A Brief Guide
Discovered in the 1800s, physician Samuel Hahnemann noticed that the smaller the dose of a substance he used to cure a symptom, the quicker the body was stimulated into a cure. So Homoeopathy is sometimes called the Law of the Minimum Dose.
In Homoeopathy, a sick person is treated with a very dilute form of a substance, which, if taken in full strength, would have caused the same symptoms which they are suffering. This is called 'like cures like'.
As well as a physical body, Hahnemann realised people have a 'vital force', or energy, the level where homoeopathic medicine and remedies work. Homoeopathic products are made by serial dilution, followed by "succussion" (shaking) which transfers energy to the dilution. The number of potentisation steps are far more important than the dilution factor.
Homoeopathy treats viral infections in four ways. It:
stimulates resistance to the infection
reduces the length and severity of the illness
revitalises the patient during convalescence
helps correct the chronic condition, so it re-occurs less frequently (constitutional help)
Conventional medicine offers limited help for most viral conditions. Homoeopathic tablets can offer a lot more, because they work by stimulating the body’s own defences rather than directly attacking specific pathogens. Homoeopathy successfully treats acute viral conditions such as the common cold, virus-induced coughs, and the 'flu'.
Some people are calling Homoeopathic Medicine the
'medicine of the 21st century.' 
