,HOMEOPATHIC SYSTEM
The term 'homeopathy' comes from a combination of two Greek words
• 'homeo' (omio) meaning similar,
• 'pathos' meaning suffering
It is a specialized system of therapeutics, developed by Dr. Friedrich
Hahnemann(1755-1843), a German Physician ,Chemist and a pharmac
based on natural law of healing.
“HOMEOPATHY is a system of treating diseases with remedies prescrib
minute doses which are capable of producing, symptoms similar to
disease when taken by healthy person in large doses.”
,PRINCIPLE:-
The principle of homeopathic system is :-
Similia Similibus Curantur which means “Likes are cured by like
It is a concept of proving & prover.
“It is the system of the treated and aliment by the administration of d
which has the capacity to produce disease state in healthy person. Th
known as Proving of Medicine.”
, • Dr. Hahnemann believed that symptoms are no more than an outwa
reflection of the body’s inner fight to overcome illness: it is not a
manifestation of the illness itself.
• This law of similar for curing disease has being in use since the time o
Hippocrates, father of medicine.
• But it was Dr. Hahnemann who developed it in to a complete system
therapeutic enunciating the law and its application in 1810.