Homoeopathy is a system of medicine which is based on priciples first discussed by Paracelsus in the 15th century and later developed into a Medical System by the Saxon physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796.
'Similia similibus curentur' is the Latin phrase which was then chosen to describe the 'law of similars' which underpins homeopathy's application - put simply it means 'like cures like'.
The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the suffering patient , who has a set of particular symptoms which characterise their condition, a minute dose of a substance which in large doses causes similar symptoms. For example , homeopathically prepared doses of onion (allium cepa) will treat certain cases of hay fever where the symptoms match those of someone suffering the effects of inhaling the fumes of a fresh chopped onion. Homeopathically prepared coffee (coffea tosta) is also used to treat certain types of sleeplessness which resemble the sleeplessness caused by drinking coffee.
Homoeopathic medicines are considered as a vibrational or energy medicine because they are processed in such a way as to dilute the original substences to point where there may be no physical substence left in the remedy. This is important as some of the remedies are originaly derived from toxic substances.
The symptom expression of each remedy is discovered primarily through a standard procedure called a 'Proving' where a substance is tested on a group of healthy volunteers for its effects and the symptoms recorded and compared to produce the information which defines that particular remedy. Each homoeopathic medicine has its unique symptom expression recorded in the homoeopathic 'materia medica'
The traditional approach was to only give one remedy at a time. Some modern therapists , particularly naturopaths , use homoeopathic remedies in groups of remedies. The classical homoeopaths consider that this approach is unfounded according the principle of 'Similia similibus curentur' as these collections have never been through a "Proving."
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