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Infectious Diseases
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-Common Cold, Influenza
-Tonsillitis, Rhinitis, Ear infections
-Bronchitis, Sinusitis
-Urine tract infections
-Vaginitis
Common aspect about bacteria
The discovery of bacteria was a turning point for Science and Medicine. A whole new world was revealed. Many illnesses were thought to be caused by certain germs or viruses or fungi. So it was essential to develop methods for the diagnosis of infections and for their treatment by means of anti-bacterial drugs such as antibiotics, vaccines or serums.
The whole theory and practice seemed to be working well so there was a great enthusiasm and some doctors even supposed that all illnesses were caused by bacteria. Thus the discovery of new antibiotics and vaccines would save Man from the burden of disease.
A therapeutic dead end
Today, after many decades of years, we have come to certain conclusions. Only some illnesses can be connected to the action of bacteria. Antibiotics and vaccines are not always effective in infections. Antivirus drugs present very poor results. We haven’t been able to develop an effective treatment even for the most common infection, the common cold. As we develop new antibiotics bacteria are also developing new defense mechanisms becoming stronger and more complex.
This means that we have to treat infections with higher dosages and stronger medicines. As a result antibiotics become more expensive, less effective and with severe side effects. This race against bacteria seems to have come to a dead end.
Homeopathic aspect about bacteria and their relation to infections
It is time to reconsider our aspect about bacteria and their relation to infectious illnesses if we want to be called true scientists and most of all if we want to be effective in treatment. Science of Biology tells us that bacteria are essential for the decay of dead plants and dead animals. Complex chemical substances and molecules are transformed into more simple substances and molecules. These new materials can again be absorbed by plants as useful materials. The animals eat the new plants and the cycle of life is maintained. We never talk in Biology about useful and harmful bacteria. They are all useful and essential for life in general and contribute to the balance of several systems in Nature.
We also know from Biology that many kinds of bacteria, viruses and fungi co-exist inside and on living plants and animals and are part of their normal functions supporting life or decaying tissues thus helping the process of repairing tissues and organs. Man is not an exception as concerns the above. In fact bacteria are so essential to our functions that if we kill all the bacteria living inside or on us, death will come in a few days! We know for instance that bacteria of our intestines play an important role to the assimilation of food and to the decay of unwanted materials. They also produce useful vitamins used by our body.
Many other bacteria exist inside us in many cavities (mouth, nose, stomach, vagina and urethra) or on the skin and are considered as normal inhabitants or many times useful. About 5 to 10 percent of our DNA or RNA consists of viruses normally existing there and playing their role to life. This seems shocking to many of us but don’t forget that a virus is after all an amount of genetic material!
Not only we co-exist with useful bacteria inside and on us but we also come all the time in contact with other bacteria around us. We inhale it with the air we breathe, eat it as part of our food and carry it on our skin and mucous. If bacteria are causes of illnesses why don’t we all get sick? Even if we discriminate between useful and harmful bacteria as concerns man, why don’t we all get sick whenever we come in contact with “harmful” bacteria?
We all know that if one catches a cold then not all his family becomes ill with it. The same stands bold for all infectious illnesses. Only a few people infected are at the end diseased. Even in the severest form of epidemics not all infected are diseased. And, furthermore, some develop light symptoms, some medium or severe and some even die.
If there are so vast differences among patients then it is more than probable that there are also other more important factors apart from the presence of bacteria concerning the etiology of the so called infectious illnesses. Homeopathy, applying the Laws of Hierarchy and Individualization, supports that the main cause of any infectious illness is predisposition. Second comes the weak vital energy and third the intoxication of the blood and tissues from wrong nutrition, stress and other factors.
Predisposition defines if and where an infectious illness will appear. Weak vital energy will determine if and when the disease will begin and how severe it will be. Intoxication of the organism and tissues will determine in less degree if, when and where the disease will appear and how long and severe it will be.
Bacteria certainly play a role in infectious illnesses. But their role is not the cause of disease but one of the results of it. They are but scavengers, garbage eaters, tissue transformers, decay workers. Wherever there is decay, rotten tissues, damaged organs, injury, intoxication or inflammation they tend to appear and grow in large populations because there is food for them and fertile ground for their growth.
If predisposition is not severe, if vital energy is not very low and if organism is not severely intoxicated they are useful for the decay of rotten or damaged tissues and their replacement by new healthy ones or at least by connective tissue (scars). Healing procedure comes to an end and health is restored while the bacteria vanish or are diminished and no longer can cause symptoms or harm.
When all causing factors exist in a severe degree then bacteria are dangerously increased, their toxins spread all over the weakened organism and death prevails over life. They continue their useful role in the cycle of life and death, by decaying the dead body and turning the complex chemical substances and molecules of the body to simple ones which will serve as food for the worms and plants.
So whenever we prescribe antibiotics so as to kill bacteria we don’t remove the real causes of disease. That’s the reason why in a predisposed person infections come again and again. By antibiotics you just suppress an acute episode of cold or vaginitis or bronchitis, or urine infection but you don’t cure the chronic disease, the recurrent illnesses.
Moreover you cause a lot of side effects to the patient and sometimes you “push”, you suppress the disease to more internal and more important to life organs and tissues. Furthermore if you apply antibiotics often enough then the immune system of the patient, that is his “defensive army”, becomes lazy and untrained and that’s a risky thing to do.
The causative therapeutic action of the homeopathic treatment
Homeopathic treatment deals with the real causes of disease. That is, it lessens predisposition, strengthens vital energy and detoxifies organism. It puts in action again the psychological and physical defense mechanisms of the patient so as to get over the acute illness by controlling the unrestrained growth of bacteria and enhancing the natural healing procedure. There are no side effects from the action of homeopathic medicine.
The most important thing is that after the acute illness passes away, organism is stronger in vitality, with lessened predisposition for illness and detoxified. So the probability of a relapse is lowered in a significant degree. Furthermore, his defense mechanisms are fully trained, active and much more efficient than before the illness. Whenever the mode of therapeutic action is natural and according to Laws of Nature, results are the best possible but whenever we act unnatural the price to pay is severe. Homeopathy acts according to Universal Laws and that is the reason why it has no side effects at all apart from the precious therapeutic results.