "Law of Similars". The wonder of Homeopathy is that the physician well trained in its principle can cure diseases he has never before seen. He needs only to carefully gather the symptoms of his patient and search diligently in the repertory for a substance producing these symptoms in healthy people, and administer that in super minute doses to stimulate the defenses, and to react against the disease and annihilate the symptoms. Such is the power of the Law of Similars.

Such was the success of Homeopathy against both the cure and prevention of cholera in early 1800’s in Europe, against the terrible influenza epidemics in the early 1900’s and various epidemics of noxious infectious diseases that raged in America. Well before the advent of the polio vaccine, Homeopathic physicians successfully used Lathyrus Sativa as a prophylactic against polio. This plant, a species of chick pea, affects the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord just as does the polio virus; hence, by the law of similars it protects against polio.

Our Center in Scranton,Pa - Wellness4Me - is specializing in Homeopathy for Humans and Pets - Gisela D. is a certified Vet Hom a natural Health Practitioner with a Masters Degree in natural Health and Nutrition, she is a certified EFT Practitioner and has been practicing Homeopathy for the Last 5 years.

Different people have different experiences following their first homeopathic treatment. For some, the results are dramatic and profound; for others, they seem mild and almost unnoticeable. Knowing why these differences occur and what they mean will help you get the best from your treatment. Remember, homeopathic treatment is a shared responsibility - while you depend on your homeopath to make a good prescription and manage your case well, they depend on you to provide accurate information and note any changes that happen. So, with that in mind, lets have a look at the process involved.

Return of old symptoms - your existing symptoms improve but in the process, old symptoms from the past return for a short period.

What do they mean? Plenty to a homeopath! Each response reveals whether or not the correct remedy has been prescribed and provides valuable information your homeopath will use to adjust your treatment and help return you to health. So, let's look at each of these responses in greater detail.

This is the fantastic result that everyone wants and usually, this is what happens. For acute complaints such as cystitis or a gum abscess, it may occur quickly - sometimes with just one dose of one remedy. For chronic problems such as recurring tonsillitis or asthma since childhood, treatment will take a little longer. If a number of diseases or problems have built up over years, a series of remedies and potencies may be needed to unravel the mess.

The remedy was correct but too strong for your sensitivity; it intensified your symptoms before triggering a healing response.

This similar (homeopathic) aggravation occurs as the overly strong effects of the remedy combine with your existing symptoms.

Fortunately, similar aggravations are usually mild and short-lived, settling as the energetic nature of the remedy leaves your system. Your own vitality then rebounds against the disappearing remedy, triggering an improvement in health. Similar aggravations confirm that the correct remedy was prescribed - your homeopath now has to fine-tune the next dose to better suit your sensitivity. On the rare occasion that an aggravation is prolonged, your homeopath may antidote it with another homeopathic remedy.

Notify your homeopath. They will most likely advise you to let the similar aggravation settle naturally so an improvement in your symptoms can follow. Future similar aggravations can be avoided by your homeopath adjusting the dose, potency, or number of repetitions of the remedy to suit your sensitivity.

The remedy was incorrect; it did not match your symptoms but you were sensitive enough to feel some of the different symptoms it can produce.

When an incorrect remedy has been prescribed (one that poorly matches your symptoms) you may experience a dissimilar or unhomeopathic aggravation, especially if you are sensitive to the remedy. The remedy will have produced some of its own symptoms in you in the same way it can during a proving (see tutorial 6 on Provings for more information). As these symptoms are different to your original symptoms, it is called a dissimilar rather than a similar aggravation (see tutorial 1 on the Law of Similars for further explanation). Because of the lack of similarity between symptoms, this remedy will not help you.

Fortunately, like similar aggravations, dissimilar aggravations are usually mild and short-lived. They settle as soon as the energetic nature of the remedy leaves your system. Unfortunately, they do not trigger a self-healing rebound effect. Your homeopath will have to prescribe a different remedy that is a closer match to your symptoms. On the rare occasion that a dissimilar aggravation is prolonged, your homeopath can antidote it homeopathically.

Notify your homeopath. They will retake your case so that a remedy that better matches your symptoms can be prescribed. Your homeopath will be particularly interested in the symptoms you experienced during the dissimilar aggravation, as these can help guide future treatment.

Aggravations, while not a necessary part of homeopathic treatment, are sometimes unavoidable. Aggravations occur when a person is either very sensitive to a remedy, or when a poorly skilled prescriber has given a remedy it in too large or too frequent a dose. For this reason, better practitioners always give test doses at the beginning of treatment to check the person's sensitivity. They will also prescribe the remedy as a liquid rather than in pills so it can be easily diluted if a gentler dose is needed.

When aggravations occur, they are usually short-lived, mild, and an interesting phenomenon to experience. Their one benefit is that they act as a challenge to the person's vitality and so can strengthen resilience.