The principle of homeopathy is that it treats the patient as a whole rather than only locally treating the unwell parts. The physical, mental, emotional, social spheres of a person is considered for a permanent cure. When someone is healthy, there is some kind of vital energy that maintains the equilibrium of mind, body and soul. And when there is a derangement of this vital energy then that person will fall sick.

When the vital energy gets disturbed there will be external manifestations in the form of signs and symptoms. The imbalance in the body functions makes a shelter for foreign organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa etc. This allows the organisms to proliferate and results in diseases. Homeopathy believes that the real disease comes before the bacteria and viruses, hence the root cause of the disease has to be treated for a permanent cure. The antibacterial and antiviral agents only remove the secondary causes mentioned above.

Preparation of medicine in homeopathy

In homeopathy medicines are prepared from different sources like minerals, plants, animals, toxins, diseased parts etc. Medicines are prepared from these substances by a special process called potentisation. Here the soluble substances are potentised by diluting with spirit and insoluble substances by grinding with sugar of milk.

The crude drug substance is first mixed with a calculated quantity of spirit and water and kept for few days. From this mixture extract is taken and is called mother tincture. From this mother tincture dilutions are prepared by potentisation, which is a mathematical process by which the quantity of original drug substance reduces but medicinal power increases. There are different potencies for each ratio of quantity of drug substance and vehicle(spirit or sugar of milk), which can be found after the name of every medicine. Suitable potency is selected according to so many factors like severity, depth of disease, condition of the patient, nature of disease, type of symptoms, age of patient and etc.

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