14/01/2026
Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principle that ‘Like cures Like’.
This means that disease is cured by a drug that can cause a similar disease.
For example, if a healthy person takes a dose of Arsenic not large enough to kill him,
he would develop certain symptoms; vomiting, diarrhoea of rice-water stools, cold skin, an anxious look, rapid pulse, weakness etc.
According to the Homoeopathic Law that ‘Like cures like’, countless patients displaying such symptoms have been cured by Arsenic,
irrespective of the disease, whether cholera, colds, eczema, or asthma.
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the father of Homoeopathy, confirmed the law after 15 years of observation and experimentation.
Curious to find out why the bark of the Cinchona tree cures malaria, he took some Cinchona himself, and was surprised to find that he developed a chill and a fever, a condition very similar to malaria!
Hahnemann personally tested and recorded the effects of ninety-nine drugs
in what has been described, as the largest, most accurate and most fertile of all investigations
into medicinal action made by any single observer.
