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“Remedy” is a technical term in Homeopathy that refers to a substance which has been prepared with a particular procedure and intended for patient use.

“Remedy” is a technical term in Homeopathy that refers to a substance which has been prepared with a particular procedure and intended for patient use.

“Wellness in Homeopathic terms is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind, body and spirit that results in an over all feeling of well-being.”

Gianni Vigna Homeopath

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Homeopathy

“The highest ideal of therapy is to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently; to remove and destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly comprehensible principles.”
Samuel Hahnemann – The Organon of Medicine

200 years ago ,Samuel Hahnemann a German doctor , discoverd the benefits of homeopathy by treating his patients with small amounts of remedies in a manner Hippocrates had used 2000 years earlier.

In the US alone some 3.9 million American adults and 900,000 children use homeopathic remedies every year, according to a National Health Interview Survey. Its growth in popularity in Canada and the US has been around 25 to 50 percent a year throughout the last decade.

“Like cures like” is homeopathy’s foremost principle. This means if a given substance can produce symptoms in a healthy person, it can cure those symptoms in a sick person when administered in small doses.

Homeopathic practioners use remedies to heal illness by bringing the body’s natural tendencies to come back into balance and heal.

Who Uses Homeopathy

People use the remedies for treatment of both diseases and conditions such as allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, digestive disorders, ear infections, headaches, and skin rashes.

Some states explicitly include homeopathy within the scope of practice of chiropractic, naturopathy, physical therapy, dentistry, nursing, and veterinary medicine.
According to Dana Ullman, of the Huffington Post and author of “The Homeopathic Revolution” ,many famous people have used homeopathic remedies.
These include Charles Darwin author “Origin of Species” was treated by Dr. Gully a homeopath, based on Darwin’s own letters.

— Some eleven American Presidents including Lincoln, Tyler, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley, Coolidge, Harding, Hoover, and Clinton used homeopathic medicines or sponsored legislation to allow homeopathic practice
Two of Britain’s Prime Ministers, Benjamin Disraeli  and Tony Blair used homeopathic medicines.

Benjamin Disraeli used homeopathy
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  • Many clergy and spiritual leaders have been homeopathic patients and advocates, including seven popes, numerous rabbis, Muslim clerics, and Eastern spiritual leaders.
  • America’s literary greats advocated for and wrote about homeopathy, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.
  • Similarly European greats such as Goethe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and George Bernard Shaw have as well .
  • Numerous sports greats have used homeopathic medicines including David Beckham, Martina Navratilova , and Boris Becker.
  •  Many world-class musicians including Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, F. Chopin, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Cher, Tina Turner, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Townshend, Annie Lennox, Bob Weir, Paul Rodgers, Axl Rose, Moby, Jon Faddis, and Dizzy Gillespie have used homeopathy .



 

 

  • Numerous movie and TV celebrities have as well including Sarah Bernhardt, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lesley Ann Warren, Pamela Anderson, Jane Seymour, Suzanne Somers, Lindsay Wagner, Michael York, Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw, Priscilla & Lisa Marie Presley, Jennifer Aniston, Jade Jagger, Tobey Maguire, and Orlando Bloom.
  • “Homeopathy is perhaps the most misunderstood area of medicine, evoking passions pro and con. “
    Larry Dossey, MD,
    Former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital.
  • “How do we reconcile the fact that the American Medical Association has long held homeopathy to be worthless, when so many people have reported that they found help for their ills in homeopathy? The AMA responds that patients are unqualified to evaluate the treatment they receive. I think that attitude is phenomenally patronizing…”
    John Robbins, Author of Diet For A New America, and Healthy At 100.
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  • Conventional physicians and scientists who have had extremely positive things to say about homeopathy include Sir William Osler, “father of modern medicine”, Emil Adolph von Behring, MD, “father of immunology”, Charles Frederick Menninger, MD, founder -Menninger Clinic, August Bier, MD, “father of spinal anesthesia”, C. Everett Koop, M.D. , former U.S. Surgeon General, Brian Josephson, PhD. Nobel Laureate & Cambridge professor.
  • “Several Harvard-affiliated physicians have told me in private conversation that homeopathy has helped their family members or friends, but they would not want to say so publicly due to fear of ridicule. “
    David Anick ,PhD, MD
    Research Associate, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

“I am personally amazed that so many of my cultural heroes have benefited from this misunderstood science and healing art. Homeopathy deserves a definitive place in health care today.”
Leonard A. Wisneski, MD, FACP,
Endocrinologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center;
Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University;
Authored over 30 scientific articles and a textbook, “The Scientific Basis of Integrative Medicine”.

