Promote Your Business
What is Homoeopathy
Homoeopathy is a system of medicine founded by the celebrated physician Dr. Samuel Hahnemann(1755-1843) of Germany. It is based on the principle that “like cures like”. In practice, this means that a medicine capable of producing certain effects when taken by a healthy human being is capable of curing any illness that displays similar effects.
For example, if a healthy person takes a dose of Arsenic, he will develop vomiting, diarrhoea of rice-water stools, a rapid pulse and prostration. His skin will become cold and his expression anxious. In smaller doses or when taken for a longer time, he will develop a running nose, heavy head, cough and bronchial catarrh. Even later there will be specific disturbances of skin and nerves. He will have burning all over which is relieved by warmth, frequent thirst for sips of water, fear of death, restlessness and a worsening of symptoms at noon and midnight.
According to the homeopathic law that (like cures like), countless patients displaying such symptoms have been cured by Arsenicum, irrespective of the name of the disease (cholera, colds, eczema, asthma, etc.). This principle has also been mentioned by the ancient Indian poet Kavi-Kalidasa:
Shruyate hi pura loke, vishaya visham aushadam.Translated, this read: “It has been said of old time in the world that poison is the remedy for poison.” Hippocrates postulated this principle in the words: (Similia similibus curentur) (likes are cured by likes).The practice of Homoeopathy is based on certain fundamental principles. Firstly, the remedies that are used are tested on human volunteers (provers) to elicit the symptoms they can produce. The symptoms of each remedy as experienced by the provers are recorded in exact detail and they form the homoeopathic Materia Medica. The symptoms of the patient are matched with the symptoms of the various remedies in the Materia Medica to find out the single remedy whose symptoms are most similar to those of the patient (like cures like).
Hahnemann’s scientific experiments led him to the process of potentization. A step by step dilution and jerking of the drug makes it extremely powerful and at the same time renders it harmless. This is in direct contrast to the toxic drugs of modern medicine, and their side effects.
Potencies employed by the homoeopath are from mother tincture to the 100000th potencies. The6th potency will have roughly a dilution of one drop of the original drug substance diluted in a lake full of water. Each potency is 100 times more dilute than the previous one. Imagine the 1 000 000thdilution! No one has been able to satisfactorily explain how medicines can act when diluted to such fantastic limits. Yet, potencies are found to act very powerfully. It seems that in the process of potentization, stored up energy of the drug is liberated
