The story of homeopathy!

Homeopathy is a natural method of treatment and while many believe it is applied in recent decades, in fact the first references are in the distant past. In Greek antiquity, Hippocrates mentioned the “Law of Similars”, meaning “Like cures like”.

With this axiom, Hippocrates supported the treatment that is based on the administration of drugs capable of causing the same symptoms that they are called to heal.

Later in 1810, the German physician, Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), would confirm the same law through the invention and foundation of the science of Homeopathy.

The name Homeopathy comes from the two words homoios and pathos, which was used by the German physician Hahnemann to describe that if a substance can to cause symptoms of a disease in healthy organisms, then the same substance will be able to cure the same symptoms in sick organisms.

Hahnemann studied medicine in Leipzig and Vienna and very soon his experience as a doctor brought him face to face with the uncertainty of the effectiveness of medicines, after he found that they often harmed and worsened the health of patients rather than This fact led him to abandon medicine and, as he himself said, “....I can no longer remain connected to a technique that my logic and conscience reject. "They consider it insufficient and harmful to me."

He then studied chemistry and, for financial reasons, began translating. medical books on pharmacology - Materia Medica. Along the way in 1790 he took over the translation of William Cullen's pharmacology, in which he read about the therapeutic property of quinine (a substance found in cinchona bark) in intermittent fevers from malaria. Hahnemann, wanting to ascertain the way in which this is achieved, the treatment, made the experimenter take a daily amount of cinchona bark, as exactly what was mentioned in Cullen's pharmacology book. After a while he showed symptoms similar to those that accompany intermittent fever such as rapid heartbeat, shivering, freezing feet, fatigue and drowsiness. With the beginning of this experience, he began to understand that treatment can be achieved by administering drugs, which when taken by a healthy body, the same symptoms as those of the diseases are manifested.

The experiments continued and this time he was not alone. Together with a team of doctors who shared the same view, they began to record the symptoms of different substances they were taking and to study the new therapeutic method. Then, he gave patients drugs that caused symptoms similar to their illness and the positive results
gave impetus to the evolutionary course of his research. Hahnemann noticed that some patients, they just took the drug before their body started the healing mechanism, presented a temporary worsening of symptoms. This fact prompted him to dose reduction and the inspiration of empowerment which is the fundamental law of
Homeopathy.

In the following years (1810) he published the book "Organ of rational therapeutics" art", in which he develops the basic principles of the homeopathic system and in 1828 publishes his new book "Chronic diseases, their nature and homeopathic treatment".

As the history of Homeopathy unfolds over time, the American Constantine Hering (1800-1880) continued in the footsteps of the originator of Homeopathy and after Hahnemann's death (1843) through his personal experience, he expanded the homeopathic pharmacology, introducing new medicines and writing many books. It contributed important in establishing Homeopathy as a reliable therapeutic method and formulated the law of the direction of treatment, explaining that:

During the same period, another important figure who contributed decisively to the rise and the establishment of Homeopathy along with Hering in America, was James Tyler Kent. Kent (1849-1916) studied and practiced homeopathy, wrote the Repertory, the which is included in the theoretical training of the symptomatology of Homeopathy. He continued the work of Hahnemann and Hering by using in such a way the greatest empowerments so that the patient's permanent healing can occur.

 Hahnemann was a great researcher. His work was based on the desire to contribute as a doctor to the treatment of the patient without harming him. Together with the worthy successors, Hering and Kent succeeded in establishing Homeopathy as a effective holistic therapeutic system that does not aim to suppress the symptoms of the disease but in the treatment of people.