The word homeopathy is derived from the Greek words ‘homoios,’ which means like or similar, and ‘pathos,’ which means suffering. Homeopathy, then, is a therapy based on similar suffering. ​As early as 400 B.C. Hippocrates was prescribing hot spring baths for his patients with fever. Theoretical parallels also exist between the work of pioneers like Salk and Jenner as they expose the body to the very disease that they were trying to protect against (i.e. immunization). Even modern allergy treatments introduce small amounts of an allergen into the body in an attempt to desensitize the patient to that same allergen.

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SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURENTUR
"Each individual case of disease is most surely, radically, rapidly and permanently annihilated and removed only by a medicine capable of producing the most similar and complete manner of the totality of the symptoms."
- Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

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Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755 – 1843) was a German physician who was well known for his work in chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology.  In 1789, he began a series of experiments. He discovered that, by ingesting Peruvian bark (cinchona), a healthy individual would develop a fever, nausea, diarrhea, limb pain, numbness and ringing in the ears – all symptoms of malaria. When the subject would stop ingesting the bark, the symptoms would disappear. Since Peruvian bark was commonly used to treat malaria, Hahnemann theorized that a substance which can create symptoms in a healthy person can be used in smaller doses to cure those same symptoms in illness. This proved to be true and became one of the fundamental tenants of homeopathy: the Law of Similars (similia similibus curantur, or ‘likes are cured by likes’).

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In 1796, Samuel Hahnemann published Essay on New Curative Principle, a treatise in which he established the foundational principles of homeopathy. Homeopathy is a safe and effective system of natural medicine that uses tiny quantities of specially prepared substances to stimulate the body to heal itself.

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Homeopathic remedies have been used with safety and efficacy for over 200 years. Homeopathy is one of the most commonly practiced forms of health care in the world today. There are no artificial additives or fillers. There are no dangerous side effects. It is simple to learn and use, and it stimulates the body to use its innate biological intelligence to heal itself without the use of invasive, possibly toxic intervention.