I HOLD A PRIVATE GYNAECOLOGICAL OFFICE IN GREECE.A PATIENT OF MINE IS UNDER HOMEOPATHY TREATMENT FOR PERSISTENT HEADACHES.I HAVE DIAGNOSED A CHLAMYDIAL AND UREOPLASMA INFECTION OF HER GENITALIAPROVEN BY CULTURES. SINCE THESE CONDITIONS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE(40%),SUBFERTILITY(20%) AND INCREASED RISK OF ECTOPIC PREGNANCY I WONDER WHY HER HOMEOPATHIST DOES NOT ALLOW HER TO TAKE THE APPROPRIATE TREATMENT AND IF YOU AGREE ON THAT.THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANSWER.

Hello Foteva,

To answer your question, I will need to elaborate upon the difference in homeopathic and allopathic approach from a homeopath's viewpoint. When a patient comes to an allopathic physician with some complaints, the doctor’s primary focus is on which organs or systems are affected? What is the pathology? What is the cause of that problem like bacteria, viruses, or something else tangible? If the bacteria or virus or other parasite is found, antibacterial, antiviral, or anti-parasitic drugs are given to combat the infection. If a hormonal imbalance is found, hormones are artificially replaced. If a tumor is found, it is operated upon. If inflammation is found, anti-inflammatory drugs are given. They never pause and ponder...why 'this' patient developed an ovarian cyst? Why 'this patient' has hormonal imbalance? Why 'this person' is so susceptible to recurring infections? And here in lies the basic difference between allopathy and homeopathy.

In most cases allopaths take the disease they are treating as an 'entity'. Something 'tangible' that they must fight with. But every disease, whatever may be its name, is a process. And what we name as diabetes, ovarian cyst, hypertension, uterine fibroid, asthma, PID, etc are not diseases. They are the end-result of a long process that leads to this last stage, where you give a name to a collection of signs and symptoms. And allopaths treat these end-results as if they are the beginning. They forget that there is a lot happening in the body before they can give a name to a disease. There is a basic susceptibility, a tendency to acquire an ailment that must be dealt with. If you compare a disease with a weed, then you cut the branches and leave the root to create new shoots in other directions. There is a universal law that nothing happens without a cause. Agree? So if there is a hormonal imbalance, there has to be some cause for it. If there is diabetes, there must be some cause for it. If there is hypertension, there must be some cause for it. You will say, yes! There are genetic factors, and environmental factors, and life-style factors that are responsible. I agree, these are important factors that do play a role in making us ill. But there is something even prior to these that plays a major role in deciding what kind of disease we get? Our susceptibility. Our individuality. Let me give an example to explain this.

Nearly all human beings are alike anatomically and physiologically. Right? And yet no one of us is same. We all differ in our appearance, in our way of thinking, our moods, our way of reacting to external stimuli etc. That means we all have an 'individuality' of our own when we are healthy. Homeopathy believes that as our individuality reflects in our health, it also reflects in our disease. A person goes in sun and he gets sunburns easily. Another one goes in sun and he develops skin allergies. Another one goes in sun and he gets headache. And yet another one goes in sun and he gets a fever/heat-stroke. In another scenario a person goes in rain and he develops a cold. Another one goes in rain and he develops fever without getting a cold. Yet another one goes in rain and he develops joint pains. Now most of these people will be anatomically healthy and their physiological functions will be in normal range too. And there will be little difference in their TLC/DLC or other immunological counts. So the anatomy is same, physiology is same, and the external factor is same too. Yet these people are getting affected differently. The basic purpose of giving these examples is to state that there is something prior to the tangible causes of illness, which predisposes us to acquire a particular kind of ailments. And that predisposition, that susceptibility, that individuality must be taken into account when we treat a person. As no two people are alike in health, similarly no two people, even with same disease, are alike in sickness.

Now I come back to your basic question. In Homeopathy, we do not treat a migraine, we do not treat a PID, we do not treat a fever.... we treat the 'person' who has migraine, the 'person' who has PID, the 'person' who has the fever. We treat the 'person' who is ill, taking in account her individuality, her susceptibility. And we believe that the basic susceptibility remains one whatever disease a person might be having. We consider various ailments of a person as manifestations of his/her susceptibility on different organs/systems. We consider that if a person has four different diseases to name, then these four are not different, isolated 'entities'. They are all part of a process, the end result of which manifests on different organs. We take them as branches. If you cut the branches and leave the root and trunk(our susceptibility), then new branches will come up in newer directions. But if you cut the root, the branches would not be able to survive. They will get removed by themselves, never to appear again. Now how we do that is a big question and answering it will be like writing a book on Homeopathy.

But I will add here that to find the individuality of a person, a homeopath collects all the signs and symptoms of a person, of every part. Plus he/she collects past medical history and family medical history. Also a great emphasis is given on the physical and psychological constitutional characteristics. Using this data, we try to find a homeopathic medicine, which reflects similar pathogenesis, reflected through the signs and symptoms obtained during homeopathic drug provings, which are done on healthy humans. When such a 'similar' medicine is given, the patient improves in all spheres, in all his ailments, irrespective of their name.

I think the homeopath of your patient is trying to treat the person as a whole and not just her headaches. Give him/her some space and time. If he/she is doing it the right way with the right medicine, then along with the headache, you will soon find the chlamydia and ureoplasma infections disappearing too.

I hope I have been able to explain things here,
Warm regards,
Dr. B