Conventional medicine views the body as a collection of parts governed by biochemical factors and threatened by external disease-causing agents. In order to fight disease, conventional medicine opposes these factors, using drugs to alter the body’s internal chemistry, or to kill invading bacteria. Unfortunately, this approach often results in unwanted side effects, and in the long term weakens the body’s overall state of health. 

Homeopathy works in a different way. It considers the body to be an integrated whole, and aims to strengthen the entire system. Symptoms are viewed as the body’s attempts to fight disease, and also as crucial clues that can lead the perceptive homeopath to a remedy capable of stimulating the body’s own healing powers.