Your practitioner might also advise general lifestyle and dietary changes as part of a treatment plan. Homeopaths indicate that sometimes symptoms may temporarily get worse before they get better.
However, you should tell your homeopath and your doctor if you have reactions. Your homeopath may refer you to a doctor or other healthcare practitioner if necessary. After the 12th dilution, there is no discernible chemical trace of the original substance left in the medicine, but homeopaths believe the preparation retains the qualities of the original substance.
Conventional medicine and homeopathy All medical treatments, whether conventional medicine or alternative medicine, have the potential to interact with each other. To make sure you are not doing any harm, you should: Tell your doctor if you are planning to start a course of homeopathic treatment for your condition.
Never stop taking conventional drugs without the knowledge and approval of your doctor. Tell your homeopath what conventional drugs you are taking. Homeopathy claims to stimulate healing responses to diseases by administering substances that mimic the symptoms of those diseases in healthy people. The effectiveness of homeopathic preparations is disputed within medical science.
You should never stop taking conventional drugs without the knowledge and approval of your doctors. More information here. Policies and guidelines, Australian Register of Homoeopaths. The evidence for homeopathy, British Homeopathic Association. Ernst E.
Give feedback about this page. Developed by Dr Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century, homeopathy also follows a holistic approach to good health stimulating the body's natural ability to cure itself.
Its guiding principle is to choose a remedy that would produce similar symptoms to those you wish to treat, i. Each remedy is created by a series of dilution and shaking processes to produce a minimum 'potentised' dose. If you would like further advice, please contact Weleda on or email sales weleda. Sort by: Item No. Aconite 30C tabs Item No. To provide resources that help answer health questions, MedlinePlus a service of the National Library of Medicine brings together authoritative information from the National Institutes of Health as well as other Government agencies and health-related organizations.
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We encourage you to discuss any decisions about treatment or care with your health care provider. What's the Bottom Line? What do we know about the effectiveness of homeopathy? What do we know about the safety of homeopathic products? Some products labeled as homeopathic may contain substantial amounts of active ingredients and could cause side effects and drug interactions. What Is Homeopathy? Many homeopathic products are so diluted that no molecules of the original substance remain.
Use in the United States. The proposed approach would call for more careful scrutiny of products with the greatest potential for risk, including: Those with reported safety concerns. Those that are not taken by mouth or rubbed on skin. Those for vulnerable populations. Those that do not meet legal standards for quality, strength, or purity. While many homeopathic products are highly diluted, some products sold or labeled as homeopathic may not be; they can contain substantial amounts of active ingredients, which may cause side effects or drug interactions.
Negative health effects from homeopathic products of this type have been reported. A systematic review of case reports and case series concluded that using certain homeopathic products such as those containing heavy metals like mercury or iron that are not highly diluted or replacing an effective conventional treatment with an ineffective homeopathic one can cause adverse effects, some of which may be serious. Liquid homeopathic products may contain alcohol. The FDA allows higher levels of alcohol in these than in conventional drugs.
Researchers have not found much evidence of this reaction in clinical studies; however, research on homeopathic aggravations is scarce. Always discuss changes in your symptoms with your health care provider.
The FDA has warned consumers about different products labeled as homeopathic. For example, in , it alerted consumers that some homeopathic teething tablets had excessive amounts of the toxic substance belladonna; in , it warned consumers not to rely on over-the-counter asthma products labeled as homeopathic, because they are not evaluated by the FDA for safety and effectiveness.
Regulation of Homeopathic Products. More to Consider. If you are considering using a homeopathic product, bring it with you when you visit your health care provider. The provider may be able to help you determine whether the product might pose a risk of side effects or drug interactions.
How are remedies labeled? How do people use remedies? Homeopathic remedies can be used in several different ways. In an acute, or first aid, setting, low potency remedies may be administered frequently and repetitively , depending upon the situation this is best guided by a skilled prescriber or at least an informed consumer.
In contrast, when a classical homeopath recommends a remedy for a client , he or she identifies the one best remedy for the overall health and symptom state of a person, taking into account the full range of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states of the person. The homeopath gives the remedy once in a single dose, then monitors responses for weeks to months. This is called constitutional treatment in classical homeopathy.
A variation of dosing uses liquid LM remedies. Homeopaths usually recommend dosing once or twice daily. Part of the dosing process with LMs is to succuss and dilute further, so that each subsequent dose is slightly more potent and stimulates the healing response.
An individual's constitutional LM may also be used to treat an acute illness. For common complaints , such as colds, coughs, flus, earaches, and teething, a consumer may purchase homeopathic products over the counter. Examples of such products are Zicam for allergies and NoJetLag. Most of these are combination products made up of many low potency remedies, acting in a "shotgun" approach to the particular symptom s. Used in the short term, these probably have no lasting negative impact, but if taken for prolonged periods of time, the remedies that were not suited to the particular individual can begin to cause "proving" symptoms in that person see explanation above.
These should resolve upon stopping ingestion of the product. Because of this issue, single remedy therapies are usually most ideal and less likely to cause undesired effects. Where can I buy remedies? Are flower essences part of homeopathy? Speight, Phyllis
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