Homeopathy uses minute doses of medicines made from a variety of substances found in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. It is a two-hundred year old science founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann; and through a process of rigorous scientific investigations he discovered a law of healing The Law of Similars, that could be used as a guide in treating diseases "like cures like" Similia similibus curentur. Homeopathy is derived from Latin and means "same (homeo) suffering (pathos)." It has been used successfully and safely by millions of people around the world.
It is treating illnesses with remedies that produce effects when taken by people that are similar to the disease itself. For example, a person is cutting an onion, and he/she experiences a watering of the eyes. This like reaction could be a guiding symptom to discerning a remedy for a patient who might need allium cepa as a remedy; a patient with seasonal allergy symptoms. A homeopath would want to know what kind of watering of the eyes: Is it a burning quality? If it is a burning quality, is there a component where it feels like it is acidic? Does it also affect other mucous membranes? Does it elicit any other symptoms? Does it affect other parts of the patient? But the choice of Allium Cepa as a homeopathic remedy must address the physical, emotional, and mental picture of the person. This remedy which most closely matches the person is known as the "similimum" or "most similar remedy." The administration of this very dilute substance stimulates a reaction in the person which can lead to profound healing, and with some patients that match this remedy profile, it has cured lifelong allergies.
What is remarkable is the power of homeopathy to cure not just simple illnesses, but profound and chronic conditions like asthma, migraines, allergies, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, and even cancer. There are over 127 quality clinical studies documented in Lancet, Journal of Immunology, British Journal of Homeopathy, and other leading medical journals that validate the efficacy of homeopathy. More importantly is the success and healing that people have experienced with classical homeopathy.
One man came into my office some years back with Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation of the gut lining. He had this condition for more than fifteen years, and for the past three years had chronic bleeding. He was advised to have part of his intestine removed, and that he would be on steroids for the rest of his life. In three months of working with this man, with the use of a homeopathic remedy and modest changes in his diet, the chronic daily diarrhea and bleeding stopped, and he was back to normal weight; he said, "I never felt better in my life." For the first time in fifteen years he was pain and bleeding free without diarrhea.
A woman came to see me because she was suffering from chronic drug use, major depression, and a history of abusive relationships. In talking with her for over an hour I was able to arrive at a homeopathic prescription, a remedy to help "balance" her. Truthfully, I didn't expect a major change, but she left and visited me again eight months later. "When I saw you I felt like I was the sludge in the sewer, today I feel like the rose growing out of that sludge." Today she is drug free, her depression is gone, and she is living independently. Not just one patient, but many patients with debilitating lifelong illnesses have been able to reclaim their health and well-being with homeopathy.
As a clinician who was initially trained in allopathic/ Western medicine I was initially the greatest skeptic of homeopathy. How is it possible that a tiny bit of a plant or a mineral can cure people of chronic debilitating illness or actually cure allergies? Even in studies that have sought to prove that homeopathy is a placebo, have come to far different conclusions. The Lancet medical journal in their l995 study stated that "Even in comparing and taking into account the role of placebo, we know that there is clear efficacy with homeopathy."
The best proof is for you as a patient. If you have a chronic or an on-going condition and you're searching for a safe and effective treatment, without the harmful side effects of pharmaceuticals, you should consider working with a medically trained and certified classical homeopath.
Dr. T. Namaya
MIA, MSN, FNP, CCH, RS, HOM (NA), D.SCI.
Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine
Family Nurse Practitioner
Homeopathy - The Miraculous Medicine
