History of Homeopathy

Posted by Kevin J Davis on December 19th, 2020

Homeopathy functions on the “law of similars.” It is believed that this notion was followed by ancient civilizations including India to heal the root cause of a person’s ailment. Homeopathy got its modern name from Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. He started experimenting on himself, his family and some followers to find cures for various illnesses. Hahnemann argued that a very dilute amount of disease-causing elements can help the body in building a resistance to it. This principle has been accepted by modern medicine as far as vaccination for various illnesses go, however, modern medicine refuses to believe that negligent amount of disease causing illness can have any effect on building an immunity against the disease. Despite criticisms from traditional medicine practitioners, homeopathy continued to gain popularity in the west. Recently, a Harvard Study revealed that the population of people opting for homeopathy is rising in the United States of America, making healthcare cheaper for incumbents.

Homeopathy believes that suppressing the symptoms of an illness is not the cure to that illness. High antibiotics or large doses of anti-illness medication ingested for a short span of time focus on suppressing the symptoms rather than eradicating the cause. Homeopaths over the years have argued that suppression means that a fractured part of the illness causing element is still present in the body and can cause further infections and diseases. Homeopathy seeks to eradicate causes of an illness by building up the human body’s immunity. This is done by exposing the human body to trace amounts of disease causing elements over a long period of time.

Homeopathy also believes that each individual reacts differently to an illness, which means that cures for each individual are created by carefully studying the individual as well as his or her response to the illness. This approach has been seen as “hogwash” in the western world which depends primarily on one shoe fits all as far as medicines for common symptoms go. However, it has been proved time and again that modern science has not been able to explain outlier symptoms for common diseases.

Ancient Indian physicians just like their counterparts in different ancient civilizations of the world believed that individuals have different reactions to different elements. Some people had excess “pitta” in their bodies, some people had less. They believed that these individual tendencies shaped a person’s nature as well as reaction to illnesses and medicines.

If you want to know about homeopathy in Brampton and how it can help you in healing from your health condition then visit homeopathic clinic in Brampton today and consult our practitioner.