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According to Dr. Hahnemann different dilutions of herbal- or mineral
preparations are able to cause an alteration of the magnetic field of an
organism. "A simile heals the similar." Can also be helpful in stimulating
the immunsystem in cancerpatients. Homöopathy is quite useful in treating
other acute and chronic diseases, used either as a monopreparation or as a
complex-composotion, or in combination with other therapies like Kampo,
etc..
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Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann
1755-1843
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Homœopathy (Home' - ee - AH' - puh - thee; sometimes spelled
homeopathy) is a system of healthcare developed and introduced by the
German physician Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700's. At its heart is the
phenomenon of cure by similars, where a substance that could produce
disease in a healthy person (when given in excess) is used to invite a
healing response in someone presenting with a similar disease. Homœopathy
takes its name from this phenomenon of cure by similars; from the Greek,
homoeo = "similar", pathos = "suffering".
This use of cure by similars actually predates homœopathy by several
centuries. Hippocrates records the use of this approach to healing (c.
400BC in Greece), and we find references to it from the Oracle of Delphi,
from Indian medical texts as much as 4,000 years old, and from ancient
Chinese medical texts. Celsus, a physician of the Greek classical period,
and Theophrastus, a Swiss physician of the 16th century, received renown
for their effectiveness as physicians relying on this approach.
Hahnemann was trained as a conventional physician, at the University in
Leipzig, Germany. Discouraged by the medicine of his day, and distraught
at the near demise of his daughter under the care of a conventional
physician, Hahnemann left the practice of medicine to write and translate
books. In entertaining the question of what a viable system of medicine
would involve, he came back to the historical references to cure by
similars in the Hippocratic writings. From his own experiments with
Chinchona bark (from a Peruvian tree, the source of Quinine), he convinced
himself that Chinchona's effectiveness in treating some cases of malaria
resulted from its ability to create a similar disease to which the body
could respond, with a resulting healing response to both the
medicine-induced condition and the malaria.
Hahnemann went on to apply this principal of cure by similars to other
conditions, using many other remedies, and came to observe it as a
universal law of cure; he coined the expression "Similia Similibus
Curentur" ("Let likes cure likes") as the cornerstone of his homœopathic
philosophy.
A second cornerstone of homœopathy is the minimum dose. The incredibly
tiny doses we use in treatment came about through careful systematic
experimentation by early homœopaths. While larger doses could often elicit
the healing responses desired, this would often be accompanied by
undesirable side effects of the medications. Reducing the dose served to
minimize or eliminate these undesirable side effects. Much to the surprise
of Hahnemann and his colleagues, these smaller doses also often worked
much more effectively in bringing about a healing response. Although the
"logic" of using such tiny doses may defy us, we observe it to work in
practice, and continue to rely on these minimum doses today.
The third cornerstone of homœopathy is the use of a single remedy at any
one time. In inviting a healing response, it can be confusing to the body,
with unpredictable results, to invite several responses simultaneously.
Although some practitioners have deviated on this point and use
combinations of remedies, Hahnemann abandoned this approach after
experimenting with it himself.
We learn about the properties of our remedies through provings. In a
proving, a number of healthy people are given excessive doses of a
particular remedy, and the symptoms they develop are carefully recorded.
These patterns of symptoms have been systematically recorded in books we
refer to as materia medica. This remedy could then be used to treat a
person presenting with an illness which had a similar pattern of symptoms.
The prescription of a particular remedy will be based upon the totality of
symptoms of the individual. In taking a case, the characteristics and
behavior of each symptom of the patient are recorded and used to find a
matching remedy. Unlike conventional medicine, which might consider some
symptoms of the individual to be unrelated to the "condition" to be
treated, homœopathy views disease as a disharmony of the whole person, and
considers the state of the whole person - physically, mentally, and
emotionally - when finding an appropriate remedy.
Homœopathy was a popular system of medical care in the United States
during the 19th century (my wife's great-grandfather was a homœopathic
physician in Madison, Maine, having graduated from Boston University
Medical School, which was a homœopathic medical school in those days).
Sociopolitical factors led to its decline in the U.S. in the early 1900's,
but it has remained a prominent form of medical care in England, Germany,
France, India, and parts of South America. A handful of professional
practitioners, and many families with their remedy kits and homecare
manuals, have kept homœopathy alive in the U.S. through the time of its
current resurgence.
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