The science of homœopathy began its long genesis in Germany in the late 1700s; through the observations & research of doctor, pharmacist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, pathologist & medical textbook translator, Samuel Hahnemann.

He noted many observations; chiefly that the poor were offered substandard health care & what was to become the basis of his science, the ability of direct effects of substances to create disease, while the removal of the substances could appear to cure the disease.

He theorised that by diluting and energising the substances he could therefore reverse & thereby remove pre-existing symptoms (dis-ease) from living beings whether human or animal, without the dangers posed by the original morbid substance. At the time, medical methods were questionable and posed grave effects upon the patient - he argued against the use of various poisons, against leeching, and his discoveries below are still in use today even though others have received the kudos.

His personal life & professional career were both fraught with struggle; he was a sickly child & became his own trial subject in order to both prove the efficacy as well as improve his own health. Professionally, he was hounded & vilified as both the established patriarchal medical & pharmaceutical profession were increasingly threatened by his discoveries.

Doctors & other health professionals travelled to learn his findings & eventually homeopathy was taught all over the world (beginning with UK, Australia, India and the US). He did not live to see this success, having died in relative poverty & obscurity. In fact, at the time of his death, homœopathy had been taken across to these countries where it could be freely practised without threat.

(Today the use of homœopathy in India is so successful that people travel on foot for hundreds of miles for healing; it is practiced in most hospitals as part of the AYUSH system and cure rates are the highest of any modality in the world.)

By the late 1800s, homœopathic colleges & hospitals existed across the globe (including around Australia, having been introduced by the Benedictine monks), with homœopathy set to become the foundation of ‘modern’ medicine with all other modalities branching out. Only with the advent of a political initiative waged by well heeled, well funded writers and pharmaceutical supporters such as Fleming & Pasteur, an offensive against homœopathy began with the aim of hegemony & the goal of absolute abolition which continues to this day.

Hippocratic-based schools which trained medical doctors in homœopathy were closed, doctors practising homœopathy were lured away with lucrative offers in larger hospitals & once the elder homœopaths died, the hospitals were closed. Today, it is rarely practiced as a mainstream modality in the west, despite its safety record & its almost impeccable record in times of pandemic & major catastrophic events.

Part of this assault has included the deliberate erosion of the modality as a stand alone science and over the last 20 years it is merely included as a small elective within the field of naturopathy, despite it being so vastly different to naturopathic methods that few practitioners understand, let alone embrace it.

This does neither the naturopath or homœopathy itself, any fIavours as homœopathy is as different to naturopathy as chiropractic is to osteopathy, or as general practice is to dentistry.

The current trend to remove or destroy all historical homœopathic literature has robbed the world of a safe, effective treatment modality that can either be used as a stand-alone option or alongside other forms of treatment as it does not elicit contraindicative responses.

While veterinary medicine was at one time the most common form of homœopathic practice in the western world, there has been a concerted effort to eradicate & blackban those involved.

By 2022, almost all homœopathic research had been removed from the internet & it is a challenge to find original textbooks other than from determined printers in India. Within self-governed medical bodies with government support, much homœopathic terminology & advice has become illegal.

Interestingly, in recent years our governing bodies have quietly embraced homœopathy as a ‘vital’ part of our medical system yet this is still not widely or publicly known. It is time to change things.

Just a few of Samuel Hahnemann’s achievements include:

• How to test for arsenic poisoning - saving millions of people and helping coroners determine cause of death. That might not mean much today, but in Victorian times, even your wallpaper could kill you. Arsenic was found in almost every home and more people than not, died from its use - cause of death put down to any other reason. Thank Samuel Hahnemann that you are not still being poisoned by arsenic. Today, there are Marsh and Metzger tests, but no Hahnemann test…

• Discovered antiseptic - 100 years before it was widely used to prevent & treat infection. Aside from the extensive repercussions around the world still in effect today, he changed the course of medicine. Thank Hahnemann, not necessarily Lister, Fleming or Pasteur that you now have antiseptics and disinfectants (and sanitisers).

• Discovered the true reason why wine will become wine and not vinegar. Until then, most attempts ended up as vinegar. If you like wine, thank Hahnemann, not all the so-called scientists making it (arguably) drinkable.

• Created soluble mercury AND wrote extensively of the toxicity and poisoning of the same - 200 years before medicine woke up and removed it from pharmakeia. Thank Hahnemann for thermometers, and for the fact that finally someone rubbed a few spare brain cells together to STOP putting it into baby creams and medications - even if it took them 200 years.

• Discovered the cure for malaria. It is still in use today - where once it was used merely as a tanning chemical. And you can thank Hahnemann that today, quinine is still a cure for many things (including parasites and other diseases).

• Discovered the cause of gallstones. Salts. And then he created salts-based remedies to cure all manner of ailments. You can thank Hahnemann that those pesky rock hard stones wharh e formed through bad diet and poor liver function can be dissolved with the . right advice. He discovered that over 200 years ago.

His discoveries, throughout times of the worst of contagions, have had an exponentially higher cure rate than the 'best' of medicine. But pharma has ridiculed him - doctors say it is placebo and doesn't work - or is dangerous. Worse still, laws have been wrangled & manipulated to ensure that it is now illegal to even claim a cure.

There are records but you wont see them unless you know where to look. Not only did he fight the corruption of medicine in his day, his ideas were stolen and he was never given credit for his work.

Today, too many people still have never heard of homœopathy despite just a hundred years ago, everyone used it as part of home medicine kits, hospital care and veterinary medicine.

It is time for change.