Actually, it doesn't. Palliation resembles cure, in so much as the symptoms vanish, but palliation requires repeated dosing, whereas cure holds. It is possible to palliate a case for long periods, and the patient continues to need treatment, but this is not cure. Cure leads to a strengthening of the organism, independence from continuous treatment, and marked improvement on all levels for the person. Palliation tends to be a simple removal of symptoms, which can make the person appear much better, but does not create strength and resistance in the person.

Orthodox medicine frequently palliates cases, but this rarely leads to cure. Homoeopaths sometimes palliate cases too, by accident or design, and this does not lead to cure either. A person who has been palliated will need to come back for similar conditions or new conditions of similar power and seriousness.

Cure will include removal of the symptoms, but Direction of Cure should indicate the depth at which the remedy has affected the person. Old symptoms will return, current symptoms will aggravate, symptoms will move from more important organs to less important ones, the person will change at a deep level - will gain insight into their behaviour, will become better people. Palliation will do none of these things - the symptoms will just go away, to return sooner or later.

Palliation may be all you can do in a particular case, but it should not be mistaken for Cure. That is the mistake that Allopathy makes, to the detriment of all Humankind.

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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.