How Homeopathy and Allopathy differs

Homeopathy and Allopathy differs all the way in Medicines derivation, selection and applications too. One can understand well about these two systems only when they could differentiate their views and applications.

• In Allopathy, Medicines are initially proved in animals / lab analysis and finally brought for clinical trials. In Homeopathy, medicines are proved in healthy human beings.

• In Allopathy, any chemical substances can be used as drug substances whereas Homeopathy accepts those substances as Medicines only when they are capable of producing similar set of symptoms in healthy human beings.

• Allopathic medicines are mostly prescribed in crude form and in large doses whereas in Homeopathy, medicines are very much refined and given in minimal and minute doses. This inestimable minute dose or lack of research in science to spot medicinal substance in Homeopathic dilution often brings criticism to Homeopathy as Placebo medicine.

• When one happens to take Allopathic medicines for a prolonged period, adverse reactions are very common, whereas in Homeopathy, since medicines are very much refined and given in minute doses, mostly there won’t be any side-effects at all. Further one need to aware that complications with Allopathy drugs are mostly because of using unnatural chemical drugs.

• Allopathy treats diseases in all the possible way and best of the time. Here specific medicines or specific mode of treatment will be provided for specific diseases. But in Homeopathy, Homeopaths need to match the symptoms between patient symptoms and disease symptom to arrive at right remedy “similimum” to cure the patient at the earliest. So, in Homeopathy, selection of medicines often varies depending upon the patients presenting complaints, i.e. in Homeopathy, if 10 jaundice patients come for treatment, they may get prescribed of different medicines according to their symptom presentation.

• In Allopathy, different diseases are treated by different set of medicines (and sometimes by different doctors too) – they often interact (as most of time patient won’t reveal all sorts of treatment to the doctor of current treatment – even if they do so, sometimes interactions may be inevitable). Interactions not only come as an obstacle in the process of cure, but also complicate the disease further and make the disease as “Incurable”. In Homeopathy, Homeopath usually try to analyze all the complaints (of body and mind) to individualize the patient to choose right drug. So there won’t be any interactions or adverse reactions.

• Allopathic medicines usually act directly on the respective cells / tissues / bacteria’s / viruses / fungus or worms to bring positive health. In Homeopathy, medicines usually give energy (or support) to our immune mechanism (natural healing mechanism of the body) to get it strengthened to expel the disease on its own. Here one should comprehend that Homeopath won’t provide any remedy to kill bacteria / virus / fungus or worms, but they will get expelled by our body’s own healing powers (on getting strength through prescribed medicines). So recurrences of complaint will be very less in Homeopathy, when compared to other system of medicines, since our body will have increased resistance force after Homeopathic treatment.

• Allopathic medicines often treat the effects of the disease (for example, kidney stone, gall stone, warts or any tumour) and just give importance for its removal, whereas Homeopathy treats patient as a biological whole, to expel them naturally, to root out the tendencies and to combat recurrences. Here one need to aware that surgery has its own advantages – especially in serious conditions, irrevocable structural changes and in congenital malformations.

• In Allopathy, removal of affected tissues / tumours / stones / warts is also considered as cure. But Homeopathy considers it as pausing of disease and not as removal of cause or disease itself. So surely one can expect recurrences or bounce back in higher intensity in such cases, for example, in cases of renal stones, lipoma, etc. Here removal of stones or affected tissue cannot be taken as elimination of the whole disease since it is only the effects of the disease and not the disease itself. So, the stone-forming tendency will be there in the body and recurrences are common and in tumour or warts cases, the disease will move or proceed to other places / parts soon. Homoeopathy unlike other system of medicines, do not concentrate just in affected parts – it actually cares for total health i.e. for all symptoms of the patient.

• In Allopathy, since medicines are used in large doses and in continuous manner (for chronic complaints), often it causes dependency for medicines whereas in Homeopathy it is not like that since medicines are prescribed in small doses and infrequently.

• In Allopathy, in course of time with treatment, drug resistance (drugs may become ineffective) may develop and it would let any one down again with sufferings. But in Homeopathy it is very uncommon since similimum medicine is selected matching all the symptoms of the patient that will just trigger our immune mechanism to act against disease force.

Finally, every one should realize that living comfortably is equally important as saving a life or otherwise it will create a worst scenario. So every one should realize that the places of both (Allopathy and Homeopathy) are equally important and there should not be any conflicts between doctors of those systems – instead they should be complementary for each other for the betterment of suffering humanity / patients. Patients should also aware that they should pursue their positive health in a right way with the best mode of treatment available.

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Dr. S. Chidambaranathan, BHMS, MD (Homeo)

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