Homeopathy is an age-old system of medicine which works on a simple principle of nature-“like cures like”. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann of Germany is known as the pioneer of this miraculous science and art of treating intractable diseases. Rather, in Homeopathy, the patient is treated and not just his disease. So, when cure is attained after successful treatment, it is the patient who is at par with his surroundings, able to dispel further diseases with his heightened resistance power.
The causative factor plays a very crucial role in unbalancing the body’s harmonious functions. In most cases especially in chronic long-standing illnesses, the causative factors are not mere infectious agents but the body’s innate constitutions are at fault. Unless we make these innate forces stable and active again, total cure is not possible. This is done by dynamically enforced homeopathic medicines.
Also, Homeopathy believes that each person is different and so is his illness. How can two different persons be given same medicines if they are displaying dissimilar symptoms, even if of the same disease. So, individualization plays the key role in treatment of cases in Homeopathy. That’s why there is a huge list of questions asked to the patient before prescribing by a good homeopathic doctor. These questions though may seem at times medically irrelevant, help the doctor to exactly guess the innate constitution of the patient and treat accordingly.