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10 Facts about Homeopathy

Fact 1 – Hippocrates ‘The Father of Medicine’ of Ancient Greece said there were two Laws of Healing: The Law of Opposites and the Law of Similars. Homeopathy treats the patient with medicines using the Law of Similars, orthodox medicine uses the Law of Opposites, e.g. antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, anticonvulsants, antihypertensives, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics 

Fact 2 – The homeopathic practitioner treats the whole person, believing all symptoms are interrelated and seeks to select a medicine which most closely covers them all. 

Fact 3 – The Renowned Staltwarts in homeopathy were from well educated backgrounds. The Father of Homeopathy Dr Samuel Hahnemann was an  Physician (MD) with the knowledge of a number of languages English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldiac, Hebrew.
  







Dr Boenninghausen was a lawyer, Dutch and Prussian civil servant, agriculturalist, botanist, physician and pioneer in homeopathy.

  Dr J.T. Kent was an MD professor of Anatomy
  

Fact 4 - Every Patient is Unique so homeopathic medicines are individualized.

Fact 5 – Epidemics such as cholera and typhoid were treated successfully using homeopathy in the 19th century with very high success rates, compared to orthodox medicine.

Fact 6 –  There have been many clinical trials that prove homeopathy works.  In each case, the researchers concluded that the benefits of homeopathy went far beyond that which could be explained purely by the placebo effect. 

Fact 7 - The popularity of homeopathy has grown in the past 30 years, its revival entirely through word of mouth and estimated to be growing at more than 20% a year the world over. 

Fact 8 - Hundreds of famous people throughout the past 200 years have enjoyed the benefits of homeopathic medicine. 

Fact 9 - Homeopathy is practised nowadays in countries all over the world. In India there are 100 homeopathic medical schools and around 250,000 homeopathic doctors.

Fact 10 - Homeopathy is a Method of treatment that unless experienced is Difficult       to believe! 

References and More Reading:

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"Nanosized solvent superstructures in ultramolecul... [Homeopathy. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI." National Center for Biotechnology Information. Web. 7 May 2013. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23622259>.

"Open Collections Program: Contagion, Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century."Harvard University Library: Open Collections Program: Home. Web. 7 May 2013. <http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/cholera.html>.

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Homoeopathy

The word Homoeopathy is derived from the greek word homoios meaning like and pathos meaning suffering.

Homoeopathy is a system of medical treatment introduced by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in 1796 based on the Main Principle of Similia – Similia Similibus Curentur (meaning let similars be treated by similars). According to this principle A medicine is able to treat a condition which it produces when admistered in apparently healthy subjects during proving.

Before Hahnemann Hippocrates also mentioned about the concept of treating similar by similar in

400 BC. Some other physicians who mentioned about the concept of similars before Hahnemann were Paracelsus, Boulduc, Detharding, Bertholon,  Thoury, Von Stoerck and Stahl. Dr Hahnemann was the first to experiment with the concept and introduced it as a system of treatment.

The fundamental Laws of homoeopathy include:

Law of similia

Dr. Hahnemann mentioned this law in §26 in his book ‘Organon of medicine’ where he mentions it as Homoeopathic Law of nature.

A weaker dynamic affection is permanently extinguished by a stronger one, if the latter (whilst differring in kind) is very similar to the former in its manifestations.

Law of Simplex

According to this concept A single and simple  medicinal substance should be administered in a given case at a time.

Dr Hahnemann mentions about this law in §273  in his book ‘Organon of medicine’(Sixth Edition) as:

In no case under treatment it is necessary and therefore not permissible to administer to a patient more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time. It is inconceivable how the slightest doubt could exist as to whether it was more consistent with nature and more rational to prescribe a single, simple medicine at one time in a disease or a mixture of several differently acting drugs. It is absolutely not allowed in homoeopathy, the one true, simple and natural art of healing, to give the patient at one time two different medicinal substances.

Law of minimum

According to this law the medicine administered to the patient must be in the minimum dose required by the patient.

In § 277 Dr. Hahnemann mentions

For the same reason , and because a medicine, provided the dose of it was sufficiently small, is all the more salutary and almost marvelously efficacious the more accurately homoeopathic its selection has been, a medicine whose selection has been accurately homoeopathic must be all the more salutary the more its dose is reduced to the degree of minuteness appropriate for a gentle remedial effect.