Homeopathy History and it's principles Flashcards
Who was the founder of homeopathic medicine?
Samuel Hahnemann
Who was the discoverer of the law of similar
Hippocrates
who decided the Law of Similars should be applied to guide how we prescribe our remedies and medical treatments
Hahnemann
Who:
- Rejected that gods cause diseases
- Promoted the use of healthy food, etc.
- Vis medicatrix nature
- Balance the four humours
Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)
who said: “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”
Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)
Greek physician, was still an influence
into the late 18th century (bloodletting…)
Galen
“An Essay on a New Principle to Ascertain the Curative Powers of Drugs” in 1796.
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
From the start, homeopathy attracted a lot of positive and a lot of negative attention from the medical world.
Who Rejected that gods cause diseases and Promoted the use of healthy food, etc.
Hippocrates (c460 - c375 BCE)
what are The 4 humours/temperaments:
blood
black bile
yellow bile
phlegm
sanguine describes what humour
blood
melancholic describes what humour
black bile
choleric describes what humour
yellow bile
phlegmatic describes what humour
phlegm
(dependable, affectionate, slow/lazy)
phlegmatic - phlegm
(passionate, charismatic, bossy)
choleric - yellow bile
(creative, kind, introverted)
melancholic - black bile
(extroverted, social, impulsive)
sanguine - blood
A Persian physician (980-1037), the “father of early modern medicine”, he influenced medieval medicine in Europe until the mid-18th century.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
who believed there were natural causes to disease and promoted holistic medicine by addressing physical and psychological factors, environment, diet…
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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)
John Brown
who was more orthodox and opposed john browns views
William Cullen
what did HAHNEMANN propose?
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
Common treatments included:
- Polypharmacy (herbs, metals, toxic compounds), ingested, injected, topical…
- Bloodletting
- Emetics, purgatives, blistering agents…
- Cauterization, amputation, surgery (no antiseptics, anesthetics)
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)
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
