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The Principles of Classical Hahnemannian Homeopathy

The principles on which Classical Hahnemannian Homeopathy is based are:

1. Vital Force – the life energy that animates every living being.  Homeopathic treatment seeks to stimulate and balance this energy in order to improve health.

2. Susceptibility – a person’s resistance to disease.  Homeopathic treatment aims to alter a person’s susceptibility in order to strengthen their resistance to disease.

3. Miasms – the homeopathic term to describe a person’s inherited predisposition to develop certain types of illness.  Homeopathic treatment seeks to reduce the impact of these predispositions.

4. Provings – homeopathic drug testing.  Healthy human volunteers take homeopathic remedies until they develop symptoms, which are carefully recorded.  This information is used by homeopaths in order to select a remedy. 

5. Potentization – the unique process by which homeopathic remedies are made.  It is a carefully controlled process of repeated dilution and succussion (shaking).

6. Law of Similars – a homeopathic remedy which gives rise to a certain pattern of symptoms in a proving (see #4) is capable of relieving the same set of symptoms in a sick person.  Homeopaths are trained to select the one remedy (out of over 2,500) that will most closely match the symptoms of the client.

7. Minimum Dose – homeopathic treatment gives the smallest possible amount of a remedy, just enough to stimulate the healing response of the Vital Force (see #1).  Only one remedy is given at a time.

8. Direction of Cure – as  healing proceeds, symptoms improve in a certain sequence:

• symptoms move from above downwards

• symptoms move from more vital organs to less vital ones

• symptoms move from the inside of the body towards its surface

• symptoms disappear in the reverse order of their appearance

9. Totality – the whole picture of a person’s symptoms: physical, mental and emotional.  Classical Homeopathy always treats the totality.