Hahnemann continued with proving homeopathic
remedies, documenting his work in meticulous details, writing numerous books,
still used in today’s homeopathic practice, and teaching practitioners until his
death in 1843. Even then homeopathy was a very present method of curing diseases
all over the world.
Owing to Hahnemann's genius and agility, as well as hardworking and devoted
practitioners after him, today we have an important amount of the literature in
theory and practice of homeopathic principles edited in the previous 200 years.
Samuel Hahnemann (1755 - 1843), a German doctor, shortly after entering medical practice, recognized that usual methods like blood-letting and prescription of poisons in the curing of medical problems, does not provide appropriate results in the sense of healing the patients. On the opposite, these methods additionally damaged already unbalanced health of the patients, inducing further deterioration of the health condition and damage to the organism.
Hahnemann started exploring the problem,
achieving soon first homeopathic discoveries. As Hypocrates 2000 years before
already found, he also recognized that there are two main systems of curing: by
similarities and by opposites.
Basic principle in medicine in those times
was prescribing a medicine as an antidote for a symptom of the disease.
Hahnemann had chosen a different approach.
In a short time after, he discovered that prescribing of a medicine that in its
raw form causes symptoms similar to the symptoms of the disease, was leading to
the healing of the patient). This idea became The First Law in Homeopathy., the
law of similarity - Similia Similibus Curentur - like
cures like.
Guided by the results of his researches, he
came back to the medical practice, but this time, using homeopathic remedies,
prepared and researched by himself.
As well as other pioneers he was blamed and criticized by his colleagues. But
dazzling results of his practice became famous and caused spreading of
homeopathic practice in Europe and in a wider area.
