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What Is Homoeopathy?
'Homoeopathy' is like many words in the English language and is derived from the greek words 'Homoios' and 'Pathos'. Roughly translated this means ''like treatment. Essentially therefore Homoeopathy is the medical practice of treating like with like.
The theory was known to both the ancient Greeks and Romans. It was re-discovered in Medieval Europe by Paracelcus, a famous Swiss pharmacist and physician but never put to any practical use.
Present day use of homoeopathy stems from the studies and work of Dr. Samuel Friedrich Hahneman, born in Meissen, Germany 1755 died Paris, France 1845. His first experiments were performed in 1794 concerned the action of Cinchona bark (precursor of modern quinnine which had been used by contemporary doctors to treat ague or marsh fever (known as Malaria today.)
Dr. Hahnemann knew that Cinchona cured maleria and he wanted to know what happened if a healthy person took cinchona. He found that is produced all the symptons of Malaria'. So he deducted that by treating patients using very dilute solutions of cinchona bark in a water/alcohol misture he could treat the disease free from the toxicity of the bark alone. He also found that the more he diluted and shook the solution (succussed) the better they worked. Therefore he concluded that the most dilute solutions had the most power or 'potency'.
Dr. Hahnemann went on to experiment and 'prove' his theories using other medicinal herbs and mineral substances. Other doctors and pharmacists came to accept his ideas and methods of treatment which are known to be safe, effective and non-topic. Eventually Homoeopathy spread across Europe. More and more remdies were tried and 'proved' on healthy human volunteers. Now Homoeopathy is world-wide and there are over 4,500 remedies available tro treat all disese from babies and children to adults of any age.
Homoeopathy is essentially natural healing. The remedies assist the patient to regain health by stimulating Nature's 'vital force' of recovery. Homoeopathic medicines are safe, gentle and effective. Symptons are used and not suppressed as in conventional medicine. There is no toxicity side-effects or interactions as in conventional medicine and there is almost a 200 year history of well-proven documentary evidence of the efficacy of Homoeopathic remedies which have been used by many of the famous of the U.K. including our own Royal Family.
