21st Century Homeopathy: Maximized Health Raises the Bar, Again!

Where can you go to get high quality chiropractic care, advice on fitness and posture, nutritional and supplement advice, an outstanding weight loss program, guidance about health maintenance and disease prevention, and now homeopathy – and, get it all under one roof? The Maximized Health Wellness Center just ‘raised the bar’ for health care in your community by adding homeopathy to its arsenal. Read on to learn more…

Homeopathy simply explained
Homeopathy is an effective system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognizes that symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease.

In 1796, a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick which he called homeopathy (from the Greek words meaning 'similar suffering'). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier, he realized there were two ways of treating ill health: the way of opposites, most commonly used by conventional medicine and the way of similars.

Hahnemann discovered that diluting and succussing (shaking) remedies, which homeopaths call potentization, not only produced fewer side effects but also produced better results. Homeopathic remedies are drawn from the natural world and prescribed on the principle of treating “like with like” or the way of similars.

What is “like with like”?
Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites (western medicine) is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on an artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular doses of drugs which can sometimes cause side effects or addiction.

The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, such as coffee, which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. This can then help the patient to sleep naturally. Of course, this is a simplified example. Homeopathy is patient-centered and a homeopath will prescribe based on the totality of your symptoms and how you, as an individual, experience them. This also takes account of you as a person - your individual characteristics, both emotional and physical.

Homeopathic remedies, properly prescribed, are safe and can also be given to pregnant women, babies and children.

A Perfect Analogy for Homeopathy:
Homeopathic medicine seeks to cure the person as a whole, not just the disease.  A useful analogy between homeopathic medicine and western medicine is to see a person as a tree.  Western medicine treats the symptoms of a specific disease, a branch of the tree, while the roots and trunk of the tree may continue to have problems.  Homeopathic medicine (as well as other non-Western medical practices) see the person as a whole.  They treat the root system of the tree, the trunk, and the tree as a whole as it relates to its surrounding environment, rather than focusing on a single branch or leaf.

How does it work?
It is believed that homeopathic remedies work by stimulating the body's own healing abilities and that this stimulus assists your own system to clear itself of any expressions of imbalance. For more details, the reader is referred to April Burns, Department Director for homeopathy and laser therapy.