HOMEOPATHY KEYNOTES

WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY

Homeopathy is a system of therapy to maintain or restore normal health by prescribing a specific therapeutic agent, according to certain definite principles. These therapeutic agents are substances of animal, vegetable or mineral origin which are manufactured according to the specifications of the homeopathic

pharmacopoeia. The scientific principle employed is known as the Law of Similars, which states that Likes Cure Likes (Latin :- Similia Similibus Curentur). . 

The law of Similars states that a substance which can produce various abnormal symptoms when given to an individual in normal health may be capable of relieving or entirely overcoming a physiological or pathological disorder, which is characterized by a similar symptom complex.

The law of Similars was discovered by Samuel Hahnemann, a German scholar and physician, who was born in 1755 at Meissen in Upper Saxony. He wrote his first dissertation on homeopathy in 1796 in Hufeland's Journal. He also wrote a treatise on the V irtues of Medicine in 1805, the Organon in 1810 and his Materia Medica Pura in 1811.