What is Homoeopathy ?

The history of homeopathy begins with the discoveries of its founder Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician. Hahnemann first coined the word “homeopathy” (“homoeos” in Greek means “Similar” and “pathos” means “suffering”) to refer to the pharmacological principle, the law of similars, which is its basis. (A Condensed History of Homeopathy, 1991, Dana Ullman, M.P.H.)

Homeopathy is the science and the art of healing the sick by using medicinal substances capable of producing the similar symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to healthy people. (Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States Revision Service, 1998). This therapeutic system is based on fixed fundamental principles like; Law of Similia (Like Cures Like), Law of Simplex, Law of Minimum, Doctrine of Drug proving, etc (Organon of Medicine, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann). Homeopathic remedies are generally dilutions of natural substances from plants, minerals, and animals. Each and every medicine is scientifically proved on healthy human beings.

Holistic Concept: Homeopathy accepts the concept of the biological whole. So it tries to treat the patient as a whole and not the particular diseased part as is commonly talked about in homeopathic parlance (Organon of Medicine, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann). The greatest locus of our treatment is the individual patient, which means the total patient. We even call it the holistic treatment too. A homeopathic physician does not use the medicine for named diseases neither does he or she try to palliate or suppress the individual symptoms by using the drugs. There are no diseases according to this therapeutic system but there are sick persons. The person has become sick so she/he has developed the so-called disease, because in healthy condition of a person no illness can take its place.

• A diagnosis is done as an individual person by recording the signs and symptoms in all aspects. These signs and symptoms of the sick person are recorded in the process of “Case Taking” for selecting the homeopathic medicine. The collection of these signs and symptoms is called “Totality of Symptoms”.

• The properly selected homeopathic remedy has no side effects and it acts as a stimulus to the patient’s immune system helping to fight against any infecting organism, derangements of any organ and maintains the harmony between the physical, mental and emotional levels. The improvement is not limited only to the disease she/he is treated for, but she/he feels the wellbeing at the mental level also.
• Disease diagnosis is important for identification of the disease and selection of the remedy because each homeopathic medicine has its ‘sphere of action’ on certain organs. A homeopathic medicine acts best when symptoms and diagnosis are accurately matched. It is then fast, effective and elegant.
• Homeopathy is a complete medical science in itself. It is a highly effective system of treatment, which can remove and cure all kinds of acute, chronic and complicated diseases. A homeopathic physician can be consulted regarding any health problem related to physical or mental illness.
• Certain surgical conditions can be successfully cured by this treatment without performing a surgery, but if required a homeopath is also a skilled surgeon and can perform surgical operations in certain cases.
• If children are treated homeopathically since their birth, they may be saved from different chronic and complicated diseases and bad effects of different chemical drugs.
• Recurrent Conditions like Tonsillitis, Infantile pneumonia, Chronic Dysentery, Allergic and Atrophic Rhinitis and common colds were not seen to recur again after being treated for some prescribed period.

The very principle of Homeopathy is to treat the individual in order to bring the whole person back to his/her true state of health in all three mental, emotional and physical levels.

Homeopathic medicines are not expected by analogy that what brings changes in the frog, rabbit, guinea pig, dog or monkey will do so in humans also. Homeopathic medicines are tested and proved on human beings only.