Homeopathy – the growing popularity of alternative treatment

Often labelled as the genre of medicine which is slow and inefficient, HOMEOPATHY is slowly and steadily gaining importance among global citizens. Today, more than ever before, there is a dire need for homeopathy as our global community is facing its greatest challenges. And though the average life-span has continued to increase, the value of life has decreased in direct correlation. Simply put it is quantity without focus on quality. And Homeopathy has a huge role to play for over all well being.

Antibiotics, which in general have lifesaving uses, have been negligently abused and overused at the expense of damaging or compromising an individual’s auto-immune system. Making the patient dependent on ever yet stronger and stronger drug therapies in order to find relief, but in reality have left them more susceptible to diseases and disorders that normally a healthy individual’s own defense mechanisms would fight off. Then there are also the strains of bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms that in their own effort to survive have mutated and have become drug resistant. If you consider that these organisms have been surviving and adapting on this planet practically since its origins, it becomes obvious that they will continue to evolve. And though scientists will struggle to find newer and more powerful weapons to fight with, it is almost as if the organisms are prepared to lose the battle in order to win the war. Evidence of this had recently come to light with the discoveries of hospital bred bacteria that are antibiotic resistant, resurgence in incurable cases of tuberculosis which was deemed as irradiated in the western world, killer malaria viruses that had been assumed to be wiped out.

However, the science and art of homeopathy embody what many people envision as a 21st century medicine. Homeopathy is a medical approach that respects the wisdom of the body. It is an approach that utilizes medicines that stimulate the body’s own immune and defense system to initiate the healing process. It is an approach that individualizes medicines according to the totality of the person’s physical, emotional, and mental symptoms. It is an approach that is widely recognized to be safe. And it is an approach that can be potentially very effective in treating the new types of diseases that are afflicting us now and will affect us in the 21st century.