Homeopathy is a natural healing protocol that believes that diseases are dynamic, not material. The material organism functions solely by means of the immaterial wesen – the life force – known as the vital force. In a diseased state, this vital force is deranged and can only be cured when the natural disease is annihilated by a stronger similar artificial disease, that disappears after it has run its course. To understand how homeopathy cures, it is vital to understand the cause and nature of disease and principles of cure.
Natural vs Artificial Disease
Natural disease is a morbid, dynamical mistunement of our vital force that keeps us in a healthy state. The power of natural diseases to make us sick is NOT ABSOLUTE. It depends on our susceptibility and on our exposure to them. An organism becomes sick only when it is just exactly and sufficiently disposed and assailed by the cause of disease that is present. That explains why the same heat wave, deep freeze, thunderstorm or infections, DO NOT sicken all the people in identical way. Some are affected more, some less, some in only acute pathologies, and others with chronic symptoms.
However, the power of medicine, as an artificial disease, to affect the health of every human being is absolute and unconditional. A medicine’s effects will be perceptible if the dose is large enough. Every true medicine always restores and every true “poison” always annihilates the vital force – on every living human being. Medicinal energies, therefore, affect health unconditionally, whereas natural diseases only affect health under certain conditions.
The Theory of Cure
To be completely cured of the disease, the natural disease – which affects the organism conditionally, must be overpowered by a similar artificial disease, that acts over the organism unconditionally. The artificial disease rendered by the medicine, is unconditional and absolute, therefore carries stronger ability to alter the derangement of the vital force, than the natural disease, which is conditional and thrives only in optimal condition. As the artificial disease aka homeopathic remedy, arrives on the scene, with similar pathology, the natural disease recedes, as the conditions for it to thrive become sub-optimal – and cure takes place. As the reemdy was administered in minimal dose, the artificial disease soon runs over its course and disappears, leaving behind a healthy individual.
Disease vs Cure
This highlights a very important correlation between similarity of diseases and cure. If two dissimilar diseases co-exist in the organism, and the older disease is stronger, it will keep the newer and weaker disease at bay. If the newer disease is stronger, it will suspend the older disease, only to reappear, once the newer, dissimilar, and weaker disease wanes off. This explains relapse of chronic afflictions which do not get cured by intermittent interventions, as the latter suspend the former, but can never completely cure it.
However, if two similar diseases co-exist in the organism, then they can neither suspend each other, nor fend off, or create a complicated disease combo (as was the case in dissimilar diseases). The stronger of the two similar disease will annihilate the weaker one.
Therefore, an existing natural disease can never be lifted and cured by a dissimilar disease, howsoever strong. The cure take place only by virtue of another similar disease, stronger, and minimally administered.
Nano-Particles and Potentization
Much amusement has been caused by the potentization of the homeopathic remedies, often beyond Avogadro’s number, where all physical source matter seems to have been diluted off the remedy. This alone being the most vocal criticism of homeopathy – as to how a medicine “without” source matter can ever heal.
Now, the source matter that caused a disease, that we are trying to heal an individual from, is diluted to an extent where it remains only as nano-particles of the source in a colloidal solution. This gets rid of all material intervention that could have potentially destabilised the vital force. This also allows penetration of the source remedy into cells and membranes hitherto impossible for matter to get through. Being nano – the science of cure does not rest upon what matter gets absorbed by nano-particles, rather what signals do they transport as a carrier. They pass through membranes, mucosa, skin; translocate via blood, lymph. They have a high surface area to volume ratio and are capable of emitting electromagnetic signals to other nano particles of same “species”. In terms of receiving and processing signals, nano structure matters more than the chemical composition of the nano particle. If one nano size cluster has one effect –another nano structure may result in completely different effect. This explains the non-linear response to potency, determined not by amount of source matter, rather resultant structure of the source matter.
Clinical research has also proven that nano-particles vastly differ in physical and chemical properties from that of the source matter. The mechanical, optical, electrical and physio-chemical properties of nano-particles differ from that of bulk form e.g. Gold nano-particle has melting point 300 deg lower than that of gold, which melts at 1335K. Gold is non-magnetic, while Gold nano particle is magnetic.
Homeopathic Principles of Cure
Homeopathy heals the sick organism by way of following four fundamental principles of cure:
- Similia Similibus Curantur – Like cures Like
- Experimenta in Homine Sano – Experimentation on the healthy
- Optimal Dose – Smallest dose cures
- Unitas Remedii – Single remedy addressing the totality of symptoms
The same foreign agent that produces a particular type of symptoms in a healthy individual heals the sick individual carrying similar symptoms when administered in its minutest dose. The similarity of symptoms is utmost important, because only by carrying similar pathology, the remedy would act as a stronger artificial similar disease unconditionally and absolutely on the organism, to arrest the weaker, natural disease – for which the conditions are no longer favourable, for it to thrive – after the introduction of the medicine.
Further, homeopathy does not split the organism into ailments of eye, ear, digestive, reproductive or skeletal function. It is the derangement of the immaterial vital force that causes several symptoms to appear. To cure the diseased organism – and not just the disease, it is essential to arrive at totality of symptoms, namely an aggregate of physical pathology, mental/emotional state, causative or exciting factors, modalities of aggravation / amelioration and depth of sensation, in selecting the most similar remedy.
Contrary to conventional school of medicine, where a greater physical quantity of curative agent is required to bring about a greater control over the disease, homeopathy requires the minimal dose to be administered to leverage the maximum curative power of the remedy. As per Arndt Shultz Law of Cure,
- the minimal dose spurs the vital force,
- a large dose inhibits the vital force,
- a very large dose annihilates the vital force.
The below Table summarises the Potency guideline in arriving at the minimal dosage depending upon the depth of sensation, as shared by Rajan Sankaran, The Sensation in Homeopathy.
The final principle of homeopathic cure is administering a single remedy at a time – that most closely resembles the totality of symptoms. In no case of cure is it necessary to employ more than a single simple medicinal substance at one time with a patient.
Conclusion
Homeopathy is the branch of health management that reverse engineers the disease and beats it at its own game. It speaks the language of disease, addresses the whole dynamic organism, rather than just the ostensible diseased part and heals the individual. The homeopathic remedy is nothing but a signal – in the form of another stress, this time infinitesimal, yet potent and clear enough by the organism to decode and respond. Homeopathic remedy acts like an “adaptogen”. When it works, it acts as a non-infectious mild stressor, chemically, physically, biologically, psychologically; that sets the hermetic allostatic stress response network into motion to strengthen the organism as a complex adaptive system. The only pre-requisite being that the signal dispatched by the remedy must be similar to the signal triggered in disease.