THE HISTORY OF HOMEOPATHY

When was homoeopathy discovered? A German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, introduced homoeopathy 200 years ago. It has helped many people of all ages around the world, and is especially good in the treatment of infants and children, because if they can begin with a healthy start, they are more likely to enjoy good health all their lives. Nowadays, it is an important system of medicine in many countries, because it is fast, effective, and cheap.

What successes has homeopathy achieved?

SOME HISTORICAL HEALING IN HOMOEOPATHY

Here are just a few historical examples of where homoeopathy helped with otherwise often untreatable maladies. Very few people know about them!

Plague
One of the most outstanding accomplishments of homoeopathy was in Leipzig, Germany in the 1800’s. During the scourge of the plague in Leipzig tens of thousands of people died because of this monstrous disease. Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, saved 183 cases of people who were ordered to the "dead house" and who were considered untreatable cases.

Influenza
During the Second World War soldiers in the United States and in its army overseas experienced disastrous epidemics of the Flu. Homeopathic physicians treated this symptomatically with much success, while other orthodox physicians did not understand what was going on and what to do with this type of illness.

Mastitis
Mastitis is a disease that affects many cattle throughout the world. A survey conducted in the major-milk producing countries shows that each year clinical mastitis affects 15% - 20% of cows. Antibiotics are not the best way to treat mastitis, and antibiotics have not reduced the incidence of mastitis since their introduction. Homoeopathy is a very effective and natural way of curing mastitis and the advantage over antibiotics is that with homoeopathic treatment milking may be continued. Remedies and nosodes (see nosodes elsewhere on this site) can be used as preventative treatment, on entire herds. Homeopathic complexes are also used on cattle as alternative to nosodes. Remedies such as Bryonia, Belladonna and Urtica Urens; Phytolacca and Sulphur; Silica and Carbo Vegetalis have been used. Most homoeopathic laboratories offer complexes for mastitis.

Scarlet Fever
Scarlet fever spread through Germany during the 1800’s; one of the most contagious maladies then affecting children. It particularly affected children living in dirty and damp conditions, not uncommon in those days. The dangerous fever, with eruptions over the body, was very much helped and healed by homoeopathy in marked distinction to other systems of medicine.

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