Homeopathy vs. Allopathy: You Are a Person
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According to Hahnemann, the physician's highest calling is to make the patient well.1 With that end in mind, the homeopathic view is to treat the whole person. If only the material disease (a skin rash, for example) is removed but the underlying cause for the rash remains, a person has not been fully treated. Homeopathic practitioners consider the mind/emotion, physical generals/physical particulars, as a way to consider the totality of symptoms before prescribing a remedy to address the disease.
The allopath may be motivated by a desire to cure, but the practice narrowly focuses on treating the symptoms, not the whole person. Allopathic principles consider the disease a local condition.2 The principle can prove temporarily successful because the suppression of symptoms masquerades as a cure. But if the totality of symptoms is not considered when treating a patient, there is a likelihood of a disease migrating to other more vital parts of the body and causing a profound problem or condition.3
1 Hahnemann, S. (2010) Organon of the medical art. Edited by W.B. O’Reilly. Redmond, WA: Birdcage Books
2 Ibid
3 Vithoulkas, G. and Chabanov, D. (2023) The evolution of Miasm theory and its relevance to homeopathic prescribing, Homeopathy: the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy. Available here.