Category Archives: Homeopathy

Homoeopathy in surgical conditions

There are so many disease conditions where Homoeopathic treatment can be useful to the patient. Some of the conditions are where surgical treatment is essential but in these conditions Homoeopathy can help a lot to avoid the surgery: Renal stones, … Continue reading

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Drug Proving

In Homoeopathic treatment only those medicines are used / prescribed which have properly proved or tested according to the rules laid down by Dr Hahnemann. The process is known “Drug Proving”. Actually Hahneann wants to know the potentized drugs actions … Continue reading

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Theory of Vital Force

Among the medical science, Homoeopathy believes that it is the Vital Force which is responsible for the different manifestations of life. Hahnemann writes in aphorism-10, about the Vital force,”The material organism without the vital force is capable no sensation, no … Continue reading

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Drug dynamization

Drug dynamization is related to the Homoeopathic Pharmacy. This is a process by which homoeopathic medicines are potentized. Before potentization of drugs into remedies several essential steps are taken as a basic preparation. Drug dynamization is the most characteristic—and controversial—principle … Continue reading

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Law of Minimum

The Minimal Dose Hahnemann laid a principle in aphorism 275, the suitableness of a medicine for any given case does not depend on its accurate Homoeopathic selection alone, but likewise on the proper size or rather smallness of dose. Under … Continue reading

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Law of simplex

The single remedy: Hahnemann on the single remedy: In no case is it requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time. This is one aspect of the Hahnemann approach which have several dimensions to understand … Continue reading

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Theory of disease

In Hahnemann’s day, the conventional theory of disease was based on the four humours. Mainstream medicine focused on restoring the balance in the humours, either by attempting to remove an excess (by such methods as bloodletting and purging, laxatives, enemas … Continue reading

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Miasms

By 1816, Hahnemann was concerned at the failure of his homeopathic remedies to produce lasting cures for chronic diseases. He found that “…the non-venereal chronic diseases, after being time and again removed homoeopathically … always returned in a more or … Continue reading

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Preparation of similars

Succussion and dilution The most characteristic and controversial principle of homeopathy is that the potency of a remedy can be enhanced (and the side-effects diminished) by dilution, in a procedure known as dynamization or potentization. Liquids are progressively diluted (with … Continue reading

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Principle of medical similars

Homeopathy is based on the ‘Principle of Similars’, first expressed by Hahnemann in the exhortation similia similibus curentur or ‘let likes cure likes’. This is the opposite of ‘contraries’ upon which the Galenic medicine of his day was based, which … Continue reading

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