Like Cures Like
Substances that produce symptoms when given in large doses can cure illnesses with similar symptoms when given in microdoses.
Law of Similars
Medicine that will cause certain symptoms in a healthy patient has potential to cure the same symptoms in a sick person.
Symptoms Indicate Healing
Symptoms represent the body's efforts to heal itself, therefore, they are stimulated to complete the curative process.
Homeopathic remedies are based on provings
Medicinal substances are given to healthy people in small doses to assess their physiological properties. These "provings" continue until there are symptoms and the healing potential of the substance is revealed.
The totality of the symptoms is considered
The individual's complete symptom picture is taken into account, including mental, emotional and physical complaints.The remedy exacting matching those symptoms is known as the simillimum.
A single remedy is given
One homeopathic medicine is chosen to perfectly match the totality of the patient's symptoms.This is also done so that it is possible to determine if the remedy acted, because the effect of more than one remedy may be unpredictable.
A minimum of doses is given
The individual's innate healing powers are encouraged by only a small stimulus. Dose-
The remedies are microdoses
Homeopathic medicines are "potentized" to minute dosages in which there may be no physical trace of the original substance remaining.
