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The founder of Homeopathy
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
Essay on a new principle to discover
the curative properties of medicinal
substances, followed by insights on
principles accepted until today
By Christian Samuel Hahnemann
In Journal of Practical Pharmacology and
Surgery – Iena University Library , 1796
Edited by C.W. Hufeland
...Every efficient medicine has the
power to induce a specific type of
disease in the human body and, the
more effective the medicine, the more
characteristic, distinct and violent the
disease...
Christian Samuel Hahnemann
(1755-1843)
Any substance able to trigger, either in
measurable, toxic or physiological doses or in
infinitesimal dilutions in an apparently healthy, yet sensitive subject, a subjective and sometimes objective (lesion) clinical picture is capable, in adequate doses, according to the particular case, to cure in an individual made sensitive by his/her disease a similar morbid clinical picture, except for irreversible lesions.
Homeopathic pharmacology
Denis DEMARQUE - Homeopathy, medicine of experience
Homeopathy practice
a therapeutic practice
based on
a thorough and complete clinical observation
leading to
the use of homeopathic medicines
derived from
an original pharmacology
stemming from an experimental validation
SIMILITUDE
Homeopathy, a potential therapeutic among others
• clinical observation
• diagnosing the disease, its clinical expression and the patient’s individual reactions
• prognosis
• taking into account the possibilities of all other potential therapeutics
• choosing the most suitable therapeutic
• a reactional therapeutic
• non substitutive
• non coercive
• that stimulates, modulates or
triggers an individual and adaptive reaction
Homeopathic medicines can be
given
alone, as first-line treatment
– Ex: viral pathologies, stress, anxiety
Homeopathic medicines can be given
alone, as first-line treatment
associated with other medicines
(if necessary)
– Ex: treatment of an allergic terrain, treatment of
recurrent ENT infections
Homeopathic medicines can be given
As a complementary treatment to other
therapeu:cs
– Ex: surgery, rehabilitation,
psychotherapy
Homeopathy practice
based on an application methodology
2 reactional clinical pictures
Reaction # 1
THE ONE OF THE PATIENT IN HIS/HER DISEASE
Complete reactional clinical picture of the patient
2 reactional clinical pictures
Reaction #2
THE ONE OF THE INDIVIDUAL DURING THE
EXPERIMENTATION
Pathogenetic clinical picture of the Materia Medica
Application Methodology
Need for 2 requirements
1 - Rigorous clinical observation
2 - Reliable Meteria Medica
Conditions for a homeopathic treatment
Reversible lesion or functional syndrome
Possibility for the body to react
Existence of a substance that can:
• trigger a «similar suffering» in a healthy
individual
• trigger the curative reaction in the patient
Semiology
Area of the medicine studying the symptoms of diseases