MYTH: Are there really no side effects of homeopathic medicine?

• Generally there are no side effects of homeopathic medicines if prescribed in potencies of 3CH and above.
• However, some tinctures and triturates in very low potencies like Ix, 2x have some side effects of minor nature.
   
• Sometimes, homeopathic medicines in higher dilutions may also elicit drug-proving in sensitive individuals.
• But just like any other medicine, homeopathic medicines should be used with caution and in chronic ailments, they should not be taken without consultation with a qualified homeopath.

                                           

MYTH: Homeopathy cannot be used in diabetic patients.

• It can be used!
• The minute amount of sugar globules (the little round pills) taken daily does not matter.
  
• Sugar intake in the daily diet is significantly higher than that taken by a few globules.
• In very severe cases, the dilution may be taken as drops in water or over lactose.

                                      

MYTH: Homeopathy is only useful in chronic cases.

• Very often it is – where everything else has failed!
• But the true reason for this perception is because people turn to homeopathy so late when everything else has failed!
  
•  After years of allopathic treatment often an illness becomes chronic, the treatment will now naturally take longer than in case of using homeopathy right from the beginning, the recovery period is very less.
• Homeopathy Medicines are equally effective in chronic and acute ailments.

                                           

MYTH: Homeopathy is an unproved science.

• Homoeopathy is based on experimental pharmacological and clinical data. 
• Over the years, homeopathic medicines have been extensively studied for their efficacy in a variety of indications.
  
• Clinical studies have been conducted in India as well as other countries.
• The physical basis of the homeopathic medicines is still not clear but there is enough clinical data to prove its efficacy. 
• All the principles of homeopathy are based on sound logic and experimental data.

                                            

MYTH: Homeopathy is slow to act.

• Homeopathy acts quickly in acute illnesses but it takes a little longer to effect a cure in chronic ailments such as asthma, bronchitis, arthritis, kidney failure, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, etc.
• The medicines start working immediately but the time taken to heal depends on the individual’s immune system, stress factors, lifestyle, habits and personality.
• Any medicine on this earth has its different action on its status  or mode of transferred to the body. Like an analgesic , given orally will be slow to when given intravenous. 
• Like the same is Homeopathy medicine. It always depends on the patient , how well he shows his symptoms and also to the Homeopath, how well he understand the problem. 
• There comes the real selection of dose ( status of medicinal power in that dose). 
• Nothing more depend the Homeopathy medicine over all.
  
• All types of the disease which are under the cover of medicinal treatment, can be treated by Homeopathy.
• Unfortunately, people tend to go to a homeopath only when the acute problem becomes chronic. Naturally, these cases take longer to treat. 
• Also, most people take recourse in homeopathy in cases of arthritis, allergic asthma or skin conditions etc., which take a longer time to treat with any other system of medicines. 

                                          

MYTH: All Homoeopatheic Medicines are same

Homeopathic medicines are always same alike made up of sugar pills, no matter what ever the illness.

• The white sugar pills, are only the carrier of the Homeopathy medicine through your tongue into the body. 
• It is true that sugar pills do not have any medicinal value, so they can be used as carrier very well.
• But most of the Homeopathic medicine are based of  alcohol.
  
• While preparing a dose the alcoholic doses are dropped on sugar pills to convert the pills medicated for that drug, later on which can be prescribed to the patient.
• Homoeopathic medicines have been scientifically studied the world over and found to be effective in a wide range of diseases. Thus they are not placebos.

                             

MYTH – Homeopathic medicines are just water

• Homeopathic medicines are NOT made using only dilution.
• Dilution alone would do nothing whatsoever. 
• Many homeopaths are getting tired of reading this highly inaccurate reporting in the media. 
• All homeopathic medicines are made by a process of dilution and SUCCUSSION (potentisation through vigorous shaking - 100 shakes between each potency - i.e. between a 1c and a 2c, between a 2c and a 3c potency, between a 3c and a 4c, etc. etc.)
  
