![]() ![]() Indeed it is impossible to fully investigate even the smallest and most circumscribed scientific problem in one's lifetime, without recurring to the observations of others. The absurdity of Hahnemann's pretences is most evident if one considers the case of anatomy, pathology and morbid anatomy: Hahnemann and his followers never practiced autopsies, thus the refusal of medical classics implied that homeopaths remained completely ignorant about these issues. Hahnemann did not conceive, even as a possibility, that the classics of medical literature could contain genuine empirical information, as good as his own. However, he also wrote several books, thus he wanted that medical classics be abandoned, not books in general and his own in particular. Like all revolutionaries, Hahnemann refused and criticized the medical tradition and encouraged his followers to forget the classics and to experiment. Hahnemann also thought that the vital force had a spiritual nature, but this was not shared by all scientists who believed in vitalism.ģ) The law of infinitesimals, which implies that a homeopatic drug (or remedy) remains active, or indeed becomes more active, if the dose is lowered, or even annihilated, by extensive serial diluitions. Its fundamental tenets are:ġ) the law of the similes, which states that a disease can be cured by administering a drug (or a poison) causing similar symptoms: similia similibus curentur (let like be cured by like) or similia similibus curantur (like is cured by like).Ģ) The hypothesis of vitalism, stating that the living organisms possess a specific kind of energy, the dynamis or vital force. The theory of homeopatic medicine was developed by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) since 1796, and was modified and evolved by his followers in different ways, often reciprocally incompatible and incompatible with the original. The Italian Society of Homeopathic Medicine (SIMO) Homeopathy Home (this web sites offers several relevant informations, including a full online copy of Hahnemann's Organon) Important damages and collateral effects due to homeopathic therapies have been reported, most often caused by the accidental or intentional adulteration of the remedies.Ī look to the other's view point: some websites of homeopathic societies: ![]() The efficacy of homeopathic therapies, is modest at best and does not support the pretences of modern homeopaths moreover the studies reporting the best results are often those with faultier methodology. The best known logical and empirical defect of homeopathy is the use of so extreme diluitions, that the homeopathic "remedy" is completely devoid of the active substance after which it is named. After Hahnemann's death hs followers founded different schools, some more moderate and prone to compromise with conventional medicine (the so-called "half-homeopathy"), other more extreme. Moreover, as Hahnemann grew older, he leaned towards a dogmatic mysticism, and criticized not only the non homeopathic physicians, but also those of his followers who did not accept entirely and without questions his theories, that included "spiritual" entities to explain diseases, physiology and pharmacology. Unfortunately Hahnemann was extremely critical towards contemporary physicians and theis theories (at the time already advanced), denied the importance of pathology and based his entire medical system on the analysis of the symptoms, an obsolete position. Hahnemann was a highly cutivated and acute physician and his theory contains traces of the most influential medical theories of ancient Greece, dating back to Hippocrates (V century b.C.), most notably the hypothesis that a disease can be cured by a drug causing similar symptoms. Homeopathy is a medical theory developed at the beginning of the XIX century by Samuel Hahnemann. ![]()
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