Homeopathic Concepts

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• Homeopathic Concepts

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What is Homeopathy?

• Homeopathy is a system of natural health care
  that has been in worldwide use for over 200
  years. Homeopathy treats each person as a unique
  individual with the aim of stimulating their own
  healing ability.
• A homeopath selects the most appropriate medicine
  based on the individual's specific symptoms and
  personal level of health.
• It is recognised by the World Health Organisation
  as the second largest therapeutic system in use
  in the world. While it is most popular in India
  and South America, over thirty million people in
  Europe, and millions of others around the world,
  also benefit from its use.

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What Is the Placebo Effect?

• A placebo is anything that seems to be a "real"
  medical treatment -- but isn't. It could be a
  pill, a shot, or some other type of "fake"
  treatment. What all placebos have in common is
  that they do not contain an active substance
  meant to affect health.

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The Matter of Placebo Effect

• Studies show that placebos can have an effect on
  conditions such as
• Depression
• Pain
• Sleep disorders
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Menopause

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How Are Placebos Used?

• Researchers use placebos during studies to help
  them understand what effect a new drug or some
  other treatment might have on a particular
  condition.
• For instance, some people in a study might be
  given a new drug to lower cholesterol. Others
  would get a placebo. None of the people in the
  study will know if they got the real treatment or
  the placebo.
• Researchers then compare the effects of the drug
  and the placebo on the people in the study. That
  way, they can determine the effectiveness of the
  new drug and check for side effects.

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How Does the Placebo Effect Work?

• Research on the placebo effect has focused on the
  relationship of mind and body.
• One of the most common theories is that the
  placebo effect is due to a person's expectations.
• If a person expects a pill to do something, then
  it's possible that the body's own chemistry can
  cause effects similar to what a medication might
  have caused.

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Homeopathy is Placebo Because There is Nothing in
the Remedies

• The very first problem with this idea is that it
  sweeps under the rug all of the experience of
  millions of people whose disease they no longer
  suffer from.
• In other words science adapts theory to
  experiment. The critics adapt the other way
  around. It cannot work because there is nothing
  in it.
• The same elementary argument was given the
  Galileo, Newton etc today Prof Luc Montagnier
  and anybody else who does not fit the mold.

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What is a Remedy?

• Homeopathic remedies are made by homeopathic
  pharmacies in accordance with the processes
  described in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the
  United States, the official manufacturing manual
  recognized by the FDA.
• The substances may be made from plants such as
  aconite, dandelion, plantain from minerals such
  as iron phosphate, arsenic oxide, sodium
  chloride from animals such as the venom of a
  number of poisonous snakes, or the ink of the
  cuttlefish.
• These substances are diluted carefully until
  little of the original remains.

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About Us

• Goal of this Homeopathic Services is to help
  everyone understand homeopathy and provide you
  with the necessary information to see a
  professional homeopath whether one is in New
  York, the US or another part of the world.
• Homeopathic Services is owned by Dr. Pierre
  Fontaine practitioner from 25 years in the
  field.

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