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August Weihe (born November 6, 1840 in Sjörup , southern Sweden , † October 1, 1896 in Herford ) was a German physician and homeopath .
Life
His grandfather Carl Ernst August Weihe (1779–1834) was a botanist, learned from Samuel Hahnemann and became the first homeopath in Westphalia . The father Hermann Friedrich Weihe (1814–?) Emigrated as a young man to southern Sweden and bought an estate there, where his son August was born in November 1840. In 1852 August Weihe left Sweden at the age of twelve.
August Weihe studied in Bonn, Leipzig and at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and completed his medical studies in 1865 with the dissertation De invaginatione seu intussusceptione canalis intestialis . He gained professional experience in several hospitals in Vienna and then worked until 1868 as an assistant doctor to his uncle Justus Weihe (1808-1892), who worked as a homeopathic doctor in Herford. In 1868 he passed the dispensing exam for homeopathic doctors and from then on worked as a resident doctor and homeopath in Herford. When the Franco-Prussian War began in 1870 , he served for eleven months as a troop doctor in a cavalry regiment.
The so-called Weihean pressure points , described in 1886, go back to August Weihe, which are pressure-sensitive skin areas that are supposed to appear after the administration of homeopathic preparations. In the years that followed, they were associated with acupuncture points in traditional Chinese medicine . Acupuncture was not known to Weihe himself. It is not known whether the Weihean pressure points actually correspond to known acupuncture points. Weihe described a total of 270 such tender points, which he assigned to certain homeopathic remedies. Weihesche Druckpunktdiagnostik is intended to help secure the choice of a suitable remedy for homeopathic treatment in addition to the usual choice of remedies.
In memory
After him, the August Weihe Institute for Homeopathic Medicine e. V. in Detmold .
literature
- Hanspeter Seiler: The Weiheschen pressure points. Basics and practice. Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8304-7055-X . (3rd edition. MVS Medizinverlage Stuttgart , 2011, ISBN 978-3-8304-7366-4 )
- Niels Krack, Heinz Schoeler: The Weiheschen pressure points . Karl F. Hauck Verlag, Heidelberg.
- Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking homeopaths . Karl F. Hauck Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8304-7254-4 , pp. 160-161.
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Weihe Institute for Homeopathic Medicine e. V. Accessed December 14, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Consecration, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and homeopath |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sjörup , southern Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1896 |
| Place of death | Herford |