Antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria are becoming increasingly common. They are known as superbugs. They seem to be particularly attracted to the hospital environment. Is man and medicine as we know it, helpless in the face of this?

The founder of homeopathy, Dr Samuel Hahnemann was a deep thinker. Everything he considered in depth, in line with the laws of nature. Although he trained as a medical doctor, he quickly realised the limitations this imposed on him. His passion for the truth led him to homeopathy.

He came to understand that it is not the pathogen that should be killed off. It is the health of the patient that should be improved. Although you might consider these two similar, they are poles apart.

The notion of killing off everything that creates a disturbance completely misses the point of health and disease. Disease is there for a purpose. Bacteria have a very real purpose in life. You are teeming with bacteria, and if you weren’t you wouldn’t be here.

There is no ‘bad’.bacteria. All bacteria is good. What the problem is, is the exponential growth of bacteria. But this is for a purpose. What that purpose is, is not always clear. But one thing that is abundantly clear is that your body is responding to a problem, in the best way it knows how.

How successful your body is depends on how healthy your immune system is. If it is healthy, this infection will be short lived and you will recover quickly. If your immune system is not healthy, you won’t recover quickly.

Taking antibiotics can give the impression of a healthy response, but in reality it has lowered your immune system. This can be seen as you succumb to increasingly common bouts of infection.

When you take an appropriate homeopathic medicine, the bacteria is not targeted. What is targeted is your immune system. This improves, allowing your body to do what it can do naturally - and that is to heal itself.

A robust and healthy immune system does not care about strains of bacteria or other pathogens. It is able to respond to anything that it encounters.

Raising the health of your immune system should be your priority. Killing off ‘the opposition’ or ‘the enemy’ can only ever have short lived advantages. But these inevitably lead to long term problems, as nature is so expert at demonstrating.

Working with, by understanding nature has both long and short term advantages. This understanding is perhaps best appreciated by homeopathic practitioners. Homeopathic treatment not only works by raising your immune system. It has many other advantages too:
 

•  it is economical
•  it does not pollute the environment
•  it has no side effects
•  it sets to work immediately
•  it needs no animal experimentation either for drug testing or for practitioner training
•  it works across all species
•  it is safe to use on the unborn, the frail, the infirm
   

More and more strains of bacteria will continue to evolve while the understanding of disease is focussed on fragmentation. They will cease when the world can look at the bigger picture, the immune system rather than the pathogen.