Dear webvisitor:

10th April is not only an important day for the homeopaths but also for all health conscious people, as this day in the year 1755, Dr.Samuel Hahnemann,MD was born in Germany, who later introduced the new science of healing, called homoeopathy, in the year 1796, which is a revolutionaly health measure to affect life and health of generations to come.

One of the most leading contemporary homoeopaths George Vithoulcas says about Dr.Hahnemann : With time, I am certain that this man will rank as one of the greats in history, alongside such giants of discovery as Einstein, Newton and Hippocrates

He was born when it was dark : Those were the days when patients were treated with inhuman and cruel methods of blood letting (cutting the veins to remove impure blood), application of Leeches on skin to suck impure blood, purgatives etc. Medical system had no direction, no scientific principles, no light.

While translating Coolin's materia medica, was amazed by a statement : "Cinchona Bark (Quinine) cures Malaria because it is bitter in taste." Hahnemann found this very illogical and he started experimenting on himself, by taking two spoonful of Quinine three times daily. To his surprise, he started developing some effects of quinine, viz. fever, chill, exhaustion, etc. The fever was of periodic type (intermittent fever). These symptoms which he developed after quinine intake, were very similar to the symptoms of Malaria ! His genius mind interpreted that Quinine cures Malaria because it produces symptoms like Malaria. He experimented with various vegetables, chemicals and toxins to prove that : The substance which has capacity to produce certain symptoms, it also has capacity to remove/cure similar symptoms. And thus the first fundamental principle called "THE LAW OF SIMILARS" was propounded and Homoeopathy was born.

My salutes to the master who could see beyond his time.

(Please click here for a long article on Dr.Samuel Hahnemann.)

Best wishes,

Dr.Rajesh Shah
Bombay, India