WHAT IS CLASSICAL HOMOEOPATHY?
Homoeopathy is a system of medicine that was developed in the late 1700s by a German doctor named Dr Samuel Hahnemann. It is based on the principle of “similia similibus curentur” means “Let likes be cured by Likes”. It is based on the concept that the substance causing symptoms in a healthy person, when highly diluted and potentized, can be used to treat similar symptoms in someone who is ill. It heals the person as a whole, not just the disease. Two people with the same illness might receive completely different remedies, depending on their overall mental, physical and emotional state. Homoeopathy focusses on holistic and individualized approach. It is used by over 200 million people worldwide for various acute and chronic diseases.
HISTORY OF DISCOVERY:
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician, discovered the alternative system of medicine called homeopathy. In the year 1790, while translating Cullen’s Materia Medica, he read about the therapeutic properties of the Peruvian bark (Cinchona Officinalis). According to that research, its medicinal properties could cure intermittent fever. Hahnemann was dissatisfied with this explanation and the way the experiment was conducted. To gain clarity, he started taking the same medicine twice a day himself and eventually noticed that the symptoms were quite similar to ague of Malaria fever. This unexpected result brought varied thoughts to his mind and he started conducting similar experiments with different medicines on himself as well as other individuals. Based on many such successful experiments, Hahnemann concluded that medicines could cure diseases because they can also produce similar diseases in healthy individuals.
CONCEPTS & PRINCIPLES OF HOMEOPATHY
The homeopathic system is based on easily comprehensible principles. They are as follows –
Law of Similia: – Medicines which are capable of producing similar symptoms during medication.
Law of Simplex: – Only one medicine is to be applied in a given case at a given time
Law of Minimum: – Using the minimal amount or the smallest quantity of medicine which is sufficient to produce an artificial disease on the vital force is similar to the natural disease.
The Doctrine of Drug Proving: – A systematic process of investigating the pathogenic power (disease curing power) of the medicine by administering it to different healthy human beings of both sexes, different ages and various constitutions. Noting down those symptoms becomes the symptoms of the drug.
The Doctrine of Drug Dynamisation: – It is a process, which liberates the inherent power of curative properties of a drug which remain in a latent state through the process of succussion or trituration.
ADVANTAGES OF HOMOEOPATHIC SYSTEM OF TREATMENT
Homeopathy was discovered more than 200 years ago by a German allopathy physician, Dr Samuel Hahnemann who was looking for ways of curing diseases that could not be treated with conventional medicines. He observed that the prevalent system of medicine was suppressing the disease rather than treating it. His various observations revealed that diseases not just affect the body, but also the mind and emotions. Therefore, to heal, medicine should also be able to affect the mind, emotions and body. Homeopathy is a scientific system of medicine based on the principle, “Similia Similibus Curentur” which means“Let likes be treated by likes”. In homeopathy, the drugs are majorly sourced from herbs and animal minerals. These are given to healthy human subjects in diluted and non-toxic doses to produce symptoms. The symptoms produced in healthy humans are the curative action of that particular drug. When a patient comes to a Homoeopath, the symptoms are noted and then matched with the symptoms of the drug (a vast number of medicines are available in homoeopathic literature) and a similar drug is given for effective treatment.
Benefits of Homoeopathic treatment are as under:-
- The correct homoeopathic medicine Initiates the healing tendency of the body very gently. Thus, treats the person by building his immunity.
- Homoeopathy cures the sick person and not just the disease. It cures diseases from their roots. So many chronic diseases that are seen running in families can be treated by Homoeopathy.
- Homoeopathic treatment aims at stimulating the body’s own defensive system, thereby enhancing the body’s resistance to fight diseases.
- Homoeopathy is the safest mode of treatment for children.
- It is equally effective in the treatment of acute as well as chronic diseases.
- It can be safely given to pregnant & lactating women.
- The popularity of Homoeopathy is due to its simplicity in administering, and no known side effects.
- These medicines are inexpensive and very much affordable.
- In many cases, surgery may be avoided if treated with homoeopathy.
- Homoeopathy can also be given along with allopathic medication with no interactions.
- Homoeopathic medicine is a non-invasive method of treatment.
- The treatment relies on the patient’s symptoms and not on expensive diagnostic tests.
- Homoeopathic remedies are readily available.
- Homoeopathic remedies can be stored for long periods of time.
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