HAB-HOMEOPATI . AKUPUNTUR . BEKAM

Homeopathy can rely on a long-standing tradition. Homeopathic ideas already circulated at the times of thr great Greek physicians, yet lacked the coherence and systematic approach that was later established in the early 19th century. As early as 400 B.C. Hippocrates identified two methods of cure, one by "contraries" , the other by " similarities" , the latter being the major principle of homeopathy. This distinction is based on the notion that a fever for example may either be cured by administering fever reducing drugs such as salicylic acid, the main component of "Aspirin", which is the way of contraries. On the other hand Belladona or Aconite may be given, which in small portions cause a feverish illness in healthy people, yet in true fevers help to cure the patient by "similarities" , which is the central idea of homeopathy, i.e "like cures like" . The most prominent figure connected with homeopathy, however, is Samuel Hahneman...