ホメオパシーについて About Homeopathy

ホメオパシーという言葉を紐解くために、ラテン語と歴史を参照しましょう。 「ホメオパシー」とはギリシャ語で「homoios(類似)」「pothos(苦しみ)」を組み合わせた造語です。これは、健康な人にも病気の人にも同じ症状をもたらす刺激を用いた処方のことです。 For the explanation of the term homoeopathy, we need to refer to the Latin language and to history. The word homoeopathy is a contraction of two Greek words: homoios (similar) and pothos (suffer). This refers to the therapy form. The therapy uses healing impulses that would result in the same clinical pictures for both healthy and sick people.

ハーネマンによって命名され、現在でも使われており、伝統医学においても認知されています。 なお、ホメオパシーの対極には「allos(別種) 」の症状をもたらす刺激物を用いた処方「アロパシー」があります。 It is a denomination that has been used by Hahnemann and that is still in use, also in traditional medical science. The term for the counterpart of homoeopathy is allopathy (allos means: of a different kind).

この二種の重要な違いについて、火傷の治療を例に説明しましょう。 アロパシーでは火傷を冷やしますが、ホメオパシーでは火傷した皮膚をなるべく温めるようにします。 冷やすとすぐ楽になりますが、温めると肉体はより早く完治します。 ホメオパシーの重要な摂理とは何でしょうか。 The most important difference between the two theories can be explained by an example: the treatment of burns. The allopathic treatment advises to use something cold, while the homoeopathic treatment would use something as warm as possible. The most instant relief is obtained by using something cold, but on the long term the body will respond better to as warm as possible. What are the most important principles of classic homoeopathy?

同種の法則： The similarity principle:
例えば植物、そして硫黄・金・水銀などの鉱物、自然界のたくさんのものは健康な人には有害な症状をもたらします。 Many things (for example plants, but also minerals like sulfur, gold and mercury) cause certain symptoms of sickness with healthy people. 病気の症状は、健康になるために体内で起きた戦いの「残骸」とみなすことができます。 もし、あなたがジギタリスの葉を噛んだら、心臓に不快な感覚をもよおすでしょう。 毒となる成分の摂取量があまりに多いため、肉体が健康を取り戻そうとして起こす反応も大きくなります。 強すぎる反応は死をもたらすかもしれません。 しかしもし、ホメオパシー・レメディとしてこの物質を使うなら、同じ症状の（心臓に不快感がある）病気の人を治すことができるかもしれません。 A sickness symptom can be considered a ‘left-over product’ of the inner battle to get healthy. If you would suck on the leaf of a foxglove plant, you would definitely experience some unpleasant sensations of the heart. The amount of toxic substances you take is so large, that the body produces an undermining reaction in order to get better again. This reaction is too strong and might eventually kill you. If this substance would be used in a homoeopathic medicine, it could be the cure for sick people with the same symptoms (unpleasant sensations of the heart). If you would only give a stimulus as subtle as possible, meaning the smallest possible stimulus that causes a healing reaction of the body. The smallest possible stimulus is obtained when this substance is treated ‘homeopathically’. This means that in a special procedure of diluting and shaking, the devastating toxicity is being removed and the healing stimulus is being released.

Vitality
A homoeopath assumes that every human being has vitality, self-healing capacities. This is a natural given, because without it, the human race would never have made it this far in history. Someone’s vitality can be under pressure from time to time. The homoeopathist tries to mobilize the vitality that is left and to use it for healing reactions.

Earlier in this article we read the name Hahnemann. He is the founder of the classic homoeopathy. The term ‘classic’ means that there are different kinds of homoeopathy. Clinical homoeopathy does not individualize in the same way as the classic approach. Complex homoeopathy prescribes different homoeopathic remedies in a standardized mix. The classic homoeopathy goes into the matter in a very detailed way. It looks at how you are doing and what you’re doing to feel better. If the symptoms get worse or maybe get better in certain situations. Also important are data about nutrition, temperature-sensitivity, details about sleep, dreaming, and mental performance. In brief: the goal is to obtain a picture of someone’s physical and mental performance in the present and the past.

When the homoeopath has a picture of your illness and your case history, it will result in a treatment plan and you will receive the most appropriate homoeopathic medication for that moment. It may also be necessary for the homoeopath to work on different levels to give an effective incentive for healing. In that case you may have to take different medicines in alteration, but never two or more at the same time. In some cases you will experience immediate relief after taking the medicine. This can be expected when the symptoms are acute. When the illness is chronic, this can process can take more time.

Classic homoeopathy can treat many symptoms, but it’s important to keep the reality in mind. The allopathic medicine can in some cases show wonderful examples of diagnostics or operating skills that give a huge relief of complaints. When there are mechanical causes for a disease, it should be possible to remove them. Allopathic medicine has in some cases very good instruments, knowledge and skills for that. When it’s about treatment, homoeopathy appears to deliver better contributions to recovery than allopathic medicine, which is more based on removing the result of the disease, instead of treating the cause.