Homeopathy

A comprehensive system of medicine based on the "law of similars", discovered and developed by Samuel Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician in the last years of the 18th century. Treatment with "similars" was of course well known to medicine before Hahnemann's time in fact it was mentioned as early as the 4th century BC in the Hippocratic Corpus.

 

Apart from the symptoms of the disease, homeopaths use aspects of the patient's physical and psychological state in recommending remedies. Homeopathic reference books known as repertories are then consulted, and a remedy is selected based on the totality of symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are considered safe, with rare exceptions. However, some homeopaths have been criticized for putting patients at risk with advice to avoid conventional medicine such as vaccinations, anti-malarial drugs, and antibiotics. In many countries, the laws that govern the regulation and testing of conventional drugs do not apply to homeopathic remedies.

 

Homotoxicology

 

Homotoxicology is a continuation of Hahnemannian theory and practice in the light of advances in the past few decades in scientific knowledge of pathology, physiology, toxicology, evolution biology etc. The underlying concept is that all manifestations of life depend on the conversion of chemical compounds according to well-defined chemical laws. Every organism is a flow-system attempting to maintain the equilibrium of the flow. The flow will be disturbed by substances (toxin) which tend to damage the organism. The organism attempts to defend itself against this threat, and this battle between the normal biological flow and the toxins manifests as disease.

 

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