CURATIVE PRINCIPLE OF HOMOEOPATHY

Hahneman was a traditional doctor. His disillusionment with the traditional system was preceded by the premature death of his children in infancy. His sense of reason combined with the faith that death of so many children could not be His will made him study all the traditional systems of medicine and experiment. This research finally led to the discovery of homoeopathy and its curative principle called the “Law of Similarity”.

This principle that a substance creating symptoms of a disease in a normal person is the cure for a sick person with similar symptoms of the disease is neither witchcraft nor wizardry nor does it provide a psychological alleviation of symptoms. It is the only true curative principle which exists. Its efficacy and successes are a plenty despite the maligning campaigns that continue to be launched and pursued with vigor by traditional allopathic doctors.

Hahneman’s first successes were survival and good health of his children and his own perfect health without which he could not have pursued his further research in homeopathy with rare zeal and enthusiasm. He treated a very large number of patients who had been given up by the traditional practitioners as incurable and frantically wrote books on the new system.

A large number of doctors try and use homeopathic medicines surreptitiously. Thuja is a medicine which can cure warts when the symptoms agree. This knowledge has given rise to a wide range of Thuja ointments for warts freely prescribed by a large number of skin specialists. It is not homeopathy. The fact that these ointments do cure some cases of warts only goes to prove the efficacy of homeopathy, because when symptoms match even touching a medicine or sniffing it is sufficient to affect cure in many cases.

There is one serious problem when traditional doctors come to study homeopathy. They want to know how the medicines work, when medicines of a potency (or dilution) higher than 6 fail to show any trace of original substance in the medicine. What further infuriates them is the fact that dilutions up to a millionth are prepared and used regularly by homeopaths all over the world.

The reason for this is not far to seek. At every stage of development of sciences (mathematics included) the popular beliefs have tried to obstruct new discoveries, punish them as witchcraft and actually kill the researchers. The problem with allopathic practitioners is the assumption that the last word on anatomy and chemistry of the human body has been written and there is nothing unknown to them. They are loath to admit that there could be processes and parts that they are yet to discover.

This puts all those allopathic practitioners forever in the denial mode. The prejudice is so strong that none is willing to even experiment. The main reason behind all these prejudices against homeopathy is the pecuniary interest. Pharmacology of homeopathic medicines is plain and simple and there are no new processes or medicines that can be patented. Thus there are no vast sums of money to be made as grants or profits to be made by selling medicines at 2000 percent or more of value addition.

That is the crux of the matter. Why accept and support a system that is efficient and successful but which will never help a practitioner grow rich and afford the luxurious life all these doctors have become accustomed to.