• Most homeopathic medicines can be bought in either 6c or 30c from Boots or from health shops.
• Higher potencies of 200c and 1m (1000c) can be obtained only from homeopathic pharmacies.
• Succussion is nowadays done by machines, originally by hand. 
• Succussion brings out the formative intelligence of the substance and imprints it upon the 60% distilled water + 40% alcohol medium used to make homeopathic medicines - alcohol acting as a preservative. 

                                               

MYTH: Homeopathic medicines cure nothing.

• Homeopathy works by stimulating the body’s OWN healing mechanisms, through like for like. 
• A substance that would cause symptoms in a healthy person can be used to cure the same symptoms in a sick person by giving a minute, highly potentised dose of that substance acting as a catalyst to jump start their own healing mechanisms.
• Everyone of us has our own natural innate healing powers.
• All that is needed is the correct stimulus to kick start it. In healthy people this may just be rest and good food but many people become 'stuck' in their physical, emotional or mental illness and cannot recover.
• Of course there are different levels of health and the choice of potency given should reflect that.
• Low potencies are given for very physically ill people and higher for those whose problems are emotional or of the mind.
  
• Homeopathy is very successful in treating emotional problems such as stress, anxiety and fears.
• Unlike orthodox medicine, outcomes of homeopathic treatment are measured by the LONG TERM curative effects and the eradication of the disease state culminating in complete restoration of health.
•  If we could have two year trials of outcomes for conditions such as asthma, arthritis and other chronic diseases, this could be proven.
• The opening gambit of this article appears to shoot itself in the foot by stating that homeopathic "medicine" is a placebo. Research into the PLACEBO EFFECT indicates that a placebo works by stimulating the body's own healing mechanisms. That this process can occur is not disputed and that homeopathic remedies can induce the placebo effect is also not disputed.
• What is disputed, however, are the fallacious and pseudo scientific claims of homeopaths, which may appear harmless at first glance but often work to undermine confidence in real medicine, the abilities of doctors and the public's understanding of what is and what isn't real science.
• What's missing here is any sort of mechanism by which homeopathy acts. 
• Actual medicine depends on knowing things like biology, biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy to understand how a particular illness progresses, and making educated decisions on how best to treat it based on that knowledge.
• For instance, medications are prescribed (and work) because researchers figured out their specific effects on the body, not because of some hand-wavy "correct stimulus" nonsense. 
• Nowhere in this entire document is there any explanation of what homeopathy actually does on a biological level.
• The reason that doctors do not give sick people substances that would do harm to healthy people is that such substances are called "poisons." Again, no explanation beyond magic words like "potentised" (actual meaning: "shaken"; see below) is offered as to why poisons are good things to give to sick people. Scientists run two, three, even 20 year experiments all the time. 

                                             

MYTH: THE MOST MISTAKEN MYTH – HOMEOPATHY IS SLOW ACTING !!!

It is a myth that homeopathy is slow to act. In acute ailments like fever, diarrhea, acute infections etc, it acts as fast as conventional medicines, sometimes even faster. In chronic cases like diabetes, parkinsonism, psoriasis etc , it may require sometime to eradicate the disease completely from the body and make the body free from any medicines instead of conventional treatments which gives instant relief but the medicine has to be taken life long.

The action of homeopathic medicine is quick and the effect lasts much longer, often forever. The disease is cured from its roots. With most of the other systems of medicine symptoms are merely palliated or at times suppressed while in Homeopathy they are cured for good.

Homoeopathy is neither slow nor fast. It is a natural system, obeys the laws of nature and takes optimum time to cure. Well, the treatment of chronic diseases depends on innumerable factors patient compliance, extent and intensity of damage, age, nature of previous therapies, the physician’s competence, etc.

The time taken for the cure is proportionate to the chronicity of the ailment. i.e. more old the disease more time it will take to get cured. In fact if a patient seeks homoeopathic treatment at the onset of an ailment, he stands great chances of a really quick recovery. Also in acute illnesses homoeopathic medicines act fast and effectively.

Like if any person is suffering from any chronic skin disease and he is suffering for the last 14 years and has been to various systems of medicine. Now if you give him homeopathy and say in 2 years time the patient is completely alright - Please tell us which one is slower?