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Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principle that 
a disease with a given set of symptoms can be cured by a 
medicine (remedy) which is known to produce a similar set of 
symptoms. This principle where "like cures like" is called
 “The Law of Similars” and is the foundation of Homeopathic         
Medicine.                                                                                           Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
                                                                                                       
Homeopathy involves the selection and prescription of a medication    
(remedy), which through prior testing on healthy people and from clinical experience and observation, is known to produce a similar symptom picture to that of the patient. The medication (remedy) is prescribed in the minimum dosage required to bring about (stimulate) healing.

Provings and Materia Medica

A controlled experiment in which a medicine (remedy) is administered to a healthy individual to ascertain what changes (signs, symptoms, behaviour) the medicine (remedy) produces on the body and the mind is called a “proving." The term “proving”, as used by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy, refers to one trial with a single individual (only humans, never animals). Many such provings are required to fully test the powers of a medicinal substance. The homeopathic materia medica, which constitutes hundreds of scholarly texts, is a culmination of 200 years of provings and their synthesis into a working system of medicine. Homeopathic Medicine has a vast body of scientific literature in the form of provings. In time, to make the materia medica more accessible, repertories were created. A repertory is adictionary of  symptoms in alphabetical order, where each symptom is followed by the remedies known to cause that symptom in the provings (materia medica). Remedies are graded as to their efficacy. Since there are over

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