Background to Brauer Natural Remedies

Homeopathy and other systems of Medicine

Different systems of medicine work in different ways. Orthodox drug-based medicine works by suppressing a sign or symptom of the disease. For example, when a person has arthritis we use an anti-inflammatory to stop the inflammation. If someone has acne, we might use an antibiotic to kill the bacteria in the pimples.

Herbal and nutritional supplements use a different principle. They usually help to stimulate recovery by chemically boosting some aspect of the body’s recovery processes.

Homeopathic medicines promote recovery by removing the body’s response to the original cause of the problem, and thereby removing the need for the body to develop symptoms.

Most pharmaceutical medicines mask the symptoms without dealing with the cause of a health problem. A disease is not just symptoms. Symptoms are the body's reaction to the cause of a health problem and simply stopping the symptoms does not make the disease go away, it just masks its presence.

Think of a burning house with its fire alarm that's screaming away, alerting everyone within hearing distance that a house is on fire. Merely stopping the symptoms is a bit like pulling the wires out of the fire alarm. You've silenced the alarm but the house is still burning down. Brauer Natural Medicines use Homeopathic remedies, which work with your body to deal with the cause of the problem so that we no longer need to have symptoms. They're mostly made from natural substances and processed in a way that makes them both very powerful and highly unlikely interact with other medicines or interference with any serious health problem for which the medicines is not being used.

 

The diagram above outlines the progression of disease and symptoms and the points at which various forms of therapy act on this process. All of us inherit the potential for some form of disease. Most diseases begin when this inherited problem is triggered by an outside influence. For example, a virus usually triggers a cold or flu, while pollens often trigger Hay fever.

When we are healthy, the levels of energy in all parts of our body are in perfect balance. When our inherited disease potential is triggered, the body responds by shifting some of this energy to the area where this trigger has been received. For example, in the case of hay fever, more energy is shifted to the eyes, nose and throat, which is normally where pollens collect. Our body sends more energy to this area so it can produce symptoms to try and get rid of the problem. If someone has Hayfever, their body will produce sneezing, a runny nose and watery eyes in its attempt to remove the pollens that are causing the hay fever. If we use a product to simply stop the Hay fever (such as an antihistamine), or the symptoms (such as a herb or supplement), we will not cure the problem because these products do not address the real cause of the disease — the body’s response to the pollen.

Symptoms are normally attempts by the body to cure the original problem. Simply stopping the symptoms will not cure the disease. Homoeopathic medicine re-balances the body’s energy system. It therefore cures the problem because it stops the body responding to the pollen, virus, stress or other trigger that started the disease process.

WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY?

Over 200 years ago, Dr Samuel Hahnemann designed a system of medicine based on what he called the ‘Law of Similars’. This law states that a substance can cause, it can also cure. For example, we know that coffee, if used to excess, can cause insomnia. In homeopathy, we use very small amounts of coffee to treat insomnia. Homeopathic and orthodox medicines work on different systems within the body, which means that homeopathic remedies will not interfere with the action of drug-based medicines.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Homeopathic medicine uses very small amounts of natural substances to gently stimulate the body’s own natural defence system.

HOW ARE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES MADE?

Homeopathy frequently uses only minute amounts of active substances to alleviate symptoms of illness.  Poisonous or inert substances must be diluted to become therapeutically useful in accordance with the ‘Similia’ principle.  Dr Hahnemann also found that even non-toxic substances could sometimes temporarily exacerbate symptoms.  To prevent such ‘aggravations’, Dr Hahnemann proceeded to dilute his preparations according to the following technique which he called potentisation:

 

From the starting material, which would normally be a natural substance, he produced a mother tincture or starting solution. He would then add one part of this to 99 parts of alcohol and water, and succuss, or vigorously shake the vessel containing this mixture against a semi-hard surface. This resulted in a 1C or first centesimal dilution. Repeating this process once more gave a 2C or second centesimal dilution, and so on. Centesimal or C dilutions are sometimes also written as CH, for Centesimal Hahnemann. Some time after this, another system of dilution was developed in which one part of the mother tincture was added to 9 parts of alcohol and water instead of 99 parts. This gave a 1X or first decimal dilution. Repeating this step gives a 2X dilution and so on. Homeopathic dilutions are also referred to as potencies.

 

The table below shows the relationship of some of the potencies and the resulting dilutions.  It is clear to see that as the potencies increase, the dilutions become quite extreme.

 

Decimal	Centesimal	Dilution
1X	-	1:10 (10 –1)
2X	1C	1:100 (10 –2)
3X	-	1:1,000 (10 –3)
4X	2C	1:10,000 (10 –4)
5X	-	1:100,000 (10 –5)
6X	3C	1:1000,000 (10 –6)
12X	6C	1:1 billion (10 –12)
60X	30C	1:1 billion billion billion billion billion (10 –60)