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In the late 1700’s a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick called Homoeopathy (from the Greek word meaning "similar suffering"). Homeopathy is a system of medicine that has a different approach to disease and remedies from that of conventional or "allopathic" medicine. In the allopathic approach, medicines are used that work against diseases and their symptoms. In Homeopathy, the symptoms of an illness are viewed as a direct manifestation of the body's attempt to heal itself and a homeopathic substance is given that is capable of producing similar symptoms if given to a well person. In so doing, Homeopathy attempts to stimulate the body's own natural healing capacity, with homeopathic remedies acting as a trigger for the body's own healing forces. Homeopathy has been well established for almost 200 years. There are about 2,000 remedies that have stayed constant throughout that time, although most diseases are treated by less than 100 of these remedies, thus allowing practitioners to familiarize themselves readily with the effects of these remedies. It was developed by Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (l755-l843), although some credit must go to Paracelsus, born around 1493 and who died in 1541, which put forward the original theory. William Cullen, a Scottish physician, tells us that Hahnemann was translating a scientific paper on his theory of why Cinchona Bark, a source of quinine and a popular drug at the time, was successful in treating Malaria.
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