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Practitioner
By Alex Christie (BA Hons, LCHE, MARH, B.Inst.A.T.)
Using a Homeopathic Practitioner
Health is much more than just an absence of symptoms; though this is the yardstick orthodox practitioners usually use to judge our state of wellness. In fact, a healthy organism produces “symptoms” as part of its inherent ability to defend, adapt, respond, and improve itself. From a homeopathic practitioner’s point of view, every expression of life is a “symptoms”, though not necessarily an indication of “disease”.
We live in an age of increasing specialization, where individual organs such as the brain, heart, liver or kidneys are singled out by orthodox practitioners for specific treatment, isolating them from the body as a whole. Treatment offered by orthodox practitioners focuses on specific organs, often resulting in a patient being prescribed different tablets for different disorders all at the same time. Inevitably, incompatibilities often arise. Unfortunately, modern science regards ‘good health’ as the absence of symptoms rather than the positive acquiring of a healthy and well-regulated body.
The homeopathic practitioner seeks to encourage the body to find its own balance and harmony by combining natural methods and medicines with the body’s innate wisdom, thus promoting self-healing.
Understanding Symptoms
Symptoms are the crux of homeopathy, yet the homeopathic practitioner perceives them in a radically different way to conventional medicine. Modern medicine looks at symptoms as belonging to the disease, and so one gets the symptoms when one has the disease. Seeing symptoms as synonymous with disease, medicine seeks to remove them. But suppressing symptoms without removing causes or strengthening the body merely weakens the individual and promotes future problems.
On the other hand, homeopathic practitioners consider symptoms as our own physiological, biological and physiological response to various causative factors, including viruses, bacteria, injuries, nutritional deficiency, etc. Neither these causes not the diseases they represent have symptoms – only people do! Symptoms belong to people, not to diseases, and thus homeopathy attempts to stimulate and assist the healing responses, as expressed by the symptoms.
Symptoms are positive tending
The homeopathic practitioner regards symptoms are inherently positive, health-promoting attempts by the body and mind to cure itself. It is the central goal of every organism to survive and flourish; all symptoms produced by the body must be considered adaptive measure, attempts to deal effectively with causes of illness.
Symptoms are meaningful
As positive responses, each symptom is meaningful and purposeful. In fact the homeopathic practitioner regards symptoms as an extremely accurate language of body, mind and spirit. The particular style of symptoms expressed by a person also demonstrates their biological and psychological type. E.g. their constitution. Just as we can know a person by their quality of speech, their dress, habits and actions, so do symptoms reveal the inner person.
Symptoms are individual
Though people share similar reactions to a particular stimulus, the homeopathic practitioner recognizes that the similarity is only superficial. No two symptomatic responses are exactly identical. Thus in any disease there are dozens of even hundreds of possibly symptom patterns expressed by different individuals. As a result there can be hundreds of remedies for any one particular disease or syndrome.
Development of symptoms
The homeopathic practitioner understands that symptoms of an illness progress from the level of sensation, to become functional disturbances, and finally pathological or cellular disease. The disturbance in a person’s health first takes place on an intangible, subtle energetic level. Subjective symptoms of imbalance, discomfort, pain of other unusual sensations occur long before other evidence of illness. If causes continue functional changes eventually occur, resulting in a disturbance of normal physiology, e.g. cramps, nasal discharge, etc. If these causes are invasive or persistent enough, chemical and finally cellular changes will follow, resulting in pathology.
Unfortunately, from a mainstream medical perspective, it is only at this last stage of the progression of illness that a diagnosis can be definitively made. From the homeopathic practitioner’s point of view, the earlier phases are the best time to treat and prevent illness. With increased pathology, individualized symptoms and sensations diminish leaving the case more generic and difficult to treat on an individual basis.
The homeopathic practitioner, therefore, seeks to understand the symptoms and treat the root cause of the disturbance, whether emotional, physical, environmental, chemical or inherited. With treatment not only does the homeopathic practitioner seek to eliminate the symptoms, but also the underlying state, thereby ensuring that the disease does not return.
Recommended reading:
 Your Healthy Child with Homeopathy , Tricia Allen, Metro Publishing Ltd
Everyday Homeopathy, Dr David Gemmell, Beacon
Homeopathic Remedies, Asa Hershoff, Avery Publishing Group
Encyclopedia of Homeopathy, Dr Andrew Lockie, Dorling Kindersley
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