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Chart Contrasting
Allopathy (Western Medicine) with Homeopathy
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Allopathy |
Homeopathy |
| Illnesses occur
as the result of an invasion by an outside source, such as viruses,
germs or bacteria. |
llnesses result
when emotional, psychological or spiritual stresses become overwhelming,
and thus weaken the body. The inability to process these emotional
stresses leaves the individual susceptible to the disrupting
influence of disease agents, such as viruses. |
| The inner world
of emotions is not valued in terms of any real power or influence
over the workings of the physical body. The strongest influence
on the body is exerted by the physical world. |
The
emotions, attitudes,
loves, longings and disappointments exert the greatest stresses
on an individual, and have the power to disturb health. |
| There are no laws
to guide the physician in treating illnesses. No philosophy to
aid in the evaluation of the results of treatment. |
There are
definite
principles and laws of cure which the prescriber must rely upon
and know intimately in order to effectively treat the sick. There
is a logic to the order, and the process of the cure, and an
ability to evaluate when changes are not occurring in the correct
order. |
| "The treatment
of illness depends entirely upon experience, upon what can be
found out by giving medicines to the sick" (The result is
constantly shifting methods, what is true today as a protocol
for treating illness may not be true tomorrow). |
The treatment of
illness depends upon a knowledge of medicines and their healing
power, acquired by experimentation on healthy people, who can
describe the fine nuances of change in attitudes, emotional,
physical and mental states. |
| Disease is characterized
by changes in the tissues. Unless it can be measured, it cannot
be treated. |
The alterations
in feeling are important, the changes in emotional states precede
illness and indicate the remedy needed. These immeasurable changes
are the precursors of disease, and they are symptoms which can
be effectively utilized by the homeopath to guide him or her
to the similar remedy. |
| Removal of symptoms
is the ideal of cure, while the disease itself remains untreated. |
Removal of symptoms
along with the disease and restoring health is the ideal of cure. |
| Frequently resort
to aggressive methods, and toxic drugs with side effects. Superimpose
a medicinal disease in place of the natural one with the disease
growing inside often leading to surgery. |
Ideals-gentle, prompt,
mild, permanent. |
| Frequent repetition
of the medicine, because the primary action of the controlled
doses lasts only a few hours. |
One dose sets the
vital force on the way to recovery. The next one is administered
only if the symptoms relapse. |
| Medicines are chosen
for their opposite effect from the symptoms they are meant to
treat. |
Medicines are chosen
for their similarity with the characteristics of the patient,
to work with the immune system and not against it (following
the Law of Similars). |
| Crude or large material
doses that work on a chemical level. |
Infinitesimally
small doses are employed, just enough to set a reaction going,
like switching on a light. The medicines work on an electro-magnetic
level. |
| Frequent use of
surgery. If you can't cure it, remove it. |
Rare use of surgery.
Conditions can be healed with remedies, except where tissue changes
have occurred due to the delay on the part of the patient, or
where there are congenital abnormalities. |
| Treat for the disease. |
Treat for the individual. |
| It is crucial to
know the diagnosis, because the treatment is prescribed according
to the diagnosis. |
It is important
to know the characteristic symptoms of the individual, which
are present regardless of where the disease has localized in
the body, therefore it is not crucial to know the diagnosis. |
| New medicines are
constantly being created, and going in and out of vogue with
each new season. |
The same medicines
have been used for centuries, because they are tried and true.
