What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathic hCG
  • No syringes or needles
  • No pharmaceutical drugs
  • No prescriptions or physician's consult
  • No blood tests
  • No hidden narcotics such as phentermine
  • No expensive injectable programs
  • No refrigeration necessary
  • Simply a few drops under the tongue (sub-lingual)
What is Homeopathy?
The first basic principles of homeopathy were formulated by a brilliant doctor by the name of Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700's. The term “homeopathy” is derived from the Greek words homeo (similar) and pathos (suffering or disease). Homeopathy is based on the idea that large doses of a substance cause a symptom, while very small doses of that same substance will cure it. It works on the principle of “like cures like.” (i.e. A substance that would cause symptoms in a healthy person is used to cure those same symptoms in illness.) For example, one remedy which might be used in a person suffering from insomnia is coffee, a remedy made from coffee. It is difficult to explain exactly how homeopathy works, but what we do know is that a carefully selected homeopathic remedy acts as a trigger to the body's own healing processes.

Are Homeopathic remedies safe?
Homeopathic remedies are a unique, potentised energy medicine, drawn from the plant, mineral and animal worlds. They are diluted to such a degree that not one molecule of the original substance can be detected. They work by gently boosting the natural energy of the body, and are very safe, even for pregnant and sensitive patients. There is no danger of addiction or toxicity.
Homeopathy can be safely used alongside most conventional medicines. If they are so dilute, how can they work? Homeopathic remedies are made from substances diluted thousands of times in water or alcohol. Between each dilution, the liquid is shaken vigorously. For example, a one-to-one-hundred dilution means that one drop of a plant extract is placed in 100 drops of water or alcohol. After lengthy shaking, one drop of the new solution is mixed with another 100 drops of water. This mixture is shaken vigorously, and then one drop is taken from it and added to another 100 drops of liquid, and so on. This process is repeated as many as 30, 50, or more times. Dilutions are made up to either 1 part tincture to 10 parts water (1x) or 1 part tincture to 100 parts water (1c). Repeated dilution results in the familiar 6x, 6c or 30c potencies that can be bought over the counter: the 30c represents an infinitessimal part of the original substance.

Does diluting the substance make it less potent? Explain what the 6x, 12x, 30x 60x Means?
With the minimum dose, or law of infinitesimals, Hahnemann believed that a substance's strength and effectiveness increased the more it was diluted. Minuscule doses were prepared by repeatedly diluting the active ingredient by factors of 10. A “6X” preparation (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) is a 1-to-10 dilution repeated six times, leaving the active ingredient as one part per million. Essential to the process of increasing potency while decreasing the actual amount of the active ingredient is vigorous shaking after each dilution. Some homeopathic remedies are so dilute, no molecules of the healing substance remain. Even with sophisticated technology now available, analytical chemists may find it difficult or impossible to identify any active ingredient. But the homeopathic belief is that the substance has left its imprint or a spirit-like essence that stimulates the body to heal itself.
The reason most commonly offered today by homeopathic proponents is the remedy's solution has a “memory” of the original substance. What is this memory? Homeopaths say it is electromagnetic waves of the active ingredient it once contained. They say that vigorous shakings between each dilution make this memory possible.