Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in the early hours of Friday, in the 11th April, 1755 in Germany. This was recorded in the church register of Frauen-kirche in Meissen and has been corroborated by all the biographers of Hahnemann. But Hahnemann in his autobiography, wrote “ I was born on April 10th of 1755.” Thus his birthday is observed and celebrated on 10th of April, and we are celebrating his 252th birthday this year.

About this great master Bradford described in the life and letters of Hahnemann as: “ Scholar whom scholars honoured and respected; physician whom physicians feared; philologist with whom philologists dreaded to dispute; chemist who taught chemists, philosopher whom adversity nor honour had power to change.”

Hahnemann is one of the figures standing out boldly from the canvas of that great century on which are painted the exploits of many remarkable men.

Hahnemann basically an Allopathic MD was not satisfied with the Allopathic system of medicine because of its injurious effects, so he left it & discovered Homoeopathy which he found the Ideal & Natural Science & best therapeutic system of medicine. Hahnemann believed that his discovery of Homoeopathy was a gift to him from God in trust for the benefit of his fellow men which he practised throughout of his life. So we Hahnemannian Homoeopaths are lucky enough to have this Divine gift of Homoeopathy in our hands to serve suffering humanity, to help them out of their miserable conditions in the best way, by providing them a Highest Ideal of Cure as it is the duty & only mission of every Homeopath to restore the sick to health & this is The Message of our Master.

At present there are nearly 186 homeopathic medical colleges in India. Approximately 35 are government colleges, rest are managed by private bodies. Homeopathy is the third most popular method of treatment in India, after Allopathy and Ayurveda and it is estimated that there are about quarter million homeopaths in India. Nearly 10,000 new ones add to this number every year.

But the question is:
1. How many of us are TRUE HOMOEOPATHS who practice Homoeopathy according to the guidelines given by our Master in his Organon of Medicine.
2. How many of us provide Highest Ideal of Cure to the suffering humanity?
3. In spite of having this huge number of Homoeopaths in India & in spite of the fact that Homoeopathy is the Ideal & Natural Science & best therapeutic system of medicine:
4. Why we did not get its Deserving Value & status in the country?
5. Why most of the Homoeopaths are looked down by others & considered as Quacks?
6. Why Homoeopathy is not treated in a better way than other systems of medicines or at least equally as other systems of medicine are treated by Govt. of India?
7. Why are we getting the LEAST AMOUNT of the finance from the Govt. for the upliftment of Homoeopathy?
8. Though this is the only system of medicine which provides HIGHEST IDEAL OF CURE, why patients are not coming to us directly instead of trying other Systems of medicine first?
Answer yourself.
Let us see what people say about Homoeopathy:
1. Homoeopathy is a good science but it takes time for improvement.
2. Complaints are ameliorated till the patient is taking the treatment.
3. Even in the Lancet report we know it is tried to prove that Homoeopathic medicines are just placebos.

What are the Reasons?
1. Either the science is deficient OR
2. Present day physicians are not efficient.

Our Homoeopathic science has no deficiency as it is based on Law of Similars which is fundamental truth, deduced logically & established experimentally.
So definitely we are committing errors somewhere. & there are certain Master Hahnemann has mentioned a rapid, gentle & permanent restoration of health but, in reality we hardly get to see such a cure.

This type of cure can be achieved by those Physicians only who have the following types of Knowledges according to Aphorism number three of Organon of Medicine:

1. Knowledge of diseases. About the etiology, pathogenesis & signs & symptoms of the diseases we should must know as the diseases are our enemies against which we have to fight. So if we know our enemies in a best way we can easily kill them.

2. Knowledge of medicinal powers i.e. the therapeutic properties or the inner nature of the drugs, which are our tools to fight against our enemies i.e. diseases. This can be ascertained by PROVING OF THE MEDICINES on the healthy human beings. But the dedicated Provers are not available now a days easily. Most of the medicines are being proved by keeping them under the pillow & not as per the instructions given in the Bible of Hom. ie Organon of Medicine. Approximately more than 3000 medicines are there in the armamentarium of Hom. But how many of them are well proved, tested clinically & are authentic? So partially proved medicines are sometimes relied upon in the treatment of the patient which are not giving the expected results to the physician & increases its lack of faith & confidence in Hom.

