Even though homeopathy is the fastest growing and the second most used system of healing in the world, it is probably the least understood and most misunderstood health modality. It is often confused with herbal medicine, naturopathic medicine or just a synonym to all natural medicines. Homeopathy is not an old or traditional system of medicine; it is only about 200 years. It was originated in Germany by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann who was a Medical Doctor, a Biochemist and a prolific writer and translator. Homeopathy has been developed to what it is today by thousands of MD.s and Non MDs from around the globe.

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Homeopathy is based on a few sound principles and laws. The highest goal of the homeopathic physician is to favor a rapid yet gentle and permanent cure of the whole body, not just a temporary relief or treatment of few symptoms while simultaneously making sure not to cause any harm to the system. From the homeopathic point of view, the “right” medicine cannot be good for one part of body yet harmful to another.

In homeopathy the symptoms of the patient are seen as a highly intelligent and logical language that the body is using to communicate how it is fighting the disease and it shows the observing and experienced eye what needs to be cured. All physical and emotional symptoms are seen as the first expression of the body's attempt to heal itself and therefore these symptoms need to be studied in depth and should never be suppressed.

The goal of a homeopath is to analyze what this suffering system is “already” doing to get rid of the innate weaknesses (predispositions with which we are born) or the disease causing factors (pathogens, be it bacterial, emotional, environmental, genetic,…) and then to assist the body by helping create an environment in which the body can do what it needs to do in a more efficient way.

Homeopaths think: “Assist and encourage” rather than “fight and oppose”. The word “Homeo” means “similar” and it refers to this concept of finding something in nature that is able to “mimic” and produce symptoms that are the most “similar” to the “totality” of all the past and physical and emotional symptoms of the individual. Therefore we say homeopathy is based on the “law of similars” as oppose to allopathic medicine, which is using the “law of opposites”.

As the highest goal and the motto of homeopath has always been “first do no harm”, homeopathic physicians endeavored to administer their remedies in the smallest amount possible to get rid of all the “side-effects” which are inherent to all substances, whether from natural sources or manmade chemicals. This brought homeopaths to dilute (more and more) these substances. Clinical experience lead to the discovery that diluting a substance not only removed the undesirable side effects, but it also refined the healing effect of the substance. Some theorize that the extreme dilution allowed the substance to penetrate much deeper into the cells and its nucleus where the building block of life is stored and cause a much deeper and longer lasting healing.

Rather than adopting a mechanistic and reductionist view of the human being, in which a person is considered as being made of different parts and each part needing to be treated separately by a different substance and a different specialist ( three or more different medications for someone suffering simultaneously from asthma, knee pain and depression for instance), the homeopathic physician knows that the wholeness of a human being has started from ONE original cell which has grown and evolved into all these highly interconnected intelligent organs. Parts and pieces of a machine are built separately and then put together so if one part malfunctions, it can be replaced or repaired. Even though this analogy can be applied to a human being and produce some beneficial results, Perhaps it would be more beneficial to view the human organism as a seed which as it grows and evolves it produces a tree with multitude of branches. In this view, all the symptoms of a patient, be it physical or emotional, are various branches of the same tree, all connected intimately to a common trunk. Rather than treating each branch with a different remedy, an experienced homeopath will try to find the link between all the symptoms of a patient and find a remedy for the trunk, the core of the patient.