The basic principles of Homoeopathy

Homeopathy deals with a holistic concept of life, health, diseased and cure. The below mentioned principles of life make the practice of homeopathy a separate system of alternative healthcare from the conventional healthcare.

1.  Law of similar
2.  Law of minimal dose
3. Law of individualization

Law of Similars: This is an ancient medical principle of Homoeopathy. Dr. Hahnemann’s from his drug proving, speculated that medications used to treat certain diseases produce similar symptoms when taken by healthy individuals. This ultimately developed into the Law of Similars that became the main basis for the practice of homeopathy. This eventually led to introduce the term “homeopathy” by Dr. Hahnemann that was first used in a series of printed articles that Dr. Hahnemann wrote in 1807.

 Law of minimum dose:

This is the second fundamental principle of Homoeopathy. Dr. Hahnemann also understood that large doses of the substances that would cause the same symptoms may also exaggerate the disease or illness. He diluted the drug substances in minute amounts by a process of potentisation (a process of serial dilution and agitation that produces micro doses of the natural substances from which the medicines are derived) that can still preserve the therapeutic effects of the drug substances. This invention led to the development of the Principle of Minimum Dose.

Individualism:

The practice of homeopathy is also based on the fact that each person is unique, completed and differentiated by the integration of the person’s various characteristics. Homeopathy treats physical, emotional, spiritual and mental aspects of a person as a whole. Thus Homoeopathy treats the patient not the disease. The medicine is selected on the basis of the total symptom picture of the particular case.