We are all predisposed to patterns of illness that can hold us back.  By becoming familiar with our patterns, we can look for similar patterns in nature to find solutions to our health problems.  Homeopathic practitioners spend a great deal of time listening to their clients discuss the unique symptoms and characteristics they possess.  During the intake, the homeopath will look for symptom patterns, both mental and physical, that may be contributing to a particular state of illness.  Then, using a method developed by German scientists over 200 years ago, they select the most appropriate natural remedy for the individual as a whole to stimulate reversal of their symptom pattern.

 

These natural remedies are created using substances from nature (usually mineral, plant, or animal-derived).  The substances are then diluted and succussed in a special manufacturing process to create homeopathic products that are required by law to be regulated by the FDA due to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.  The dilution and succussion process extracts energetic frequency from the original substance into water, a phenomenon likely propagated by nanoparticles (Bell & Schwartz, 2015; Prashant et al., 2010), but quantum science has a few theories under investigation, including the idea of coherence domains (Manzalini & Galeazzi, 2019; Tournier et. al, 2021).  The energized water can be taken orally in its liquid format or be converted to small pills, which dissolve under the tongue.​​

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Homeopathy as a system of medicine is fundamentally different from conventional (allopathic) medicine.  Whereas allopathic applications work against the body's efforts and suppress symptoms, homeopathic applications work with the body's attempt to combat symptoms.  Every substance applied to the body has an initial action and a secondary opposite action (Teixeira, 2022).  The secondary opposite action can be thought of as the body's 'push back' against the substance, stressor, or stimulus.  Pharmaceutical drugs are prescribed according to their initial action (the drug's action on the body) while the secondary opposite action is ignored (the body's reverse action on the drug).  Side effects could be from either action.  This rebound effect is why medicines applied allopathically can lead to tolerance and/or addiction, where one might end up needing more and more of the same drug over time to achieve the desired effect.  Medicines applied homeopathically (using the principle of 'like cures like' by matching a substance's initial action to symptoms) take advantage of the secondary action and stimulate the body to push back against the symptoms it is having.  As an example, if a person has a runny nose, watery eyes, and sneezing, one could apply homeopathic Allium cepa (onion) using the concept of 'like cures like' because the initial action of onion exposure is known to cause a similar symptom picture.  In other words, homeopathic onion energy can gently stimulate 'push back' against that symptom pattern, giving relief from the symptoms.  Some pharmaceutical medicines can actually have a homeopathic effect, depending on how they are applied, but this is rarely done intentionally.  What we consider to be homeopathic remedies are potentized and denoted by a dilution factor (ex: 200c) instead of by mass and they are not in crude amount (ex: 200 milligrams) like pharmaceutical drugs.  But in actuality, the term homeopathy alludes to HOW you apply a substance and not what its molecular or nanomolecular makeup is.

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References:

Bell, I. R., & Schwartz, G. E. (2015). Enhancement of adaptive biological effects by nanotechnology preparation methods in homeopathic medicines.  Homeopathy, 104(2), 123-138. doi:10.1016/j.homp.2014.11.003

Manzalini, A., & Galeazzi, B. (2019). Explaining homeopathy with quantum electrodynamics. Homeopathy - The Journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy, 108(3), 169–176. doi:10.1089/acm.2020.024345

Prashant, S. C., Suresh, A. K., Bellare, J. R., & Kane, S. G. (2010). Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective. Homeopathy, 99(4), 231-242. doi:10.1016/j.homp.2010.05.006

Teixeira, M. Z. (2022). "Similia similibus curentur": The scientific grounding of the homeopathic therapeutic principle through the systematic study of the rebound effect of modern drugs. Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 77, 100091. doi:10.1016/j.clinsp.2022.100091

Tournier, A., Wurtenberger, S., Klein, S. D., & Baumgartner, S. (2021). Physicochemical investigations of homeopathic preparations: A systematic review and bibliometric analysis - Part 3. Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 27(1), 45-57. doi:10.1089//acm.2020.0243

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