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Overview of Homeopathy

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Historical Origin of Homeopathy

Homeopathic Medicine (or Classical Homeopathy) has a 200-year-old record of treating virtually all acute and chronic diseases, including ones considered incurable by the medical profession. Classical homeopathy originated in Germany with the work of Samuel Hahnemann (1770-1843). Hahnemann was a Medical Doctor and chemist who despaired of the crude medicine of his day and abandoned his practice by his mid-30s in favor of work as a translator of medical texts.

Among the texts he was translating, he came upon the claim by Scottish physician William Cullen that quinine was capable of curing malaria because of its bitter flavor. Unsatisfied with this explanation, Hahnemann came upon the idea of taking quinine himself in order to test its effects, and discovered that after a while he developed malaria-like symptoms which went away only once he stopped ingesting it. This experience led him to formulated the foundaitonal principle of homeopathy, the law of similars, which calls for the treatment of disease using substances whose characteristics mirror those of the disease at hand.

The law of similars is the guiding principle behind homeopathic philosophy, and claims its justification from the repeated clinical success of the homeopathic method that evolved from it. While homeopathy remains one of the most controversial of all forms of alternative medicine, it is increasingly regarded by a growing number of health professionals as among the most effective and comprehensive of them.