Homeopathy is a safe, gentle, and effective system of medicine
that seeks to stimulate the body's own natural healing capacity.
Widespread throughout Europe, India, Africa, Central and South
America, it is experiencing a dramatic renaissance in the United
States and Canada. It has been clinically proven through two
centuries of use. Conventional medicine typically views symptoms
as something wrong and tries to suppress or eliminate them (uses
of drugs or surgery). By contrast, homeopathy considers the
symptoms of the disease and the body's attempt to restore
balance, however uncomfortable the effort. The goal of
homeopathy is to understand and treat the root cause for the
problem, not to mask its existence. What is treated in
homeopathy is referred to as "the vital force," - the underlying
life force in each person. Mental, emotional and physical
symptoms are all considered an expression of this vital force.
In this type of medicine, the patient is the one healing
himself. A remedy is just a catalyst to stimu