Dr.Rajesh Shah
at a teaching workshop
10th April: Hahnemann Day
Dear webvisitor:
10th April is not only an important day for the homeopaths but
also for all health conscious people, as this day in the year 
1755, Dr.Samuel Hahnemann,MD was born in Germany, who later
introduced the new science of healing, called homoeopathy, in the
year 1796, which is a revolutionaly health measure to affect life and health of
generations to come.
One of the most leading contemporary homoeopaths George Vithoulcas says about Dr.Hahnemann :
With time, I am certain that this man will rank as one of the greats in history, alongside
such giants of discovery as Einstein, Newton and Hippocrates
He was born when it was dark : Those were the days when patients
were treated with inhuman and cruel methods of blood letting
(cutting the veins to remove impure blood), application of
Leeches on skin to suck impure blood, purgatives etc. Medical
system had no direction, no scientific principles, no light.
While translating Coolin's materia
medica, was amazed by a statement : "Cinchona Bark (Quinine)
cures Malaria because it is bitter in taste." Hahnemann found
this very illogical and he started experimenting on himself, by
taking two spoonful of Quinine three times daily. To his
surprise, he started developing some effects of quinine, viz.
fever, chill, exhaustion, etc. The fever was of periodic type
(intermittent fever). These symptoms which he developed after
quinine intake, were very similar to the symptoms of Malaria !
His genius mind interpreted that Quinine cures Malaria because it
produces symptoms like Malaria. He experimented with various
vegetables, chemicals and toxins to prove that : The substance
which has capacity to produce certain symptoms, it also has
capacity to remove/cure similar symptoms. And thus the first
fundamental principle called "THE LAW OF SIMILARS" was propounded
and Homoeopathy was born.
My salutes to the master who could see beyond his time.
(Please click here for a long article on Dr.Samuel Hahnemann.)
Best wishes,
Dr.Rajesh Shah
Bombay, India
April 10, 1999
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