Origins of Homeopathic Medicine
Homeopathic Medicine is based on the findings of Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann was a German physician who lived from 1755 until 1843. During his career, Hahnemann began to take a regular dose of cinchona. After taking this, he began to have mild symptoms of malaria. Hahnemann determined that if a patient is suffering from an illness, he can be given a medicine that would produce similar, yet milder symptoms in a healthy adult.
He used a process called proving to help compile a list of appropriate remedies based on the law of similars or like cures like. This law of similars was used by a variety of cultures including the Greeks, the Mayans, the Native American Indians, the Asian Indians, and the Chinese. However, Hahnemann codified all aspects of the law of similars into a systematic medical science that is still used today.
In 1812, Typhus was killing thousands. Hahnemann armed with his homeopathic medicines treated 180 typhus patients. Out of those patients, only two died. He continued working on his theories throughout his life. In 1831, cholera broke out in Europe. He used his protocols to treat cholera. The mortality rate of cholera using conventional treatment methods was more than 50 percent while the mortality rate using homeopathic treatment methods was between 2 and 20 percent.
Dr. Lund was a Danish student of Hahnemann who then trained Dr. Hans Burch Gram. Dr. Gram brought this complementary medicine to New York City in 1825 and opened the first homeopathic practice in the New World. The success of this branch of medicine spurred the formation of the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1844. Since then, Homeopathic Medicine has gained federal recognition, including the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Medicare Act of 1965, and the 1987 FDA Compliance Policy Guidelines.
Principles of Homeopathy
Homeopathic Medicine follows three principles – Likes Cure Likes, Minimum Dose, and Totality of Symptoms.
The first principle of Likes Cure Likes assumes the symptoms are the body’s way to overcome an illness. Practitioners using this principle believe that if a particular ingredient or substance causes a symptom to occur in a healthy person, giving a minute amount of the substance may help cure an illness in an unhealthy person. This Minimum Dose, known as a homeopathic dose, is the second principle. It stimulates a healing response such as inflammation to enhance the body’s self-regulatory and healing processes.
Finally, the third principle is the Totality of Symptoms approach. Homeopathic Medicine seeks to stimulate the body’s natural healing mechanisms.
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