I think I need to give an example:
Let’s say a patient is suffering from athritis. The patient has two choices.
Allopathy: Physician will prescribe a drug to treat arthritis. Plus any pain killer (let’s say aspirin) and give it to the patient. This approach is to treat the disease.
Homeopathy:
Case 1: If it is a layman or a skeptic like you who do not undersdtand Homeopathy, for them we simply say we have Belladonna, Bryonia, Rhus Tox, (etc etc) in Homeopathy for curing arthiritis.
Then skeptics asks for scientific explanation from me to prove it to them that these medicines/method/procedure have passed double blind because they consider everything unscientific if it has not passed through the lens of double blind studies. But they forget that double blind comes only in 1960’s, before that everything was emperical.
I argue with them up to a point because I know they would never trust homeopathy. They can have trust only in one case that they are being cured of their diseased condition.
I ask all skeptics to rely on your personal experience for a while, have you ever tried Homeopathic remedies before discrediting them (According to skeptics, homeopathy has zero effects, so they should not botherthat it is going to kill them)? The world is divided into the haves and have nots: those who have tried homeopathy and hose who have not. Those who have tried it–the 500 million people in the world who use homeopathy–know that it works. They didn’t decide that based on years of research. The people who discard homeopathy, have no personal experience with it. Homeopathic remedies are readily available. It would require no commitment for them to put a remedy where their mouth is. There is a proud tradition of scientists using their own bodies in research. Dr. Max von Pettenkofer drank a broth containing cholera and Dr. Jesse Lazear allowed mosquitoes infected with yellow fever to bite his arm. Surely you can try a little sugar pill. It would cost you a little. Otherwise you spend so much time and effort for so many years on Internet It seems absurd to argue about a point that can so easily be resolved.
Case 2: If it is patient or someo one who understands homeopathy, we will explore the case in this way
[b]a. Joints are red, hot swollen with throbbing pain is a possible Belladonna case.
b. Pain is worse from slightest movement. Better resting. Dry mouth - a possible Bryonia case.
c. Pain is worse at first motion, better afterward, stiff joints in moving - a possible Rhus Tox case. [/b]
A physician will go further into mind (mind symptoms)and other physical symptoms (the above three are just to make you understand).
Disease is not symptoms. It is disease in terms of symptomsIn homeopathy the physician has to go into more specific nature of a problem - many layers deep into any complaint.