Classical Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a therapeutic system of medicine developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the early 1800's. Classical Homeopathy is based on the law of similars- similia, similibus, curentur, or, let like be cured by like. Hahnemann's Organon of the Medical Art represents the first real treatise on holistic healing: It defines "illness" as any condition that limits freedom, and the genuine practitioner of the Medical Art of Homeopathy as someone whose "high and only mission is to restore the sick to health... in the shortest, most reliable and most harmless way." 

Samuel Hahnemann, 1755-1843
 

Homeopathy literally means "similar suffering": What produces symptoms in a healthy person cures the same illness in a sick person. Classical homeopaths prescribe one remedy at a time. Unlike allopathy, homeopathy recognizes that each person is unique; for example, one person's arthritis is different from another's. Homeopathy treats the whole person, not just the symptoms. All levels of being -physical, emotional, mental-are viewed within one therapeutic ideal.

While homeopathy enjoys popular support in many countries, it almost disappeared in the United States in the 1920s, due largely to the efforts of the pharmaceutically controlled medical establishment. Today, however, more and more people are turning to this safe, non-toxic alternative form of treatment. Homeopathy is presently enjoying a worldwide renaissance, and the New York School of Homeopathy helps meet the growing need for competently trained homeopaths.
 

"It has often been said that homeopathy existed before Hahnemann.
So it did; in the same way as gravity existed before Newton."
-- Dr. Margery Blackie