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natural laws of healing and uses medicine made from natural substances: animal,

vegetable, and mineral. Homeopathy is more than just a treatment, more than

another kind of medicine. It is above all a philosophy of medicine, a different

approach to an ill patient. The strategy of treatment and diagnosis are so far from the

conventional one that communication between the two doctrines may be difficult.

The key to prescribing in homeopathy is selecting a remedy that matches the total ity

of the symptoms. Two people may be bitten by the same bug may react differently

and require different remedies. Example of tw o people both exposed to

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It was discovered in the early 1800¶s by a German physician, Dr. Samuel

Hahnemann who was known as the father of classical homeopathy. He lived from

1755 ± 1843, and died in Paris, France. As often was the case in those days, he was

a medical doctor, chemist and pharmacist at the same time. The basic similarity rule

in homeopathy was stated by him as ³similia similibus currentur´ which mean ³likes

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In 1890, there were 14,000 homeopaths compared to 100,000 conv entional

physicians.

In some areas, one out of four physicians was a homeopath .

There were 22 homeopathic medical school and over 100 homeopathic

hospitals.

The rise of the drug industry after the Civil War changed the practice of

medicine and by 1940¶s the homeopathic physician was almost obsolete.


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Homeopathy is considered to be much safer and advantageous for patients,

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Hahnemann taught the basic principle of antihomotoxic medicine. To contrast the

symptoms created by the presence of a homotoxin, we need a diluted substance that

in high concentrations in healthy persons creates a similar intoxica tion image. Thus

dilution is necessary in homeopathy ± the more diluted a drug, the stronger the

medicine.The procedure to produce a homeopathic dilution is described in the

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Heel medications are produced according the German pharmacopeia. There are

different types of homeopathic dilutions. It is worth studying the most common ones.

The most common homeopathic dilutions are as follows:

Decimal Dilution (D- dilution, in USA and some other countries, known as X ±

dilutions)

Centesimal Dilution ( C or CH)

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Decimal dilution is a 1:10 concentration used in every dilution step. Between 2

diluting steps there is a process of dynamisation which means a repeated firmly

shaking (Hahnemann: 10times) of the liquid. Starting from a mother tincture :

A D1 is a 1:10 dilution

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A D3 is a 1:1000 dilution

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part of the liquid that was in the bottle. Korsakov machines aspirate the liquid in the

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patients. There is for example the Mac epertory that makes it possible to select the

patient¶s symptoms and modalities and end up with different levels of plausible

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A survey has been done among 15 different homeopaths to discover the popularity

and frequency of use of homeopathy among the public. The reports are as follows: