Chapter 2:
Homeopaths treat people, not diagnoses.
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What In The World Is Homeopathy?
The Importance of Symptoms
Common symptoms such as pain, inflammation, fever, swelling, and changes in perspiration, urination, sleep, hunger, and thirst, often point to an imbalance in the body. Without symptoms, you would never know that you were ill and your homeopath could not assist you in getting better.

Your homeopath takes a careful case history and performs a physical examination when necessary. She observes you, listens to all of your symptoms, then uses them to select a homeopathic remedy. The more peculiar and unusual your symptoms are, the easier it is to find a medicine that uniquely matches them.

Local illnesses without symptoms, such as a brain tumor, rectal polyps, breast lumps, or cancer of the cervix often go undetected for a long time, unless discovered on routine physical examination. Your defense mechanism may not yet have found a way to bring the problem to your attention or to correct it. Sometimes the body generates other symptoms, along with the hidden illness, which you can notice. These symptoms often lead your homeopath to discover the illness and to prescribe a remedy which will cure it.

Joan
32, complained of a skin rash on her face. As part of her routine physical exam, a Pap smear, which was several years overdue, was recommended. The Pap smear results indicated significant precancerous cell changes in her cervix (cervical dysplasia). Although the cervical dysplasia was asymptomatic, the rash led her to seek treatment. Through homeopathy and other natural therapies, both the rash and the cervical dysplasia were cured.