3. Knowledge of the choice of the remedy, how to find the similimum. The above said knowledge of disease & the knowledge of the medicine is must to find the similimum. Because the symptoms of the diseased person contains the symptoms of the disease, he is suffering from & the symptoms of the patient. And we have to prescribe for the patient & not for the disease, as we treat the patient in disease & not the disease in the patient. So before prescribing the medicine for any particular patient we can keep aside the symptoms of the disease & can prescribe for the symptoms of the patient on the basis of Individualization. e.g. Ten patients suffering from any disease e.g. Diabetes, Asthma, Gout, Eczema, or even for simple headache, will not get the same medicine as in Allopathy but will get different different medicines according to their own genetic constitutions. So Homoeopathic medicines are prescribed on the basis of concept of Individualization, which is not very easy job. Most of the times we prescribe the patient without getting his required totality of symptoms. It is because of lack of proper knowledge of case-taking. And as it is said that A PROPER CASE TAKEN IS HALF THE FIELD WON. So we don’t get the results of our selected medicine without proper case taking. Only one single, medicine must be used at a time and there is no scope of poly-pharmacy. Poly-pharmacy should be stopped immediately. Rather the action should be taken against those Pharmaceutical companies who makes these combinations in the name of Homoeopathy. These are not at all Homoeopathic as they disobey the very principal on which the science of Homoeopathy is based.

4. Knowledge of exact mode of preparation of Homoeopathic medicines. Now a days it is quite easy as the medicines are being prepared by many Pharmaceutical companies & are readily available on demand.

5. Knowledge of quantity of medicine required (proper dose).We know that the dose should be minimum, according to the Law of Minimum, to stimulate the human organism & to produce perceptible change & it varies in each patient according to his susceptibility. The potency selection is the next difficult task after the selection of right Homoeopathic medicine. The wrong potency sometimes don’t give expected results or can cause aggravation of the complaints unnecessarily. But for this potency selection there is not any hard & fast rule & it is been a controversial issue till today though there are some broad guidelines are present in the literature. Some physicians are known as high potency prescriber & some are known as low or medium potency prescriber. So to get the good results one should be cautious before selecting the potency.

6. Knowledge of Proper period for repeating the dose. First prescription can be given by any body comparatively easily but this is very difficult task to prescribe second prescription. Because unnecessary repetition of the dose when not required can disturb the process of recovery & no repetition of the dose when it is required as after the action of the first dose exhausted, will not complete the cure. The second dose may be the same medicine in the same potency, or the same medicine in the higher or lower potency, or any other medicine depending upon the symptoms calling for that. It may be complementary or antidotal medicine. Most of the Homoeopaths commit mistake in the second prescription.

7. The Knowledge of the obstacles to recovery ( Maintaining causes ) in each case and how to remove them, so that the restoration may be permanent. Because if there are maintaining causes during the treatment of the patient, the complete cure will not be achieved until we remove them.

After knowing these things only he can understand how to treat judiciously and rationally, and then only he will be a true practitioner of the healing art.

Do we have above said knowledge? Answer yourself.
If we don’t have the basic knowledge of Homoeopathy, we will lack the faith in the science & lack of confidence in ourselves. And even after holding a degree in our hands will not be able to practice the science properly. So we try to treat our patients at any cost & by any means , it may be using combination of various Homoeopathic medicines, or using allopathic medicines along with Homoeopathic medicines we play a role of MONGERAL SECT as Dr Hahnemann has very rightly said. Then we play with the life of the patients as we render the patients sometimes incurable or difficult to treat even for a Skilled homoeopath which gives bad name to the science & pain to the soul of OUR MASTER.

It is all because of the fact that we don’t study & follow the basic principals of Homoeopathy & its literature, Organon of medicine, Materia Medica & Repertory etc. Organon of medicine, which is our Bible is considered as most boring subject. As it is very difficult to practice any religion Judiciously without reading its Holly Book or without knowing its basic principals, the same way its not possible to practice Hahnemannian Homoeopathy without knowing its principals or without understanding Organon of medicine properly.

Dear friends Homoeopathic practice is not a child’s play. It is a science & requires a very hard work to understand it. If we can’t do hard work, we don’t have any right to play with the lives of the patients. There is no place of a lazy man in Homoeopathy & every body is not fit for Homoeopathy. So today on the birthday of our Great Master Hahnemann let us promise with Him that we will practice Homoeopathy as He taught us, so that we can serve suffering humanity by providing it Highest Ideal of Cure which is our duty & only mission.