samuel hahnemann

Homeopathy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German Physician, who earned his Medical degree in 1779. At the time he graduated, many scientific advances in fields of chemistry, psychology, and anatomy were being made; however, the practice of medicine was still largely based on superstition and tradition without any sound scientific basis.

Based on treating the whole patient rather than isolated symptoms, homeopathy uses minute doses of naturally derived medicine to stimulate the patient’s own life force. Physician Samuel Hahnemann’s pioneering text Organon of the Medical Art, first...

“Like cures like” is a natural principle first expounded by Hippocrates, the ancient founder of medicine. Centuries later, inspired by that idea, German physician Samuel Hahnemann found that some of the very substances that cause illness could also be...