What is Homeopathic Medicine?

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"Homeopathy, or Homeopathic Medicine, is the practice of medicine that embraces a holistic, natural approach to the treatment of the sick. Homeopathy is holistic because it treats the person as a whole, rather than focusing on a diseased part or a labeled sickness. Homeopathy is natural because its remedies are produced according to the U.S. FDA-recognized Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States from natural sources, whether vegetable, mineral, or animal in nature.The word Homeopathy, which comes from the Greek, through Latin into English, literally means "like disease". This means that the medicine given is like the disease that the person is expressing, in his totality, not like a specific disease category or medical diagnosis.The guiding principle of Homeopathy is stated as "let likes cure likes," similia similibus curentur. While the concept of "like curing like" dates back to the Greek Father of Medicine, Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), it was German physician Dr. C. F. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) who first codified this principle into a system of medicine. Starting with experiments (called "provings") on himself, Dr. Hahnemann administered medicinal substances to healthy volunteers (called "provers"). Symptoms that developed in the provers while taking a specific substance gave the homeopathic "picture" of, and indications for, that remedy. Over the years, by means of provings, toxicological data, and clinical experience, the homeopathic drug pictures of over 2000 substances have been derived."

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