Homeopathy

What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a medical practice founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in Europe during the late 1700s. Hahnemann was a medical doctor with keen observation skills that led him to ask inspired questions about disease processes. He noticed that a person with a chronic condition would often be healed after an encounter with a more severe acute illness (i.e. a chronic condition that disappears after a bout of malaria). He meticulously tracked and recorded symptoms and tested natural remedies using scientific processes, such as double-blind studies.

“The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed.” (Aphorism 1, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann)

“Like cures like.”

Through observation, Samuel Hahnemann discovered the “Law of Similars.” He noticed that any substance that creates symptoms in a healthy body is able to cure those same symptoms in someone who is sick.

“The Magic of the Minimum Dose”

Homeopathic remedies are made from highly diluted plants, minerals, animals, and even tissue matter that act to balance the body to direct it toward healing.

Through years of study and trials, Hahnemann found that only very small doses were needed to prompt the body toward healing; hence, remedies are potentized through a series of dilutions. The number next to the remedy name indicates the dilution scale.