INTRODUCTION TO HOMEOPATHY
Homeopathy was born ,when the methods of cure,such as applying leeches to remove "impure"
blood,inducing vomiting and purging were more troublesome than the actual Malady DR Hahnneman
who was born in Germany on 10th April ,1755 a felt the need for a complete and gentle
treatment instead of crude decoctions and lotions directed mainly against the temporary
suppression of symptoms that was in vogue generally, during his times.The basic assumption
of his proposition is " similia similibus curentor"which means medicines that produce symptoms in a healthy
individual also cure the same symptoms in a person with a disease.ie
medicines cure like diseases.The system underlines the importance of curing the patient rather
than the manifestations or outward symptoms.The condition as a whole,the persons attitudes
his likes and dislikes,his responses to climatic conditions,movement,ameliorations and aggravations in times
the day ,temperament towards the people around him are all take into
account to select a remedy.Medicines are not simply tagged with any particular disease like
in other systems.Thus a particular drug may cure different diseases based on the totality of the
symptoms.For e.g. Diarrhoea may have dozens of drugs while a drug like sulphur can cure a number of
complaints.The salient features are:
There is vital or dynamic force within the body to fight against disease, which is to be activated
Man is susceptible to disease due to certain miasma.
1 curing of patient based on totality of symptoms including mental symptoms
2 preparation of medicines with least toxic affects by continuous purification and succussion
The more the medicine is diluted ,the more succussion done, the medicine becomes
more potent.In higher potencies the drug content is less
3 Drugs are tested on healthy individuals and the symptoms are noted .The system postulates
that the remedies producing opposite effects do not cure but only suppress the malaise where
as the drugs producing similar symptoms cures the patient
4 Selecting a single remedy and single dose preferably.
5 Medicines are administered in the shape of globules ,tablets ,tinctures and powders
6selection of potency based on the stage of disease,state of patient and stress on mental
symptoms
7 watching aggravations and ameliorations ,before second dose or second remedy
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