The Body's Self-healing System

All natural medicines make use of the self-healing powers of the body

. We know that we have a self-healing system: we know that if we are in reasonably good health cuts heal by themselves, colds come and go without much trouble, children recover from chicken pox with only rest and sleep. As long as we are healthy we can easily get over many of the complaints we contract, and we never even catch many of the things that are around. The surface of our bodies is covered with germs all the time, but most of these gain no power over us as long as we are fit. It is when we are not fit, when we are tired or stressed or weakened by a poor diet, that we start to catch everything and that it takes us longer to get over the illnesses.

Nowadays, in our culture we call the self-healing system the immune system or the immune and defence system. At different ages and in different places many other names have been applied to it. In India it is called prana, and identified with the breath of life, in Japan and China a similar concept is called chi: the balancing of chi energy is the basis of acupuncture and shiatsu. Both these concepts include a wider and deeper vision of the human organism than the Western concept of the immune system, but we are probably all talking about the same thing. Hahnemann, along with his contemporaries, relied at first on the healing power of nature alone. Later, however, he came to realize that the power of nature was not enough by itself to cure disease, at least chronic disease, disease which is deeply embedded in the system and lasts a long time. Human reason needed to be introduced to awake and direct the dormant powers of the self-healing system, which he called the vital force, an energetic force inherent in the body, which both included and transcended the healing power of nature.

The body's self-healing system is maintained, first of all, by the traditional old-fashioned methods of eating healthy food, getting plenty of exercise and rest and living life as free from the pernicious effects of stress as possible. All this is easier said than done. Often we get caught in a vicious cycle, and this is where homoeopathy can help. Homoeopathy can step in and improve our general level of health, boost the self-healing powers of the system and thus enable us to take action about the diet, the exercise, the lifestyle. It can also do much more than lifestyle and diet in a number of cases. Nowadays the self-healing powers of the body are coming under increasingly severe attack from a variety of pollutants. There are many 'new* illnesses which clearly strike directly at the immune system: M.E. (myalgicencephalomyelitis), Candida infestation and AIDS, for instance. In conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis or allergy (called auto-immune diseases) the self-healing system has even turned against its own body, so confused has it become. All such diseases involve a severely weakened immune system which is simply unable to respired effectively to the invading illness. It is now more important than ever that we discover ways of boosting and balancing the immune system for ourselves, ways of taking back some control over our own health.

It is looking very much as if it is some of the very achievements of orthodox science and medicine in the twentieth century that have contributed to the widely-evidenced breakdown in the immune systems of many people: antibiotics, drugs of other sorts and chemicals, both in food and in the air, have all been implicated. Homoeopathy seeks to cooperate with and strengthen the immune system, and its main agent in this is the remedy whose symptoms most closely match the symptoms of the sick person, the simittimum, as it is called. Giving the simittimum supports the immune system, helps realign the self-healing powers of the body and strengthens our own capacity for maintaining health.

by: Rashid Javed

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