Dispelling Myths about Homoeopathy

Homoeopathy was introduced in 1796 by a German Physician Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. Dr Hahnemann, the Experimenter, discovered the symptomatic source of both pathologic and therapeutic diagnosis and thereby made the practice of medicine scientific. HOMOEOPATHY is a well proven science based on law of similars “similia similibus curanter” (like cures like) and 7 cardinal principles.

Hahnemann was dissatisfied with the state of medicine in his time, and particularly objected to practices such as bloodletting. He claimed that the medicine he had been taught to practice sometimes did the patient more harm than good:

My sense of duty would not easily allow me to treat the unknown pathological state of my suffering brethren with these unknown medicines. The thought of becoming in this way a murderer or malefactor towards the life of my fellow human beings was most terrible to me, so terrible and disturbing that I wholly gave up my practice in the first years of my married life and occupied myself solely with chemistry and writing.

After giving up his practice around 1784, Hahnemann made his living chiefly as a writer and translator, while resolving also to investigate the causes of medicine’s alleged errors. While translating William Cullen’s A Treatise on the Materia Medica, Hahnemann encountered the claim that cinchona, the bark of a Peruvian tree, was effective in treating malaria because of its astringency. Hahnemann believed that other astringent substances are not effective against malaria and began to research cinchona’s effect on the human body by self-application. Noting that the drug induced malaria-like symptoms in himself, he concluded that it would do so in any healthy individual. This led him to postulate a healing principle: “that which can produce a set of symptoms in a healthy individual, can treat a sick individual who is manifesting a similar set of symptoms.” This principle, like cures like, became the basis for an approach to medicine which he gave the name homoeopathy. He first used the term homoeopathy in his essay Indications of the Homoeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice, published in Hufeland’s Journal in 1807.

Since it is impossible to know all the antecedents causative of disease consequents.

TOLLE CAUSAM is easier said than done. How, then, shall we remove or palliate these effects by medicinal substances ?

Here Dr Hahnemann steps in to say, for the 1st time in all history: REMOVE THE EFFECTS AND YOU REMOVE THE DISEASE, THE CAUSE OF THE EFFECTS. CESSAT EFFECTUS CESSAT CAUSA. made his cele

Disease effects are removed by the application of medicines having corresponding medicinal effects. If the disease effects are removed in TOTO, we have CURE.

In 1790, Hahnemann made his celebrated experiment with china (cinchona bark/ peruvian bark). From that time to 1839, of about 50 years, he experimented with 99 drugs and recorded his observations of their actions on the human body.

This Record, found in his ” Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum Positivis,” ” Materia Medica Pura” and ” Chronic Diseases is the largest, the most accurate and most fertile of all investigations into medicinal action made by any single observer, before or since Hahnemann, throughout the annals of medical history.

Drug Provings were done by Hahnemann on him self and later on healthy individuals. Reason being disease manifests itself not merely by objective signs of sensory impression, but also by subjective symptoms of motor expression. There are no two human being entirely the same in health and disease.

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