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Classical Homeopathy Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. Just as your body knows how to heal a cut on your finger, so can it heal many deep-seated ailments when given the right stimulus. Homeopathy's great power lies in recognizing that all symptoms of ill health, be that physical or mental/emotional, are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the person who needs treatment, not the disease. While symptoms often manifest in different organ systems or parts of the body, they are all expressions of one central disturbance. To find the correct remedy for you, your homeopath will need to know not only your physical symptoms but also as much as possible about yourself and how your symptoms affect you. In 1796 a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick which he called homeopathy (from the Greek words meaning "similar suffering"). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier he realized that there were two ways of treating ill health: the way of opposites and the way of similars.   How does it work? Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on an artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of regular or large doses of drugs which can cause side effects or addiction. The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the person a minute dose of a substance which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. Surprisingly this will enable the person to sleep naturally. Homeopathic remedies cannot cause side effects and you cannot become addicted to them. This is because only a very minute amount of the active ingredient is used in a specifically prepared form. It is not the smallness of the dose nor the way the remedy is prepared which makes it homeopathic, but when the symptoms of the remedy and that of the person are matched based on their similarities.