what are the advantages and disadvantages of Homeopathy treatment?

What are Homeopathics? Homeopathic remedies are a system of medicine based on three laws: The law of Similars A substance when administrated to a healthy person will produce particular symptoms. When... keep reading →

During my childhood, I never heard the word "Homeopathy" in India. It was predominance of allopathy everywhere. As I grew up, I learnt that Homeopaths give few sugar globules and charge few pennies. I never... keep reading →

Homoeopathic medicines are energy. They are prepared by extreme dilutions and contain no material substance in them above a certain potency. This eliminates the dangers and hence, no side effects. But still large overdose of homoeopathic medicine than what is being prescribed by the physician is not considered to be healthy.

The therapeutic ratio ( dose for “effective” treatment/Dose for harmful effects) is massively high for homeopathy. homeopathy follow the Hippocratic Oath… “first, do no harm.”

Homeopathic medicines are not employed against one particular area or organ of the body. The homeopathic remedy is chosen because it matches as closely as possible the totality of symptoms of the patient

like any other system of medicine, homeopathy also has it's own limitations.

1. A surgical problem which has progressed far beyond its initial stages might not respond to homoeopathy.

2. Some sudden life threatening situations like heart attacks,paralytic strokes,diabetic comas etc. might have to be initially treated with allopathy, till the patient is out of danger.

3 . It is relatively slow acting as compared to the steroids.

4. The success rate is not 100%.