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SCIENCE & ART OF HOMEOPATHY A K Gupta
April 10 is marked with golden letters in the history of Medical Science. In 1755, Dr Christian Samuel Fredrich Hahnemann, Father of homoeopathy was born on that day. The credit for discovering Homoeopathy goes to him who introduced to the world the Law of Similarity between drug and disease and the Law of Dynamization, an alternative philosophy of medicine.
Principle of similarity was known to Hippocrates, but credit for following it astutely to develop it to a method goes to Dr Hahnemann. He argued that there are principles and laws which govern the practice of medicine. He talked about
the Vital Energy, which was ridiculed at that time, but homoeopaths relate that to the present Immune System theory. He invented Homoeopathy as a safe and sure system of medicine that is both gentle and curative. The word Homoeopathy is derived from Greek words Homoeo meaning similar and Pathos meaning suffering. Dr Hahnemann was a German MD who was of the opinion that if the vital force is deranged one becomes sick, which later on manifests itself in the form of symptoms. After many years of practice, he was neither satisfied nor convinced of the effectiveness of the existing medical practices which so often did more harm
than good to the patients. He realized that drugs had been prescribed on patients without proper knowledge of their actions and reactions, and they only dealt with symptoms and not with the disease itself. He believed that drugs did least for the individual suffering. He sought for a method which would be safe, gentle and effective. He believed that human beings have a capacity for healing themselves and that symptoms of diseases reflect the individuals struggle to overcome the forces antagonistic to life. He also believed that the physician’s work was to discover and stimulate the ‘vital healing force of the nature’. The key principle of
CHRISTIAN SAMUEL FREDRICH HAHNEMANN
Father of Homoeopathy
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