How long has homeopathy been practiced?
For 200 years homeopathy has been applied successfully in epidemics, acute complaints and chronic illness. In much of the world (France, Germany, Mexico, Great Britain, India, Brazil, to name a few) it is used in hospitals for emergency and trauma medicine, as well as for outpatient and long-term care. Homeopathy as a medical practice was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in Germany around the beginning of the 19th century. Hahnemann was a young physician and an accomplished linguist with a large family. He supplemented his meager physician’s income by translating old medical texts into German. While translating these manuscripts, he began to notice that substances that had been traditionally used to cure certain ailments were the same substances that could, in an overdose, cause similar symptoms to the disease they were meant to treat. Sulphur, for instance, was often used to treat skin conditions with lots of heat and itching. An overdose of Sulphur can cause exactly these symptoms. Ci
