About Homeopathy .....
The word homeopathy comes from the Greek, and may be translated as "similar suffering". In other words, the agent which can cause disease in a well person may be used to therapeutic advantage in the person who is sick and whose symptoms resemble those of the agent.
This was a concept that had existed from the time of Hippocrates, but Samuel Hahnemann, the originator of homeopathy as a medical theory, took the basic idea much further by developing it into a full therapeutic system.
Parallel with the notion of treating by similars, Hahnemann also developed the theory that the dose of medicine administered should be the smallest possible to affect cure, and he began working with more and more dilute forms of medicine in an effort to produce the gentlest and most effective form of treatment.
At this point, he made a quantum leap in his thinking; to the process of dilution, he added "succussion" (vigorous pounding) and found that if both processes were carried out the preparation became medicinally effective.
After years of perfecting this therapeutic method, Hahnemann called it Homeopathy by combining two Greek roots, homoios, meaning "similar" and pathos, meaning "disease". We owe a great debt to Hahnemann for providing a method of restoring good health in a gentle, safe and effective manner.
The word homeopathy comes from the Greek, and may be translated as "similar suffering". In other words, the agent which can cause disease in a well person may be used to therapeutic advantage in the person who is sick and whose symptoms resemble those of the agent.
This was a concept that had existed from the time of Hippocrates, but Samuel Hahnemann, the originator of homeopathy as a medical theory, took the basic idea much further by developing it into a full therapeutic system.
Parallel with the notion of treating by similars, Hahnemann also developed the theory that the dose of medicine administered should be the smallest possible to affect cure, and he began working with more and more dilute forms of medicine in an effort to produce the gentlest and most effective form of treatment.
At this point, he made a quantum leap in his thinking; to the process of dilution, he added "succussion" (vigorous pounding) and found that if both processes were carried out the preparation became medicinally effective.
After years of perfecting this therapeutic method, Hahnemann called it Homeopathy by combining two Greek roots, homoios, meaning "similar" and pathos, meaning "disease". We owe a great debt to Hahnemann for providing a method of restoring good health in a gentle, safe and effective manner.
