All this modern material ties in very neatly with the main concerns that Hahnemann immersed himself in two centuries ago.  What Hahnemann was primarily appalled and disgusted by and which he most vigorously and passionately opposed were strong doses of drugs, bloodletting and compound drug mixtures conceived and employed along the Galenic lines of contraries.  These were the biggest objections he made against the medicine of his day.  He was implacably opposed to them because he could see from first-hand daily experience that they were dismally ineffective measures to be employed against sickness, and they were also harmful and damaging to patients as well; they caused more suffering.  Thus, he stood alone in having the courage and intellectual honesty to abandon in disgust such a medical practice, and to commit himself instead to a search for more gentle, benign and effective therapeutic measures.   Who could possibly stand up and condemn him for do...

The discovery of homeopathy is empirical and credited to Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, who made this groundbreaking breakthrough in the late 18th century. Samuel Hahnemann was born in 1755 in Saxony, Germany, and he began his medical career as a traditional physician. Hahnemann's journey towards the discovery of homeopathy began when he questioned the conventional medical practices of his time. His dissatisfaction with the harmful treatments of his time led him to abandon his practice and start working as a translator to earn his living. In 1790, while translating the famous William Cullen's 'A Treatise of Materia Medica', he read that Cinchona bark can cure malaria because of it's bitter taste and tonic effects on stomach. This doesn't seem appropriate to Dr Hannemann and he decided to do an experiment on himself. He started to take a small amount of cinchona bark himself for several days and he developed the symptoms of malaria. This crucial obser...

"Homeopathy is a living dynamic science and can be effective only if it becomes a living pulsating knowledge within the mind and heart of the practicing Homeopath."                                                                                         - Prof George Vithoulkas                   (Homeopath, Researcher, Recipient of Right Livelihood Award 1996)