General Information about Homeopathy

What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy is an alternative system of medicine. The Father of Homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, was a German doctor who propounded the basic principle of Homeopathy as being the “law of similar.” He believed that when a large dose of a substance caused illness minute doses of the same substance proved to be a cure for the same illness. Accordingly, in Homeopathy, ingredients were highly diluted. Read more on Homeopathy

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History of Homeopathy – Down the Memory Lane

Dr Samuel Hahnemann, a German doctor is credited as being the founder of homeopathy, a popular branch of alternative medicine. Western traditional medical practices from the 16th to the early 20th centuries followed ineffectual, harmful and sometimes even fatal forms of treatment like bloodletting, purging and so on. Dr Hahnemann was deeply perturbed with these forms of treatments and started to translate medical texts for a chemist after having given up his medical practice. Read more on the history of Homeopathy