The Roots of Homeopathy

Constitutional homeopathy is the field of holistic medicine that uses a single remedy made up of potentized (i.e., energetically charged through hand succussion, or shaking, of the remedy) and infinitesimally small amounts of a plant, animal or mineral that is chosen to resonate with the problems, or distortion pattern, of a particular patient. It was originated in 1789 by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann of Germany, and later France, based on the Law of Similars. This law, also known as “like cures like,” states that healing occurs when a homeopathic remedy is taken that is similar to the existing pattern of disturbance in a particular patient. This new energetic homeopathic resonance can then, over time, diminish the similar plant, animal or mineral pattern in a patient,  analogous to when an opera singer hits the exact note and actually shatters a glass. This then allows the patient’s healing forces (immune system, nervous system, circulatory system, etc.) to restore healthy regulation and functioning in the body, now that the offending influence has been reduced. Dr. Hahnemann’s system of determining the correct remedy for a patient has been successfully used by homeopathic physicians and practitioners, with minor variations, ever since. However, recently a new and even more extraordinarily effective system has emerged from India.

A Revolutionary New Method

Dr. Sankaran, a homeopath from Mumbai (Bombay), is the originator of a new and revolutionary method that can most accurately determine a patient’s correct constitutional homeopathic remedy. After studying, practicing and teaching for decades, the “Sankaran System” finally coalesced into a complete and teachable method in 2003, which gave homeopaths the first authentic roadmap into most accurately determining a patient’s deepest remedy. One of the major tenets of this System is that through inquiry into the sensation level – which is more deeply experienced than thoughts – the appropriate remedy can best be determined. This remedy, chosen by whether an individual exhibits a plant, mineral or animal non-human vital sensation, can then most effectively treat a patient’s chief issue(s), or “central disturbance.” For example, someone who needs a plant remedy experiences a particular disturbing sensation and it’s opposite, such as feeling alternately tight and then loose, or feeling contracted and then at other times expansive, or feeling heavy and then light. Someone under the influence of a mineral remedy on the other hand, has an underlying sense of a lack of structure and the feeling of incompleteness and instability. An animal remedy’s issues relate to survival, and this individual lives with an underlying chronic sense of aggression like a predator (lion, snake, spider, etc.), or feeling constantly victimized like a prey (rabbit, deer, insect, etc.). Through a careful interview (case-taking), the Sankaran-trained homeopath can determine which particular plant, animal or mineral sensation or energy is existing in a patient, and then prescribe the appropriate remedy to clear this non-human, and therefore out of place, disturbance.