Introduction

Homoeopathy is a combination of two Greek words- ‘Homoeos’ means similar, alike and ‘Pathos’ means suffering, feeling.

Homoeopathy is a system of alternative method of treatment, applying medicines with similar symptoms.Homoeopathy is the revolutionary science.Homoeopathy is gentle and effective system of medicine.

History

Homoeopathy was discovered by a German physician Samuel C. F. Hahnemann in 1790. He was dissatisfied with the prevailing system of medicine and began his own researchers. In the year 1796, after several years of pains taking labour, he established the law of nature and declared to the world in, An essay on a new principle for ascertaining the curative power of the drug published in Hufeland’s journal.

Based on his doctrine of like cures like, Nature’s Law of Cure(Similia Similibus Curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.

How does it work?

The remedies are prepared from natural substances and others, works by stimulating the body’s own healing power. It offers long lasting permanent cure, treating the disease from its root cause, for, for most of the ailments. Homoeopathy does not treat superficially by just driving away the symptoms but heals the patient from within. Homoeopathy is the most logical, safe, quick and effective method of healing, as well the most rational science with respect to its concepts of health, disease and cure. Homoeopathy treats the patient as a whole and not just the disease.

The concept of disease in homoeopathy is that disease is a total affection of mind and body, the disturbance of the whole organism. Individual organs are not the cause of illness but disturbance at the inner level (disturbance of the life force, the vital energy of the body) is the cause of illness.

SAYINGS OF SOME GREAT PEOPLE ABOUT HOMOEOPATHY

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

No individual has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann (the father of Homoeopathy)

Homoeopathy cures a greater percentage of cases than any other method of treatment. Homoeopathy is the latest and refined method of treating patients economically and nonviolently. Government must encourage and patronize it in our country…

Rabindranath Tagore, said – “It is not merely a collection of a few medicines, but a new science with a rational philosophy as its base. We require more scientific interest and enquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environments.”

The introduction of Homoeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that Homoeopathy survived the attempts of the allopath to destroy it.

The more the allopath grows old, the more he is pessimistic. The more the homoeopath grows, the more he is enthusiastic and optimistic.

Homoeopathy is the safest and most reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years…

If satisfy the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicines.

I can’t manage without Homoeopathy. I never go anywhere without homoeopathic remedies. I use them often…

If I was not an actress, I would be a Homoeopathic doctor…

Complementary therapies, like Homoeopathy, get to the cause – rather than just treating the symptoms…. I know from my own experience that they work….. I’d like to see doctors prescribing Homoeopathic treatment.

Homoeopathy is a highly developed health practice that uses a systematic approach to the totality of a person’s health. Anyone seeking a fuller understanding of health and healing will find Homoeopathy extremely important and applicable…

There have been two great revelations in my life. The first was bepop. The second was Homoeopathy.

Homoeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body, mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.

Homoeopathy, unaided by the state, has wonderful progress to its credit. Its cheapness, its simplicity is remarkable. The cures it has affected are no less remarkable. I have no doubt; therefore, that it deserves state patronage as any other system of medicine.

Homoeopathy offers the optimal mix of simplicity, economy, effectiveness of treatment and cultural acceptability amongst the diverse population of a large developing country like India. Let us make all efforts to see that it is available to the common man, everywhere.

If there is scientific system of medicine, in vogue today, it is Homoeopathy, the system are more or less empirical, but not so Homoeopathy, which as a scientific basis of its own. That, in fact, was the great contribution of Hahnemann to medical science.

A drop of Homoeopathic medicine can change the quality of life.

I patronize Homoeopathy. I have always used it for my family.

The long term benefit of homoeopathy to the patient is that it not only alleviates the presenting symptoms but it re-establishes internal order at the deepest levels and thereby provides a lasting cure.