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Homeopathy: Systems
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Homeopathy is a unique system of treatment for both physical and emotionally based problems. Appropriate treatment for you requires knowledge of your background and present characteristics in as much detail as possible as homeopathic treatment is prescribed for the individual, not just the disease. For example, several people seeking treatment for the same complaint would often be given different remedies because their individual symptoms and characteristics differ.
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Homeopathy is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world. Its growth in popularity in the world has been around 25 to 50 percent a year throughout the last decade.
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Homeopathy and other popular therapies demonstrate ancient and universal principles of magical thinking, which some recent research suggests are fundamental to human cognition, even rooted in neurobiology. Many of today’s “complementary” or “alternative” systems of healing involve magical beliefs, manifesting ways of thinking based in principles of cosmology and causality that are timeless and absolutely universal. So similar are some of these principles among all human populations that some cognitive scientists have suggested that they are innate to the human species, and this suggestion is being strengthened by current scientific research. [...] Some of the principles of magical beliefs described above are evident in currently popular belief systems. A clear example is homeopathy. Fallacies in homeopathic claims have been discussed by many, including Barrett (1987) and Gardner (1989) in this journal; but it is curious that this healing system has not been more widely recognized as based in magical thinking.
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Homeopathy sounds illogical. But so did the sun at the center of the solar system or the earth being round or quantum physics or acupuncture. Until science found it so. Homeopathy is on the verge of being validated by Western science. It could use it.
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Homeopathy's eclipse during the twentieth century is measured by a steep decline in its number of practitioners and by the homeopathic colleges' closing or conversion to conventional training. Still, professional organizations provided education for practitioners and consumers, and a handful of physicians kept the discipline alive. In the 1970s, disenchantment with the conventional medical system led consumers and practitioners to explore homeopathy among other forms of alternative and complementary medicine. Since then the shift from crisis intervention to preventive medicine, the concern over increasingly prevalent chronic disease, the search for cost-effective treatments, and the rejection of materialist philosophies in health care have fueled homeopathy's swift growth in popularity.
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Homeopathy can ... be highly effective for numerous chronic conditions considered untreatable by conventional allopathic medicine. Disorders of the nervous system, hormonal system and immune system can be addressed with homeopathic care. These are addressed in modules two through five of the Caduceus Institute's program.
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