The Natural Repertory of Prof. William Nelson

Homeopathy
The theory and practice of homeopathy is strange to those of us who
are accustomed to conventional Western medicine. But we all sense the
rightness of a healing system which conceives of all symptoms as parts of
a larger whole, which appears to stimulate the body’s natural healing
force rather than attack its parts. Homeopathy seems to work with us,
not on us. It assists our innate biological intelligence to be healthy. When
we break a bone, it is our innate intelligence that repairs it. In fact, our
bodies can heal themselves of dramatic diseases. Homeopathy
encourages and maximizes our innate intelligence to cure ourselves.
At one time, homeopathy was the number one form of medicine in the
United States. Allopathy rose to precedence when the culture turned
towards the economically driven development of synthetic chemicals and
turned its back on natural healing techniques. Now homeopathy is
experiencing regeneration in the United States. The rise in iatrogenic
diseases and synthetic chemical problems has reintroduced the
importance of choosing natural healing techniques.
Homeopathy is the science of healing from within, or prompting the
organism to heal itself. Homeopathics are used to stimulate the organism
toward its own state of homeostasis (balance). Homeopathy is a concept
of minimal dose which Samuel Hahnemann, the Father of Homeopathy,
discovered while trying to determine the smallest amount of a
pharmacological agent that could gently nudge the patient back into the
biological cybernetics of health. Using a “feather” to stimulate such a
balance is the principle of homeopathy.
Throughout history, disease has been viewed from two fundamentally
different perspectives: One, as a malfunction of specific components of
the body, where symptoms are seen as the disease itself, and two, where
symptoms are a result of a deeper disturbance or imbalance of the
person as a whole, and where symptoms are simply the outward
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