An Introduction to Homeopathic Medicine

Homeopathic Medicine emerged from the scientific studies and writings of Dr Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) in Germany. Dr. Hahnemann graduated from medical school in 1779 and soon began his first homeopathic experiments in 1790.

Hahnemann discovered that the symptoms which a poisonous substance produced in a healthy person were the same symptoms a homeopathically prepared remedy cured in a sick individual. This led him to adopt the “law of similars” as a universal therapeutic principle and he spent the remainder of his life working at a system of medicine based on this universal law.

The name “homeopathy” comes from the Greek homoion + pathos, meaning “the cure is like the disease.”