Homeopathy Doctors
Healing Crisis: The aggravation of Homeopathic treatment of Chronic disease
I routinely recommended to my patients right on their first visit to eat and drink whatever they desire for. When they came back two or three weeks later, they often said that they feel much better now but a week ago they had a cold. When I asked about the symptoms they turn out to be mainly a profuse mucus discharge, sometimes also diarrhea, but rarely are there signs of a real infection. In fact, these patients just experienced their first healing crisis on their long path to better health. This concept of a healing crisis clearly shows the opposite perceptions that drug medicine and homeopathic medicine have of health and the healing process. In regular or allopathic medicine it is assumed that a patient who is free of disease symptoms is more or less healthy and the aim of drugs is to achieve this condition by removing any disagreeable symptoms. Frequently alternative or complementary medicine is used in the same way, instead of more or less toxic drugs just more benign remedies are being used. This is what most patients want and according to their beliefs they either use drugs or natural remedies for this purpose. However, homeopathic treatment, following in the footsteps of the old nature cure movement, aims [...]