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About Homeopathy

Homeopathy has been an established system of complementary medicine for over 200 years. Samuel Hahnemann, in 1796, furthered the philosophy of Hippocrates 2000 years earlier, when he realized the concept of treating a patient with “similars”, rather than “opposites”.

In other words, giving a substance that in a well person will cause symptoms, so in a sick person it will cure. This is opposite to conventional medicine that gives an anti-biotic, anti-histamine, anti-fungal etc. Hahnemann was a Medical Practioner, but supplemented his income by translating medical texts. In one of these texts, Cullen’s Materia Medica, he found details relating to chinchona bark. The symptom picture described the fevers and chills similar to those found in Malaria. He prepared a potion of the substance and began to drink it. He gradually developed all the symptoms of Malaria. This became the concept of a HOMEOPATHIC PROVING, and confirmed his belief that what substance in a well person causes symptoms, so in a sick person presenting with those similar symptoms it will cure.

This concept he called THE LAW OF SIMILARS. From this law, he coined the phrase “LIKE CURES LIKE”. Hahnemann decided to call his new system of medicine HOMEOPATHY, from the Greek words Homeo, meaning similar, and Pathos, meaning suffering.

He tested many other substances on himself, family and friends, after studying the poisonings of plants, minerals, and animal origins. He found that there were aggravations, so decided to DILUTE and SUCCUSS further and further, thus reducing the adverse reactions, and realized that it increased the positive action. He decided that there must be a MINIMUM DOSE required by each individual patient that was both curative, yet created little or no aggravation to that patient.

In 1810 he published his first edition of “THE ORGANON” – his philosophical text on the subject of Homeopathy.

He received public scorn from others in the Medical Profession. That attack has continued ever since, but THE EVIDENCE to its effectiveness is born out. (This information can be viewed in the SOCIETY OF HOMEOPATHS web site. Click here to view the PDF document ' In Pursuit of Evidence' by Kate Chatfield RSHom)

The proof that Homeopathy works cannot be checked by scientific, Quantitative analysis via Double Blind Trials, but by Qualitative MYMOP procedures. This method is currently used in the ongoing Homeopathic research projects being carried out in several Universities in this country. This information can be viewed in the SOCIETY OF HOMEOPATHS  web site. Click here to download the PDF document ' An Overview of Positive Homeopathy Research and Surveys'.

Throughout History there have been Medics who have been paid to disprove Homeopathy, yet ended up being some of its foremost followers.

© Carolyn Garland 2009