Introduction to Homeopathy:

Homeopathy stimulates the body to "turn on" its own healing mechanisms in pursuit of restoring balance in body systems

Homeopathic medicine has been used since its beginning in the eighteenth century.  Homeopathy stimulates the body to "turn on" it own healing mechanisms in pursuit of restoring homeostatasis or balance.  Allopathic medicine treats disease by the suppression and regulation of symptoms or by attempting to destroy the microbes (disease entities) associated with the condition.  We are learning more and more about when this approach is effective and when it is not.  For example, take the increasing problems the overuse of antibiotics has resulted in.  Erroneously, allopathy has attempted to destroy those micro-organisms instead of creating a symbiotic (working) relationship as found in nature.  To date, homeopathic remedies have had little to no toxicity associated with them and they direct the body toward balance. 

Homeopathy is based on the "Law of Similars" or "Like Treating Like".   This law suggests similar symptoms caused by taking a substance in it raw form can be alleviated by taking the same substance in a highly diluted form.  This dilution follows the premise put forth by the "Arndt-Schulz Law" in which substances vary in action dependent upon the concentration being high, medium, or minute; high concentrations suppress and minute concentrations stimulate.  Homeopathy is a system of highly diluted substances that will alleviate effects caused by the same or similar substances in their non-diluted states.  One example of this is belladonna, which if taken in its pure state would cause high fever, dilated pupils and a throbbing pulse.  Taken in homeopathic form one would prescribe belladonna if the person presented with such a symptom profile such as that found in influenza.

Ortho-Bionomy is referred to as the Homeopathy of body work.  Arthur Lincoln Pauls was a Osteopathic Physician who was influenced by the principles of homeothapthy.