Homoeopathy Awareness Week

Homoeopathy Awareness Week

On the 10th of April 2018 Homoeopathy Awareness Week starts with the birthday of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homoeopathy.

He was born on the 10th of April 1755 in Meissen/Germany.

He studied not only medicine but chemistry as well and qualified as a physician in Leipzig in 1779. He also wrote books about medicine and chemistry as well as working as a medical doctor. 

He stopped working as a doctor because he was not happy about the way it was done at that time. But because he already had a family to support he started translating English medicine books into German. 

There it was that he first got the idea of proving "likes cures likes" when he translated the therapeutic indications of Peruvian Bark from the English "Materia Medica" by Professor Cullen of London University into German. He took some doses of Peruvian Bark or China as it is called and noticed that the substance actually produced exactly the same symptoms in his healthy self as it was suppose to cure in a person with Malaria. He might have done that because he had found evidence of the principles of "likes cures likes" in Old-Greek literature but nobody knows for sure.

In 1810 he published the book " Organon der Heilkunst" ( The means of the art of healing) about his discovery which he called "Homoeopathy". The word was derived from the Old-Greek words for similar suffering. He went back to working as a physician but practiced homoeopathy with amazing results. Even though he helped a lot of people, his fellow physicians who stuck with the old method where not happy about the way he practised. There was actually an uproar which seems to continue even today. 

But he got the ball rolling and more than 200 years later Homoeopathy is the second most used medicine worldwide. There are still some sceptics, saying that there is no evidence in Homoeopathy but can we really dismiss something that helped so many people?

Homoeopathy works for me!