Introduction:
The second most practiced and followed system of medicine around the world, Homoeopathy, is known to work under the concept of “Let Likes Be Cured By Likes” based on the Nature’s Law of Cure. The Homoeopathy medicines has proved to stimulate body’s healing response to diseases by administering substances that have similar symptom picture and cure the illness. Scientific and Healthcare experts globally have always been a major critic of Homoeopathy claiming the latter to have nothing higher than a placebo effect. However, the system continued to prove its powerful medicinal effect for centuries thriving successful under various circumstances. Numerous Clinical Trials and In-vitro studies have produced scientific evidence proving the efficacy of Homoeopathy for various clinical conditions and the newer advancement, Nanotechnology have also identified micro, nano medicinal particles in Clinically administered potencies of Homoeopathic medicines. With all that said and done, isn’t it essential that we common people, who are the benefiters of Homoeopathy treatment, get to know and understand how the system actually works and what is their mechanism of action? If yes, this is for you!Homoeopathy Mechanism of Action:Medicine, as we all have been trained mentally for generations, is expected to be sour and hard to take. This need not be the case with all systems, especially for a unique medical system like Homoeopathy. We all know sweet pills are their prime identity but their actions are also subtle and sweet yet long term and this is how it works.
Homoeopathy system’s conceptual spectrum consists of seven major terms –
- Minimum dose
- Vital Force
- Law of Similars
- Nature’s True Healing Force
- Healthy Subjects
- Drug Proving
- Individualisation
- Miasm
These concepts run hand in hand for Homoeopathy to work and cure miraculously. Three major prime concepts that explain its healing effect are Individualisation, Law of Similars and Vital Force. Homoeopathy medicines are not the ones to enter your body, act on the organism causing disease or system affected with an ailment. The medicines are given based on your disease picture, history of disease, heredity and a totality that takes your lifestyle functions like your appetite, thirst, cravings, intolerance, sleep and menstruation (in case of women) in to account. These factors will help a homoeopathic physician to relate your disease picture and its reaction with its effect on your body that has led to your illness and take a drug picture that had similar reaction during drug proving process. This makes the medicine selection individualised for the patient and not for the disease he/she is suffering from.This mechanism has always been hard to explain under scientific terms as our medicines do not attack the organism that caused the disease but the disease itself by enhancing the body’s immunity against it. This way the body develops secondary immune reaction to the organism, thereby developing resistance against it and so patient under homoeopathy will not acquire the same disease with same intensity twice.The Law of Similars, principle law under which Homoeopathy system works can also be explained through thermodynamic kinetic model for better understanding. When a remedy occurs in the human cell of a healthy person and forms a reaction product (Similimum) that induces the finest medical symptoms of an ill person, then remedies entering the cell of the ill person will form identical Similimum molecules and re-establish the initial equilibrium of the healthy state and cure the ill person.How Slow or Quick it works?Now that we have established the mechanism of action, is this way slow or quick. Whom am I kidding, most of you are already been well informed that Homoeopathy acts slow and takes years to get your complaints cured. But is this the real case? Or the case in all ailments?Here are some words from our experts that sums up certain facts –“Homoeopathy approaches health in a holistic way and thus deep seated diseases take quite some time to be healed. While acute diseases with short onset can be removed way too quick than conventional system”.
Yes, to your surprise, Homoeopathy acts quick in acute diseases like fever, diarrhoea, acute infections, etc. Whereas, in chronic diseases, the disease is deep seated and involves pathophysiological changes which in the meantime, also would have disturbed the overall equilibrium of patient’s health. This kind of affections in major organs like heart, lungs, liver, kidney, etc, also gets worsened with continued poor lifestyle of the patient. Thus, Homoeopathy medicines take quite some time to heal the tissue reactions, pathophysiology and lifestyle but eventually re-establishes the equilibrium providing the highest possible cure and apparent health for the patient. Key TakeawayThus, it is hereby established that a non-toxic, non-addictive holistic system of medicine has all the efficacy of a scientific medical system which can be used from the beginning or approached early for your ailments rather than considering it only as a second choice when your conventional medicine fails.So, I guess it’s time we check whether our immune system and lifestyle is good enough to fulfil the commands of Homoeopathy medicines.