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Doctors Without Borders - Efforts in the Central African Republic

Homeopathic practitioner Karolina Dziunikowska cares for patients of all ages in Toronto, Canada. In addition to her work treating patients with natural homeopathic remedies, Karolina Dziunikowska supports Doctors Without Borders. Responding to humanitarian and medical crises throughout the world, Doctors Without Borders , an international nonprofit organization, focuses on controlling disease outbreaks and malnutrition in regions where access to health care is limited. Doctors Without Borders is currently focusing efforts on the Central African Republic, where political conflict brought widespread violence in 2013. These conditions have prevented many people from accessing health care.  More than 70 percent of area health facilities have been damaged or destroyed, and both medical personnel and supplies are scarce. Efforts in the region are centered on maternal care, malaria, HIV, and malnutrition. Doctors Without Borders operates 17 facilities across the Central African Republic.

Three Key Principles of Homeopathy

Karolina Dziunikowska practices homeopathic medicine in Toronto, Canada. In her work, Karolina Dziunikowska uses homeopathic principles and remedies to help patients stimulate their own healing capacities. Homeopathy is the practice of using naturally-derived medicinal therapies in highly diluted forms. Practitioners of homeopathy generally focus on three key principles as they help patients heal themselves. The first principle of homeopathy is “let likes cure likes,” which dates back to Hippocrates. Homeopathic practitioners use this principle to match the characteristics of a homeopathic remedy to a symptom a patient is experiencing.  The second principle is known as “the single remedy.” In homeopathy, only one remedy is typically administered at a time. Each remedy has a unique set of properties that may be unpredictably impacted by other remedies.  The third principle relies on using “the minimum dose.” Homeopathic remedies use the weakest possible concentration of active substa