Homoeopathy is the system of Medicine founded by Samuel Fedric Hahnemann he described this principle by using a Latin phrase: Similia Similibus Curentur, which translates: “Let likes cure likes.” It is a principle that has been known for centuries. Hahnemann developed the principle into a system of medicine called Homeopathy” and it has been used successfully for the last 200 years.
The therapy is based on the theory of treating “likes cure likes”
Homeopathic remedies are diluted natural substances that if given to a healthy person would produce the symptoms the medicine is prescribed for, which means that the medicine which can produce particular symptoms in a healthy individual can cure the same symptoms in a diseased individual when given in a minimal dosage.
Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone, young and old. Homeopathy focuses on you as an individual, concentrating on treating your specific physical and emotional symptoms, to give long lasting benefits.
1. Homeopathy treats all your symptoms – mentally, emotionally and physically.
2. Patients are not treated as a collection of disease labels, but individually.
3. Homeopathic remedies works with your bodies own healing powers to bring good health and well being.
4. Homeopathic remedies are gentle, subtle and effective.
PRINCIPLES OF HOMOEOPATHY
Homeopathic case taking is very different from the allopathic or the old school case taking. A homoeopathic doctor is very very keen observer, but he keeps these observations to himself and does not interrupt the patient when he is telling his symptoms, as this breaks the chain of thought of the patient. First and foremost a Homoeopathic doctor has to be a very patient listener, after the patient finishes the narration of his symptoms then he can ask the patient about various things he wants to enquire about like the modalities of his symptoms. The concomitant symptoms if any; the periodicity of the symptoms etc.
If Homeopathy is practiced according to principles laid down by Dr. Hahnemann, CURE takes place in a rapid, gentle and permanent way. Some of the basic principles of Homeopathy as described by Dr. Hahnemann are:
• Disease is deviation from health which is known through signs and symptoms.
• Disease is disharmonious functioning of the vital force (Life force). Health is harmonious functioning of the vital force leading to a sense of well being. It is the natural tendency of vital force to restore the harmony. This natural tendency in some people is affected by certain hereditary factors leading to chronic relapsing states of ill health, generally difficult to cure. Thus, Hahnemann in his book on ‘THE CHRONIC DISEASES’ stated that Miasms are responsible for all diseases of a chronic nature. Miasms are created through the use of suppressive medicine or other environmental factors.
