Homeopathic Remedies for Apnea
Posted on | December 28, 2009 | No Comments
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine which works differently to modern medicine. The central concept behind homeopathic remedies is that a remedy should cause the symptoms observed in the patient were the patient healthy. This then is supposed to help encourage the body to drive out these symptoms. For sleep apnea then the medication used will be known to obstruct the airways or to cause damage to the brain stem (the latter being the cause of central apnea).
Homeopaths will also take into account the other individual factors in each case however and will asses each instance of sleep apnea as unique and as part of the ‘living whole’. In homeopathy, only the symptoms are treated, but characteristics of the individual not related to the illness are often considered ‘symptoms’ in themselves. The exact form of medication used will vary then depending on the person using it.
Homeopathic medicines are then heavily diluted using a process called ‘succussion’. This process often results in not a single molecule of the active ingredient surviving which has lead many to claim that homeopathy is little more than a pseudoscience. Laboratory studies have meanwhile failed to show that homeopathic remedies are any more successful than placebos.
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