Homeopathy and women's health: gynecology and homeopathy
The main purpose of this study was to present to medical colleagues some updated themes of women’s health, aiming at a “new approach” through more than 30 years of experience with the Homeopathy Clinic of the Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal de São Paulo and in private practice.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The repository of knowledge accumulated by Samuel Hahnemann, in the “Organon of the Art of Healing,” contains the principles that underlie the homeopathic therapeutic method1. This medical practice, which deals with the law of similarity, has been constantly researched and improved by many followers in light of the evolution of new knowledge brought by various branches of science, such as physiology and pathophysiology, and more recently by a systemic approach to being2. The binomials of health and disease are different states (or, in the systemic understanding, instabilities) of the same process. The disease is dynamic and may represent different degrees of system instability that can take the form of injury, death, or a balance with cognitive gain3. Homeopathy, as a therapeutic capable of promoting these instabilities by similarity and aiming at cognitive gain, becomes increasingly active, either in the promotion or in the prevention of imbalances in the woman’s biopsychosocial system, rescuing her self-care4. The prevention of women’s instabilities in the various stages of their biological evolution (puberty, reproductive maturity, climacteric, and menopause) is possible through the balance (homeostasis) and maintenance of self-regulation (also called life force) of all systems involved in this process1. The main purpose of this study was to present to medical colleagues some updated themes of women’s health, aiming at a “new approach” through more than 30 years of experience with the Homeopathy Clinic of the Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal de São Paulo (HSPM) and in private practice.