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What is Homeopathy ?
What is Homeopathic Medicine?
Homeopathy is a natural system of medicine that can be used
to treat a wide variety of illnesses. It is based on two
primary beliefs: the Law of Similars and the infinitesimal
dose.
Law of Similars:
Instead of looking at the symptoms of illness as undesireable,
Homeopathy sees them as signs of the body attempting to heal
itself. Therefore, instead of suppressing symptoms, homeopaths
give remedies that would cause the same symptoms in a healthy
person to stimulate the body's own restorative mechanisms.
Infinitesimal Dose:
Homeopathy is also considered a pharmaceutical science. Its
substances are made from plants, minerals, animals or
chemicals and are diluted carefully in alcohol or water to
reach a dose that is up to one part in one million. Small
globules of sugar are saturated in the liquid dilution and
given to the patient.
Treatment in Homeopathy focuses on a person's Total Symptom
Picture, not only the disease they are suffering from. What
this means, is that two people suffering from the same
condition can be given two different remedies and treatment
plans. This is because each person is treated as a whole, and
not as a machine made up of separate parts.
About Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, M.D.
Samuel Christian Frederic Hahnemann was born in 1755, at
Meissen, Saxony in Germany. He established the fundamental
principles of the science he named 'Homeopathy', from the
Greek words for similar ('homeo'), and suffering ('pathos').
He is also considered the Father of Experimental
Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare
medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human
beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.
Before Hahnemann, medicines were given on speculative
indications, mainly on the basis of authority without
experimental verification.
Dr. Hahnemann embraced the law of cure known as "Similia
Similibus Curentur", or "Like Cures Like". He was the
progenitor of several modern medical approaches, and he
treated thousands of difficult and chronic cases from all over
Europe, that other doctors could not treat. Thus, he became so
famous that physicians from Europe and America came to him to
learn the science of Homeopathy.
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