Homeopathy

“The highest ideal of therapy is to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently; to remove and destroy the whole disease in the shortest, surest, least harmful way, according to clearly comprehensible principles.”
Samuel Hahnemann – The Organon of Medicine

200 years ago ,Samuel Hahnemann a German doctor , discoverd the benefits of homeopathy by treating his patients with small amounts of remedies in a manner Hippocrates had used 2000 years earlier.

In the US alone some 3.9 million American adults and 900,000 children use homeopathic remedies every year, according to a National Health Interview Survey. Its growth in popularity in Canada and the US has been around 25 to 50 percent a year throughout the last decade.

“Like cures like” is homeopathy’s foremost principle. This means if a given substance can produce symptoms in a healthy person, it can cure those symptoms in a sick person when administered in small doses.

Homeopathic practioners use remedies to heal illness by bringing the body’s natural tendencies to come back into balance and heal.

Who Uses Homeopathy

Benjamin Disraeli used homeopathy

People use the remedies for treatment of both diseases and conditions such as allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, digestive disorders, ear infections, headaches, and skin rashes.

Some states explicitly include homeopathy within the scope of practice of chiropractic, naturopathy, physical therapy, dentistry, nursing, and veterinary medicine.
According to Dana Ullman, of the Huffington Post and author of “The Homeopathic Revolution” ,many famous people have used homeopathic remedies.
These include Charles Darwin author “Origin of Species” was treated by Dr. Gully a homeopath, based on Darwin’s own letters.

— Some eleven American Presidents including Lincoln, Tyler, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley, Coolidge, Harding, Hoover, and Clinton used homeopathic medicines or sponsored legislation to allow homeopathic practice
Two of Britain’s Prime Ministers, Benjamin Disraeli and Tony Blair used homeopathic medicines.

  • Numerous movie and TV celebrities have as well including Sarah Bernhardt, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lesley Ann Warren, Pamela Anderson, Jane Seymour, Suzanne Somers, Lindsay Wagner, Michael York, Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw, Priscilla & Lisa Marie Presley, Jennifer Aniston, Jade Jagger, Tobey Maguire, and Orlando Bloom.
  • “Homeopathy is perhaps the most misunderstood area of medicine, evoking passions pro and con. “
    Larry Dossey, MD,
    Former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital.
  • “How do we reconcile the fact that the American Medical Association has long held homeopathy to be worthless, when so many people have reported that they found help for their ills in homeopathy? The AMA responds that patients are unqualified to evaluate the treatment they receive. I think that attitude is phenomenally patronizing…”
    John Robbins, Author of Diet For A New America, and Healthy At 100.

  • Many clergy and spiritual leaders have been homeopathic patients and advocates, including seven popes, numerous rabbis, Muslim clerics, and Eastern spiritual leaders.
  • America’s literary greats advocated for and wrote about homeopathy, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.
  • Similarly European greats such as Goethe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and George Bernard Shaw have as well .
  • Numerous sports greats have used homeopathic medicines including David Beckham, Martina Navratilova , and Boris Becker.
  •  Many world-class musicians including Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, F. Chopin, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Cher, Tina Turner, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Townshend, Annie Lennox, Bob Weir, Paul Rodgers, Axl Rose, Moby, Jon Faddis, and Dizzy Gillespie have used homeopathy .

Homeopathic Bottles

  • Conventional physicians and scientists who have had extremely positive things to say about homeopathy include Sir William Osler, “father of modern medicine”, Emil Adolph von Behring, MD, “father of immunology”, Charles Frederick Menninger, MD, founder -Menninger Clinic, August Bier, MD, “father of spinal anesthesia”, C. Everett Koop, M.D. , former U.S. Surgeon General, Brian Josephson, PhD. Nobel Laureate & Cambridge professor.
  • “Several Harvard-affiliated physicians have told me in private conversation that homeopathy has helped their family members or friends, but they would not want to say so publicly due to fear of ridicule. “
    David Anick ,PhD, MD
    Research Associate, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

“I am personally amazed that so many of my cultural heroes have benefited from this misunderstood science and healing art. Homeopathy deserves a definitive place in health care today.”
Leonard A. Wisneski, MD, FACP,
Endocrinologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center;
Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University;
Authored over 30 scientific articles and a textbook, “The Scientific Basis of Integrative Medicine”.