What is the Homoeopathy? How it works!

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Homoeopathy & Philosophy:- Dr.Christian Friedrich Samual Hahnemann was the founder of this medicine.He was born in 1755 in a small village in Germany. He studied Allopathic Medicne and obtained M.D During his medical practice he found that many diseases were constantly, recurring even after treatment. Further, some of the methods of treatment the were in vogue were berbarous, for example, applying leeches to the body for high blood pressure, brutal beating of the patient as a mode of treatment for lunatics etc. His restless mind was in pirsuit of a more rational method of treatment.At one stage, he stopped practicing the medicine and started translating books from German to English. While translating the books he came across a particular item in Cullen's Meteria Medica, where in Malaria curing properties of Cinchona bark were mentioned. Dr.Hahnemann was inquisitive to know the mode of its action. He himself chewed the bark of Cinchona to his surprise, he developed all the symptoms of malaria. After experimenting with Cinchona bark, Dr.Hahnemann had come to a conclusion that any substance, which is capable of producing a set of symptoms, is equally capable of curing it, as Cinchona bark is an established remedy for Malaria. He carried out several experiments with several of the remedies and found the above mentioned principle in operation. Thus, he coined a therapeutic law " Similia - Similibus - Curanter "i.e., " Likes cure Likes" . This is the main principle on which the therapeutics of Homoeopathy is based. In his later life,Dr.Hahnemann had verified this principle with several instances that had occured in Nature in which the principle of Similars curing Similars was in operation, Contributing for the confirmation of the law. For example, a patient suffering from a skin disease of a particular type was completely cured when he was affected by small pox which was similar in appearance to the skin disease he suffered earlier.Patients suffering from chronic diarrhoea were totally cured when they suffered from an attack of Cholera. Dr.Hahnemann very aptly described this law as therapeutic law of Nature. After successfully experimenting with his new remedies. Dr.Hahnemann started practicing this method of treatment with astounding results. In course of time he gathered a good number of devoted enthusiasts, who started learning Homoeopathy under Dr.Hahnemann. The sudden and increasing popularity of Hahnemann and his new therapeutic Practice had sent panic waves in the Allopathic pharmaceutical industry as their very existance was at stake.As a result, in a very calculated way, several hurdles were created and Dr.Hahnemann was left with no other alternative than to migrate to paris. After his migration to France, Dr.Hahnemann practiced for several years, trained a good number of Homoeopaths and at the ripe age 88 years, that was on 02-07-1843, passed away peacefully. Thus came to an end, the life of a great master, an original thinker and a physician with a healing touch.