Homeopathy is the art and science of healing by safe, gentle, and natural methods. The word is coined from the Greek word 'homoios' meaning like or similar and 'pathos' meaning suffering. It works on the principle of 'similia similibus curentur' (Let like be cured with like) which means that anything that will cause a disease in a healthy person when given in large doses, will also cure when treated with micro doses of potentized homeopathic medicines made from the same substance. This substance will help to stimulate the body's own healing power to fight the illness. This concept has been known since Hippocrates in 450 BC, and has been further developed down the ages until full scientific examination was undertaken by a German allopathic physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century.

Homeopathy is holistic, that is it treats the whole person and not just the symptoms, believing that symptoms are the body's own attempt at self-healing and that any suppression of these symptoms will drive the disease further into the body. While many acute and chronic illnesses and functional symptoms can be helped by homeopathy, diseases in their advanced stage and those with major structural changes may not always benefit from homeopathy. However, homeopathy can have a palliative role even in incurable illnesses, such as cancer, to provide comfort to the patient without major side effects often encountered with conventional medicines.

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