Homeopathy Is a Holistic Structure

Homeopathy is a holistic structure of treatment that began in the late eighteenth century. The name homeopathy comes from two Greek words that mean like disease. The concept is based on the idea that substances that produce symptoms of sickness in healthy people will have a curative effect when given in very dilute quantities to sick people who exhibit those same symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are thought to stimulate the body's own healing processes (Homeopathy, 2009).

It is necessary for a person who practices homeopathy to fully understand the nature of the causes of acute diseases as well as the underlying fundamental causes of long lasting diseases, which are thought to be due to the chronic miasms. Hippocrates was the first doctor to use the term miasm which comes from the Greek word for taint or fault. He proposed that certain infectious diseases were spread to humans by air and water that was tainted by miasms. During the late 18th century it was a common belief that miasms were impure airs that were responsible for the spread of epidemic diseases among people (Little, 2007).

Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, initially explained three classic miasms or diatheses. These include Psoric, Sycotic and Syphilitic. Psoric people are thought to be challenged with an overstatement of their physiological functions. In a healthy person, all toxic aggressors are gotten rid of through the usual routes like the colon, skin or urinary tract. In the psoric person there is an overreaction when doing this. If a psoric person takes in something that must be eliminated, a likely response would be to develop diarrhea. If the irritant or toxin were come across at the level of the skin, the psoric person would develop a rash. The reaction in the psoric is quick and immediate (Diathesis, 2009).

Sycose is the incident that is created when an individual starts losing their eliminatory abilities. A person who continually overcomes their body with toxic substances will eventually lose the normal ability to detoxify. The Sycotic diathesis is just the opposite of the psoric diathesis. It often occurs without the person even knowing it. Since the person has stopped eliminating, there are no initial symptoms when they take in something toxic. Instead the toxin is stored in the body, in the liver or in the tissue of a particular organ system. Symptoms often develop later, as the entire system becomes overloaded and the toxins begin to spill out from where they are being stored (Diathesis, 2009).

The Luetic individual is one whose eliminations tend to be destructive. These people are so continually full of toxins that they tend to suffer from chronic inflammation and chronic infections. These people's rhythms are off, they tend towards substance abuse and they often respond poorly to most therapies. Hahnemann described the Syphillitic miasm as a lesional miasm, since there is often an actual physical change or lesion involved with it (Diathesis, 2009).