What are homeopathic remedies and what’s in them?

Homeopathy is a complete system of medicine developed in the 1700s by a german Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. It is rooted in the ancient healing principles spoken of by the likes of Hippocrates and Paracelsus.

Dr. Hahnemann found himself disillusioned by the practice of medicine at that time, as it wasn’t based in any scientific principles and usually had hazardous implications. Eventually, his conscience didn’t allow him to practice in this manner, and as he was learned in several languages, he devoted himself to work as a translator of medical texts.

But the state of medicine that causes more harm than good didn’t let him rest. Long story short, he was probably the first person who came up with the enlightened idea to test medicines on healthy humans before administering experimental treatments on patient just because. And the rest is history.

Throughout his long life, he laid down the principles and good practices of a new medicine and thus revolutionized the dark ages model based on Newtonian mechanistic science, which, to this day, is the main stream of medicine world-wide.

Unlike allopathic medicine, the approach he developed was actually curing people of illnesses previously thought incurable. And with great success too!

But, new ideas are notoriously known for being only slowly adopted, and his success with this ‘mysterious’ form of medicine couldn’t go unpunished. He was persecuted in his home land, and eventually sought refuge in Paris.

Despite being the opposite of the mainstream materialistic model of everything, due to its great results, homeopathy began spreading through the world like wild-fire. By 1900 there were 22 homeopathic medical schools, more than 100 homeopathic hospitals, over 60 orphan asylums and old people’s homes, and 1,000+ homeopathic pharmacies in the U.S.

 Its name and reputation grew quickly as homeopathic doctors had unprecedented curability rates in the great epidemics of the 19^th  and 20^th centuries. For instance, in the 1918 epidemy of Spanish influenza homeopaths had 1.05% mortality rate while 30% died under allopathic treatment.

So, how come I’ve never heard of it? You must surely be asking.

Well, because, money, power, greed and the artificially growing power of the pharmaceutical industry in early 20^th century.

With the discovery of synthetically manufactured patented drugs rose the opportunity to dominate the medicine making market, and any competition had to be eradicated. In 1910 the Carnegie Foundation issued the famous/infamous Flexner Report. The Flexner Report was an evaluation of American medical schools chaired by Abraham Flexner, in cooperation with leading members of the A.M.A. While pretending to be objective, the Report actually established guidelines meant to sanction orthodox medical schools and condemn homeopathic ones.

The many homeopathic colleges and hospitals were shut down, and homeopathy largely forgotten until its slow resurgence in the 1970ies.


The final blow to American homeopathy was given by John D. Rockefeller, who although himself a life-long consumer of homeopathy gave major grants to the orthodox medical institutions in the early 1900s – between $300-$400 million. There’s lots of money to be made from pills which can be factory produced, very cheaply, and prescribed in a five minute appointment to the population an masse to be taken for life. Not so much the case with homeopathy, where the appointment needs to be an hour long or more, and only one pillule is often needed for a lasting cure.

Meanwhile, homeopathy is being widely used in many countries – Switzerland, France, Germany, Great Britain (where the royal family has been using it almost exclusively for centuries), India, Argentina, Brazil, while under constant attacks from the so-called sceptics.

It is common when you say you’re a homeopath to get a lot of shit, due to the ongoing government level campaigns focused on tarnishing the good name of homeopathy. See for instance the recent fake and manipulated review of homeopathy research ordered by the Australian government. We are currently fighting that, but no form of medicine can compete where there is governmental funding, or lack thereof. Medicine has long been a political and financial matter. Actual care and health have little place in that scheme.

Recently, homeopathy has been under great threat as attempts to eradicate homeopathy from its position as the second largest system of medicine world-wide (according to WHO) have been escalating, once again. The 2019 official merge of Google with Glaxo-Smith-Kline and subsequent censorship of natural medicine on the internet and social media didn’t help of course.

Enough of history, and let’s get down to the facts

Homeopathy is based on very sound, logical, long established and replicable medical principles.

It embraces the spiritual/non-material nature of reality which still escapes the status quo thinking of scientists stuck largely in the long overdue mechanistic model of understanding the universe and everything in it.

Despite the lack of funding and unsuitability of the current ‘gold standard’ protocols for medicine studies, there are hundreds of studies available today proving remarkably similar efficacy of homeopathic medicine compared to allopathic drugs (less the long-term and deadly side effects which are the 4^th leading cause of death today)

Homeopathic medicine is non-toxic, not tested on animals, highly cost-effective, sustainable and actually strengthens health over time, unlike suppressive drugs which, while they may cover up surface symptoms, weaken the organism overall.

Yes, our minds being firmly rooted and schooled in the materialistic beliefs will struggle with the non-material concept of homeopathic medicine, and we may not yet understand how exactly it works, which btw cannot be said for the effects of material doses of drugs either. But the fact remains, that it does work, as evidenced in the daily practice of millions of homeopaths world-wide and proven by countless scientific studies.

How are homeopathic remedies made

During his life, Dr. Hahnemann created, mapped out, and tested several hundred homeopathic remedies himself. As he was developing and perfecting the system, he did in great detail describe the principles of using homeopathy in six revisions of his revolutionary work on medicine called The Organon of the Healing Art.

Homeopathy has come a long way since, and is being constantly modernized and adjusted to the needs of our modern times, but the core principles he laid down haven’t changed.

We have around eight thousand homeopathic remedies by now, and new ones are constantly being proved. The world has changed a lot since Hahnemann’s times. The levels of toxic pollution in our environment and our bodies are unprecedented, the allopathic drugs ever more suppressive, and patients are usually coming to homeopathy only as a last resort, where everything else has failed and all hope has been lost. This means that the practice of homeopathy has become increasingly complex in the western world, but we keep adjusting, developing ever new methodologies and remedies, while staying true to the time-tested principles.

