History of Homeopathy

Homeopathy was established by, a German physician Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Hahnemann worked as a doctor for 9 years after graduating from medical school, but found to his dismay that he was not only failing to achieving a healing response in many of his patients, but in some cases causing greater damage to the health of the patient from the toxic effects of some of the medicines.

As the protective father of three children facing a host of diseases and illnesses, Hahnemann became dissatisfied with the harmfulness and inefficacy of medicine, he gave up medical practice entirely to devote himself to translation work on a full-time basis undertaking the translation of the medical text, A Treatise on the Materia Medica by the Scottish physician William Cullen, this first prompted him to examine the medicinal effects of Cinchona (Peruvian Bark), on treating malaria. Unconvinced by Cullen's work, Hahnemann decided to launch his own experiments.

Hahnemann administer small doses of cinchona to himself and over several days observed that this bark actually created the symptoms of fever, chills, thirst, and throbbing headache that characterize malaria in a healthy individual. This suggested to that a substance which can produce a set of symptoms in a healthy individual, can treat a sick individual who is manifesting a similar set of symptoms, first principle of homeopathy: "like cures like."

Hahnemann experimented variously methods to overcome the toxic side effects of the original substance without loosing their healing properties. He coined the name "homeopathy" to describe this approach to healing, deriving it from the Greek: homos (same) + pathos (suffering).

It is well known that simply diluting a substance in water will weaken the power of the original substance and not activate the medicinal effect of the original substance. Hahnemann produced the systematic method of serial dilutions and agitations (called successions). This method not only retained the curative properties of the original substance but enhanced their curative actions when introduced into the human body to treat disease. Hahnemann found that such a poetized medicine was very beneficial to the patient, while avoiding the side effects of the original non diluted substance.

Hahnemann died in 1843 at the age of 88 in Paris, after having completed his 6th and final edition of the Organon which stated the principles and methods of practicing and treating people with homeopathy. Through out his long life Hahnemann systematically conducted thousands of more clinical trials for homeopathic medicines called provings. He treated thousands effectively treated thousands of patients, lectured and wrote many other books about homeopathy and its clinical practices.

Hahnemann showed himself to be a doctor ahead of his time treating the whole person and not just the symptoms of a disease. Many of his practices and theories created 200 years ago of treating illness are only being recognized today by modern medicine.

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