Homeopathy
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a system of medicine developed by Dr Samuel Hahnemann in Germnay during the eighteenth Century. Homeopathy is based on Greek words which mean similar suffering, it’s a alternative to the standard medical practice. Homeopathy has a different concept and a unique one which is different to other way of medical practice.
Homeopathy is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world, the first homeopathic hospital was opened in 1832 and then homeopathic medical schools were opened all over Europe.
The Classical homeopathy basically deals with a system of medical treatment which is based on the use of little quantities of remedies that in larger doses produce effects similar to those of the disease being treated. The concept of Hahnemann was top use very small doses of a medication, and that could have very powerful healing effects because their potency could be affected by vigorous and methodical shaking (succussion).
In other conventional or allopathic medicine the use of drugs are much more and the disease is suppressed and for the time being removed by the increase in dose of antibiotics. Homeopathy also stimulates the body and increases the healing power of the body, it strengthens the immune system of the body making the body healthy and strong. Homeopathy also has a tendency to treat all conditions effectively and it is also said that there is no incurable disease, just have incurable patients.
Hahnemann in order to test his methods use to experiment on himself with various drugs. He thus concluded that "a doctor should use only those remedies which would have the power to create, in a healthy body, symptoms similar to those that might be seen in the sick person being treated." He also backed the ideology of giving medicines in single doses, he claimed, not in complex mixtures. Many arguments were largely associated with homeopathy regarding the efficiency of the way of treatments. The theory of homeopathy was also challenged and doubts were raised on its success to cure all diseases.
Now a day’s homeopathy is one of the major medical practice used to cure several diseases. Homeopathy arrived in India with Dr John Martin Honigberger (1795-1869). It is also taught as a medical course in universities and its is popular is mostly in Europe and India rather in USA, and other part of the world.