Homeopathy differs in its understanding as to the goal of treatment. It does not address or seek to eliminate physical signs and symptoms but understands them to be expressions of the vital force. In homeopathy we are not trying to manipulate physiology, change high fever to low, eliminate pain, swelling or redness. We are not even trying to eliminate anger, anxiety or sadness. Our ideal is "to restore health rapidly, gently, permanently." And as to what health is, we can look to the brilliant definition of health given by George Vithoulkas: "Health is freedom.. freedom from pain in the physical body, having attained a state of well-being; freedom from passion on the emotional level, having as a result a dynamic state of serenity and calm; and freedom from selfishness in the mental sphere, having as a result total unification with the Truth."
Homeopathy sees disease not as a physical phenomenon but as an attribute of perception. Homeopath see "disturbances of body and soul which are perceptible to the senses" (italics by author). Again, "disease is not an entity". Homeopathic understanding of disease thus raises the sense of what constitutes an illness from a material sense of disease, a thing to be eliminated, to a derangement of perception.
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