Seven Principles of Homeopathy

Homeopathy is based on fundamental principles that have been used effectively in healing for thousands of years. Homeopathy is a distinct system of health care. These principles help to make homeopathy a distinct system of health care and these principles guide the practice of homeopathic medicine.

1. The Curative Power of Life: The physician’s highest calling is to cure. Homeopaths have found the key to achieving this – by unlocking the healing power of substances from the natural world. All of life has the capacity to heal.

2. The Law of Similars: Matching the Medicine to the Patient. Each patient brings a unique and integrated symptom picture that completely represents their disease state. Each medicine has a unique and integrated symptom picture. When the medicine's picture is as similar as possible to that of the patient, the medicine acts curatively. This is the Law of Similars, which is nature's law of cure.

3. Energy Medicine: All of life is energy. The deepest level of expression of any organism is its vital force. The purpose of homeopathy is to restore the patient's balance and harmony. In disease, what needs to be cured is the mistunement of the vital force. Homeopathic medicines directly affect the vital force. They stimulate the self-healing power of the individual.

4. Removing Obstacles to Cure: Healing can be impeded by obstacles such as drugs, diet, stress and other emotional or physical factors in the environment of the patient. For this reason, our role as homeopaths includes the task of helping patients identify and remove these obstacles. It is also important that while doing so, practitioners act in a non-judgmental and compassionate way.

5. Less is More: The quantity of action necessary to effect any change in nature is the least possible. The body heals it self with maximum economy. Homeopaths use the minimum dose necessary to effect cure.

6. Treating the Whole Person: Each person is a unique, complete and integrated whole. Effective treatment considers all levels of the person'sbeing (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual). In so doing, it honors what is unique and characteristic about each person.

7. Non-Suppressive: Homeopathy does not seek to suppress or palliate symptoms but to threat the underlying cause of disease. It does this in the most safe yet effective way.