What is Classical Homoeopathy?
Although homoeopathy is only 200 years old, it is now practiced in a variety of ways, most of which bear little resemblance to what Hahnemann taught. In the public mind the word “homoeopathy” has become so vague that for some it means only an “alternative medicine” and for others a combination of homoeopathic medicines that you buy in the health food store, one mixture for allergies, another for headache, etc. Classical homoeopathy (often called unitary homoeopathy) must be differentiated from all other so-called forms of homoeopathy.
An obvious answer is that classical homoeopathy is that form of homoeopathy expounded by Hahnemann. Unfortunately we do not have any clear idea of exactly what form of homoeopathy he expounded. There are six different editions of the Organon (each differing fundamentally in the way homoeopathy is approached) and analysis of Hahnemann’s actual practise notes suggests a much less dogmatic idea of homoeopathy. Hahnemann, at times, seems to have treated the disease rather than the whole person. For instance, in Paris in his later years, he seems to have prescribed Sulphur at the start of most new cases. His justification seems to have been that psora was the basic problem of mankind, so he used his best anti-psoric remedy. This could be seen as prescribing on a disease (called psora). Another example of Hahnemann’s disease-based prescribing is recorded when, in 1825, he recommended Thuja 60C for gonorrhoea. In the United Kingdom and the United States, the most common form of homoeopathy is
Classical Homoeopathy is based on Homoeopathic principles where the patient as a whole is taken care of. The patients mind and body both are taken into consideration and whatever is away from normal is taken care of after understanding him/her as an individual. This is known as constitutional treatment. In other words, in Homoeopathy there are no specifics for specific ailmentsthere are no patent medicines dependent on name of disease. The need to coin the word classical Homoeopathy arose from the very fact that today most of the so-called homoeopaths are giving mixtures (!!) of more than one medicine at a time and when they like without any base for their prescription.
Classical Homoeopathy is the original medical approach that Dr. Hahneman founded and developed some two hundred years ago. Based on the principle “like cures like”, it employs a single remedy at a time to treat a spectrum of symptoms. These medicines are specially prepared at a homoeopathic, pharmaceutical laboratory and are all-natural.
