• Gentle acting with no known side effects or drug interactions
• Generally less expensive than patented and trade name products
• Ideal for treating self-limiting symptoms
• Variety of dosage forms suitable for use by the entire family, including young children.
* All the above factors are applicable to high quality medicines manufactured as per the current GMP standards. Make sure you purchase your homeopathic medicines from authorized pharmacies/health stores and in sealed bottles from the manufacturer. 

Homeopathy is based on a very simple and easily comprehensible principle. However due to the current materialistic and fragmented approach to health and pharmaceutical research, it seems a difficult concept to grasp. Skeptics ask how do you cure someone of an illness by giving them a tiny concentration of something that can actually cause the disease in higher concentration? One would think that this would simply make the person even more sick!

Homeopathy is based on the observation that high doses of pharmacologically active substances cause symptoms when administered to healthy individuals. These same substances, when prepared in very dilute form, and administered as per the principles of homeopathy, relieve similar symptoms in conditions resulting from different etiologies.

In Homeopathy, symptoms are interpreted as a sign that the body is fighting against a disease. Homeopathic medicines are used principally for the treatment of symptoms, since, in general, the body must first exhibit symptoms before the correct homeopathic drug may be chosen. Homeopathic medicines are used rarely for prophylaxis, although there are some case reports showing the successful use of homeopathic drugs in epidemic diseases.

Homeopathy aims to treat the whole person, taking into account personality, lifestyle and hereditary factors as well as the history of the disease. Since all patients are unique, homeopathic medicines are prescribed to treat patients as individuals. For example, headaches in different patients would each be treated with different medicines, according to the patient’s individual symptoms.

Homeopathic remedies differ from conventional medicines, because they are prepared according to different principles. Homeopathic medicines are made from a variety of sources, such as plants, animals and minerals. They are prepared according to strict guidelines set out in international pharmacopoeias and regulated by the Drug Regulatory Agencies in different countries. (Few countries in the world, including the Germany, France, UK and the United States, have an official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia. A country's pharmacopoeia is an official guide of quality standards for ingredients and method of preparation of homeopathic preparations). Homeopathic medicines are regulated by FDA (USA), TGI (Australia), MHRA (UK), MOH (UAE), Euro. Pharmacopoiea (EU nation members), CFM (Brazil), etc. 

As per homeopathic principles, less is more! and Homeopathic remedies are applied as per the principle of similars.

But, according to proponents of the holistic health sciences, homeopathy not only works, but is much more effective than conventional medicine. They claim that conventional medicine suppresses the immune system and prolongs the illness.

The most characteristic and controversial principle of homeopathy is that the potency of a remedy can be enhanced (and the side-effects diminished) by dilution, in a procedure known as potentization. Liquids are progressively diluted (with water, or alcohol) and shaken by ten hard strikes against an elastic body. Homeopaths believe that the more medicinal substances are diluted through this systematic and serial process of dilution and vigorous shaking (also called succussion), the deeper acting would be the healing power of a remedy.

Homeopathic method of serial dilution and succussion, thus, eliminates the toxic effects of medicinal substances. This principle is supported by the Arndt-Schulz law of pharmacology which states:
–Small or minute doses stimulate function
–Moderate doses inhibit function
–Large or crude doses block or destroy function

Another phenomenon which has give credence to the curative effects of homeopathic microdoses is Hormesis toxicological principle. Hormesis, which in Greek means "to excite" is the term for a favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors. Hormesis experiment demonstrates that, a toxin has opposite effect in small doses than in large doses. Further elaborated all substances (including pesticides and carcinogens) which show an inhibitory effect at high concentrations, have a stimulatory effect at low concentrations.

The cornerstone of homeopathy is the record of toxicological studies on healthy human beings. For example, through a detailed experimentation and observation, homeopathic researchers find out that, in a healthy person, oral administration of substance 'X' causes dizziness. Through a process of subjective and objective observation, all the symptoms of the healthy individual, when under the influence of substance 'X' is then recorded. Modern researchers use laboratory testings and imaging to supplement the physical, mental and emotional changes that are observed in the experiment. This toxicological study is called "homeopathic provings". Homeopaths then use a very dilute (potentized) quantity of substance 'X', for treating a person with this very particular type of dizziness.  

• Cutting red onion causes watery eyes and runny nose from the vapors. When these symptoms occur during seasonal allergies or flu, a dose of Allium cepa, the homeopathic preparation of red onion, would relieve these distressing symptoms, without any side-effect or dependency on chemical medicines.

• Large intake of coffee produces hyperactivity and sleeplessness. Someone with hyperactivity or sleeplessness, would be prescribed potentized Coffea cruda, the homeopathic preparation of coffee to relieve these symptoms. 

There are no such things as ‘homeopathic vaccines’. Vaccination, a well understood medical term, relies on the body forming antibodies to a particular germs. Homeopathic medicines do not rely on antibody formation. Qualified homeopaths encourage their patients to exercise their right to make informed decisions on disease prevention, and to seek advice based on balanced information gathered from a broad range of sources.

• Homeopathic medicines should be sucked or crunched between the teeth, not swallowed whole.
• They taste pleasant, slightly sweet.
• They should be taken on a ‘clean palate’, with no taste in mouth.

To be able to provide high quality patient treatment, homeopathic practitioners need:

• Good education and training followed by continual professional development
• Effective professional regulation of practice based on ethical and safety standards
• Full availability of all homeopathic medicines in high quality to effectively prescribe for patients

You can get your supplies of high quality homeopathic medicines in more than 100 pharmacies in the UAE. Original German made DHU homeopathic medicines which are fully registered by the UAE Ministry of Health, are available in major pharmacies in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Al Ain, Ajman, Fujairah and Ras Al Khaima. You can also get un-registered and un-regulated homeopathic medicines in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Yemen. Most of these medicines are imported illegally from India and Pakistan, and sold in unsealed packing.

For more information on high quality Homeopathic Medicines you can contact UltraMed (www.ultramedicals.com) the authorized agents and distributors of German made homeopathic remedies as well original Schuessler's Biochemic Salts in the UAE.