Medicines never change their properties. They are known, trusted,
loved and reliable. New substances are being proven (by research)
and incorporated into the materia medica. |
| No knowledge of
miasms and their characteristics. |
Understanding of
the genetic influences on health, and knowledge of miasms to
destroy the very base of the disease. |
| "Knowability
of the organism - the physician starts with what is perceived
by the eyes and other senses, and proceeds from there - through
the use of logic or by analogy with such branches of science
as hydraulics, mechanics, anatomy, chemistry, or physiology -
to draw conclusions about the invisible vital processes within
the organism. Thus they advocated physiological and anatomical
investigation as a path on the knowledge of disease causes and
morbid phenomena."1 |
"The only source
of the physician's knowledge was sense-perception and that whatever
knowledge was not attainable in this way was inaccessible to
the physician...the body's internal processes were not analogous
to anything abound in other branches of science and were not
subject to the laws of logic; they follow their own laws. He
expressed this by calling disease a non-material disease phenomena."2.* |
| "The physician
can in some way analyze the remedy into its components, isolating
the elements which affected the organism and describing its mode
of action."3 |
"The action
of medicines was as mysterious as that of disease and the functioning
of the body, and that what could be known of either being what
was determinable from sense-perception."4 |
| Limit the possible
number of diseases and symptoms that they take into consideration.
The number of diseases is restricted to those which the physician
can visualize mentally. It limits the doctor's ability to treat
diseases not previously known. |
Expand outward.
There are an infinite number of diseases and symptoms. Nature
does not follow stereotyped formats of diseases. Every new combination
of symptoms constitutes a different disease. So not diseases,
but grouping symptoms is considered important. Homeopathy has
an infinite capability to deal with diseases not yet encountered. |
| Rush, a famous allopathic
physician describes disease as, "the confused irregular
operations of disordered and debilitated nature."5 |
Hahnemann, the founder
of homeopathy describes disease as, "a spiritual impairment
of the spiritual vital force."6 Spiritual here means invisible
and intangible. |
| "Anatomy, surgery,
physiology, and chemistry are the heart of medicine, but not
pharmacology."7 |
Pharmacology is
the heart of medicine. Surgery is an independent science common
to all medical systems. |
- Disbelief in the healing power of nature.
"The physician is more skillful than the human organism
in curing disease." "The recuperative energies of nature
were to be trusted but seldom and sparingly." "Physicians
felt justified in intervening to any desired extent in the disease
process."8***
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Belief in the healing
power of nature. The homeopath imitates the pattern of symptoms
that the immune system produces, believing that the vital force
creates symptoms as signs of it's derangement, and as a means
of achieving equilibrium. He therefore follows nature's lead,
but adds the energy of the similar remedy to the healing process. |
Some additional thoughts:
*"What the physician cannot discover through
observation of the symptoms is not needed by him for the purpose
of the cure." "There is in the interior of man nothing
morbid that is curable and no visible morbid alteration that is
curable which does not make itself known to the accurately observing
physician by means of morbid signs and symptoms-an arrangement
in perfect conformity with the infinite goodness of the all-wise
Preserver of human life."9
**"Throughout the nineteenth century the
homeopaths employed a much greater number rent medicines in their
prescribing than the orthodox physicians. This was one of the
fundamental differences between the two schools, and its importance
cannot be overestimated. The history of nineteenth-century therapeutics
is essentially one of the progressive adoption by allopathic physicians
of the numerous medicines originally introduced by homeopathy."
***"Thus a broad field of activity is
opened up for the physician, for he is the master of the physical
and chemical processes within the organism." "Although
physicians are in speculation the servants, yet in practice they
are the masters of nature. The whole of their remedies seem contrived
on purpose to arouse, assist, restrain and control her operations.*11
- 1 Harris Coulter, Divided Legacy, The
Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association,
(Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 1982), p.80.
- 2 Ibid., p. 8
- 3 Ibid., p. 15
- 4 Ibid., p. 58
- 5 Ibid., p. 37
- 6 Ibid., p. 39
- 7 Ibid., p. 41
- 8 Ibid., p. 42
- 9 Ibid., p. 15
- 10 Ibid., p. 37
- 11 Ibid., p. 54
Thank you to Dr. Gobinder Singh Samrao from
Punjab, India for his comments on the chart.
Chart Contrasting
Allopathy (Western Medicine) with Homeopathy
by Deborah
Olenev, RSHom (NA), CCH.
Reprinted by permission.
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