Let us first start with the phrase “Holistic art of feeling” commonly known as "HOLISTIC HEALING". What is "HOLISTIC HEALING"? Holistic healing is a term that can be easily interchangeable with many other names commonly used in the healing community such as:
* Alternative Medicine
* Complementary Medicine
* Holistic Health
* Integrative Medicine
Holistic or "wholistic" Healing approaches all parts of the individual, not just the physical aspect of a person where manifested illnesses are often most apparent. Although it may very well be the physical component of a person that people more easily recognize when problems arise through its discomfort or pain signals; the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of us also indicate imbalances and DIS-EASE. No aspect ( mind, body, spirit, or emotions) of a person is overlooked when an holistic treatment is sought. The holistic healer looks at the "whole person" in order to make his or her complete evaluation and uses all information gathered before suggested treatments to the client are offered.
Now, let us get a look at the definition of the word
· "Homeopathy" and
· What are "Homeopathic remedies".
The word homeopathy is a combination of two Greek words - "homeo", which means similar, and "pathos", which means suffering. Homeopathy is based on the principle that "like cures like", meaning that in order to treat a given disorder, a remedy is used that would produce the same symptoms in a healthy person. The approach in homeopathy is first to gather, analyze, and evaluate information from a person's total picture, that is, from the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of a person's being. Based upon this total picture, the homeopathic approach would then stimulate a person's natural healing mechanisms to encourage healing on all levels of a person: physical, emotional, and mental.
This type of approach is based on observations that signs of illness are adaptive responses to the variety of stresses that people experience on the physical, emotional, and mental levels. These observations have a long tradition in Western culture, dating as far back as Hippocrates. "The healing power of nature" comes from an ancient phrase that refers to the dynamic and powerful capacity of an organism to protect and heal itself.
Homeopathic remedies are based on the concept of taking minute amounts of natural substances to stimulate the body's own defenses against specific symptoms and imbalances.
In a nutshell, Homeopathy is a complementary therapy that treats illnesses with very dilute preparations, called remedies, made from plant, mineral, metal and insect sources. By today’s date, it is known scientifically how homeopathy works, and there is a conclusive body of evidence that it does. Each one of us know that the remedies stimulate the bodies' own healing powers, which we call the "vital force".
Because of this, homeopaths treat almost any disorder. People consult homeopaths for many chronic conditions such as arthritis, eczema, migraine, digestive disorders, and allergies, as well as emotional problems like depression and anxiety. Many people also self-treat minor ailments like colds and headaches with low-potency homeopathic remedies bought from a pharmacy or health food shop.
Homeopathic remedies address core problems rather than mask symptoms or provide temporary relief.
Thus it is simply not possible to start treatment by just knowing the cause of the decease through several functions and tests that are usually done in other types of therapy but it demands some extra features to know different symptoms which takes into account the person’s, patient’s or client's (in what way we refer it) mind, body and spirit. Homeopathy views illness in a person as an individual expression based on the totality of the person. While any number of people may seem similarly ill (for example, with flu or hayfever or insomnia, etc.), no one person's complete picture on all levels will be exactly like that of another. There may a single way of treatment and pre-defined antibiotic in allopathic for a particular decease but in homeopathy the treatment may simply be the reverse as it takes the holistic healer approach based on the feedback from independent clients with same decease but different physical, spiritual and mental condition.. The homeopathic definition of "symptom" encompasses the physiological and psychological, the obvious and subtle; common and unusual. Assuming a person is susceptible to the remedies, no two homeopathic remedies will create exactly the same set of symptoms in a healthy person. Additionally, no one remedy will create exactly the same set of symptoms in two different people. However, based on a person's complete symptom picture, it is possible to find a match between a person's set of symptoms and the set of symptoms related to a remedy.
Thus it is important in homeopathy to carefully gather as complete a picture as possible of a person who is ill. This picture will provide a useful guide to selecting the homeopathic remedy that can best support the individual in his or her body's efforts to heal
It is tested and believed that the body's natural ability to heal itself is stimulated by homeopathic remedies where it is suppressed by many allopathic remedies such as antibiotic. Of all holistic health supplements, homeopathy to be one of the safest, most effective natural remedies available. The totem essences and flower essences could only be achieved through homeopathy. Homeopathic solutions and other formulas may well be more effective than any other full strength versions.
Thus a homeopathic view of health is a holistic art of feeling in which a person experiences a sense of well-being and freedom on the three interrelated levels: the mental, emotional, and physical. A person can be observed as becoming more healthy or less healthy based on what is occurring at these three levels. In fact, improvement of a particular complaint may or may not indicate to a homeopath whether a person is getting better on the whole. More information concerning what is better or worse at all levels (mental, emotional, and physical) would be required.
Last but not the least, let me quote the famous saying without which the writing seems incomplete:
“I am the only one with my body 24/7. I know, better than any other person what my body needs to heal.”
