How It Works

Also of concern to Hahnemann was the large doses of corrosive medicines which were regularly adminstered to the sick (a situation which still exists in our modern world).  He found a way of attuning his poisonous medicines using dilution and succussion (shaking) so that only a minute amount of the substance was necessary medicinally to initiate a cure by 'triggering' the immune system to rouse up.  He found that even minute amounts were enough to trigger a healing response, thus making homeopathy safe and gentle in its action.

Hahnemann was ahead of his time. He understood that people have an animating force which when healthy allows their different systems to function harmoniously, but which when sick throws out symptoms and signs that all is not well.  These symptoms, seen as 'dangerous' and needing to be suppressed by conventional doctors, were seen merely as warnings that all was not well and indicators by Hahnemann of which medicine was needed in order to rebalance this animating force and restore health.  He also understood that certain diseases, such as tuberculosis, when treated suppressively could be engrafted onto the constitution of subsequent generations and form 'miasms', or inherited weaknesses. We now have many medicines which can heal at this deep constitutional level, releasing people from these scourges.