HOMEOPATHY

introduction

The homeopathy belongs to the most astonishing, most enduring and all crises of conventional medicine withstanding teachings. It is an empirical science and the following treatise is intended to give a first insight and the impetus to learn important details about this science impartially and without prejudice.

Origin and history of homeopathy

Founder of homeopathy is he, born in Meißen in 1755, Samuel Hahnemann. The motto of the Enlightenment "Dare to be wise" was Hahnemann's motto in life.
Emanuel Kant interpreted it as follows: "Have the courage to use your own understanding". In the sense of the Enlightenment this means to dare to subject everything that has become historical to the critical examination by reason.
Hahnemann created a new medical worldview, founded homeopathy and thus triggered a revolution that has not yet ended. Your fascination continues.

At the teaching building of the traditional medicine Few dared to shake the presumptuous. The four cardinal juices had been known for thousands of years: Blood, mucus, yellow and black bile and made them responsible for everything that makes you sick or keeps you healthy.

The therapy options were limited primarily to the so-called "unholy triad" - Bloodletting, emetics and laxatives. Historians report on bled, mercury-poisoned patients of this confused time. Medicine remained in this medieval position, the training of young doctors was unprecedentedly poor and was based primarily on dry book knowledge.

Hahnemann began studying medicine in Leipzig in 1775 and finished it in Erlangen in 1779. His first, only brief, practice as a doctor was in Hettstedt in the Mansfeld region in 1780. Afterwards he wandered through Germany for some time, unsatisfied by the inadequate possibilities of medical treatment. He earned his living mainly by translating medical literature. Hahnemann spoke fluent English, French and Italian, became a member of the “Mainz Electoral Academy” and in 30 years translated about 12,000 pages of foreign language literature into German.

The cinchona bark trial

His work as a translator eventually became his fate. When translating the "Treatise on the Materia Medica" from English in 1790, he doubted the correctness of the effect of the cinchona bark in its application malaria. He carried out the first drug experiment known in history as the Cinchona bark trial has been received.Hahnemann observed a pathological condition in himself in repeated examinations that seemed to be similar to the intermittent fever (malaria). Hahnemann tested other medicinal substances in the following years and made observations similar to those made with the cinchona bark experiment. Over the years he developed the so-called “rule of similarity” as a principle for the correct choice of the appropriate drug. First published by Hahnemann in the "Hufeland Journal" in 1796. This year is therefore the year of birth homeopathy viewed.

Hahnemann wrote down his findings over the years and in 1810 the "Organon of rational medicine" appeared. It is the reform work of an ingenious loner with the aim of finding better possibilities for the treatment and healing of sick people. The organon is the foundation of the homeopathy, whose core sentence appears here for the first time in full: Simila similibus curentur = Similar can be achieved by similar be cured. The term also appears here for the first time homeopathy.

Hahnemann also gave instructions on disinfection for infectious diseases, domestic cleanliness, nutrition, child care and upbringing that are still valid today. He expressed surprising views about the cause of cholera. Long before the bacteriological era, he traced them back to "the smallest living beings" that were transmitted from person to person. As a pharmacist and chemist, he also wrote the “Pharmacist Lexicon”. For decades it was a sought-after and much-used reference work.

Hahnemann died in Paris in 1843 at the age of 88, practicing medicine until his death.