HOMEOPATHY

Once upon a time , if one fell ill, one of the first treatments was  BLOODLETTING, particularly in the European countries. The doctor opened a vein with a lancet or sharpened piece of wood, causing blood to flow out into a waiting receptacle. Sometimes leeches might perform the gruesome task in place of crude instruments.

Hahnemann, a doctor in Germany,  was dissatisfied with the state of medicine in his time, and particularly objected to practices such as bloodletting. He claimed that the medicines that he had been taught to use during his medical education for treatment sometimes did the patient more harm than good.

So  Hahnemann decided to  give the world a new system of medicine.   : HOMEOPATHY

Homeopathy is an alternative medicine system.It is based on the principle that  "like cures like".  He used highly diluted natural substances to trigger the body's healing response. 

Homeopathy maintains that the substance that causes an illness can cure that same illness when given in extremely diluted doses to treat such a sick person. This is somewhat similar to the working of a vaccine but the medicine is in such extreme dilution that the original distance is no more in the dilution.

Until the mid nineteenth century homeopathy was a cheaper way to treat illness. The homeopaths had  compounders who used to make the required small doses of medicines for each patients and those small packet of doses were quite cheap. There was no consultatin fees .

 Later on,  the homeopathy doctors also started charging stiff consultation fees and writing prescriptions. Now one has to buy whole bottles of prescribed medicines though that particular treatment needs only five percent of the medicine bought. Thus homeopathy is no longer the preferred line of treatment for the poor any longer.