THE BASICS OF HOMŒOPATHY by Ahmed Masood

The American health "care" system is ridiculously expensive and dysfunctional -- studies consistently show that it does the lousiest job in the industrialized world of taking care of us*. We are also an over-medicated society (it's big business, right?). But there are alternatives out there**; one is homœopathy. So I invited my great friend, Ahmed Masood, a licensed Advanced Practitioner of Homœopathy, to write a guest piece on the subject, and he kindly agreed to. Many thanks, Ahmed!

* 2006 World Health Organization statistics show that the U.S. ranked number 1 for health care spending per capita and yet ranked 39th for infant mortality and 36th for life expectancy (43rd for adult female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortality).

** This post is for informational purposes only. How you manage your health is your choice and your responsibility, obviously.

Ahmed Masood, Advanced Practitioner of Homœopathy

THE BASICS OF HOMŒOPATHY

The seed or the roots of Homœopathic medicine must be maintained as is. That’s why I write the word Homœopathy with a diphthong. I practice it through the fundamental law of healing: In Latin, it is called similia similibus curentur, which means similar things take care of similar things or a similar malady can cure a similar malady.

Homœopathic medicine is an empirically based discipline that is a part of the larger universe of human health science. It is built on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic. The starting point is strictly on inductive reasoning.

In the Homœopathic system of medicine, symptoms are of prime importance, and any new ailing human being is not seen pathologically, but cured holistically -- emotional, mental and spiritual states are indispensable in understanding human discomfiture. A Homœopathic remedy inspires and conveys a message to the body and the disease leaves. The low dilution remedies are non-invasive in nature.

The founder of Homœopathy Samuel Hahnemann’s book "Organon of Medicine" reigns supreme in explaining the laws of health and healing. The book explains clearly the derangement of human health and how to revive it. Every natural law is stringent by nature. Their rigidity is their strength. Any attempt to invade these will bring catastrophe and chaos. In the last paragraph of the preface of the 6th edition of "Organon," Hahnemann explained Homœopathy in a nutshell:

Thus Homœopathy is an entirely simple medical art, always constant in its principles as well as in its procedures. These principles and procedures, as well as the theory on which they rest (if well grasped) will be found to be self-contained and only in this way helpful. The purity of its theory and of its practice is self-explanatory. It therefore entirely excludes all backsliding into the ruinous routine of the old school (whose contrary it is, as day is to night). If it is other than this, then it ceases to earn the venerable name of Homœopathy.

There are 294 aphorisms in this book. These are laws of nature as strong as mountains. This makes it a very practical book, not an idealistic one. These laws have been proven both experimentally and clinically. So, Homœopathy is an evidence-based science.

Readers must keep in mind that the destruction of Homœopathy is the destruction of our planet. The conventional medicine –- the Allopathy and their pharmacy -- is based on toxins and byproducts of the petrochemical industry.

AHMED MASOOD | A.P.H.,
LAS VEGAS, NV
ahmedmasood@cox.net

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