Types of homeopathic practice

Types of homeopathic practice

✔Various prescribing habits have developed in different countries or at different
times.

✔ A clear conceptual division has emerged between two main schools of
practice, classical and complex.

✔Classical homeopaths generally treat with a single
remedy that exactly matches the patient’s inherent constitutional type and symptom
picture.

✔ There are occasions, however, particularly in the case of acute illness or
injury, where the physical symptoms far outweigh the emotional and other
symptoms. In cases such as these a more pragmatic approach may be taken, using
combinations of remedies in low potencies.

✔ Thus, for instance, five or six remedies
known to be helpful for influenza might be combined in a single tablet. This is the
complex approach, based on the theories of the British homeopath Dr. Richard
Hughes , and also known sometimes as combination homeopathy or
polypharmacy.

✔In some situations, generally of an acute nature, it may be adopted
by classical homeopaths, but in certain countries it is actually the standard method
of prescribing.

✔ In 1948 it was officially sanctioned by the American Institute of
Homeopathy, and in many European countries, such as France and Germany,
polypharmacy is more common than classical homeopathy.

 

✔Further variations on the homeopathic principle include isopathy, in which a
potentized microdilution of the substance causing the disorder is actually used to treat
the symptoms: for example, Apis (which is made from the sting of bee) might be given
to someone to treat a bee sting.

✔A classical homeopath will generally only expect a 20 to
30 percent success rate using this method, since it does not take into account the unique
constitution of each patient.

✔A refinement of this concept is tautopathy, in which the
exact substance triggering the symptoms is used to make a remedy for treating those
symptoms.

✔ In theory this means that the remedy for a bee sting would be prepared from
the actual bee that had inflicted the sting.

✔In practice the concept is most commonly used
for allergic reactions, such as treating a child with a remedy made from a vaccination to which child had received.

Source: Encyclopedia of Homeopathy

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