The Many Faces of Homeopathy

Homeopathy is well known as the world’s safest medicine, with no toxicity or side effects. But it is also the most versatile. Effective in a very broad range of conditions and causes, it can impact the most dense and material parts of our structure and cellular matter, even changing scar tissue and bone spurs. On the other end of the scale, it is a spiritual medicine par excellence, re-connecting an individual with their deepest nature and inherent power that has been lost and obscured. And when it comes to psychological change and healing, homeopathy has no parallel in the medicinal world, for it actually liberates and transforms our patterns of feeling and thought—not just suppressing them, in the style of medical drugs.

What Homeopthy Cures

The list of conditions treated and cured by homeopathy is very extensive. And modern day research has proved what 200 years of treatment on tens of millions of patients around the world has shown: Homeopathy works! Conditions include:

• asthma
• arthritis
• gastritis and reflux
• migraine
• premature aging
• ADD
• autism and learning disabilities
• impotence and ED
• infertility
• PMS and dysmenorrhea
• chronic fatigue
• fibromyalgia
• colitis and irritable bowel syndrome

Dr. Asa has successfully treated all of these conditions over the last three decades.

In all cases, homeopathy is a healing science based on the body, mind and spirit’s natural intelligence and our ability for self-healing. Homeopathy can help a disorganized and confused organism rouse its resources to make a cohesive and direct defense against illness. There are however, different ways of applying this versatile form of medicine, and the four main categories of homeopathy are outlined below.

Complex Homeopathy

Complex homeopathy uses remedy combinations to treat conditions like colds and flu, arthritis, blood sugar disorders and so on. The individual remedies used in the combination are those that are known to be the most effective in relieving the symptoms, correcting the disturbed physiology and getting at the underlying causes of that specific condition. These complex homeopathics are commonly available in health food stores.

Combination remedies are used in lower potencies (closer to their chemical nature and material form) for healing on a physical and metabolic level. If intelligently formulated (and unfortunately many are not), they can improve the function of organs and tissues, and revitalize weak areas of the body. They are also dramatically effective in relieving symptoms, where the alternative is often toxic and invasive medical drugs. For example, in head to head studies using several arthritis medicines that I formulated for Schiff, the homeopathic combination was more effective in relief from swelling, pain and stiffness than the most powerful medical anti-inflammatory drugs known!

Classical Homeopathy

This original form of homeopathy uses a single remedy, exactly matched to the symptoms of the individual, with a view to stimulate the body’s self-healing mechanisms. Classic homeopathy is far more individualized that complex homeopathy. And thus it is easier to make a mistake and use a remedy that is not as effective as one would have hoped. Classically prescribed remedies can be given for both acute and chronic conditions, and thus may be used for short-term problems, or taken for prolonged periods of time. One seeks a remedy that is exactly the right match for the condition and the unique make up of the person who has it. Because there are a dozens of possible remedies to choose from for any condition, it requires some skill for self-prescribing. Relying on the expertise of a homeopathic professional might be the best way to go in complicated situations. For example, even for cold or flu, there are dozens of effective homeopathic medicines, depending on subtle symptom differences, and the person’s individualized biological and individualized psychological type. Single remedies really shine when it comes to chronic conditions, such as arthritis, migraines or cardiovascular disease, where medical treatment is largely ineffective, generally toxic and is only symptomatic—not curative.

Constitutional Homeopathy

Homeopathy can also profoundly change one’s underlying weaknesses and disease tendencies. To this end, a series of remedies is prescribed that perfectly match one’s metabolic type, psychological type, and unique individual qualities and core patterns—not just one’s disease symptoms. A singe remedy is used from the plant, mineral or animal kingdom, with gradual but deep and lasting results.

Archetypal Homeopathy

Archetypal homeopathy is a more advanced and subtle form of constitutional prescribing. With this approach, the practitioner must perceive the trends and direction in which the individual is evolving, and understand the basic struggles in the person’s innermost core. While many of the same remedies are used as in Constitutional homeopathy, they are directed towards the spiritual level. Here, ancient traumas, old karma, and blockages have become serious obstacles on the soul’s journey towards full self-discovery and awakening. This approach places much greater emphasis on our spiritual nature, motives and values, as well as the archetypal meaning of the remedy we need. For example, Horse’s Milk may be given to help liberate us from being held back. Diamond is used if we are a “diamond in the rough.” Pulsatilla—one of the first flowering plants—can help regain lost femininity. Rather than being facile or fanciful, this correspondence requires great perception and has profound transformative effects.