The idea that symptoms are an important part of the body's restoration to health, is very obvious when we consider the antibiotic effects of inflammation, the cooling effects of perspiration, the blood pressure reduction effect of diuresis and the anti-toxicity effects of discharges, but what about pain?

It provides us with a powerful STOP signal.
It informs us that there is a problem.
It provides feedback on the degree of severity of the problem. (It can be misleading to the unwary as in the case of a ruptured appendix when the pain stops.)

Its character, location, frequency, duration & intensity are of conventional diagnostic significance, and from the Homeopathic perspective, important in the symptom profile of the appropriate remedy, but what if any, are the healing properties of pain, and does the alleviation of pain by conventional analgesics in chronic conditions significantly interfere with Homeopathic treatment?

Denis Gibbon

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