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Homeopathic Materia Medica<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The German physician Samuel Hahnemann began practicing homeopathy when he began to translate the botanical<\/span><\/span> Materia Medica<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of a Scottish physician in 1790. In that work, 20 pages are devoted to the Peruvian cinchona bark, which is used to prepare the medicine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>quinine<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While this substance produces fever-like symptoms in a healthy human, they cured fever in sick humans. Thus, he conceived the “law of similars” that like cures like<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hahnemann developed the first Homeopathic Materia Medica by a system of homeopathic provings. With this, a substance was ingested by the “prover” and the symptoms that the “prover” developed were recorded in great detail.<\/p>\n

These Materia Medica books are encyclopedia of materials which are used to prepare <\/span><\/span>homeopathic<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0medicines. They list the materials along with details of the provings that established the unique conditions for that case. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They constitute a homeopathic prescribing reference guide and are often used along with the Homeopathic repertory.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

References:
\nExtracts from <\/span>Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura<\/span><\/a>.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>William & Oscar Boericke<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>: <\/span>Homeopathic Materia Medica.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Homeopathic Materia Medica The German physician Samuel Hahnemann began practicing homeopathy when he began to translate the botanical Materia Medica\u00a0of a Scottish physician in 1790. In that work, 20 pages are devoted to the Peruvian cinchona bark, which is used to prepare the medicine\u00a0quinine. While this substance produces fever-like symptoms in a healthy human, they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}