The current hypothesis regarding the action of homeopathy medicines is as follows : Diseases as characterized by various names (diabetes, hypertension, cancer, peptic ulcer, OCD etc.) are not definite entities. They are 'states' - states of deviation from health. Diseases as we know them, are just the final stage of a long process. Homeopathy recognizes all diseases as a process and not as an entity. Homeopathy medicines when given to a healthy human being, create an artificial disease like state which is called proving. When given to a sick person having a similar 'disease state', the medicine (somehow) stimulates the body's defense mechanism (possibly through neuro-endocrine axis) in such a specific manner that the body itself compensates the diseases state and the process of healing starts
