CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY - THREE ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS

THREE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS
to understand with homeopathy are:
Acute prescribing, Constitutional prescribing, and Suppression

ACUTE prescribing is where homeopathy is used for acute conditions like stings, bruises, sprains, food poisoning, influenza, measles, mumps, and in fact any acute and infectious disease.

In acute prescribing:
- the remedy can usually be found with a minimum of information
- sometimes several remedies may be used in quick succession (e.g.. flu may need Gels. to start, then Eup-per, the Kali-p then influenzinum, as the disease progresses through its various stages).
- it is reasonable to treat yourself and your family for common uncomplicated conditions.

CONSTITUTIONAL prescribing is where homeopathy is used for any chronic condition like IBS, ME, PMT, Eczema, Asthma, emotional or behavioural problems, etc.

In constitutional prescribing:
- the remedy is only decided upon after in depth holistic case taking and deliberation
- only one remedy is used and often only in a single dose
- it is not advisable to treat yourself, no matter how experienced

SUPPRESSION is when medication (or other circumstances) cause the disease state to go deeper into the constitution, worsening overall health.

- Suppression is not (generally) recognised as a problem by allopaths, whereas homeopaths consider it as something to be avoided at all costs. Most allopathic medicine is suppressive.
- Suppression is widespread and homeopathic literature abounds with cases illustrating how a patient's health has deteriorated as a result of allopathic suppression.
- Suppression occurs whenever the patients symptoms go against the 'DIRECTION OF CURE', that is, the medicine works against the body's vital energy.
- Suppression can only be undone with natural medicine like homeopathy