Allopathic vs. Homeopathic

The Arizona Homeopathic and Integrative Medical Association is a 25-year-old state association for licensed homeopathic medical physicians in Arizona and in other states. Homeopathic medical physicians provide the citizens of Arizona, and across our nation, a choice in healthcare. Homeopathy, one of the disciplines, was founded more than 200 years ago. It is holistic, scientifically based, safe, effective and less expensive than allopathic medicine.

Do a self-diagnosis below. If you answer YES, homeopathic medicine may be right for you:
•  My tests are normal but I still feel sick.
•  I take my medicine, but I don’t feel better – in fact, I feel worse.
•  I know there’s “natural” cures, but I don’t know where to find them.
•  I wonder if the drugs I am taking are right for me.
•  I have chronic pain and told to live with it or take pain killers.

AHIMA’s Homeopathic Medical Physicians are committed to:

1. Informing and educating Arizonans, and others across our country, that homeopathic medicine is a vital, proven choice in healthcare.
2. Supporting the Arizona Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners, one of only three Boards in the country to license homeopathic medical physicians, through education and lobbying.
3. Providing educational opportunities for association members, other homeopathic medical physicians and the allopathic medical community, to discuss shared ideas and practices and explore new therapies.

Homeopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine that is holistic, scientifically based, safe, effective and inexpensive. The very existence of the Arizona Board of Homeopathic Examiners – one of only three homeopathic medical boards in the country – has enabled Arizona to become a national leader in holistic medicine.

Arizonan’s licensed homeopathic medical physicians are trained MD’s and DO’s who have completed additional training in homeopathy as well as one or more of the other seven diagnostic and treatment modalities listed below.

Just as there are special areas of expertise among medical and osteopathic physicians, homeopathic medical physicians may also have areas of special interest or expertise. For example, a homeopathic medical physician may have a special interest and training in a technique or therapy such as chelation or may serve in their medical specialty area such as pediatrics or psychiatry.

Seven Disciplines of Homeopathic Medicine

Classical Homeopathy works through activating the body’s own powers of self regulation and self healing. One of the basic principles is the “law of similars” which states that substances which can cause certain symptoms in healthy people can cure those same symptoms when they occur in an ill person.

Acupuncture is a medical therapy in which ailments are diagnosed and treated by the specific application of needles, heat or physical and electromagnetic impulses or currents to specific anatomic points on the body.

Chelation is an Oral or Intravenous medical treatment that is used to remove heavy metal poisoning from the body. Chelation “cleans up” the circulatory system and slows normal aging by removing metals. It is important to understand that Chelation does not remove Plaque from Blood Vessels but works by removing those toxic metals elements in the blood and blood vessels that contribute to blood clot formation. This has the effect of greatly improving circulation.

Orthomolecular Therapy provides the optimum concentration of substances normally present in the human body such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes. Orthomolecular therapy includes the diagnosis of ailments or physiologic stresses that occur as a result of genetic or environmental influences as well as acquired or inherited allergy and hypersensitivity responses and enzymes.
and enzymes.

Neuromuscular Integration is musculoskeletal therapy that uses any combination of manual methods, physical agents and physical medicine procedures and devices to improve physiological function by normalizing body structure.

Nutrition is the recommendation by a licensee of therapeutic or preventative dietary measures, food factor concentrates, fasting and cleansing regimens and the rebalancing by a licensee of digestive system function to correct diseases of malnutrition, to resolve conditions of metabolic imbalance and to support optimal vitality.

Pharmaceutical Medicine is drug therapy that uses prescription-only and nonprescription pharmaceutical agents as well as medicinal agents of botanical, biological or mineral origin and that is based on current scientific indications or traditional or historical usage indication.

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