Homeopathy

Today almost everybody is talking about Homeopathy but relatively few know what it is all about. For many it is one of the alternative methods of treatment, but indeed, homeopathy is a therapy system that is directed towards stimulating the natural defense of the organism for self-healing, without any side-effect and by using very diluted amounts of natural substances.

At the end of the 18 century, the German scientist Samuel Hahnemann, established the foundations of this simple yet powerful philosophy of healing, based on the following most natural assumptions:

• Like cures like
• Minimal dosage
• Single prescription only

The first assumption is known since the time of the legendary Greek physician Hippocrates who claimed that an illness can be cured in two ways: by using opposite or by using like means. This principle was attempted to be introduced into the mainstream medicine by Paracelsus, but with no success.

Homeopathic remedies are natural substances of mineral, plant or animal origin. They are totally unharmful since their dilution is extreme: 1 part of the substance versus 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water. Theoretically everything that can be found in nature is a potential cure, but up to date we know about the effects of some 3000.