History of Homoeopathic Pharmacy
HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY Birth of homoeopathic pharmacy is from the day of discovery of homoeopathy. The excel- lence of homoeopathic pharmacy lies in exploring the latent curative power of a substance, even from a substance that is pharmacologically inert (i.e. Lycopodium-Club moss spores) and retaining the therapeutic potentiality when no molecules of the original substance are left in the preparation. The experimental and practical foundation studies were carried out between the year 1790 and 1810. As such, the discoverer of homoeopathic pharmacology is Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. In 1805 Hahnemann announced his new method of pharmacological process in a trea- tise—“ Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum ”. With each edition of Organon of Medicine there was an evolution of homoeopathic pharmacy. The basic principles of homoeopathic phar- macology are incorporated in the practical portion of different aphorisms of the Organon of Medicine and in the writings of “Chronic Disease”...