A headache can be throbbing, stabbing, pressure like as if the head being squeezed, congestive with the feeling the head is going to explode. Then there is location; it can be all over, on one side, above the eye, in the ear and jaw, above the neck. Headaches can get better by heat or cold compresses, sleep, pressure, laying down, sitting up or other factors.
Based on Hering’s observations, a homeopath looks at four distinguishing factors for evaluating the symptoms.
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To understand homeopathy one must first understand its complexity and then its specificity. I am going to use conventional medicine, which is the basis of my education, and is something experienced by everyone, to explain the difference. The difference between allopathic medicine as we know and experience it in modern times and homeopathy is the amount of detail regarding an individual symptom. Within the current medical paradigm a simple headache not related to any infection, trauma or disease process will be treated by a pain-killer, like Tylenol. However, the homeopathic paradigm mandates a headache will be treated not with a pain-killer but a substance in nature that creates that specific headache. This substance is chosen after the four distinguishing factors above have been answered by the patient (that’s why homeopathic consultations are longer than conventional cons
Allow me to digress a little to explain an important fact that has been a reason for the physicians who lack the above knowledge in homeopathy to dismiss its effectiveness as nonscientific. A double-blind controlled study is the gold standard of conventional medicine to compare the effectiveness of different medications for a specific illness.
For example, 100 people with headaches will be divided and randomly assigned to two treatment groups.
One of the groups will receive drug A and the other drug B. At the end of the study according to the resolutions of the symptoms of the two groups the effectiveness of drug A and B is compared and one is chosen over the other. From what we discussed previously, the four distinguishing factors and the specificity of each medication, you can appreciate that such a study in essence will not work with homeopathy. ultations).
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