Homeopathy has two main principles

‘Like cures like’

This is often also seen utilized in allopathy, although in a bit of a twisted manner. For instance, where the adrenal glands producing cortisol become overtaxed by its overproduction due to chronic stress, thus not being able to control inflammatory processes, further synthetic cortisol (cortisone) is given to suppress inflammation, while missing the actual cause of inflammation – the chronic stress, completely. Therefore, it only suppresses the body’s signals that there’s something wrong and contributing to furthering of the negative effects excessive amounts of cortisol have on the organism.

Homeopathy takes this principle a little bit further, with its second main principle:

The Law of the minimum dose

In the above mentioned example, this would mean that cortisol given in an infinitesimal homeopathic dose would, instead of promoting further suppression of the body’s response to pathogenic stimuli (stress in this case), stimulate the organism into recognizing the internal imbalance of overproducing natural cortisol, thus helping the body regain its natural balance by pointing to the actual cause – the chronic stress.

Homeopathic Cortisone is often used to detox the body of the negative side effects of corticosteroid drugs. It was found that corticosteroid drugs can act as a blockage to healing even long after their use.

Now, this is a very simplified example, and this method is actually called isopathy, where the same substance causing the symptoms is given back in potency to relieve the symptoms. This is one of the newer branches of homeopathy. In traditional homeopathy, we don’t work with the same substance, but with one that is similar to the one producing symptoms. In this case, a constitutional homeopathic remedy would be chosen to address what is actually causing the stress to begin with, therefore an even deeper healing effect would be produced.

How are homeopathic remedies produced and used

Based on the above explained principles the idea is that the symptoms a substance (any substance and some imponderables, too) can produce in a healthy individual are the same as what can said substance cure in an individual who suffers those same symptoms.

Dr. Hahnemann began diluting medicinal substances to make them safer, at first. But as he continued using higher and higher dilutions, something quite unexpected has become obvious – instead of their action becoming weaker with each dilution, it became much stronger. The process is accompanied by sucussion – shaking, to dynamize the medicinal substance, ie. to transfer its immaterial essence to the medium in which it’s being diluted, usually water preserved by alcohol.

So, what’s in it then?

Homeopathic remedies are carriers of vibrational information, meaning there’s no material healing agent within them. They carry an energetic essence which acts upon the spiritual essence of organisms, thus stimulating their self-healing ability.

The original substance they’re made of might come from plants, minerals, animals or chemicals.

How are homeopathic medicines tested and their action established

This process is twofold – first, every new remedy goes through a process of proving. This is a method where homeopathic remedies are given to healthy people, and then the symptoms they produce are carefully recorded.

Later, the symptoms a remedy is observed to cure in clinical practice are added to those symptoms.

How are homeopathic remedies used

Based on the provings and observations from clinical practice, we now have a very, very long list of mental, emotional, and physical symptoms belonging to each remedy. There are thousands of remedies, and these symptoms have been collected for over two hundred years.

The job of a homeopath is to find the exact remedy whose symptoms will be the closest match to the symptoms each patient is presenting.

We don’t prescribe generic medicines based on the name of a diagnosis, but instead always seek the remedy that will match the overall symptomatic picture of a patient. As individual as we each are, so are the symptoms different, even in patients with the same conventional diagnoses. This means that two persons with the same diagnosis, presenting with very similar complaints might need a different homeopathic remedy.

To find one among the thousands, not to mention the correct dosage and application, is no easy feat. Homeopaths use large indexed books called repertories for this purpose, or computerized systems of those indexes, then cross-reference the most plausible remedies with other large books called Materia Medica’s, which hold detailed overall descriptions of the typical actions of those remedies.

What to expect when you see a homeopath

As explained above, to find the right individualized prescription for you, the homeopath needs to understand you. They need to find out why do you have the exact symptoms you have, how they affect your life, and how it all fits together.

For this purpose, the homeopath will ask a lot of questions about you, your life, your relationships etc. and listen very intently, not just to what is being said, but also to what is left unsaid.

The initial consultation lasts about 1 to 2 hours, and might include your whole medical history, questions about your family’s medical history, your prenatal and birth situation, eating habits, preferences or cravings, sleeping patterns etc. etc. You get the drift.

Then they will analyze all the information collected, translate the most important symptoms into the indexed repertory rubrics, and cross-reference potential remedies. This process might take around another hour.

You will then be presented with your prescription consisting either of homeopathic drops, or little white sucrose pellets as a carrier.

The effect of a remedy is evaluated every few weeks, and since all living organisms are dynamic and nothing is static in life, homeopathy always responds to the current state of the patient and adjusts the prescription or changes remedies as needed.

Your homeopath will also be getting to know and understand your case ever deeper as they analyse and repertorize over and over again after each session and based on your responses to the remedies. Therefore, it is advisable to stick with one homeopath for at least six months as they’re refining your remedy prescriptions. Six months is also a good amount of time to asses any improvements, although often those are seen much sooner, sometimes within a week of first remedy taken.

Can I self-prescribe homeopathy?

Sadly, I cannot recommend it. You’re not likely to be successful when it comes to chronic problems. There’s years and years of practice, study and experience that goes into the ability to not only successfully prescribe in the first place, but to safely manage a case towards a complete resolution.

But yes, you can self-prescribe when it comes to acute self-limiting illnesses.

Such are those that are usually intense, short-lived and would resolve themselves over time – colds and flu’s, urinary tract infections, tonsillitis, head-aches, minor digestive disturbances, cuts, stings, small accidents, cold-sores and similar.

To find out how well homeopathy works for yourself schedule a session now.