The three principal figures of medical thought, Hippocrates, representing Antiquity; Paracelsus, representative of the Middle Ages, and Hahnemann, standing for our age, all pronounce the Law of Similars as the guiding principle of treatment. However it was Hahnemann who first established upon this principle a theory of medicine, a new method of drug research, a new, comprehensive and vast material medica, a revolutionary method of drug preparation, integrating all these elements into a new system of medical treatment. Never before, never since, has one single physician performed anything equaling such a feat.
This submission is from Dr. Arati Kumari Sahu,Final year M.D.(Repertory),Dr. A.C.Homoeopathic Medical
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This portrait is contributed by Dr.Saikat Hajra, West Bengal
The
study of Homoeopathy won’t be complete unless the credentials of
our great master are perceived in the true sense. In considering the contributions
of Hahnemann to Medicine, we will be taken to one of the major aspects,
viz the holistic concept. The terms holistic medicine, energy healing,
herbal medicine etc. are very loosely used currently creating confusion
among public. Ideally it should denote a system or concept of medicine
wherein the wholeness of a patient as an individual is considered. A concept
of integrating different systems of medicine can in no way be called holistic
unless the false belief that ‘man is nothing but an aggregate of
some organs’, is abandoned.
Master Samuel Hahnemann can be truly considered as the pioneer of holistic
healing because the credit of introducing the novel concepts of individualisation
and totality of symptoms into the service of ailing humane is upon him.The
introduction of holistic concept in medicine by our master, proves to
be the dawn of scientific awakening and enlightenment evident from the
current medical practice reverting from boundless super specialties back
to general medicine.
The excerpt from the article submitted by Dr.R.Rejikumar,
II year MD Scholar, Dept. of Homoeopathic Philosophy,
Government Homoeopathic Medical College, Uvananthapuram, Keralah
