Homeopathy 1

Question 1

“An Essay on a New Principle to Ascertain the Curative Powers of Drugs” in 1796.

Answer 1

Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
From the start, homeopathy attracted a lot of positive and a lot of negative attention from the medical world..

Question 2

Who Rejected that gods cause diseases and Promoted the use of healthy food, etc.

Answer 2

Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)

Question 3

“By the similars we prescribe, the ill do their good health find anew. Thus, whatever causes little urine to pass removes that which has already caused little urine to pass”

Answer 3

Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)

Question 4

a Greek physician, was still an influence into the late 18th century (bloodletting…)

Answer 4

Galen Galenus

Question 5

what are The 4 humours/temperaments:

Answer 5

blood
black bile
yellow bile
phlegm

Question 6

sanguine

Answer 6

blood

Question 7

melancholic

Answer 7

black bile

Question 8

choleric

Answer 8

yellow bile

Question 9

phlegmatic

Answer 9

phlegm

Question 10

(dependable, affectionate, slow/lazy)

Answer 10

phlegmatic - phlegm

Question 11

(passionate, charismatic, bossy)

Answer 11

choleric - yellow bile

Question 12

(creative, kind, introverted)

Answer 12

melancholic - black bile

Question 13

(extroverted, social, impulsive)

Answer 13

sanguine - blood

Question 14

A Persian physician (980-1037), the “father of early modern medicine”, he influenced medieval medicine in Europe until the mid-18th century.

Answer 14

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Question 15

who believed there were natural causes to disease and promoted holistic medicine by addressing physical and psychological factors, environment, diet…

Answer 15

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Question 16

who was teaching that there were only two diseases, sthenic (strong) and asthenic (weak), and two treatments, stimulant and sedative (he used alcohol and opium to treat patients)

Answer 16

John Brown

Question 17

who was more orthodox and opposed john browns views

Answer 17

William Cullen

Question 18

what did HAHNEMANN propose?

Answer 18

a system of treatment involving the administration of minute doses of drugs whose effects resemble the effects of the disease being treated

. His ideas had a salutary effect upon medical thought at a time when prescriptions were lengthy and doses were large, and his system has had many followers

like treats like

Question 19

Common treatments included:

Answer 19

• Polypharmacy (herbs, metals, toxic compounds), ingested, injected, topical…
• Bloodletting
• Emetics, purgatives, blistering agents…
• Cauterization, amputation, surgery (no antiseptics, anesthetics)

Question 20

Who was the founder of homeopathic medicine?

Answer 20

Samuel Hahnemann was the founder, though he is not the discoverer of
the Law of Similars; that was Hippocrates.

Hahnemann decided the Law of Similars should be applied to guide how we prescribe our remedies and medical treatments.

Question 21

The smallpox vaccine is a good example of

A – Variolation (use of variola virus to prevent small pox)
B – Isopathy / Isotherapy (same cures same)
C – Homeopathy (like cures like)
D – Homeopathic prophylaxy (like prevents like)

Answer 21

is a good example of homeopathic prophylaxy (prevention) because they used the cow pox / horse pox virus (vaccinia
virus) to prevent a similar disease (variola) which was much more dangerous to human beings

Question 22

True or False? Vis Medicatrix Naturae, one of the six basic principles of naturopathic medicine, is an example of the influence of the rationalist school of thought on naturopathy.

Answer 22

False. The rationalist school believes we can do better than nature, if
we get the right technology, medical advancements, etc. The empirical
school believes we should work with the forces and wisdom of nature.

-> The body is a complex adaptive system, not a simple machine

Question 23

• dynamic (body is more than the sum: adaptive)
• holistic and individualistic
• test and observe phenomena, don’t theorize the use of “natural”, gentle measures
• vis medicatrix naturae- follow the nature, the symptoms, don’t suppress them
• most important are the peculiar symptoms

Answer 23

empirical school

Question 24

• mechanistic (machine), materialistic view of the body and its function
• reductionist and grouping of disease
• “heroical” (even dangerous) theories and heroic treatments
• can do better than nature, better than vis medicatrix nature, eliminate the symptoms
• most important are the common symptoms

Answer 24

rationalist school

Question 25

follow the nature, the symptoms, don’t suppress them

Answer 25

vis medicatrix naturae

Question 26

what were HAHNEMANN’S DISCOVERIES (3)

Answer 26

The Law of Similars must guide medical practice

The highly diluted, potentized remedies

The theory of chronic miasms

Question 27

Hahnemann’s discoveries challenged

Answer 27

the status quo and the established practices in medicine.

Question 28

Hahnemann also gained followers like

Answer 28

Constantine Hering and
Clemens M. F von Bönninghausen