About Homoeopathy
Homoeopathy is a holistic system of medicine founded by Dr Samuel Hahnemann in 1790 in Germany. It has spread over all the world since then and now has became the second largest system of medicine to be sought after allopathy. Spread of Homoeopathy in India is traced from 1810.
All About Homoeopathy
It is based on a fixed principle of ‘Similia similibus curentur’. Homoeopathy is an art and science. The science is the laws and principles on which it is based, while art is understanding the patient, evaluation of symptoms and application of the principles.
Homoeopathy can be used in curable acute and chronic cases as well as in incurable cases for palliation of the symptoms.
In the investigation of a chronic case of the patient, the homoeopathic physician who is trained to be a unprejudiced observer perceives the bothering symptoms along with the the physical constitution of the patient, his moral and intellectual character, his occupation, mode of living and habits, his social and domestic relations, his age, sexual functions etc.
He ascertains the changes in the health of the body and of the mind of the patient.